93.7 The Fan hosts Dorin Dickerson and Andrew Fillipponi threw out the first pitch at the Pittsburgh Pirates game over the weekend. Dickerson — a former Pitt Panther football star and NFL veteran — received a welcomed response after his introduction. However, the reaction to Fillipponi was more mixed.
“He definitely got booed,” Dickerson said during The Fan Morning Show Monday. “I kind of figured he was gonna get booed, and I was hoping they wouldn’t announce us together because I didn’t want to be part of the ‘boo’ process. So they announced us separately, which I was happy with.”
After a discussion with Chris Mack and Colin Dunlap about how Dickerson’s first pitch went, the pair asked about Fillpponi’s mindset leading into the first pitch.
“He was very nervous. He was talkative. He was just like ‘I hope I get it over the plate. I’ve been practicing. I need a couple throws. I need to do this…’. He was nervous. It took him by surprise. The cheers — in his mind — took him by surprise. He did fine. If he would have skipped it, that place would have erupted.”
Dickerson joked that “he caught touchdown passes in front of 60,000 people for a decade”, so he wasn’t subject to the same nerves as Fillipponi.
