April 16, 2021

NESN: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose

I have not listened to more than an inning or two of NESN this month, but it appears nothing has changed from past seasons.

The network is still a joke, with the producers, directors, and announcers still making the same mistakes they have been making for years. Red Sox fans deserve a far better, far more professional broadcast.

Inexperienced cameramen, clueless direction/production, missing pitches/plays, pretending years-old footage is live, horribly placed advertisements, misinformation from the announcers, lack of prep about the other team, repeating redundant statements, inability to see on replay what is obvious to fans at home, calling plays before they (might or might not) happen . . .

NESN is like a veteran rock band touring well past its sell-by date, mechanically churning out its greatest hits night after predictable night. Except its "hits" are all boring, uncatchy songs that hurt your ears.

Most reasonably educated people learn from their mistakes . . . eventually. Why does that not apply at NESN?

5 comments:

Jere said...

Thanks for the free pub!

allan said...

Always glad to do that!

The post began as just your 4 or 5 tweets. Then I thought, there must be other people bitching about how consistently shitty NESN and OB are. And, sure enough, there was!

Jim said...

I tried to listen to Remy and OB (I still like Eck) but couldn't last 2 innings. Use the radio feed on my phone, which is never in sync with the action, but still better than putting up with those two. Alas, Joe Castig is losing more and more counts and his sidekicks don't dare correct him. But the NESN production, with all the sideshows and propaganda, is still horrible. Good thing the actual stars of the show (that would be the ball players) are very interesting.

the bus driver said...

Cool with the french headline! Au Québec nous y allons plutôt ainsi: Plus ça change, plus c'est "pareil" but I still loved the headline! Keep up the interesting work, as always, thanks Allan!

Jere said...

"Always glad to do that!

The post began as just your 4 or 5 tweets. Then I thought, there must be other people bitching about how consistently shitty NESN and OB are. And, sure enough, there was!"

Cool. I kinda thought my screenshots of them using the Red Sox logo for BOTH teams the other day would be a bigger hit cuz you wouldn't have to even be a nitpicker to realize that's not just wrong but an almost impossible mistake to make.