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How NESN is making Sox games even more painful
By adamg on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 10:22am
By forcing Remy and Orsillo to kibbitz about advertisers in the middle of innings, Joy of Sox kvetches.
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Comments
What a difference a phoneme makes
Is it a really bad pun or a spelling issue?
As amusing as the thought of Remy on a kibbutz is ...
It was a spelling issue, and fixed.
This has been going on for
This has been going on for years now. Putting commercials within the broadcast prevents the bathroom run end-around and the save-and-skip later viewing. Someone hasn't been paying attention.
this is completely different
the ads i am talking about were completely new. the next game, i counted only 7 of these extended ads, in which remy professes his love for the product. things are back to normal. (i can only hope they got a lot of complaints.) don reads an ad or a promo -- and remy offers no additional "casual" banter. it's bad enough every broadcast is littered with commercials -- we don't need remy breaking out the kneepads for benjamin moore and cvs.
i have been listening to nesn since the extra innings package was available. remember when remy would pimp his t-shirts and website and scorecards for innings at a time night after night. then remember how it completely stopped one day. it is obvious these guys are told what to say and what not to say. it would be great if they stuck to baseball.
CraigsList shut them down, so
CraigsList shut them down, so they had to find another place for their WHORING.
Come on now
Look on the bright side: Very often, including some of the examples the OP cites, there's plenty of humor to be found in promos for things which Remy clearly, clearly, does not use, like, etc. Favorites are when they promote some crappy reality show, and Remy deadpans that he watches it every night and/or can't wait to see the next episode. Classic stuff.
I agree that it can be a bit much, and from what the OP says it's become extremely pervasive (didn't watch the game in question), but I always felt that effectively filling up "garbage time" is the mark of a good baseball broadcaster.
I was forced to watch the
I was forced to watch the White Sox broadcast on Comcast Sports on Sunday. I would take Remy and Orsillo bantering about apple pie over The Hawk and his "don't stop now, boys", etc any day.