ESPN’s Eduardo Perez may not have known it at the time while broadcasting a San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodges tilt on Sunday Night Baseball, but there were a bunch of fans unhappy with something he said.
Mookie Betts had just hit a big home run in what would be a Dodgers win, and as ESPN cameras showed Fernandro Tatis Jr. looking bummed, Perez declared, “That’s what a superstar looks like, Nando.”
Ouch. What did he mean by that? Well, on Monday, he meant to just say that Betts was what a superstar looked like. But because the cameras focused on Tatis Jr., he threw in the outfielder’s name. He cringed right away, so he gets it.
Well damn Eduardo Pérez pic.twitter.com/NKIWigGI2O
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 8, 2023
“As soon as I said it, I cringed."
Eduardo Perez apologizes for his comments about Fernando Tatis Jr on Sunday Night Baseball
— Borna Nazari (@thehogwatch) May 8, 2023
He said he would apologize to Tatis Jr. despite his intentions, which feels right here.
