Mike North: Jessica Mendoza is the Worst Baseball Announcer Ever
By The Big Lead
Fox Sports DayBreak host Mike North is not a fan of Jessica Mendoza’s performance on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball. He is also apparently not a fan of specifics either as he provided zero examples to back up his claim that Mendoza is “the worst baseball announcer who has ever announced the game of baseball.”
"Now, if you want to call me a sexist, go ahead. But I’m an observer, and I’ve been observing and listening to baseball announcers for 20, 30, 40, 50 years. And I’ll tell you right now I don’t care if you’re Cassidy Hubbarth, I love Cassidy, Christine Brennan, Michelle Beadle, these are all people I respect, Ann Meyers, Cheryl Miller. You want me to go on? Pam Oliver. Because apparently I have to tell everybody nowadays – because of the PC crowd – the females I like before I can criticize one. If Jessica Mendoza continues on I believe someday they’re going to have to replace her, unless the rating are okay, but I don’t care. What I do now is I shut the sound down to watch that game; she’s just not a good announcer. If she was a man, she’d be (fired like) Tony Kornheiser or Dennis Miller. OK? And that’s the God honest truth about it. Period. End of Story. I listened for an inning last night, and I had to shut it off.”"
Mendoza joined the Sunday Night Baseball crew full-time in January, replacing Curt Schilling.
We feel confident saying that she is not the best baseball announcer of all time. She is also not the worst ever. She is somewhere in the middle.
Does North himself really believe this? Doubtful.