BALTIMORE — Last year, Jim Palmer sent Ben McDonald to his barber. Over a minute and a half, the Orioles pitchers-turned-broadcasters went back and forth about Dawn, her ownership of Shearz Inc. of Little Italy, her tattoos and the fact it had been more than a decade since she had given someone a flattop before McDonald walked through the door.
“These are the stories we can’t tell on TV anymore because it’s too fast,” McDonald quipped.
But beyond the occasional lost anecdote, the Orioles’ broadcasters say they haven’t felt a significant change in how they go about their jobs since MLB introduced a pitch clock among its rule changes for the 2023 season.
