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Fun article in the Post today about the unconventional style of Frederick Nationals announcer Joey Zanaboni, who was an English major in college.   Here’s a few excerpts:

Zanaboni has a classic radio voice, but there’s nothing traditional about how the 30-year-old describes a game. From his trademark home run call — “Lock it, cock it, rock it, restock it!” — to the colorful similes he peppers throughout every broadcast, often at earsplitting decibel levels, his calls are never boring and are gaining national attention.

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With Zanaboni behind the microphone, slick defense isn’t just clean — it’s “cleaner than a Lysol brand OnlyFans account,” as he described a FredNats double play this month, his latest call to go viral. A strikeout victim is “yanked out of there like a shirtless passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight.” A pitcher is “sharper than a set of cutlery in a limestone quarry.” After Fredericksburg catcher Drew Millas stole home last month, an excited Zanaboni shouted that the play had him “dancin’ like a Spice Girls cover band inside an earthquake simulation.”

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At baseball’s 2018 winter meetings in Las Vegas, Zanaboni showed Colorado Rockies broadcaster Drew Goodman a clip of one of his strikeout calls in which he described a pitcher sitting a hitter down “quicker than extra-strength laxatives.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/05/10/nats-minor-league-broadcaster/

Sounds like a fun guy.

 

 

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25 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Well,  I understand you are Bi.

Baseball-wise?   Not really.   I tried to glom on to the Nats as my NL team when they moved to DC, but never could get excited about them.  I even had a five-game share of a season ticket for several years, but dropped it 5-6 years ago.    

Orherwise?   I’ll never tell…
 

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