Atlanta Braves Field Reporter is Getting Railed for His Riz

The Atlanta Braves are sitting at the bottom of the NL East early in the 2025 season, and it looks like their sorry excuse for a fanbase is already starting to tune the team out for the season. Since nobody wants to watch the Braves barf on themselves, the local Atlanta broadcast now has to resort to doing weird shit to keep people engaged. Last night, the Braves play-by-play broadcaster took a play from the Impractical Jokers and dared the field reporter Wiley Ballard, to get the phone numbers of two women he had just interviewed. He did successfully "secure the bag" as the kids say, but jeez it was brutal to watch. The poor guy stuttered his way through the whole thing, and awkwardly try to explain that his colleagues egged him on. Gotta give the guy some credit though, he's got balls of steel. There's no chance I'm cold approaching those chicks for their numbers with 8 beers in me and the winds of my boys' praises pushing me towards them. This guy had the sack to ask for their phone numbers, while at work and on the air. They don't make 'em like Wiley anymore.

As expected in 2025, Ballard (and the whole broadcast team) got/is currently getting absolutely spanked online by the rest of the sports media industry. Queue the fuckin ping pong match between dweebs that can't have a enjoy anything and idiots that can't exercise a different perspective. It's OK people. We can simultaneously acknowledge that it was both very stupid and still not harassment. Should anyone be up in arms about this stupid bit? Probably not, but it was weird and definitely cringeworthy to watch. If people wanted to watch a guy fail to flirt with women all night, they'd watch Jimmy Fallon. It would've been an all-time moment if they just dubbed him on TV, though.