Filling Shoes

Sean Grande sounded pretty good to me filling in for Obie on Monday night, which odd  funny since I am not a big fan of his on the Celtics radio broadcast.

Here's an Asshole

Sit down and show some respect.

Making Money Off The Pain of Others

Shameful

Where Do I Sign?

 From:  Michael Smith 

Good morning..

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Peter Anderson

Dear Mike Salk

Holy shit, would you please stop fuckn Tweeting about a Bruins game? Thanks in advance

Friday

Like you, even though I knew it intellectually, it was jarring to see the Astros play an AL game at Fenway last night. Hard to believe there is a team worse than the Red Sox, but give them time.

O, me of little faith.

Human Rain Delay Evaporates

There is a pageant of sorrowful goodbyes on the Red Sox broadcast today, for Jon "I'm Jon Rish", aka the Human Rain Delay, is leaving WEEI effective today.

Acordingly,there is a faux celebration of his life and times as the Red Sox do their best to get out of town.

Not a big fan, but he did replace Glenn Geffner. Actually, that's technically wrong, since Dale Arnold did, but I just wanted to slap Geffner around again for old times' sake.

Lou Merloni got a try out earlier in the week on "color", but that's likely to wear thin as well. Plus 9 innings of Joe C's endless Passion Play gets a little old, after a while.

The Rish news is sort of old, having been reported back on April 9. Here's a little tidbit from that report:


Rish is said to have been asked to take a significant paycut, something which is becoming commonplace at WEEI. It says something that a person would give up a position as a radio play-by-play voice for the Boston Red Sox in order to get out of the business altogether.

More here. and here. Rish threw a couple of bombs here

Guessing that John Ryder will continue the meaningless task of pre and postgame shows.

Mr. Rish is going to train to become a software engineer, according to the broadcast.

The Week After

I was away from NE during school vacation week, and so viewed the events of the Boston bombing from afar. Mike Salk had a rich opportunity to sound smart, thoughtful and engaged. I listened often and heard nothing.

A missed opportunity, or an inability to deliver?

I Do Not

Mean to be rude. But could Mike Salk stop tweeting like a 9 year old girl?

Thanks

New Teammates

It struck me sometime during last night's game with the Orioles that this an embarassingly mediocre bunch of players on the Red Sox.

OD

Doc Chuck really laid it on thick in the pre-game. New Anthem "It's Darkest Before The Dawn" yawn.

I'll give them credit for one thing; cutting in a timelapse from Fenway at dawn (clearly today or yesterday). Other than that,


lc

JBL

I don't know how good he will be, but you have to like a guy who talks about seeing how the ball is spinning in every interview.