The question is not whether guest Chicago White Sox analyst Bill Walton knows anything about baseball.

What we really need to know when Walton joins Jason Benetti in the Sox booth Friday is whether he will be high.

“We will not have a tester in the booth,” Benetti said Wednesday morning at White Sox Park. “It just wasn’t in the budget.”

Walton, the ESPN and Pac-12 Networks basketball analyst, is on the Mount Rushmore of celebrity stoners with country singer Willie Nelson, actor Woody Harrelson and hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg. With analyst Steve Stone getting a break this weekend, Walton will sub for him on the telecast of the Sox-Angels game in Anaheim, California.

This could be really good, or it could be really bad, depending on your tolerance level of Walton’s stream-of-consciousness brand of sports analysis.

The only thing we know for sure is that it’s going to be plenty weird, which is why they are trying it in the first place. The Sox season is basically in a lull, so there is no harm in trying something weird.

— Chicago Tribune