Guide to being a fan of Boston sports

[MrCrowesGarden]

I wish that if ESPN knew they were going to make this move for Reilly, they would've done it quicker and offered him the ESPN radio position that Dan Patrick vacated.

Not that I think Tirico is terrible, but I don't find him good either unless Scott Van Pelt is with him.

[ghostrunner]

Rick Reilly's kind of a butthead, IMO.

[Socnorb11]

Do you think a less glitzy, more in-depth national sports channel would be successful?

Heck, yes! Nowadays there are channels devoted to far less interesting subjects. I can't wait for the baseball channel to come out. When is that supposed to start?

A lot of those channels can succeed because it doesn't cost much to produce the programming. Licensing to broadcast sports is expensive, and the leagues typically have all kinds of rules giving only one or two channels rights and only in certain places.

The NFL has it's own network, though.

[Cronos]

I have nothing to add, but I can definitely say that I approve of this thread's original purpose on the outset.

[dangerous]

It is creepy to see how many fans at Fenway resemble Ted Kennedy.

[cardsfansince82]

A real Sox fan
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[clevername]

this thread would be an excellent entry into the hall of fame of tangents.

[tscards]

I'd also like to add that there's a tinge of jealousy.

No one else has Fenway Park. Few other teams have the financial means to make big dollar mistakes, and just write them off and keep rolling. The ESPN thing? It's not that they're talking about the Red Sox (and Yankees), it's that they're not talking about our team(s).

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I'm very thankful we don't have a park like fenway. I like others MUCH more - in fact think it is an ugly horrible place. ooooooh look at us, we have a giant big green wall you have to hit over. what is this, a gymnasium game of wiffle ball where you need to hit over some line way up on the wall?

[JL21]

Here's another one, from ESPN. Pretty funny, really.

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/vid ... Id=2521705

"Do you apologize for the movie 'Fever Pitch'?"

[jim]

So am I the only person that thought Fever Pitch was an ok movie?