SF 16 - Connor Newcomb Brings Insider Takes on Joe Buck and The Magic of Play-By-Play

89 plays · Jun 17, 2021

2:45 – Plugs and gassing up

4:15 – The history of Locked On Orioles

6 – In Praise of the Google Form

7:30 – Making it through the pandemic with the 2012 MLB playoffs

12:15 – Love to Odrisamer Despaigne

15:15 – College and minor league broadcasting is pretty cool!

17 – Ode to the Bowie Baysox

21 – How times have changed since Matt Wieters

25:15 – Trying thing in college is cool

29 – You gotta remember your best calls

31 – In appreciation of radio broadcasting

35:15 – I Am Once Again Asking Announcers To Make A Little Bit Of Effort To Learn How To Pronounce Names

37 – Oh, Ed Farmer

39:30 – Slander for Scott Garceau and FP Santangelo

44 – Shoutout Don Orsillo

48:15 – We Love Gus Johnson

50 – The Great Joe Buck Debate

55:30 – Ben imitates Tim McCarver reading Metallica lyrics

58:30 – Why Baseball?

59 – It’s relaxing! You get down time!

1:06 – Shoutout Erik Bedard and Adam Jones

1:08:30 – Oriole legend Steve Pearce

1:12:15 – Twelve minutes of Chris Davis

1:24 – Thoughts on the rebuild?

1:27 – Brady Anderson?

1:33 – Yeah, the Yankees aren’t running out Travis Hafner and Vernon Wells anymore

1:37:15 – We all run into Jim Thome in an elevator sometimes

1:41 – College baseball is dope (and Silver makes her weekly appearance)

1:44 – Comerica Park has a merry-go-round on the concourse

1:45 – Order of Operations Trifecta!

1:49 – We need a Ben’s Wife Reaction Cam

1:56 – Zach the horribly sad conflation between Fab Melo and Melo Trimble

1:57 – Zach goes Back to Back and pronounces GIF like JIFF and it’s so bad I had to censor it

1:57:30 – As per usual, Moneyball is good, also as per usual, the Sandlot is overrated

2:01 – What would it be like to actually have an off-the-record, one-on-one with Chris Davis?

2:03 – The Full Count!

Connor’s Book Recommendation: The MVP Machine
Connor’s Food Recommendation: Grab & Go Taco
Connor’s Music Recommendation: Superstore
Connor’s Music/TV Recommendation: Culture III
Connor’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Watching the night sky at Cherry Spring State Park

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