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Has the Fenway PA guy always sounded like Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons, or is that a recent development?
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Peeps to my brother John for pointing this out. Here’s Boston 3rd baseman Mike Lowell. Hee.
http://tinyurl.com/2v6p8y
See, and I thought Lowell looks like Jafar from the Aladdin movie. It struck me last night and from that point on I kept thinking, “Your beard is so…twisted…”
Marie, Jafar maybe, but LCJ definitely.
Here’s what he looks like when Fox starts the game after midnight:
http://tinyurl.com/yunlty
I’ve………. never noticed that he did? I missed the start of the game, and I wasn’t paying super-close attention to the announcing last night, but I don’t remember thinking “Why, hello, Reverend,” when Carl Beane gave the lineup the other night. Was it not him last night? I mean, I’m not saying I can’t see it, now that you mention it (because I kind of can, and also: hee!) but I’ve never noticed it before.
His Wikipedia page notes that his voice is has been featured in an exhibit in Cooperstown, whatever that means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Beane
It was something about the pronunciation of “Boyz II Men” that was very Lovejoyan. After that I was listening very hard for how he would say “Spilborghs,” which is the funnest name on a roster full of corkers. I’ve started using it as a curse around the house. “I can’t find my keys…SPILBORGHS, I don’t have time for this!”
if mike lowell looks like anybody, it’s george clooney. i mean, DAMN.
http://sceniccityoutlander.blogspot.com/2007/08/lovely-lowell.html
Heh, we call Mike Lowell “George Clooney”
Totally feeling you on the Spilborghs. The song he uses for his “plate song” (what they play when he steps up to the plate at Coors Field…and yes, we’ve all selected our own personal plate songs) is Gwen Stefani’s “Sweet Escape.” Whenever we hear that song, any where, any time, we all look at each other and say, “SPILBORGHS!” It’s a Denver-wide phenomenon, I think.
So… it’s a slow day at work. And it turns out that Carl Beane has a website (www.carlbeane.com) where you can check out the Lovejoy-tacularity for your very own self. (Turn on your sound before you go there; it is sad and unintentionally hilarious at the same time.) Apparently, if you ask nicely, he will emcee your wedding, show your kids sports memorabilia, or speak at your Rotary Club meeting.