Baseball Announcer Called Out for Double Standard After Hitting on Women While On-Air

  Rassegna Stampa, Social
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During the Atlanta Braves broadcast on Monday night, FanDuel Sports Network reporter Wiley Ballard asked for female fans’ phone numbers while he was on-air.

Ballard was interviewing two women in the stands in Toronto, while the Braves were playing the Blue Jays, when play-by-play announcer Brandon Gaudin prompted Ballard get the women’s phone numbers.

“OK Wiley, you got five innings, four innings to get the numbers,” Gaudin said. Ballard responded with, “I’m on it. I’m on it.”

Ballard pulled out his phone and told the women he was being asked to get their numbers.

The move and subsequent talk by the booth announcers created quite the backlash.

“If a woman covering a game started hitting on fans & asking for their numbers on TV they would be crucified on the internet & fired,” said sports broadcaster Kylen Mills. “But here you see this inappropriate behavior being celebrated as ‘the standard’ by a slew of men in the comments. Misogyny is alive & well!

While in Atlanta, it was OK with Fox5 reporter Miles Garrett.

One person responded to Garett’s post with a “Not to pile on but YIKES. Insane double standards in sports.”

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