For a guy beginning the final year of his contract, White Sox TV voice John Schriffen isn\u2019t helping his cause to stick around. <\/p>\n
The third-year play-by-play man sent shockwaves through the Sox\u2019 offices this week after he bestowed a potentially racist nickname on Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami during the game Tuesday in Miami, the Sun-Times has learned. The Sox didn\u2019t immediately provide a comment.<\/p>\n
In the third inning, Schriffen teased a nickname for Murakami during his second at-bat.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of fans are coming up with potential names for Munetaka Murakami,\u201d Schriffen began on the Chicago Sports Network broadcast. \u201cI floated a few by him, and if he does something good, something big here tonight, [I] might just break it out. He has agreed to one of them that I think is going to be a real hit with a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Murakami connected on the next pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat one is crushed into center field,\u201d Schriffen said. \u201cHere comes [Edgar] Quero, he will score easily. An RBI single for the \u2018South Side Samurai.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
Schriffen emphasized those last three words, of which analyst Gordon Beckham seemed to approve, following excitedly with, \u201cWhoa! Oh, baby!\u201d<\/p>\n
Sox officials weren\u2019t as excited about the possibility of offending viewers. Fans shouldn\u2019t expect to hear the nickname again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a guy beginning the final year of his contract, White Sox TV voice John Schriffen isn\u2019t helping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-659657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-white-sox","14":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116337449046236343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}