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Atlanta Braves sideline reporter Wiley Ballard made headlines on Monday when he asked a woman for her phone number while broadcasting live.

Ballard, who works on the FanDuel Sports Network, is under fire for asking a woman for her phone number while live on the air.

The incident happened during the Braves’ Major League Baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night.

Ballard was interviewing 2 women on the rooftop of the Rogers Centre in Toronto when play-by-play announcer Brandon Gaudin asked him to get their phone numbers.

“OK Wiley, you got five innings, four innings to get the numbers,” said Gaudin from the booth.

Ballard then pulled out his phone and asked the women for their phone numbers.

Gaudin and another sports analyst in the booth suggested this is a new way to pick up women.

“I should have thought of this years ago,” Ballard told Gaudin. “I got the number. We’re good.”

Journalists and politicians were outraged by the unprofessionalism displayed by the reporters.

“An unprofessional disgrace, from the reporter, to the guys in the booth, to the producer in the truck who couldn’t [cut away from the shot] at any point,” wrote Ralph Vacchiano, an NFL writer for Fox Sports.

“If I had ever done anything close to this, my career would be over. This is flabbergasting,” Newsday writer Laura Albanese wrote.

Outkick.com reporter Joe Kinsey defended Ballard in a post on his website. “If Wiley were an actor on The Bachelor and was tonguing 25 women, he’d be celebrated as some sort of perfect man,” Kinsey wrote.

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