Athletics announcer drops the worst home run call in baseball history, team tries to pretend it never happened
In what can only be described as a complete collapse of the human senses, backup Athletics play-by-play announcer Chris Caray delivered a home run call on Friday night that was so colossally bad, the Oakland Athletics deleted the video from their main social media account like it was a government cover-up.
Lawrence Butler stepped up to the plate and absolutely demolished a pitch to right-center. The camera crew knew it was gone. Everyone watching knew it’s gone and the people in attendance 100% knew it was gone.
The baseball hit off the facing of the second deck. It wasn’t even flirting with the foul line. This thing had more staying power than a Schwarbomb.
Point being, everyone in the world knew that Lawrence Butler just crushed a home run. That is… everyone besides Chris Caray. Somehow, he called it foul and then said nothing. It was just dead air as the broadcast ran the home run graphics and Butler rounded the bases.
The silence was deafening.
“Or gone…….?”
Thankfully, Dallas Braden jumped in to rescue the moment but even that was too little, too late. The call had already been sacrificed to the sports gods as one of the worst in modern history.
To make matters worse, the A’s social media team, clearly still operating in “We’re Moving to Vegas So Nothing Matters” mode, tweeted out the clip with the now-infamous call.
Within minutes, quote tweets poured in from all corners of the internet, dunking on the franchise with the kind of unified energy normally reserved for, well, the Oakland Athletics actually but you get the point.
So what did they do? The Athletics deleted it and pretended it never happened. They forgot the internet’s golden rule that history will ALWAYS be retweeted and the second you flinch or give the opposition an inch, that’s basically blood in the water. They were cooked.
Not even uploading the radio call instead could save them. How could you possibly think that this would have everyone moving on like they hadn’t just witnessed a broadcasting catastrophe of biblical proportions.
Athletics Social Team Deletes The Call, Uploads Radio Broadcast Instead
You almost feel bad… until you remember this is the same franchise that turned off Twitter replies after announcing their Vegas relocation. At this point, watching the A’s try to operate like a professional baseball team is like watching a raccoon try to drive a school bus. You know it’s going to crash, but you can’t look away.
Somewhere out there, Jenny Cavnar is smiling
Jenny Cavnar, the A’s full-time play-by-play announcer who’s usually the one (rightfully) getting heat from fans, probably cracked open a bottle of wine and put her feet up. It’s not often you get a night off and watch someone else take a flaming arrow to the neck.
Shoutout Chris Caray. He owned it. Respect.
No excuses from Chris Caray. That’s what we love to see. Accountability. Acknowledge that you screwed up and promise that you’ll be better tomorrow. That’s all you can really ask for and I for one, respect the hell out the guy for addressing this head-on.
Who would have thought I would write not one, but two articles about the Oakland Athletics in the same weekend?
Only the A’s, brother… only the A’s.
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