With the Tokyo Olympics on a million channels, the baseball season heating up and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers about to announce his big reveal, there’s no better time to spend every waking hour devouring sports.
The network’s edited version did not include Harrelson’s shoutout to Chicago White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, who was in the audience at the pandemic-delayed event, along with former Sox director of broadcasting Bob Grim and current radio analyst Darrin Jackson.
Fortunately, NBC Sports Chicago used the clip on its Sox postgame show Saturday. Harrelson spun stories about Bob Uecker and Mickey Mantle and revealed one of his two cardinal rules in baseball was “Don’t mess with Joe West.