Broadcaster Harold Reynolds says Canadians can't catch foul balls
Baseball broadcaster Harold Reynolds is in hot water with an entire country following a comment he made during Game 3 of the ALDS between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers.
"There's not a lot of people who grew up playing baseball in Canada. They aren't used to catching balls in the stands," Reynolds said during the live broadcast.
In case you want to listen to #HaroldReynolds insult an entire country & it's athletic skills, over and over again: https://t.co/2VzZea1N1c
— BarDown (@BarDown) October 12, 2015
Canada, which opened the 2015 season with nine players - including three Blue Jays (Russell Martin, Michael Saunders, and Dalton Pompey) - on 25-man rosters across the majors, only trails the Dominican Republic (83), Venezuela (65), Cuba (18), and Puerto Rico (13) in players born outside the United States playing in the bigs.
In fact, Canada boasts some of the top talent ever to grace a baseball field, including Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins, MVPs Joey Votto, Justin Morneau, and Larry Walker, and Cy Young winner Eric Gagne, to name a few.
Walker was one of the first to react via Twitter to Reynolds' comments:
I won 7 gold gloves. I think part of winning them was cause I could catch. ?
— Larry Walker (@Cdnmooselips33) October 12, 2015