Bill Walton calls a White Sox game and Twitter is stoked

Tom Gatto

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Bill Walton is performance art/self-parody whenever he's broadcasting a game, and it turns out that's the case regardless of the sport he's observing.

The basketball commentator tried his hand at baseball Friday night, working with White Sox play-by-play man Jason Benetti in Anaheim, Calif. It was about what you would expect, if you've watched Walton do his hardwood shtick. 

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It appears that MLB Twitter was smitten with the tie-dyed one:

For the record, Benetti didn't walk into this situation cold; he worked a college basketball game with Walton on ESPN at the Maui Invitational last November.

Still, Walton's regular ESPN partner, Dave Pasch, offered moral support just the same:

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.