Braves fans were not pleased with the Marquee Sports Network crew for the way they reacted to Ronald Acuna Jr’s record breaking 70th stolen base on Wednesday night. They took to social media to call Blog Sciambi and Jim DeShaies crybabies and sore losers for the way they reacted to the game stopping for the Braves to acknowledge Acuna becoming the first player to have 40 home runs and 70 stolen bases in the same season.
“Can we get the base after the game?” Deshaies said as a video montage role and the tenth inning was halted for the base to be removed and given to Acuna. “I mean, this is pretty absurd.”
On Thursday morning, a caller named Kevin told 670 The Score’s Molly & Haugh that despite being a Chicagoan, he agrees with Atlanta fans.
“The Cubs would have done the same thing. The Cubs are the schmaltsiest, weirdest, creepiest organization that comes with stuff like that,” he said. “So don’t think they wouldn’t have done it? Because they would have. Jim The Shea’s need to shut up.”
David Haugh wasn’t having it. He agreed that stopping the game in the middle of extra innings for a celebration was not necessary.
“Jim DeShaies’s finest hour!” he declared after they replayed the audio from Wednesday night’s game. “Yes, absurd.”
Haugh admitted that his frustration was about more than just one game in Atlanta.
“Look, aren’t you tired of Chicago sports teams being used as props in these little entertainment productions?” He asked partner Mike Mulligan. “On Sunday it was ‘Oh, the Bears are there. And hey, there’s Taylor Swift. Isn’t this cute? Oh, the cuddly Bears are going to go away. That’s going to be a big show for Taylor Swift. The Swifties are out.’ And last night, it’s like, ‘okay, they’re a prop and Ronald Acuna Junior’s video montage.”
For his part, Sciambi defended himself and his and DeShaies’s conversation on Thursday to Ryen Glasspiegel of the New York Post.
“It’s an unfortunate example of what social media does. It’s like a 25-second clip, and then everyone has a take on how much I care or J.D. cares,” he said. “Or how salty we were. How much it bothers us. Nobody else gets to say how much I care other than me. You don’t get to tell me how much I care, and I’m telling you, I don’t really care.
“But the game was going on and that’s what I thought. That they shouldn’t have run the highlight montage. I just finished my salad from Sweetgreen. We’re fine. And I want the Cubs to win tonight.”
