You can’t be anybody but you. You can try, but eventually, over time, the real version of you will emerge, in all its glory and in all its imperfections.
That’s the lesson of Thom Brennaman and Mark Grace. You are what your words say you are. When you’re paid for the words that roll off your tongue, it can be a dangerous existence.
Brennaman, the Reds’ TV play-by-play announcer, was about to come out of a commercial break during a game Wednesday when a hot microphone caught him referring to an undisclosed place as “one of the f-- capitals of the world.