New radio voice Brown a fresh face

The new voice in the Orioles radio booth is clear, concise and easy on the ears, but everyone who sees Kevin Brown in person for the first time asks the same question. How old is that guy? So, even though I could have just looked it up — and left everyone with the mistaken impression that I do a lot of pre-column research — that was the first question I asked when I sat down in the booth with him at Camden Yards last week. “Fourteen,” he said. Of course, I was dubious, but I’m pretty sure Brett Hollander was in his teens when he started over at WBAL, so I played along. Brown eventually revealed that he actually is 29, which I didn’t believe either, so we just had to agree to disagree.

If you’re keeping score at home, you should have figured out by now that Brown doesn’t take himself too seriously when the microphone is off. If you’ve already heard him on the Orioles Radio Network, you know he takes his job very seriously when the microphone is on.

He came to Baltimore to backstop regular radio play-by-play guy Jim Hunter, bringing a wide variety of experience for someone who truly looks like he just auditioned for a “Sixteen Candles” reboot.

Seven years with the minor league Syracuse Chiefs. The past few years calling college football, basketball and hockey, as well as high school football for ESPN, which is his full-time gig. But he’s got some catching up to do around here.

“Amazingly enough, I had never been to this park until I interviewed for this job, which is a stain on my baseball life,’’ Brown said. “We didn’t travel much growing up. I’ve only been to a handful of major league parks. I’d been to Yankee Stadium old and new, Shea Stadium and Citi Field, and before I started working in baseball I don’t think I’d been in any other major league park.”

Well, we can forgive the virgin Camden