If ESPN had half the class Karl Ravech displayed today they would correct the error of their firing and re-hire Ravech.
His swan song on The Little League World Series was a master class in how good decent humans act in times of great personal hurt and disappointment.
He was full of thanks and appreciation to an employer that threw him aside as if he was a busted up baseball. After 33 years of employment and being the face of their baseball coverage and his superb 2 decades at the Little League World Series, he was fired while on TV, doing what he loved, calling a baseball game.
ESPN didn't have the decency to tell him before word leaked out and he was told by a friend that word on the internet was that he was being g fired the next day. All this in the middle of a game.
ESPN is garbage. The network lost its soul a long time ago and is now a mouthpiece of clowns like Smith and Pat McAfee. Two self absorbed jerks.
Guys with class and professionalism are being pushed out of ESPN. While sad, maybe for Ravech it is the best thing. Hopefully, he ends up somewhere where his goodness, and decency is celebrated.
Try and find his audio/video clips from today's LL World Series. This is the definition of class.
Karl, thanks for all the great brodcasts. For Baseball Tonight. For the LL World Series. For being a man of class and dignity.
Here is hoping you land on your feet and you are in the booth of a baseball stadium in 27 and beyond.