MLB Network Scandal Includes Sexual Harassment: Somach Quoted

Gambling911.com Special contributor, Thomas Somach, was quoted by the New York Post on Wednesday regarding emerging allegations directed at two MLB Network on-air personalities.

Here is the New York Post Page Six blurb:

"League Baseball hates scandal, yet two on- air personalities on its new MLB Network were once caught up in controversy. Three years ago, former Se attle Mariner Harold Reynolds was canned from ESPN after alleged sexual harassment. Reynolds called the charge "a total misunderstanding . . . I gave a woman a hug, and I felt like it was misinterpreted," and he won a seven-figure, wrongful termination suit. Still, veteran radio sports producer Tom Somach told Page Six he was surprised by the hiring, asking, "What kind of message does that send?" And working as a guest analyst is Baltimore Oriole Billy Rip ken, whose 1989 baseball card showed him holding a bat with "[bleep] face" written on the knob. The card was yanked and re vised. MLB flack Matt Bourne called Reynolds "an exemplary employee in every way" and said Ripkin's card flap was "a very minor incident and what I would term as seemingly a prank."

Somach routinely reports on the poker sector for the Gambling911.com website.  He had previously worked for the Las Vegas Sporting News.

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