2024 Boston Red Sox
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They're doing much better that I thought they would.
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You and everyone else.
He ended up with a fractured wrist. He'll be out for a while..
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the executioner’s face is always well hidden
Ice_Ice_Brady
the executioner’s face is always well hidden
I don’t know if you saw the whole graphic. The issue is that every team in the NL is just below .500. Last place team is 2 games out. Very bland league with too much parity.
Don Orsillo is a native New Englander and without any prompting, still vividly remembers his first trip to Fenway Park in 1978. As a student at nearby Northeastern, he attended Red Sox games regularly and worked as an intern to his mentor, Joe Castiglione.
From 2001-2015, Orsillo was the TV voice of the Red Sox on NESN and his career here is fondly remembered. In Boston this weekend with the visiting San Diego Padres for whom he now works, he estimated that a walk to lunch near his Back Bay hotel Friday resulted in more than 30 people stopping him and asking for a photo.
“I’m amazed by it,” said Orsillo of the lingering bond with Red Sox fans. “I truly am. I thought having been gone for nine years that there wouldn’t be many people who remembered. But as I said in my last game here, someone asked how I wanted to be remembered and I said, ‘Being remembered at all is enough for me.’ That’s how I felt then; that’s how I feel in 2024.
“I believe to this day that the broadcaster’s role is that of a family member. You truly become a family member. You’re on, in their livings rooms every night, every day. Or you’re on in the background while they’re doing something. You’re their voice of summer. The bond that people have with broadcasters is why I got into this business in the first place.”
Orsillo described walking into Fenway for only the second time since he left in 2015 “like walking into the home you grow up in as a kid. It’s that kind of feel. There are a lot of the same faces still here.”
But those faces are ballpark employees or people in the media; not a single player remains from 2015, his final season. He recalls Alex Cora, Andrew Bailey and Jason Varitek — but as players whose games he broadcast, not from their current roles.
And despite his long association with the Sox, he feels no divided loyalty whatsoever this weekend.
“I believe when you’re fired from a team, you lose your allegiance to that team as far as caring whether they win or lose,” he said. “That was part of the deal: If I’m out, so are they. I can’t be a fan of someone who’s not a fan of mine. You’re going to like someone who despises you or replaces you? I couldn’t do it. My allegiance had to end, especially where I went to another franchise, where I am invested. That fandom ended. Now, my love for the Bruins, Celtics and Patriots has not changed — they didn’t fire me.”
Orsillo readily admitted that he misses seeing his longtime partner Jerry Remy and that “it is weird to walk around these (Fenway) halls and not see him here. But I have closure with that and I know he’s here with me now.”
The firing of Orsillo alienated the fan base and backfired into one of the worst PR mistakes the Red Sox have made in recent history. Sadly, the Red Sox chose not to honor or spotlight Orsillo in his return to Fenway this weekend, despite his long association to the franchise and his role as the play-by-play voice of three World Series championship teams.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/l/break-free-citi-dc-pn/
From 2001-2015, Orsillo was the TV voice of the Red Sox on NESN and his career here is fondly remembered. In Boston this weekend with the visiting San Diego Padres for whom he now works, he estimated that a walk to lunch near his Back Bay hotel Friday resulted in more than 30 people stopping him and asking for a photo.
“I’m amazed by it,” said Orsillo of the lingering bond with Red Sox fans. “I truly am. I thought having been gone for nine years that there wouldn’t be many people who remembered. But as I said in my last game here, someone asked how I wanted to be remembered and I said, ‘Being remembered at all is enough for me.’ That’s how I felt then; that’s how I feel in 2024.
“I believe to this day that the broadcaster’s role is that of a family member. You truly become a family member. You’re on, in their livings rooms every night, every day. Or you’re on in the background while they’re doing something. You’re their voice of summer. The bond that people have with broadcasters is why I got into this business in the first place.”
Orsillo described walking into Fenway for only the second time since he left in 2015 “like walking into the home you grow up in as a kid. It’s that kind of feel. There are a lot of the same faces still here.”
But those faces are ballpark employees or people in the media; not a single player remains from 2015, his final season. He recalls Alex Cora, Andrew Bailey and Jason Varitek — but as players whose games he broadcast, not from their current roles.
And despite his long association with the Sox, he feels no divided loyalty whatsoever this weekend.
“I believe when you’re fired from a team, you lose your allegiance to that team as far as caring whether they win or lose,” he said. “That was part of the deal: If I’m out, so are they. I can’t be a fan of someone who’s not a fan of mine. You’re going to like someone who despises you or replaces you? I couldn’t do it. My allegiance had to end, especially where I went to another franchise, where I am invested. That fandom ended. Now, my love for the Bruins, Celtics and Patriots has not changed — they didn’t fire me.”
Orsillo readily admitted that he misses seeing his longtime partner Jerry Remy and that “it is weird to walk around these (Fenway) halls and not see him here. But I have closure with that and I know he’s here with me now.”
The firing of Orsillo alienated the fan base and backfired into one of the worst PR mistakes the Red Sox have made in recent history. Sadly, the Red Sox chose not to honor or spotlight Orsillo in his return to Fenway this weekend, despite his long association to the franchise and his role as the play-by-play voice of three World Series championship teams.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/l/break-free-citi-dc-pn/
John Henry must be pissed that the team is doing well enough to cost him like this.
Duran named MVP of the All Star game.
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I don't know anything about the kid. Is this a legacy pick, or does the boy have a chance at making it?
I'm not sure either. The last time I saw him he was a little kid on the field with his dad.
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