Baltimore @ Texas 4/14/09

[Skeletor]

Hey! Nice play felix.

[isestrex]

Latest Thornism:

Sar-fart-e

Love Gary

[Hank Scorpio]

Gary Thorne is like the worst name pronouncer I've ever heard in my entire life.

I also like the way he incorrectly identifies pitches. He's called at least 4 fastballs sliders tonight.

[nemO821]

Simon is the alternative. The question is, "If a good pitcher isn't on the Orioles, what is the alternative?"

The alternative is wait and pray Bergy, Tillman, Matusz, and Arrieta come up and save Orioles fans from having to witness the pitching talents of Simon, Eaton, and Hendrickson(even though he's pitched well so far)

[RShack]

Pie ran to the right place on that one... thank God...

[Icterus galbula]

Yeah Pie, show 'em what you're learning!

[PaulBako]

I actually like listening to Gary Thorne.

[24HOR]

Sarfate is using his offspeed pitches alot to start of these hitters and it appears to be working well.

[dslats715]

Gary Thorne is like the worst name pronouncer I've ever heard in my entire life.

I also like the way he incorrectly identifies pitches. He's called at least 4 fastballs sliders tonight.

Yea I was seeing an awful lot of 92 mph "sliders"

[MCL1021]

Latest Thornism:

Sar-fart-e

Love Gary

If I were in the booth, I'd giggle a little bit if I heard that....

I can just think of Beavis and Butthead and them laughing...."he said fart":laughlol:

[LAOSfan]

Gary Thorne is like the worst name pronouncer I've ever heard in my entire life.

I also like the way he incorrectly identifies pitches. He's called at least 4 fastballs sliders tonight.

Worse than Brooks?

[RShack]

I actually like listening to Gary Thorne.

Me too. But he doesn't use the monitor, so he gets things like pitch-location wrong all the time, just because he's looking down from the pressbox.

As for the diff between what kind of pitch it was, I often cannot tell, so it doesn't bother me if somebody else can't. Last year in one game thread, vatech said lotsa times he couldn't tell either.

[Palmer Esque]

Gary Thorne is like the worst name pronouncer I've ever heard in my entire life.

I also like the way he incorrectly identifies pitches. He's called at least 4 fastballs sliders tonight.

Its funny though, when he does hockey games, he nails every Russian and Eastern European name every time. I mean he nails them.

Has anyone else noticed this?

[SimplyZ]

Hamilton's stance in the box looks deadly...he has crazy power

[Hank Scorpio]

Worse than Brooks?

Oh, I don't remember.

When Brooks was announcing, I was too young to be able to identify pitches.