Matt LaFleur’s wife takes issue with ESPN Cleveland radio contest trying to get him on the air.
During Friday’s episode of ESPN Cleveland’s The Really Big Show, host Aaron Goldhammer sent an intern on a mission to convince Jim Thome to call into the show.
But what was supposed to be lighthearted segment to kill time on a Friday before the start of NFL free agency proved disastrous, with Thome’s wife stating that she was bullied as a result of the content.
The entire ordeal started when Goldhammer ran a trivia contest among the station’s interns about his co-host, Tony Rizzo, who was on vacation for the show. The winner of the contest was then tasked with getting Thome to call in by the end of the show and if he was successful in doing so, he would receive a $100 prize, With the Hall of Fame first baseman not present on social media, the intern turned his attention to Thome’s wife, Andrea Thome. The intern peppered Andrea with a series of requests to have her husband call into the show and even sent her a subsequent request after she responded by offering to call in herself.
In addition to tagging Andrea in multiple posts, the intern also tagged Thome’s high school-aged son and the high school baseball program he plays for and the former Cleveland Indians star’s coaches. Following the requests from the intern and listeners tagging her in their own posts about the contest, Mrs. Thome decided that enough was enough.
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