Did anybody Hear What the Rays Announcer said?

Just got around to posting this.

I was listening to Wednesday nights Cubs-Rays game on XM, which always has the home team's radio broadcast.  Anyway, Soto hit one that was 2 feet short of a homer in like the 3rd inning (2 feet according to these clowns anyway).

The color man for the Rays (don't know his name) said "Well, that may have been a homer in that so called major league park in Chicago, but not here."  The play-by-play guy responded, "Yeah and it has that rediculous basket around the outfield walls."  Color guy "That makes it where even my daughter could hit one out."

Now I understand people like to take shots at the Cubs and our 100 years without a championship, but anyone who works for, or is associated with Rays should shut the hell up about ANY other team.  I mean isn't Tropicana Park routinely listed as the worst  ball park in the majors.   I've never been there, but I think there's a scaffold or low hanging truss that is IN PLAY if you hit it.

Did these clowns, who play in that park, just defile and defame WRIGLEY fricking FIELD.  Tell me I heard you wrong.  Please tell me that some moron who works for the only team in the HISTORY of professional sports to play more than 10 seasons and still not have at least ONE season without finishing last.  Forget a winning season, let's just try to avoid the cellar folks.

People who live in glass houses, or in their case cellars, shouldn't throw any stones.

I haven't heard it but, whatever was said, I'm sure was said out of jealousy.

The Rays, despite the American League's third best record, now rank 13th out of 14th in paid attendance.  The Rays average draw is 5,625 fans less than the next lowest club, the Kansas City Royals.

When the Cubs came to town the attendance was only 4,441 short of capacity.

People who work for the Rays are probably just ticked off that nobody cares about them.

Now, DeWayne Staats does television for the Rays.  Staats has always been a class act and called both radio and TV action for the Chicago Cubs from 1985-89. I don't think he would dog on Wrigley Field.

But, Dave Wills is in his fourth season in the Rays radio booth.  Wills came to Tampa Bay having spent 11 seasons as part of the Chicago White Sox radio broadcast team hosting the pre- and postgame shows and filling in for John Rooney in the booth when necessary. His first play-by-play action came with the Class-A Kane County Cougars of the Midwest League from 1991-95 where he was the franchise's first radio voice. He was the radio voice of University of Illinois-Chicago men's basketball from 1997-2005 and served as a play-by-play announcer for various high school basketball and football games on Comcast Network-Chicago as well as the lead anchor for the network's highlight show, Sports Weekly from 2000-2005. He also appeared as the pre- and postgame show host for Notre Dame football and basketball as well as the co-host of the Kevin White Show while with ESPN Radio 1000 in Chicago for nine years before joining Tampa Bay. Wills served as the pitching coach/recruiting coordinator with Elmhurst College (Ill.) in 1989 and as the interim head coach at the University of Chicago in 1990.  I really hope a hometown guy would not disrespect Wrigley, however, he was a White Sox employee.

The other two guys on the Rays radio team are a couple of nobodys.  Andy Freed and Rich Herrera.  Who cares if either of these two know-nothings had diarrhea of the mouth.  They don't know jack about Wrigley Field or the Cubs.  

They were taking shots at Cubs fans all series long. Talking about how, "the Cubs fans cheer too much"

But they can go on and talk smack while being crappy announcers (newsflash guys, if the ball is hit out to the outfield it's not a popup, it's called a flyout) but I won't have to listen to them for a long time