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December 12, 2018
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
let's kill WEEI's idea
This stroke of total stupidity has cost them the services of a pretty good announcer, Tim Neverett. I have a tenuous connection to Mr. Neverett through his brother, BJ, who coached baseball in Nashua, NH, for many years. I suffered the wrath of BJ on one or two occasions when I first started umpiring. Tim Neverett was good at the job of describing the action while imparting a sense of the tension, or lack thereof, on the field. I actually prefer to listen to the radio broadcast while the TV is on. When an important play happens, I can easily turn to the screen. I don't need Harry from Malden bloviating about how Yaz was the greatest left fielder ever.
posted by Howard_T at 12:24 PM on December 12, 2018
I like Steve Nash. I would not object to more Steve Nash in public life. That said, there is 0 reason for Steve Nash to be doing color-commentary on professional soccer games, much less a Champion's League match featuring a team he is openly rooting for. I appreciate Bleacher Report is trying to do something different by not even having a proper play-by-play guy (though Stuart Holden does a very good job of it anyway), but let's call it a failed experiment. While we are at it, let's kill WEEI's idea of "dropping the concept of a conventional radio baseball broadcast to make the call of the game sound more like a talk show."