re: Hawthorne's call of Zardon hit

It doesn't bother me anymore. It's humorous, and part of his charm. He calls it as if he is calling a tv game and it has to be instantaneous with the action rather than taking the benefit of doing a radio broadcast and calling the action a couple seconds after it happens.

My favorite Hawthorne moment was a reg season conference basketball game at Mississippi State about 4 or 5 years back. We we're up 2 with 5 or 6 seconds left and State was inbounding at half court. His call was literally,

"Augustus to inbound for the Bulldogs at midcourt..."

<<8 or so seconds of dead air>>

"TIGERS WIN!! TIGERS WIN!!"

I turned off the radio and laughed for a half hour. It was classic JH.