I'm 36 years old, and as I've been saying, I also played d2 on CD when I was very young. And I remember him saying that... that's why I wrote this post, to see if other people remember it as I do. I think it's the Mandela Effect.
or you were 10 years old, didnt really track the story, the expansion wasnt out yet,
and you had never heard of "baal" so your brain filled in what you thought you were hearing,
so you remembered what you thought you heard because that was your memory of it.
just a thought