The only way to watch the Orioles this year will be on television broadcasts, and those broadcasts are going to be without some mainstay personalities.
Gary Thorne and Jim Palmer, who primarily filled the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) lead play-by-play and analyst roles for over a decade together, are among several longtime broadcast voices who won’t be part of the reduced in-person group of broadcasters for the shortened 2020 season due to COVID-19 concerns, according to team sources who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Both home and away game broadcasts will be called from Camden Yards, along with pre- and post-game shows, with the broadcast for road games fed back to the booth at Camden Yards for commentary.