Courtesy Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

(May 12, 2009) Matt Vasgersian of the MLB Network apologized a few weeks ago for a dud bit he tried over pictures of Colorado Rockies rightfielder Brad Hawpe being taken off the field after he was hit in the back of the neck with a pitch.

Vasgersian had his replay team wind the tape back and then noted that a member of the Rockies' EMT staff resembled Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. Bad timing. Weak joke.

Vasgersian, the former television voice of the Milwaukee Brewers, told the Business of Sports Network that he knew his comment was not good as soon as he said it.

"I offered up my take on it as soon as we got off the air," Vasgersian said. The producers usually pop out of the control room right at the end of a three-hour chunk, and you do that kind of immediate face-to-face, 'Hey great show. Hey bad show. This went well and this went great.' As soon as we convened after that show I said, 'You guys, I screwed you there by having you roll back that tape,' I apologized to them first because they were unwittingly complicit in my failed joke. So I let them know that I made the mistake and I wasn't pleased.

"I knew I was going to get a lot of grief for that, as I deserved."