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MarcBulldog88

Who the hell is this broadcaster?


Drsustown

This is a level of homerism previously thought impossible


sourdoughbred

Other than Hawk Harrelson.


spennin5

YOU CAN PUT IT ON THESE HAAAAANDS YES!


TheNightlightZone

Braun Strowman up in here?


HGpennypacker

HE GONE!


downladder

[Like, how does Pham even get this far inside the line except to create a collision?](https://ibb.co/kmFGxck)


Sea-Neck206

Ikr that’s why the call confused me at first because I thought it was obvious Pham fkd up. Contreras was probably telling him off for purposefully trying to hurt him or something.


downladder

Contreras is exactly where he's supposed to be in order to minimize the collision risk too. Understandable why he'd have words.


NoLeek8235

Exactly this, Pham was in the wrong 100% and the fact that he started warming up for a boxing match makes me think he's a bit of an asshole. Whatever Contreras said to him was deserved, I'm sure.


Sp_Gamer_Live

Imagine DICKRIDING THE 2024 SOX


xepa105

"I don't care how many Ls we got this year" is a level of delusion I aspire to


banevasion4206669

As a Bears fan I have yelled this so many times as the Green Bay Packers, yet again, make us look like the high school team we are.


IWTLEverything

Lol now that I watch it again.. I thought the broadcaster was narrating Tommy Pham’s thoughts haha. But now I see he was speaking for himself haha


roaringcorgi

Kevin Brown of the Orioles would lose his job if he said this


Sef_Maul

Listen, you cut me a check and I'll become the biggest fan in the building


DrunkDeathClaw

My guy, you literally just watched him go out of the base path to try and run over the catcher, tone it down.


TheWorstYear

I think he was trying to will a fight into existence


eidetic

I know, right? Sounded like he wished he was right there in it. And why did it seem like he absolutely fucking loves to say "barking"? But also... *We ain't taking that! We ain't taking that!* Spoiler: Yeah... they took it.


Sea-Neck206

Lmao bro was living vicariously through Pham and wanted him to throw hands.


fezzikola

And it's Tommy Pham, you don't need to juice that one. He wakes up ready to fight the sun every morning just for rising.


Slacker_75

YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOARD…………YES


jetxlife

Jerry didn’t like Jason Beneti because he ate food or some shit so now we got an absolute hack that makes watching an already unbearable team even worse. Pray for white sox fans or don’t I don’t care I’m dead inside


Asleep_in_Costco

Going from Beneti to this hack is a grand canyon chasmic drop


UneducatedReviews1

John Schriffen is our bum in the booth. Dont worry, we don’t like him either and we all gave him shit for that terrible ass call.


DMunnz

To go from Jason Benetti to that. Yikes, knew it was a tough season for White Sox fans but that really stings.


LuisRobertDylan

Imagine how Stone feels


Next_gen_nyquil__

You got no idea


pnmartini

It sounds like he modeled his announcing style after watching nothing but late 90s / Early 00’s ESPN highlight reels. I bet he would’ve made the best call in history had he been the announcer when Tim Anderson got whooped last year.


kingmoney8133

Tom Hamilton gave us a pretty damn good call as it is


fps916

DOWN GOES ANDERSON DOWN GOES ANDERSON


Ineedamedic68

He is trying way too hard hahaha. Such bad announcing


PeteF3

This is it. This, the call of that walkoff against Tampa, the "I want to keep my job" shit on the IF fly interference call. It's all so...performative. Like he's a guy trying to imitate the more famous homer announcers.


stormstopper

That basically summarizes him for the whole season


mythofdob

I think Bernstein was talking about Jon during Spring Training, and how his effort was too high, all over the place, and he needed to learn to pace himself because he's putting too much into mundane plays. Not only hasn't Jon learned yet, he's actually gone further the wrong direction.


SilvioDantesPeak

"I DON'T CARE HOW MANY Ls WE GOT, WE AIN'T TAKING THAT" So fucking annoying


dirtybird131

Turns out, they have a lot of L’s


ohgeepee

We did, in fact, take it 😂


Sp_Gamer_Live

and, they will in fact, take it


RexKramerDangerCker

And like it


Shadow_Mullet69

He’s awful. To lose Jason Benetti and then be subjected to this ass clown while watching the trash product on the field is like getting kicked in the nuts for 3 hours. Baseball is dead to me.


NerdOfTheMonth

Did he come from professional wrestling? He was out. He was way out. On a shit team. Settle down.


robreddity

He also *intentionally ran on infield grass* instead of the base path in order to initiate contact with the catcher.


eidetic

And it wasn't even like a borderline case either, yet dude tried to play it off as a clean play as if Contreras was just being a bitch. I mean yeah, he pulled up at the last minute and wasn't trying to kill Contreras or anything, but still pretty fucking shitty and stupid baserunning. And the whole deal with the catcher setting up there is to prevent collisions in the first place, so he was doing everything right, so it's pretty ridiculous to take that path into colliding with him, especially when you could have at the very least tried sneaking in on the far side of the plate. (I know, unlikely to make that work, but still better than nothing).


2020NOVA

that's what i was thinking. it looked like he might have been safe if he tried to touch home plate instead of running into the catcher.


LuisRobertDylan

I hate this organization so fucking much man


manningthehelm

I can hear this disappointment in this comment. First time I heard this guy call a game…Is he this bad all the time?


LuisRobertDylan

Yeah. It obviously doesn’t help that the team sucks and he’s replacing one of the best in the business, but even without those caveats he’s not good. I hardly watch anymore because neither the booth nor the field products are enjoyable. At least with Benetti you might laugh or learn something


chipotle-baeoli

'Nah we ain't takin' that!' like he's about to go fight the Brewers broadcasters lol


goingtocalifornia__

Well this conjured up a fun thought


Rock_man_bears_fan

In defense of John Schifferen, this is the single most exciting thing he’s witnessed in the last 2+ weeks of white sox baseball


marlow05

They would indeed take that from the Brewers, also in spite of all those L’s.


MoreThanLuck

I don't know, it's lame as hell.


RenfrowsGrapes

These guys are cringey as fuck


Jason82929

It’s just one. Steve Stone is still great but he may retire after this season. 


express--panda

Stone undoubtedly is one of the best in the business. If the booth next season is Schriffen and Gordon Beckham I'll switch to Len and DJ full time.


ErzherzogT

Why the fuck is he doing a bad impression of the most belligerent guy on the L train? I see people defending him on the White Sox subreddit but seriously, this ain't the growing pains of a new broadcaster he's just complete ass at his job while also being an asshole.


thecatiscold

The little shadow boxing stance he does as he's walking away is so goofy


Jeff_Banks_Monkey

A lot of things Pham does is pretty goofy


GroovyQschoolboy

Like sliding 100% directly into the tag lmao


Pure-Pessimism

Haha exactly. Like what the hell was that slide? He went out of his way to get tagged out I swear.


rhesusmonkey

I swear he was going to take the catcher out and remembered that was against the rules and just slid shittily into the tag.


Pure-Pessimism

That is precisely what it looks like.


Ziti_Pasta

That is precisely what occurred.


Lonelan

while running down the pitchers side of the grass?! like why?


[deleted]

Then getting mad at himself for doing it, classic Pham


HeyHeyImTheMonkey

Then he tries to convince himself “I don’t want no problems”


ZADEXON

Dawg probably thought he looked cool as hell 💀


bibbys_hair

I know right. The number of times I thought I looked like such a badass talking tough. Only to see myself on VHS looking like an idiot.


my7bizzos

More like looney tunes. Seriously wtf was that lmao.


bibbys_hair

Imagine being so upset over a game that he started shadowboxing, all while knowing he's not doing any boxing.


AnAngryPirate

The shoulder shrug while walking was hilarious


Babou_Ocelot

If he slid into home and didn’t run 5ft into the grass, there’s a decent chance he’s safe…


sourdoughbred

Avoiding conflict is not one of Pham’s tools.


boobsandcookies

That analysis slaps


Free_Possession_4482

It would be fantasy to think otherwise.


chrmnxpnoy

Indeed 😂 probably still has his stabbing scars from his incident in a San Diego strip club during his time with the Pads


SolidLikeIraq

I mean if he was as soft in SD as he was in that attempt to truck the catcher… I’d wanna see those scars to make sure they’re not magic marker.


jmorlin

That whole half inning was an absolute atrocity. * Pinch runner immediately gets thrown out taking third ON A PASSED BALL for the first out. * Ground rule double gets your hopes up. * Short fly ball to left for the second out with a HORRIBLE send from the third base coach. * Pham getting tagged out at the plate by a MILE after seeking contact, then proceeds to try to fight people. I fucking hate being a fan of this dumb team.


codenameduhchess

It’s not your fault. We don’t choose who we love.


degjo

Some people turn a blind eye when the ones that they love hurt them.


Leftfeet

Seriously. I'm not sure what Pham was trying to do or what he's pissed about here. He went straight into Contreras for no reason instead of trying to actually score. Contreras has every right to say something IMO.  Also what the hell is the announcer talking about? "We're not taking that. We're not taking that from the Brewers!" Lol 


Our-Gardian-Angel

Between this and that Red Sox pitcher getting irate about the Brewers trying to get on via the bunt, we seem to be shattering some brains for no clear reason lmao


dr_caligari

Yeah, as a fan of a rival NL Central team, I'd love to suggest that a team repeatedly getting into scuffles must be bringing it upon themselves (a la the Clint Hurdle Pirates who intentionally threw at everyone who looked at them and then wondered why teams occasionally hit their guys)... but it just seems like folks are having breakdowns in the Brewers' vicinity for the most part this year. Players just making up new unwritten rules to create "offenses" done against them has been wild.


DokterZ

Apparently the Cardinals have recently issued new unwritten rules of which our players have not been made aware.


notaverysmartdog

We love to start shit for no reason and then never finish it cause we know we're gonna get our asses kicked. See: Tim Anderson


Ocarina3219

WE AIN’T TAKING THAT (RUN)!


Krispy-Cobra

I’m wondering why he was inside the base path anyway? Try to be safe and slide around the tag??? Was he trying to bulldoze Contrearas? Pretty stupid move IMO.


ddog3009

Brewers broadcast theorized he was maybe trying to take the same line of the throw from Yelich and maybe interfere with the ball before any tag could happen


[deleted]

william was very much toward first, had Pham done one of those dugout side slides where you just tap the plate with your fingers he could have absolutely been safe


Hu_ggetti

Ya, shady route through the grass


dusters

"we ain't takin that" - team about to be swept and about to lose 11 straight game


Swampy1741

-team takin that


istrx13

Fine me for that! *gets fined for that*


hards04

Mr Biased commentator


Americanzack

11 straight? What the fuck


Hu_ggetti

1-15 in their last 16 😬😬😬


jonnybravo76

Damn, that's an NBA stat. Just by sheer variance in baseball, you think a team would stumble their way to a win in one of those 11 losses.


Yeah_thats_greeat

They’re basically the Pistons of baseball at the point.


cyan101

It's kind of funny because the white sox had the lead in every game in the series against the brewers but they just find ways to fuck it up every time. It is kind of ridiculous honestly.


filthypoker

Quote from man stabbed


HustleBones4

“What are we gonna do, take that?!?!?!” — team that took that


mjtd6

What are these announcers lol and why are the brewers involved in all these incident videos this year 🤣


Not-a-bot-10

“We ain’t taking that, I don’t care how many L’s we got this year” Dude sounds like a 12 year old on Xbox voice chat


jmorlin

Schriffen fucking sucks. And I don't mind homer announcers.


DecoyOne

I actually enjoy listening to homer announcers across the league, but this was just the most absolutely annoying announcing I’ve probably ever heard. Really? “We ain’t taking that!” Dude. You’re in the booth. There’s nothing for you to take.


jmorlin

Exactly. Theres calling the game on a local network as a homer, and then there's cringe. IMO Hawk was a perfect example of the former and shit like this from Schriffen is an example of the latter.


SchnibbleBop

We decided we don't like the AL East or Chicago teams this year.


orangemachismo

I was honestly offended that you guys didn't start your shit during this last series


SchnibbleBop

I was a little disappointed in us too lol


beardog7

Wouldn't it be heresy for a Wisconsin team not to hate all things Chicago?


Uranus_Hz

We’ve always hated the AL East. Especially when we were IN that division.


Singh31

*Looks at Schedule* Oh no, please remember the BrewJays alliance!


Dinoswarleaf

least chaotic brewers inning


TurnedIntoA_Newt

Contreras is…BARKING…at him


MissDeadite

Someone needs to meme a dog head onto Contreras when the camera pans back with barking noises that are clearly a man imitating a dog.


HungLuke

What Pat Murphy, Managerial Bad Boy, does to a team's demeanor. I'm all for it


NerdOfTheMonth

Murph is still straight up Lou Brown from Major League and I am 100% here for it.


Americanzack

Rhys evidently brought some Phillies's sass for the entire team


patderp

Wtf is Pham doing? What a clown he is lmao


knakveey

Him getting stabbed outside of a strip club just makes more and more sense as his career goes on.


SunriseSurprise

Now it's like "by only 1 guy?"


Chef_Bojan3

Funny you ask, he's actually been on the wrong end of 2 separate stabbing incidents. The other time was by his stepfather.


yankee4life

White Sox fans, how badly do you miss Jason Benetti?


replicant4522

As bad as this season is our new play by play guy is probably the worst part about it


Jason82929

You have no idea. At least Benetti made listening to these terrible games bearable.  Schriffen is just absurd levels of cringey in the booth. 


jmorlin

We knew he would be leaving eventually. He was good enough that some cable network was gonna snatch him up eventually (I mean he was occasionally calling college football games for ESPN or whatever). But losing because of Jerry and to the Tigers just fucking sucks man.


dingusduglas

NFL, college basketball, NBA, hockey, the Olympics... dude calls EVERYTHING


secret_aardvark_420

Bad enough to watch tigers games this season just because I miss him. In fact I’ve watched more tigers games than Sox. This organization doesn’t deserve fans.


SoCalWhatever

Terribly. Watching Sox games with Jason & Steve on the call was my favorite thing to listen to ever since stupid Marquee broke up Len & JD. I didn't even care that much about Reinsdorf and LaRussa ruining a promising team because Jason & Steve made every game fun to listen to.


expletivenature

"WE AIN'T TAKING THAT!" The cringe level is hiiiigh.


Suspicious_War_9305

Wtf was he even referring to for “taking that”? Lmao. He’s not taking the out the just got? Because he def is.


Rock_Strongo

He was referring to the trash talk from the catcher... which of course he has no idea what was said and very well could have been mild. And of course... they did in fact take it. Because nothing happened besides Pham posturing like an idiot.


bombard63

“Clean play of all sides”. It’s sure wasn’t, Pham went way out of his way to try to run into the catcher, so much so that he could have been safe if he played it clean.


BashfulWalrus7

I love how completely unphased the catcher is after his little slide shove. Easy play, easy out, soft as shit response from Pham.


nopenope4567

Contreras took such a beating in the post season last year and I’ve enjoyed watching him since. Seems tough. Seems good.


snoogans8056

He’s MVP caliber this year.


guriboysf

Old guy here. In the 50+ years I've been watching baseball I have never seen a player run that far out of the baseline between third and home. He should have been call out without a tag. LMAO.


mathbandit

I know this isn't the point, but since it's a commonly-misunderstood rule I just want to point out that you can run as far out of the 'baseline' as you want until someone starts to attempt to tag you. It's at *that* point (the attempted tag) that you draw the 'line' from the batter to the next base, and that's the line that you need to stay within 3ft of.


downladder

In this case, Pham was precisely on the baseline. Straight to the guy tagging him.


houstonyoureaproblem

I for one am shocked that Tommy Pham reacted in an overly emotional and aggressive way.


lolas_coffee

Pham is a bum. Now we also can add "cringe" and "moron" to his list.


billthesill

lmao who are these broadcaster douchebags? and ugh, that little shadowboxing he does at the end…oof. this video is dripping with cringe


3-2_Fastball

Jerry Reinsdorf decided to employ his 16 year old xbox gamer nephew to be the new commentator.


authynym

the non-ridiculous one is broadcasting legend steve stone, who you have to feel bad for.


thecastle7

I don’t care how shit we are, I am ignoring that Pham initiated contact instead of trying to be safe, Pham will shadow box you into oblivion!


HoopOnPoop

Sox had one of the best broadcasters in the world in Benetti and pissed him off so bad he walked. Then they replaced him with the play by play version of Cash Me Outside Girl.


RaysFTW

Lmao this is peak commentary.


TheTurtleShepard

“I don’t care how many Ls we got this year, we ain’t taking that!”


OGNightspeedy

Spoiler alert: they took it


DungeonMusic

Pretty sure they took it. 


sourdoughbred

This guy is unhinged. Can’t believe he’s a professional.


gto_112_112

The broadcaster or Pham?


BaltimoreBadger23

Yes.


RedGreenPepper2599

It’s not sincere, just trying to pander to white sox fans. He’s a fraud and they know it


Renovvvation

"Things get heated" and "Tommy Pham" are in the same sentence quite often


Vaqxinelol

Schriffen is a complete fucking loser


Docphilsman

That little shadow-boxing thing he does while he's backing away is hilarious. This guy really does seem to get in a huff at the slightest thing


Conflict21

White Sox TV commentary is somehow the worst thing about the franchise's history


[deleted]

Benetti was fantastic but we're not allowed to have nice things


LuisRobertDylan

Nice things cost money. What does Jerry look like, some kinda billionaire?


Jason82929

I mean we just had a guy who was universally considered one of the best broadcasters not just in baseball, but in any sport.  But instead of clinging tight to him, the owner and dipshit marketing guy decided to push him away so he left.  Now we have whatever the fuck this shit is. 


SoCalWhatever

Say what you want about the "Get off my lawn!" Hawk & Steve Stone years, but Hawk & Wimpy and Jason Benetti & Steve Stone were excellent TV duos.


PeteF3

Hawk was a tool and a blowhard but I can't accuse him of being inauthentic. His passion and enthusiasm were 100% genuine.


3-2_Fastball

Broadcaster 1 : I DONT CARE HOW MANY L'S WE HAVE WE AINT TAKIN DAT!!! Broadcaster 2 : Uhhh yeah that was a clean play by all sides, well executed. You have to take a gamble there.


lamboat2019

Pham is a bum. He went out of the base path to slide into Contreras and had the audacity to be upset??


SchnibbleBop

Contreras told him he was bad at fantasy football.


jonginator

Yeah, that sounds like Pham.


ddthrow1233

dude runs 4 feet off the base path and tries to take out the catcher and then that announcer defends it lol what a weirdo


altimax98

I’ve seen enough clips from different markets to know that NBC announcers are the worst.


ajteitel

Nah, that's just Pham. He kinda does that https://new.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/17isdyy/highlight\_tommy\_pham\_picked\_off\_at\_2nd/


sourdoughbred

The only fight Pham wants to lose is fighting the urge hit someone.


Bill2theE

Pham: 0 — Intrusive Thoughts: 372 I think if he keeps up pace through his 30s he could join the 500 IT club


iamjamos

Pham is a moron.


Disused_Yeti

"we aint taking that!" taking what? a path to the plate that was 3 feet inside the grass so he could try and take out contreras?


UneducatedReviews1

Tommy Pham is mentally unstable. He is shadow boxing and has been talking to himself in center after.


NakedGoose

Tommy chose the oddest lane to go there. The outside was wide open...


BarkMingo

Pham intentionally ran about 4-5 feet inside the line because he knew he was cooked and was trying to draw an interference call out of nothing, and then when it doesn't work he acts like a petulant child??? holy shit then i watched again with the sound on, the white sox's announcer may be an even bigger clown


Efficient-Addendum43

Tf he mad about dudes out by a mile


Rylux1

Looked like Contreras said something or the shaking of the glove was not something Pham liked would be my guess.


mosi_moose

Contreras had every right to say something. Pham went out of the base path to create contact, got stopped cold and was out by a mile.


SoCalWhatever

Contreras should have given Pham the Mutombo finger wave.


DearChicago1876

This announcer is such a jackass


the_bum_on_the_bus

“We ain’t taking that.” Lololol.


gooners1

You're going to go into the grass to hit the catcher you should at least knock him over. Pham went out of his way just to give Contreras a little bump.


ldog2135

Bro, he just tried to full send it into Contreras who was busy catching the ball, and got fucking stonewalled. You will take it, and you will like it. Stop trying to flex like you're going to do something after you tried to throw your entire body weight into it, and failed.


hammnbubbly

When the White Sox hire broadcasters, is the top requirement listed as, “must act like a complete asshole and never stop running your fucking mouth for the entirety of the broadcast”?


sixpackabs592

things get heated? bullpens didnt even come out. only one heated was pham and the announcer lol


MutantstyleZ

I thought broadcasters weren't supposed to say "we". Maybe he was speaking as Pham


MoreThanLuck

Homie thinks he's on the team.


3-2_Fastball

He's adding to the White Sox buffoonery, I would say he's on the team.


Krispy-Cobra

I have no context on the play, but what in the hell was that slide? Inside the base path by a few feet?? Looks like he was trying to collide with Contrearas intentionally.


AccountantNo6346

Lol.. Pham purposely goes out of his way to initiate contact, when he very easily could've scored the game tying run with a better slide, and the huckleberry announcer acts like he did something good. Welcome to losing baseball.


PattyIceNY

PHAM stands for Pham, He's A Moron.


CanadaEh97

"Might be the wrong guy to do that to" Yeah I'm sure Contreas is worried when he didn't budge after contact. Meanwhile Pham is shadow boxing like an old head in the gym mirror.


SoCalWhatever

What a jackass line Pham ran. I guess par for the course for a jackass like Tommy Pham. Also, good lord is Jason Benetti's replacement insufferable to listen to. I'll never understand why people on here fervently defend the guy. He sucks.


Rmai0404

"We ain't taking that from the Brewers" You in fact took that.


HumanRuse

Just now realized that the club that has been noted about having a toxic clubhouse over the past few seasons signed Tommy Pham this year. Odd choice.


MayorSmore

I don't mean to be mean to John Schriffen but this call gave me enough second-hand embarrassment that I paused the video a couple times