UPDATE:
The Falcons have responded to the comments made by Mike Bell on Twitter:
See original story below.
Back in August, former U.S. softball star Jessica Mendoza became the first female to call an ESPN MLB game as an analyst:
Last night, she followed that up by becoming the first female to call an ESPN MLB postseason game as an analyst during the AL Wild Card Game:
And sadly, there were some people out there who didn’t like it. We’ll spare you by not posting all of their tweets here, but Mendoza’s most vocal critic was an Atlanta radio host named Mike Bell. Early on in the night, Bell posted this since-deleted tweet to express how he felt about Mendoza being in the booth for the Astros/Yankees game:
He didn’t stop there, either. Throughout the game, Bell continued to wonder why Mendoza had been chosen to call the contest:
He also asked why ESPN didn’t hire a former MLB star to do the job:
He eventually apologized for his original “Tits McGee” comment:
But he didn’t apologize for calling ESPN out, and he basically spent the entire game responding to people who called him out on Twitter:
What a mess. Doesn’t this guy know how Twitter works?
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[via Barstool Sports]
