Stepping out of his role calling balls and strikes, Franzke offered a heartfelt commentary about the shooting. Franzke talked about his daughter, June, who loves baseball and is 8 — about the same age as many of those killed in the massacre.“This is what I would say about my daughter if a man — a boy, really — had walked in with a gun and opened fire at my child’s school,” Franzke said.
“Today is about those families in Uvalde, Texas — my home state. And it is about families in Buffalo or Florida or pick any state, really,” Franzke said. “This is about a level of grief that really may never be overcome. This is about all those lives, lives just lost, for … nothing.”After Uvalde, ‘Abbott Elementary’ creator Quinta Brunson says fans are asking her for a school shooting episode