Controversial moments
In 1988, Brennaman along with Joe Nuxhall, appeared before National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti at the NL office, in New York, New York in regards to accusations that Brennaman incited the crowd, causing a delay, after an incident at a ballgame involving the ejection of Pete Rose after bumping umpire Dave Pallone. After the ejection, Reds fans littered the field with debris causing a delay in the game, while Brennaman criticized the umpire's call. Brennaman had this to say regarding the incident.
"I still maintain we were right," Brennaman said. "I'll never apologize for that. They accused us of inciting a riot. I don't think we did then and I don't think we did now."
On April 17, 2008, during the top of the eighth inning of a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, Brennaman made comments about Cubs fans and the Cubs team. His statements were aired over the Reds Radio Network broadcast of the game on 700 WLW (AM). He would later admit to being to a total douche and the only reason he said that was because he knew that only 7 people listen to the reds. He knew the only way any one would talk about the Reds was if he did something stupid like this.
"This is the kind of thing, quite honestly, right now, that makes you want to see the Chicago Cubs team lose. Among all baseball fans, and I can't attest to the Yankees or Red Sox, because we don't see them with any degree of regularity unless it's inter-league play, but far and away the most obnoxious fans in baseball, in this league, are those who follow this team right here. Throwing 15 or 18 balls onto the field, there's absolutely no excuse for that, and that is so typical of Chicago Cubs fans. It's unbelievable."
"You simply root against 'em. Ya'know, I've said all winter they talked about this team winning the division, and my comment is they wont win it, because at the end of the day, they still are the Chicago Cubs, and they will figure out a way to screw this whole thing up."
On April 18, 2008, Brennaman appeared in an interview on Chicago, Illinois sports radio station WMVP-AM 1000 in which he reinforced his position on Cubs fans, and compared Chicago Cubs fans to rival St Louis Cardinals fans.
"If they can't understand what happened Wednesday night was completely over the top, then I'm sorry," Brennaman said. "I said how tough it is to root for the Cubs. I think a lot of people feel the same way I do, but they won't articulate it. I'm not afraid to say what I think."
"[Compared to Cubs fans] Cardinals fans are hands down the best in baseball. They respect the game. They don't go to the game to do stupid stuff."
"The Cubs have some great baseball fans. But the ones who act like idiots (ruin) it for people like me."
Family
Marty Brennaman's wife's name is Sherri. They have three kids, a son named Thom and daughters named Dawn and Ashley. He also has four grandchildren, Dylan & Cal Venerus and Ella Mae & Luc Brennaman.
His son, Thom Brennaman, is a douche as well. He has worked with the Reds and the Chicago Cubs, and was a television broadcaster with the Arizona Diamondbacks and the number two baseball play-by-play man (behind Joe Buck) on Fox Sports' Major League Baseball broadcasts. On October 4, 2006, a press release by the Cincinnati Reds reported that Thom will be joining his father in the Reds' booth in 2007. He is openly a homosexual and no one is quite sure what his father was high on when he mis-spelled his son's name on his birth certificate.
Brennaman was elected to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in 2005.
After years of making fun of the late Joe Nuxhall for playing the sport of golf, Brennaman is now an avid golfer himself and speaks of the sport often during his broadcasts.
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