The Orioles have found their announcing team on TV/Radio

[byrdz]

This thread is interesting timing as I was thinking the other day that Brown and McDonald have been hitting their stride of late. Ben might be the best I’ve heard on breaking down pitching sequences and shapes of pitches. Being a person who never played the game I appreciate his level detail when explaining the art of pitching. And how many times has he guessed right on the next pitch?? Maybe that’s not so hard but Brown always seems surprised saying things like, “you willed that pitch into existence!”, lol.

Edited August 11, 2022 by byrdz

[Hallas]

1 hour ago, btownoriole said:

And I think Kevin Brown does a great job pulling this out of him.  I love when Brown asks him what pitch he'd throw here and why. 

He's usually right too!  At least in so far as the catcher lines up where Ben says, and the pitch type is accurate.  Whether the pitch ends up there is obviously dependent on the pitcher.

[SteveA]

5 hours ago, byrdz said:

This thread is interesting timing as I was thinking the other day that Brown and McDonald have been hitting their stride of late. Ben might be the best I’ve heard on breaking down pitching sequences and shapes of pitches. Being a person who never played the game I appreciate his level detail when explaining the art of pitching. And how many times has he guessed right on the next pitch?? Maybe that’s not so hard but Brown always seems surprised saying things like, “you willed that pitch into existence!”, lol.

He didn't do a lot of games, but when Gregg Olson did color for Orioles games in I think 2020 and 2021, he was also excellent nad breaking down pitch sequences.

[T-Town Bird Fan]

Proctor and Lowenstein were a great pairing. Jon Miller was great. Brown is getting better. Still makes some first inning calls like they were game winning hits. McDonald has found his groove. 

[Il BuonO]

1 hour ago, T-Town Bird Fan said:

Proctor and Lowenstein were a great pairing. Jon Miller was great. Brown is getting better. Still makes some first inning calls like they were game winning hits. McDonald has found his groove. 

Love Big Ben, but every time I think Brown is getting better he injects his silly cultural references. As another poster said,”I can feel BM shaking his head or rolling his eyes.”

[Il BuonO]

8 hours ago, byrdz said:

This thread is interesting timing as I was thinking the other day that Brown and McDonald have been hitting their stride of late. Ben might be the best I’ve heard on breaking down pitching sequences and shapes of pitches. Being a person who never played the game I appreciate his level detail when explaining the art of pitching. And how many times has he guessed right on the next pitch?? Maybe that’s not so hard but Brown always seems surprised saying things like, “you willed that pitch into existence!”, lol.

It’s not easy. BM has great baseball IQ. Brown would do well to play that up and keep asking him what he would throw.