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Dick Vitale is now live tweeting a Lionel Richie concert

“Lionel winning the ladies hearts ONCE TWICE 3 TIMES A LADY - #HITMACHINE”

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Ricky O'Donnell
Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.

Nobody live tweets an adult contemporary rock show quite like ESPN’s Dick Vitale. Whether he’s doing play-by-play of a Barry Manilow or Billy Joel concert or going out of his way to hilariously throw shade at Weezer, Vitale has proven he sees more live music than just about any 75-year-old in existence. Fortunately for the benefit of America, he can’t help but to publish his stream of consciousness while he’s rocking out.

Lionel Richie’s tour stopped in Vitale’s home state of Florida on Monday. You know where this is going:

The following is a collection of Dick Vitale’s tweets from the Lionel Richie show. He’s as enthusiastic about this as he is Diaper Dandies and PTPers.

The photograph is proof:

Don’t stop doing you, Dickie V.

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