ESPN baseball reporter Marly Rivera has been fired from the network after she was caught calling another female reporter a “f***ing c**t.” The incident happened last week at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
Rivera said that out-of-line phrase to fellow MLB reporter Ivón Gaete following a game between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels. According to multiple sources, Gaete, a reporter for Tokyo Broadcasting, was sent to the game to cover Japanese star Shohei Ohtani of the Angels but then migrated to the Yankees side and sought an interview with Aaron Judge. Rivera complained that she already had an interview scheduled with Judge, that is when she uttered the phrase that got her fired. TMZ shared a video of the incident, which has now been shared on Twitter.
I’m so happy to see that Marly Rivera is as unbearable as I thought she was pic.twitter.com/GdE9AGkOtd
— Joey (@DJLeMVP) April 27, 2023
Following this incident, The New York Post reached out to ESPN for comment. ESPN said, “She no longer works here.” Allegedly, Rivera offered an apology after the incident which was not accepted by Gaete. Rivera also gave the Post a brief statement on the matter, saying:
“I fully accept responsibility for what I said, which I should not have. There were extenuating circumstances but that in no way is an excuse for my actions.
“I am a professional with a sterling reputation across baseball and I do believe that I am being singled out by a group of individuals with whom I have a long history of professional disagreements.”
Rivera’s exit from Yankees coverage is being celebrated online by some New York baseball fans. One video in particular is circling the web that shows her conducting a wildly uncomfortable interview with Yankees star Aaron Judge.
in honor of marly rivera being fired, let's take a look back at this video that made every yankees fan mad pic.twitter.com/aHTkOnA7UO
— carli (@carliaclifton) April 26, 2023
Following his debacle, ESPN is left scrambling to figure out who will be the new face of their Yankees coverage. Although it is just a one team role, the person covering the most popular baseball team in the world will immediately be thrust onto a worldwide audience.
ESPN has recently been in the news at The American Tribune to a small but significant employee uprising that seems to be taking place on the matter of biological males competing in women’s sports. Todd, from TAT, wrote:
But lately, as more people push back, prominent employees within the failing company have joined a growing chorus of voices speaking out against the cultural narrative.
Samantha Ponder and Sage Steele, both ESPN personalities, have taken to the air to lend support to female athletics, echoing what former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines has been addressing ever since her graduation in the public sphere.
“Women with influential platforms are beginning to speak out on the injustice of men competing against women. These women in particular have a lot to lose by using their voice, yet chose to anyways. That is what courage is. I’m so honored to be able to lean on them as we continue forward with advocating for sex-protected sporting categories,” Gaines previously said to Fox News Digital.
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