Royals Thom Brennaman calls Kansas City "one of the pillowbiter capitals of the world" - Page 5

Longtime Cincinnati Reds announcer Thom Brennaman was caught on a hot mic saying “one of the pillowbiter capitals of the world.” He is currently announcing the second game of the Reds’ doubleheader against Kansas City. pic.twitter.com/Uwz07eRIKv
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 20, 2020

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:-)

Still laughing about this. Showed it to my cousin.

We used to put that kind of emphasis on that word when we were teenagers.

:-)

God, he really slammed it out hard. Almost dirty-talk style. Makes you wonder if he enjoys visiting that capital...

:-)
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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin:
Yeah, dumbass got himself canned.

I’m not even 100% sure he was actually talking about KC.

But you gotta be smarter than that when you’re a broadcaster.

Dumbass.

I know right?

I lived in Kansas City for a long time and I don't ever remember that being a signifier of the city :-)

I have no issues with that particular community, but they might, having KC listed as the expletive deleted capital.

Have some self awareness
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Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball:
Blazing Saddles

It’s a pretty hilarious line the way that Slim Pickens delivers it. Was that something Mel Brooks just made up or is there some sort of history behind it?
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How do you know he was talking about KC?
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fuck skyline
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Originally Posted by Willie Lanier:
I know right?

I lived in Kansas City for a long time and I don't ever remember that being a signifier of the city :-)

I have no issues with that particular community, but they might, having KC listed as the expletive deleted capital.

Have some self awareness

There's not any real evidence that he was actually talking about KC.
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Even if statistically it was true, Cincinnati talking shit on us? On anyone? Know your place mother fuckers and get back to being the secondary sports city in a college football state.
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Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
There's not any real evidence that he was actually talking about KC.

Hey, I just watched the video and it gave me a chuckle, Im not calling for the guy's job; I just found it funny that if in fact he was referencing KC, he'd be picking a really weird hill to die on based on the years I lived there...

I'm not condemning the guy based on an edited clip, I'm just laughing at the absurdity of it..
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Originally Posted by Gravedigger:
Even if statistically it was true, Cincinnati talking shit on us? On anyone? Know your place mother ****ers and get back to being the secondary sports city in a college football state.

No shit. They eat chili on spaghetti. Fuck those guys.
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Even if he believes himself to not be homophobic and wanted to pass it off as a lame joke, why would you say that within shouting distance of ANY on-air microphone?
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Could he have meant, the cigarette capital of the world?
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Originally Posted by Megatron96:
I like him as an announcer.

And honestly I don't understand why he has to be fired. In a reasonable world he would be suspended for a few weeks/months and that would be the end of it. But we live in this snowflake hugely over-twitterpated universe that just waits to be triggered by things like this, so he's almost assuredly gone.

Sometimes the reasonable world fails at progressing and the rest of society is forced into fixing the broken links.

It's also sad that so many people on this broadcast team enabled this behavior. If one exec could have told them to clean it up then this might not have happened. Now the entire team is going to be under the microscope because one guy couldn't keep his mouth shut.
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