The 2011 Jim Palmer Quotables Thread

[CA-ORIOLE]

Palmer on Matt Albers:

"I was talking to Matt Albers today and he said he was throwing the ball well. I told him you always throw the ball well, you just don't pitch very good"

[PrivateO]

On if Adam Jones could win the Final Vote for the ASG:

"We'll see how popular his Tweeter account is."

[TakebackOPACY]

On Mark Reynolds:

"Well he strikes out a lot. He doesn't hit into a lot of double plays because, ya know, he strikes out a lot."

[crissfan172]

He just referred to El Duque as "El Dookie". :laughlol:

[PrivateO]

On Mark Worrell coming into the 8th to face Pedroia with the bases loaded and 1 out:

Well, good luck.

[TakebackOPACY]

With the O's trailing 15-10 to the BoSox on the first night of David Ortiz' suspension:

Boy they're really missing David Ortiz, their DH, tonight.

[Spy Fox]

On the wild pitch thrown by the Red Sox lefty, Williams:

Well Saltala... Salta... Well, Jarrod's a big guy back there, you should be able to throw it within his wingspan but he didn't on that pitch.

[gamer]

On the wild pitch thrown by the Red Sox lefty, Williams:

I found this hilarious, he kind of got to the point where you kind of just have to say "screw it"

[Cider Jim]

Talk about stating the obvious...with knuckleballer Tim Wakefield on the mound, Palmer's fellow announcer Gary Thorne says,

"The Red Sox infield is playing Hardy to pull."

Really? Who CAN'T pull a knuckleball?

[crissfan172]

"That's an interesting view. You have the Orioles fans on their feet and the Red Sox fans leaving."

:laughlol:

[Spy Fox]

On the Red Sox defense against Matt Angle:

Youkilis is playing so close, if you're the batter you can tell what kind of toothpaste he used this morning.

[O's Fan83]

As a degreed meteorologist, I cringed last night when Dr. Palmer said that the ball was carrying at OPACY b/c it was hot and there were "more molecules in the air."

[DrShorebird]

That was the first time I ever heard anayone say that. I think he must have meant to say "fewer" meaning fewer molecules per unit of volume (total molecules remaining the same). My favorite is when some announcers state that the higher humidity makes the air "heavier" (probably because it feels "heavier" because sweat isn't evaporating as quickly) instead of less dense because H20 molecules have less mass than the N2 molecules they displace. Usually, soon after an announcer says that, someone hits a homerun

[Don Quixote]

As a degreed meteorologist' date=' I cringed last night when Dr. Palmer said that the ball was carrying at OPACY b/c it was hot and there were "more molecules in the air."[/quote']

Having my undergraduate background in earth and atmospheric sciences, I almost did a "facepalm" at that.

[isestrex]

Not Palmer... this one is by Fred Manfra but this seems like the best place to post it.

"Colon weighing in at 176 lbs... but that's on the "light" scale, the scale that I would prefer to use in my daily life."