More Stupid Announcing
Astute sports fans aren’t really shocked by what we hear by the guys calling the games any more. Being informed doesn’t seem to be a prerequisite to getting on the air.
But man, Gary Thorn, who I thought was a pretty bright guy, just made one of the more embarrassing gaffes I’ve ever heard from a baseball play-by-play guy.
Kevin Millar had just lined a sharp ball down the third base line — it flew by Mike Lowell but landed a couple of feet foul. As MASN put it on replay:
Thorn: Wow, that is really close to being over third base. But that’s a tough call to make, really tough.
MASN replayed it again.
Thorn: You know, that is about as close as it gets. That may have gone over the bag.
Color Commentator: I think that only applies to ground balls.
Thorn: Yeah, that’s right.
And they moved on…
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