http://www.12xu.net/audio/Gracie.mp3

 

That link (which SHOULD work, but if not, let me know) plays what Grace got caught saying on the air when I guess he thought his mic was off, then it plays Thom Brennaman's apology for "techinical difficulties" later on.

 

It's a short clip, less than a min, but it's pretty darn funny stuff. And I put it in here since the game was against the Fish and the most people will see it here and get to enjoy hearing it anyways :lol .

 

EDIT: Not work safe with the cursing (obviously).

I was watching the telecast on MLB TV, blew my mind. :lol

 

It's already become a running joke for me. Grace is awesome.

I was watching the telecast on MLB TV, blew my mind. :lol

 

It's already become a running joke for me. Grace is awesome.

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Agreed, Grace is stellar, I just wish I could have heard it live.....

:lol That was good.

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I love Thom Brennaman's pauses as Gracie is cursing LOL.... and then his apology at the end... classic

Hilarious :lol

LOL.

 

Gold.

I remember once on MLB TV when Grace was first starting and it was during a commercial break and he thouht his mic was off and was talking about this girl's rack near the home dugout.

I could not watch that game , so, Iv been waiting for some one to get that clip on the net so I could hear it, Thank you.

Diamondbacks television analyst Mark Grace is not likely to be disciplined by the team after he used multiple expletives Tuesday night during the broadcast of Arizona's game against the Florida Marlins.

 

Team president Rich Dozer said Grace's language was regrettable and blamed an apparent faulty "talk-back" button connecting the visiting TV booth to the television truck at Dolphins Stadium.

 

After the game, speaking to reporters while in the elevator leading to the stadium's ground level, Grace said there was a period in the early innings when he wasn't aware his microphone was live because of the "talk-back" problem.

 

"Through a technical difficulty, I may have offended some people," said Grace, who apologized during a postgame interview and promised not to curse again during a broadcast. "If that's the case, I apologize and I will face any consequences."

 

Dozer told The Arizona Republic there was "no excuse" for the cursing during the Fox Sports Net Arizona telecast.

 

The team president said the Diamondbacks weren't planning disciplinary action against Grace, who spent his final three years as a player with Arizona after 13 seasons with the Chicago Cubs.

 

"We feel terrible about it, and I know Mark is mortified about it, but it's a tough lesson for us all," Dozer said. "Our mission is to provide a quality, family atmosphere, and it's unfortunate something like this happened."

 

Grace's broadcast partner, Thom Brennaman, offered an on-air apology shortly after the crew became aware of the cursing.

Another article...

 

MIAMI -- Broadcaster Mark Grace apologized on the air Wednesday for profane remarks that made their way onto Tuesday's broadcast.

 

Due to a faulty talk-back switch, viewers heard remarks that Grace thought could only be heard by those in the television truck. Play-by-play man Thom Brennaman apologized on Tuesday night a few innings after the incident and Grace apologized through the media following the game and followed it up with a direct, unscripted apology during Wednesday's pregame show and in the opening inning of the game.

 

Diamondbacks team president Rich Dozer also released a statement on Wednesday.

 

"We apologize to all fans who may have heard comments as a result of a technical difficulty during last night's game," Dozer said. "We do not condone the remarks and truly regret the fact that this unfortunate incident took place. Providing our fans with wholesome, family entertainment both in-stadium and on-air has always been our top priority, and I assure you that this will never happen again, technical difficulty or not. Mark feels terrible about the situation and has made those feelings clear in tonight's broadcast."

 

EDIT: Here's another GREAT article, if you're only going to read one, read this one:

 

Hey, those things happen. Just not in baseball.

 

There's probably never been a major league game in the past half-century where players and umpires didn't discuss duck a half-dozen times.

 

Caray knew that but understood not every on-field bull session was suitable on air.

 

So he worked hard to find a way to keep from doing what Grace did.

 

"I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air," Caray once said. "So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead."

 

That Harry sure had a way with words.

 

Holy Cow sounds a lot better than Holy Duck.

 

Remember that, Mark. Put in a little extra practice.

 

Many local fans reacted to Grace's slip-up much the same as Capt. Renault in Casablanca. They were "shocked - shocked to learn" the golden boy's tongue isn't always silver.

 

Not me. I got that lesson 13 years ago when I wrote something about Grace he didn't particularly like. I was covering the Cubs at the time and the team was in Houston.

 

Major League Baseball requires reporters be out of the clubhouse 45 minutes before game time. That afternoon, Grace still had me cornered on a tiny stool next to his locker while his teammates were listening to the national anthem.

 

Several snickering Cubbies later confided they couldn't hear the rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air over Grace's discussion of duck.

 

In that instance, Grace was provoked. I deserved the tongue-lashing. He never offered an apology and I never expected one.

 

Last week, though, there were no provocations. Grace simply got caught being Grace, supposedly because of a technical malfunction.

 

Grace apologized profusely. His employers accepted. So did most local fans.

 

But nationally, the reaction was somewhat less forgiving.

 

"Accidental or not, there is no place for that kind of language, period," said Curt Smith, author of several books on baseball broadcast history.

 

" . . . He works in a public craft. He works in the most middle class and family friendly of all American sports. He works in a realm where that kind of language is never tolerated."

 

Smith, who lives in Rochester, N.Y., said Grace's remarks and his apology played a little differently out his way.

 

"I can tell you the reaction nationwide has been quite different (from in the Valley)," Smith said. "It's encouraging, actually, to me, that there has been such a strong reaction."

 

 

 

Smith's latest book, Voices of Summer, ranks baseball's 101 all-time best announcers. Grace isn't in it. And don't look for him to crack the list if Smith updates the book.

 

"He (Grace) needs to leave that language at home," Smith said.

 

Or in the locker room for wayward writers.

 

Meanwhile, take a lesson from Harry. Practice something else. And step out of the booth next time talk turns to the Aflac duck.

 

Broadcasters are sworn to behave

Cussing's common on field but not in booth

Back in baseball's youthful innocence, 140 years ago, official rules prohibited cursing, spitting and arguing with an umpire.

 

Try enforcing those dictates today, and Major League Baseball would be lucky to field 30 players, let alone 30 teams.

 

Cursing, spitting and arguing with the ump all have become as much a part of the game as batting gloves and sunflower seeds.

 

For the most part, though, the broadcast booth has held fast to that old youthful innocence. No cursing.

 

Diamondbacks announcer Thom Brennaman is an extreme example. He refuses to say the full name of a popular sports show he's called upon to promote for his network simply because it contains a mild expletive.

 

That's why last week's on-air slip-up by Brennaman's partner, Mark Grace, was so noteworthy. Because moments like that, thankfully, are so rare.

 

Less rare, though, are the goofy bloopers broadcasters make. Or the profanity-laced tirades by angry managers and players caught on tape in locker rooms and circulated outside the mainstream media because they're too graphic to put on the air.

 

Tommy Lasorda of the Dodgers and Lee Elia of the Cubs had two of the funnier and more obscene taped tirades in the past few decades.

 

And no one in the game is in a league with Padres' Hall of Fame announcer Jerry Coleman when it comes to bloopers.

 

A tough question

On June 4, 1976, Dave Kingman of the Mets hit three home runs and drove in eight during an 11-0 humiliation of the Dodgers. After the game, Paul Olden, a radio reporter freelancing for the Associated Press, interviewed a not-so-happy Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda (left).

 

Olden: What's your opinion of Kingman's performance?

 

Lasorda: What my opinion of Kingman's performance? What the (expletive) do you think is my opinion of it? I think it was (expletive). Put that in. I don't give a (expletive). Opinion of his performance? (Expletive). He beat us with three (expletive) home runs! What the (expletive) do you mean? "What is my opinion of his performance?" How can you ask me a question like that? "What is my opinion of his performance?" (Expletive). He hit three home runs! (Expletive). I'm (expletive) off to lose that (expletive) game. And you ask me my opinion of his performance. (Expletive). That's a tough question to ask me, isn't it? "What is my opinion of his performance?"

 

Olden: Yes, it is. I asked it, and you gave me an answer.

 

Lasorda: Well, I didn't give you a good answer because I'm mad, but I mean . . .

Working-class fans

On April 29, 1982, the Chicago Cubs lost a one-run game at Wrigley Field to the Dodgers and fell to 5-14 on the young season. Only 9,931 fans were in Wrigley for that afternoon game, but they booed the Cubs off the field. Afterward, second-year manager Lee Elia (right) had all he could take and he let the fans know it:

 

"(Expletive) those (expletive) fans who come out here and say they're Cub fans that are supposed to be behind you, rippin' every (expletive) thing you do.

 

"I'll tell you one (expletive) thing. I hope we get (expletive) hotter than (expletive), just to stuff it up them 3,000 (expletive) people that show up every (expletive) day. Because if they're the real Chicago (expletive) fans, they can kiss my (expletive) right downtown.

 

"The (expletive) don't even work. That's why they're out at the (expletive) game. They oughta go out and get a (expletive) job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a (expletive) living."

 

Within days, the most popular button for sale around Wrigley read: "I'm a working Cub fan."

 

Elia was fired in August.

FUNNY

LoL

 

hilarious, didn't he think he whispered that low, was he insulting Encarnacion?

That's awesome. Gracie is the man.