Eck being Eck

By adamg on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 11:25pm

Dennis Eckersley is proving to be quite the color commentator for Sox games. If you missed tonight's game, you missed some exuberant lip reading after Youk got hit by a pitch (remember the scene in "A Christmas Story" where Ralphie lets loose with the Big F? Imagine if he'd said the Big S instead) and what is perhaps the best mangling ever of Justin Masterson's last night (he got the "Master" part right, but somehow managed to swap what you use to catch fish for "son"). Couple that with all the discourses on young cheese, paint and gas and you've got quite the parlor game (my wife asked me more than once tonight: "What? What did he just say?").

Video from tonight, at least, until NESN orders it taken down.

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Comments

Well...

By DVDWow on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 11:33pm.

I bet he didn't see that cheese coming.

She should have.

By 02132 on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 11:54pm.

It was center-cut cheese. How could she miss it?

Because it had gas

By adamg on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 11:58pm.

And paint.

I'm still enjoying Eckersley (dear NESN: NEVER bring Buck Martinez back) in part because he really knows the game (he's read the catcher's signs correctly a couple of times), in part because you never know what he's going to say.

That having been said, get better, Mr. Remy.

Eck is brutal

By anon on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 1:05am.

I CANT STAND eck calling the games. It is soo boring and awkward with him all the time. I guess i have become hooked on Rem's 20 years of experience

What he meant

By Kaz on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 1:14am.

Eck had been talking about Santana "baiting" people with certain pitches to get them to swing stupidly at a pitch out of the strike zone.

I think he meant to say "Masterson baited him on that one" and just dropped a syllable...hehe.