I think they have a rookie (the recently retired Dave Roberts, of the most famous stolen base in Red Sox history) in the booth filling in for Remy. I'm watching hockey, and if I were watching the baseball game, it would be on the Mets broadcast. But I've never heard actual cursing on a Sox broadcast, except when the crowd mikes are too sensitive.
Our usual color commentator is Jerry Remy, who is currently out and recovering from lung cancer surgery. (That sound you hear is ten million cigarettes falling out of the hands of teenage Red Sox fans.)
So we have other colorful personalities to fill in, including the aforementioned Dave Roberts, but more often Hall of Fame pitcher and NESN employee Dennie Eckersley. Eck usually does post-game analysis at the studio (usually of the pitching), but up in the booth, he is still learning about improvisational commentary.
So when explaining the beef between Youkilis and Santana, he accidentally got too literal. But at least we know that, among his talents, Eck can read lips.
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Date: 2009-05-23 01:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-23 02:30 pm (UTC)So we have other colorful personalities to fill in, including the aforementioned Dave Roberts, but more often Hall of Fame pitcher and NESN employee Dennie Eckersley. Eck usually does post-game analysis at the studio (usually of the pitching), but up in the booth, he is still learning about improvisational commentary.
So when explaining the beef between Youkilis and Santana, he accidentally got too literal. But at least we know that, among his talents, Eck can read lips.