Since I refuse to pay for NESN, I listen to games on the radio. Or I used to. Castiglione is fine. Is it Fleming or O'Brien who is terrible ? I would much rather have Sean McD which is fine. I am so depressed by this.
Fleming is really, really bad. I had to listen to him yesterday and I could feel Castiglione's annoyance with him throughout the broadcast. Yesterday, he spent the better part of three innings talking about how "massive" and unique Casas' body type is and talking about Story as if he was having the best game any second baseman has ever had.Since I refuse to pay for NESN, I listen to games on the radio. Or I used to. Castiglione is fine. Is it Fleming or O'Brien who is terrible ? I would much rather have Sean McD which is fine. I am so depressed by this.
I have two guesses: 1) that radio doesn't pay enough for any former player to consider it 2) doing PBP for radio involves a LOT of talking, and switching off every few innings between the primary PBP person allows them to avoid destroying their voices.How come they always pair Castiglione up with some other announcer boy? It seems like the perfect pairing would be to find a former player, one with kind of a laid-back attitude. Fleming always seems like he’s trying to provide some hot take, compelling statistic or something. I don’t enjoy listening to him at all.
Yes! He spends the entire broadcast firing off hot takes about everything. I need him to tell me what's happening in the game. I don't want his opinion on every single thing, especially since he is so wrong about most of it.How come they always pair Castiglione up with some other announcer boy? It seems like the perfect pairing would be to find a former player, one with kind of a laid-back attitude. Fleming always seems like he’s trying to provide some hot take, compelling statistic or something. I don’t enjoy listening to him at all.
Castig probably can't (or doesn't want to) do nine innings of PBP. I had high hopes for Flemming, based on his 1st ST. But nope. *That* Flemming has disappeared.How come they always pair Castiglione up with some other announcer boy? It seems like the perfect pairing would be to find a former player, one with kind of a laid-back attitude. Fleming always seems like he’s trying to provide some hot take, compelling statistic or something. I don’t enjoy listening to him at all.
Dave Flemming called the PawSox and wound up in SF instead of Boston (timing was admittedly a factor), leaving us with Fredo Flemming.If Sean is on, I listen to him. Otherwise I mute the game and have the road play by play guys on.
At this point I'm thinking of taking up Spanish so I can listen to that broadcast instead.
It's mystifying why this franchise can't/won't get the very best guys. There are at least a dozen other broadcast teams that I enjoy tuning into more around MLB. Bland is better than blathering.
I don't listen to many Sox games these days, but 100% agree with this. Every game I've listened to, Flemming has had at least one lengthy hot take. He seems to love to complain about everything and anything, which really detracts from the broadcast. It's a summer afternoon and I'm trying to relax -- I don't need to hear your half-inning-long take on why the shift is ruining the game.Yes! He spends the entire broadcast firing off hot takes about everything. I need him to tell me what's happening in the game. I don't want his opinion on every single thing, especially since he is so wrong about most of it.
Seriously. Having to listen to Flemming tepidly walk back his indignant take after he listened to Jamhi Webster's interview would've been delicious if it wasn't so bitter. You ruined the listening experience of a 4-8 loss early when the game was enjoyable. Thanks, dickhead.Flemming is all in on the fan who won’t give back the Casas ball. He won’t stop going on and on while claiming he doesn’t want this guy to get more publicity.