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Paul Mancano
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Paul Mancano
@PaulMancano
Orioles, Ravens podcaster/TikTok guy. I save my good tweets for @AllBannerSports. Past: MASN. @SyracuseU, @SJPREP grad. Time Person of the Year 2006. He/him
- In 1993, Ken Griffey Jr. hit a Home Run Derby ball off the warehouse at Camden Yards, becoming the first and only player to do so. Why has no one done it since? I spoke with 3 physicists, @mike_petriello, @sigmejdal and #Orioles OF Heston Kjerstad to try to get an answer 🧵
00:00 - #Orioles close out the month of March undefeated and tied for the lead in the AL East.
- According to his roommate John Rhodes, O's prospect Colton Cowser is building a 7,500-piece LEGO millennium falcon on their dining room table. Rhodes hasn't been able to eat there for weeks. "We love Colton. Colton is Colton."
- I’ve worked at or near Camden Yards for seven years, but I’ve never seen it from this perspective.
- I mean, just one of the best throws you’ll see all year
- I just caught up with Tim Byer, the fan who caught that ball. He’s been to hundreds of #Orioles games. This was the first ball he’s ever caught at a game.
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00:26 - Some cherry-picked fun facts 🍒 The Orioles have scored 13 more runs than the Yankees this year Cedric Mullins has a higher OPS and more stolen bases than any Yankee Mullins has more HRs than Giancarlo Stanton John Means has a lower ERA than Gerrit Cole
