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

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 [https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-mvp-machine-how-baseballs-new-nonconformists-are-using-data-to-build-better-players_travis-sawchik_ben-lindbergh/19686996/?resultid=fe9fcf90-98f1-48d8-80dd-c3d13450557f#edition=24727406&idiq=37579337] * Connor’s Food Recommendation: Grab & Go Taco [https://www.grabandgotaco.com/] * Connor’s Music Recommendation: Superstore [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4477976/] * Connor’s Music/TV Recommendation: Culture III [https://open.spotify.com/album/3uyOwJu4r3yroAkFywNFM3] * Connor’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Watching the night sky at Cherry Spring State Park [https://www.google.com/search?q=cherry+spring+state+park&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS913US913&sxsrf=ALeKk02ps33T-ixmtxhRQBxOkXJUdcH5bQ:1623949106214&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFo-XskZ_xAhXbWM0KHbkpDXQQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1366&bih=657] Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus [https://pitcherlist.com/plus] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]