Aug 13, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 10 segments
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Merlin MannHost
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They were quote, quote skeeting, quote posting something from the awful announcing Blue Sky account.
that said uh and it's it's posting a video of a uh a play-by-play of a baseball game with the announcers talking over the baseball action baseball action doesn't matter it's just the announcers talking to each other as often happens i think in baseball games where there's a lot of downtime in baseball games nothing exciting is happening and the the announcers will start talking to each other about something while the game goes on behind them that's the thing you can do in baseball because it's not really uh That action-packed during segments.
Anyway, Awful Announcing says, Ben McDonald admits he has never used shampoo in his life during today's Oriole game on MASN on August 2nd.
Yeah.
is this a secret weird thing? What about this? What about that? This, I think, is basically a canonical in public secret weird thing, probably the highest form, which is it didn't just happen like within a, you know, a private group or something that you heard about.
Where it definitely seems like Ben McDonald discovers that he has a secret weird thing.
And now it's hard to tell because sometimes people, you know, pretend that they're saying something that like, what? This isn't weird at all.
I mean, I think there are levels of rejection where at first you're like, what? Like, what's the big deal? And then sometimes people are like, yeah, I just, like me, often I would say probably something like, well, I just like doing it differently.
But to have that, we luckily, we have the good fortune to not be on TV when people, when we are forced to confront our secret weird thing we've been
let's
They were quote, quote skeeting, quote posting something from the awful announcing Blue Sky account.
that said uh and it's it's posting a video of a uh a play-by-play of a baseball game with the announcers talking over the baseball action baseball action doesn't matter it's just the announcers talking to each other as often happens i think in baseball games where there's a lot of downtime in baseball games nothing exciting is happening and the the announcers will start talking to each other about something while the game goes on behind them that's the thing you can do in baseball because it's not really uh That action-packed during segments.
Anyway, Awful Announcing says, Ben McDonald admits he has never used shampoo in his life during today's Oriole game on MASN on August 2nd.
Yeah.
is this a secret weird thing? What about this? What about that? This, I think, is basically a canonical in public secret weird thing, probably the highest form, which is it didn't just happen like within a, you know, a private group or something that you heard about.
Where it definitely seems like Ben McDonald discovers that he has a secret weird thing.
And now it's hard to tell because sometimes people, you know, pretend that they're saying something that like, what? This isn't weird at all.
I mean, I think there are levels of rejection where at first you're like, what? Like, what's the big deal? And then sometimes people are like, yeah, I just, like me, often I would say probably something like, well, I just like doing it differently.
But to have that, we luckily, we have the good fortune to not be on TV when people, when we are forced to confront our secret weird thing we've been
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