From the Wall Street Journal:
If it seems like your baseball team’s play-by-play man jabbers endlessly at 1,000 words a minute, well, he doesn’t. But the St. Louis Cardinals’ Dan McLaughlin comes closer than most of his peers, talking at an estimated 109.9 words every 60 seconds.
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Apparently, announcers for bad teams feel an urge to fill dead air. Trailing Mr. McLaughlin was the Nationals’ Bob Carpenter at 102.3 words per minute, the Reds’ George Grande (102.1) and the Diamondbacks’ Daron Sutton (100.4).
This doesn’t mean anything, but I found it funny.