MLB Announcer Joe Davis Ripped For 'Obnoxious' Mets Call

FOX announcer Joe Davis was on the call for Saturday's nationally-televised Mets-Yankees game and by the sound of things, Mets fans would rather never hear Davis' voice again.

The controversy began in the top of the seventh of the game, when an error by Carson Benge on a fly ball allowed Aaron Judge to score a run. After Benge dropped the ball, Davis said "Oh no! Oh no, the Mets!" as his call.

Whether or not it was a good call for that shocking moment, the New York media (and specifically the Mets fans in the media) felt that it was a serious insult that exposes Davis as a diehard Dodgers fan.

Evan Roberts called Davis "a clown" for the Dodgers and an LA fanboy, while Sal Licata told Davis to "get lost" in the aftermath of the series.

"Joe Davis has become a clown for the Los Angeles Dodgers and we all hear it," Roberts said on Monday.

"I think he's a Dodger fanboy. I think he wants to just make love to Shohei Ohtani every time he talks about him. I just get that from him and I don't know, I wish it would stop. He's a great broadcaster and I'll admit it. But for now, I think Joe Davis is a Dodgers shill and it's obnoxious. And I'd give him this advice, not that he cares, he doesn't care. Don't go to the Dodger parade and be the emcee. It's a bad look. It just is. You're sitting there as the national voice and now you're pom-pom waving at the Dodger parade. Come on man.

"What's up with Joe Davis, by the way? You Dodger homer. ‘Oh no, the Mets,' that's a national unbiased broadcast? You biased Dodger blue fool. How about that? The Mets won that game that you were doing and then they won the next game. So before you ‘oh no the Mets' which is such a clear Dodger bias, maybe you're still bothered because of Edwin Diaz and the (fighting) and because he's out for the year. I'm not sure what your issue is," Licata said on his show.

"You're doing a national broadcast. You can't be unbiased? ‘Oh no, the Mets,' it wasn't oh no, the Mets, it was a rookie making a terrible play. Get on him just like I did. That's what you should do, not ‘oh no, the Mets.' Get lost Joe Davis."

Deserved?

As much as Mets fans may hate people in the national media criticizing their team, the wider MLB world believes that they're taking it way too personally and that Davis was just speaking out for other frustrated Mets fans or just acting in the moment.

"Imagine being so soft as all Mets Fans are, grown men complain about 'Oh no the Mets' they gotta call Joe Davis a Dodger shill as if they had anything to do with that series. What a bunch of whiny, insecure losers!" one user on X wrote.

"This is stupid to criticize Joe Davis as if people are unaware Joe Davis is a professional broadcaster and can serve two constituencies at once. The Mets error remark is a remark Mets fans think and say," wrote another.

"Grown ass man offended by a joke about his team, who they themselves are in fact a joke," a third said dismissively.

Roberts and Licata are certainly no strangers to blowing things out of proportion and this might be another one of those instances.

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This story was originally published May 19, 2026 at 10:20 AM.