MLB broadcasters slam Orioles over reported suspension of play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown

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Broadcasters across Major League Baseball on Monday night showed support for Baltimore Orioles announcer Kevin Brown after he was reportedly suspended for comments on-air last month.

Michael Kay, Gary Cohen, Jason Benetti and Dave O’Brien were among those who took to their airwaves to express their support of Brown and disgust with the Orioles.

"If it is true, and I’m going to choose to believe that it’s true, they should be ashamed of themselves because not only was what Kevin said in the Oriole notes that night but it was on a graphic – which means it was planned," Kay, the New York Yankees’ lead play-by-play announcer, said on his ESPN Radio show. "So, if you’re going to be so thin-skinned to suspend Kevin Brown then you have to suspend the entire Oriole truck … because they’re all complicit in this.

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A Baltimore Orioles logo is seen on an umbrella during the game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Atlanta Braves at Oriole Park at Camden Yards Aug. 22, 2021 in Baltimore. (Scott Taetsch-USA TODAY Sports)

"And, if John Angelos, the owner of the Orioles, didn’t like that, then he’s thin-skinned and he’s unreasonable and he should actually get a call from (MLB Commissioner) Rob Manfred because it’s unconscionable that you would actually suspend a really good broadcaster for no reason whatsoever. He didn’t do anything wrong."

Cohen said on the SNY broadcast the Orioles "draped" themselves "in utter humiliation with the treatment" of Brown.

"Let me just say one thing to Baltimore Orioles management — you draped yourself in humiliation when you fired Jon Miller and you’re doing it