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The New York Mets Mets announcer, Gary Cohen, criticized the third base of the Chicago puppies, Matt Shaw, for jumping a game on Sunday to attend the Charlie Kirk monument in Arizona, and New York Sports radio presenters dragged him on Wednesday morning.
Gregg Giannotti of WFAN, coanfrerion of “Boomer and Gio”, criticized Cohen, who made an exception to Shaw who attended the monument. Kirk’s wife, Erika, approached Shaw personally to attend given her friendship. The puppies, in the middle of a flag race, lost the game of Sunday 1-0 against the reds of Cincinnati.
“Frankly, I did not like his comment, and now I don’t dislike Gary Cohen. He is a great station, has been part of my life for a long time. I thought it was completely unnecessary,” Giannotti said on the waves.
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The New York Mets television announcer, Gary Cohen, makes his acceptance speech in the Mets Hall of Fame before the major league baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets on June 3, 2023, in Citi Field in Flushing, New York. (Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
“All the life of Gary Cohen has been baseball, and baseball is something very serious for him. But Matt Shaw saw his friend be murdered and killed, he was shot in the neck in front of his family and his wife requested that he be there. And Gary Cohen has a problem with that because the puppies are in a cents race?
Cohen said he did not want to talk “about any of the policies”, but Giannotti and his coanfrerion, the former NFL field marshal, Boomer thoseon, believe that the second that was raised in his statement made him a politician.
“You enter politics saying that,” Esiason said.
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Cohen also mentioned that Shaw’s absence was not under MLB’s duel policy.
“Who gives shit? If you want to go to that, you can go to that,” Giannotti replied. “And do not get angry with him. Why you are angry, why you care, I have no idea. But get angry with the puppies that gave him the ability to go.”
Esiason added: “I saw the interview with [Shaw] And I was talking about how it was friendly with Charlie Kirk because they lived in the same area. There are a couple of photos of him and Charlie Kirk together, and if Erika Kirk approaches him, what are you supposed to do? “
Then, Giannotti asked Cohen a question.
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“Let’s say we didn’t know who Charlie Kirk was, and Matt Shaw was a friend of someone who was shot in the neck and killed in front of her family. Did Gary Cohen have a problem with that because she doesn’t know that the person who was shot and killed in front of her family? Or was it because Charlie Kirk had a political platform with which Gary Cohen disagrees, now that she is now a base player?
Cohen’s comments were late in the game between the Mets and the puppies on Tuesday night, while Shaw was up to par.
“The idea of leaving your team in the middle of a race for any reason other than a family emergency really seems strange to me,” Cohen said.
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His transmission partner, former League Big Leagud Zeile, added to Cohen’s feeling.
“It is unusual, I think it is not precedents, at least because of my experience as a player, and I think it made it a bit more unusual that it was not revealed until after it went out because it was thought that it was in the shelter and perhaps available, and it was not, and that was how it was revealed,” said Zeile.
Shaw told media members on Tuesday night why he set out to attend the monument despite the schedule of his team.
“My connection with Charlie was through our [Christian] Faith, “Shaw said before the puppies opened a new series with the New York Mets on Tuesday, according to Chicago Sun-Times.” And that is something that drives me every day, the reason I can do what I do every day, and that is something I am extremely grateful.
“I know without my faith and without the many blessings that have given me in my life, that I would not be here, to be able to talk to you, capable of helping this team eventually go and win championships.
The third base of the Chicago puppies, Matt Shaw, looks on the bench before the MLB game between the Chicago puppies and Los Angeles of Los Angeles on August 22, 2025 at the Angel stadium in Anaheim, California. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
“That is something I really feel, very blessed, so any violent reaction is fine. I feel strong with my faith and what was destined to happen.”
Kirk, a native of Arlington Heights, a northern suburb of Chicago, was “one of the biggest fans of the puppies I have met,” according to Shaw. After a conversation with Manager Craig Counsell and some teammates, Shaw felt that his decision to attend the monument was accepted.
“The reason why Charlie and I connected so close was by our faith,” Shaw added. “That is something that drives me every day, something I think about all the time. So, if people ask who I am and what I defend, I would say that my faith and the many blessings that have given me are why I can be here, and I just want to make sure that I can return that to people, that I can support the people around me, that I can love people in my same way, I just want that I have been saved.”
