Incidentally, I think Brennaman's career may well be done, at least at the highest levels of the industry. Commentators very rarely get to where they are strictly on merit, and I have to imagine Brennaman's family connections and willingness/ability to "play the game" off the air have had far more to do with his success in getting plum jobs than producers listening to him analytically and saying, "Wow, I really like the way he commentates." Also, once you're entrenched as a high-level commentator and have a name and a voice that people recognize, it's very easy - far too easy - to coast along on your reputation. (To give another example, Dick Stockton has been actively fossilizing before our very eyes and ears for at least a decade, but enough people recognize his name and voice to lend him a credibility that his current commentating talent does not warrant.) But once you do something like Brennaman has done, producers are now going to go back and actually look and listen to his work, and ask themselves whether his ability as a commentator is worth the hassle that rehiring him would entail. For me, that answer is clearly no. If he wants to get back into the game, after serving a suitably lengthy period in the wilderness, he'll have to start as the local radio guy for a lower-profile team or maybe to call college games for a lower-tier production like the Big 10 Network that don't air nationally - organizations that might appreciate the chance to get some publicity by hiring a "name" that people have heard of, in a region of the country where there is a greater cultural willingness to accept homophobic comments, without massively reawakening the controversy that sidelined him in the first place. At best, he might work his way back up to becoming the play-by-play guy for a middle-tier baseball team (like the Reds, ironically), but I can't imagine him working for Fox or the equivalent at the national level again.