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Is baseball boring you two?: Giants announcers take a break from the game… spend an entire half inning explaining and doing the daily WORDLE puzzle
- Giants broadcasters Jon Miller and Dave Flemming detoured from their duties
- The bottom of the fourth inning was spent explaining the game to Miller
- The Giants did not win the game, and it’s unclear if Miller solved the puzzle
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Tom Hanks once said, in the movie A League of their Own, that there is no crying in baseball.
He never said anything about completing a daily word puzzle not being in baseball now did he?
In the midst of a close 1-1 ballgame, Hall of Fame Giants announcer Jon Miller was introduced to the magic of Wordle, the popular online word guessing game.
Miller and his broadcast partner Dave Flemming spent the entire bottom half of the fourth inning both explaining and completing the day’s Wordle puzzle as the game was going on below them.
Giants broadcaster Dave Flemming introduced Jon Miller to Wordle for the first time live on air
Highlights included Flemming explaining the game, and the way it works, the meaning behind the colors of each of the letters, and revealing that the name of the game was inspired by its inventor, Josh Wardle.
At one point, while Tommy LaStella was up to bat, Flemming remarked ‘I should actually call the game,’ but proceeded to explain the way Wordle worked.
While Miller was attempting to work out how the game operated, he was receiving messages not laughing at him or telling him what they thought of his call.
‘I’ve been getting text messages now from friends saying, “Well don’t mention what the word is, I haven’t done mine yet for today!”‘
It’s unclear if Miller found a way to win in Wordle, but his Giants were unable to win the ball game, falling to the Diamondbacks 3-2.
The popular word puzzle game Wordle has been taking the internet by storm since 2021