{"id":20830,"date":"2023-11-10T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20830"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:27:17","slug":"youve-gotta-be-bleepin-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/youve-gotta-be-bleepin-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve Gotta Be Bleepin’ Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just when you think things can’t get any worse in White Sox Nation, the Tigers announced yesterday that they were poaching play-by-play man Jason Benetti, signing the announcer to a multi-year deal.\u00a0 Benetti, 40, started with the White Sox in 2016, splitting time with Ken Harrelson until 2019 when he took over full time.<\/p>\n

Benetti’s frustration with the White Sox organization has seemingly been growing for some time.\u00a0 In 2021, he was a loud voice in favor of returning to broadcasting from the road instead of in studio following the pandemic shutdowns of 2020.\u00a0 Things got testy again this past offseason, when he left ESPN for FOX and took on more national responsibilities, which irked some in the White Sox front office.\u00a0 To add fuel to that fire, the White Sox refused to negotiate with Benetti’s agent, preferring instead to deal directly with Benetti, which is, frankly, odd behavior.<\/p>\n

Whoever replaces Benetti in the broadcast booth will have very large shoes to fill.\u00a0 They will also need to win over a fan base that has been repeatedly poked in the eye by the ownership and front office of their favorite team for the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when you think things can’t get any worse in White Sox Nation, the Tigers announced yesterday that they were poaching play-by-play man Jason Benetti, signing the announcer to a multi-year deal.\u00a0 Benetti, 40, started with the White Sox in 2016, splitting time with Ken Harrelson until 2019 when he took over full time. Benetti’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8844,1317,806,6377,2369,230,49],"class_list":["post-20830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-corona-virus","tag-espn","tag-fox","tag-jason-benetti","tag-ken-harrelson","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20832,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830\/revisions\/20832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}