Get ready for an unusual White Sox broadcast on August 16 because Bill Walton is joining Jason Benetti in the broadcast booth.
Steve Stone is not traveling for the four-game series in Anaheim and Walton is filling in for the Friday game in that series. The game will be on NBC Sports Chicago.
Walton and Benetti worked together in college basketball’s Maui Invitational last year. It produced some classic moments as the two developed some chemistry.
"Doing a game with Bill Walton is a gift,” Benetti said in a press release from the White Sox. “His mind is a playground, an orchestra and a volcano all rolled into one. It is impossible to think of someone who takes the audience and his broadcast partner on more of a journey through the world, and to have that next to me is an honor and a treat."
Even the press release was weird, so buckle up for the actual broadcast:
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When told of Benetti’s comment announcing “this epic, monumental and historic upcoming event of the double millennium,” Walton, found in the desert, in the middle of a massive lava flow, on his bike, on yet another hard climb said, "Whoa! The pressure is on now, but please, set your standards higher, Jason. And here I thought all along I was a trembling and exploding rainbow, morphing into a bus stop. I guess I’m going to have to reinvent myself one more time.
“Anyway, take me out to the ballgame, put me in Coach, I’m ready to play today. California, preaching on the burning shore, California, knock, knockin’ on the golden door. Please, where is the game, what time does it start, who’s playing, what sport is it, and what’s your name again? Give me a chord, and I’m on my way,” Walton said. “I hope the noise in my head is not bothering you.”