Play-By-Play Announcer Embarrassed After Calling Every Player “Mom”

By Devin Wallace

CINCINNATI — Reds radio play-by-play announcer Kurt Beacham was publicly humiliated in the fifth inning of their contest against the Mets after he accidentally called every player in the starting lineup “Mom.”

“It was an honest mistake,” said Beacham while hiding in the bathroom during the seventh-inning stretch. “Obviously, I know Pete Alonso isn’t my mom, but I got nervous, and it slipped out. Then I thought about that again when Jesse Winkler came to bat, so I said my mom was up to the plate. It spiraled when Starling Marte came to bat, and Marte sounds like Mom, so I don’t need to explain what happened there or to the other six batters in the Mets’ lineup.”

Beacham, avoiding eye contact with everyone in the announcers’ booth, reportedly tried to play it off as a joke by intentionally calling other people's moms. However, sources tell End of the Bench this only caused everyone to refer to him as a “Mom” guy for the rest of the game.

“Yeah, we really laid into him in all sorts of ways after that boneheaded move,” said audio technician Stacey Woodrow. “When he asked us to adjust his microphone, I asked if he wanted his mom to do it. When he needed a glass of water, I asked if he wanted his mom to get it. When he was leaving, I asked if his mom was picking him up. So, I guess we laid into him relentlessly in just one way. Very funny for us, awfully embarrassing for him.” 

Players on both teams said the embarrassment was obvious during post-game interviews, and it was hard to look at Beacham the same way, both as a professional sports announcer and as an adult man in general.

“I laughed in his face,” Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz, texting a meme of Beachman to the Reds infielders group chat. “Not on purpose, well a little on purpose, but mostly because I could see his lips moving and saying all these words, but the only thing I could think of him saying was “Mom, Mom, Mom…” He asked me what my plans were for the next game, and I automatically said “your Mom.” He did not like that.”

After the post-game interviews, Beacham was seen trying to sneak away from the stadium. 

When confronted by fans making fun of him for his slip of the tongue, he reportedly tried to gain the upper hand by imagining the fans in their underwear before running off shouting, “Never mind! I take it back!”

End of the Bench will have more on this story after we call our moms.

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