Tag: radio

Red Sox Fail

The Red Sox played the annual Patriots Day/Boston Marathon Monday 11:00am game today. Morning baseball, everyone!

I always enjoy listening to the Marathon Monday game on the radio while I’m at work. I don’t know why, it’s just something I particularly like to do. Today’s game was tough for a bunch of reasons. I had a whole pile of meetings on my calendar, but there were breaks during game time so it was okay. In the end the Red Sox lost to Cleveland. It was close through most of the game but once The Guardians started hitting it was painful. Lots of defensive screw ups for the Red Sox, including two players crashing into each other hard enough to draw blood. Ouch.

Those aren’t the worst parts of the game though. The worst part was the radio broadcast. As soon as I logged onto the MLB app and brought up the audio I wanted to yell at WEEI and shut it off. I didn’t, but I should have. The radio announcing team included Sean McDonough. I fucking hate Sean McDonough. He used to do Red Sox TV broadcasts years and years ago (before getting the job doing Monday Night Football? Was that really a thing?) and he sucked to high heaven. I hated every single syllable that came out of his asshole of a mouth. Ugh, I fucking hate that guy! I’d rather listen to a baby crying at 100 decibels for three hours than listen to that prick call a game.

I listened to the game though. I didn’t let that butt munch ruin my Patriots Day. Screw that guy. The team losing was just fitting though. Yeah, screw that guy.

A Trend(?) That I Hate

Begin rant.

I listen to a lot of podcasts while I work. I have seen a thing happen a few times on a handful of different pods and I think it’s becoming a trend and if it is a trend I friggin hate it.

The podcast runs for an hour or so. Good content, decent content, okay content, whatever. That part is irrelevant. The podcast comes to an end and they play some music to mark that the episode is over. That’s okay, in theory, but they don’t fade out. They just play an entire piece of music all the way through.

STOP DOING THAT. When the podcast is over, I want to listen to the next podcast in the queue and I can’t effing do that if you are going to play some random Tommy Friggin’ James and the Friggin’ Shondells song for five minutes.

STOP DOING THAT. I REALLY HATE THAT.

End rant.

Bush League Radio

WEEI… ugh.

I was about to write a post about some bush league coding, but now I know the code is fine. I’m trying to listen to the Red Sox game’s radio feed via the MLB app on iOS. It’s been really crappy for the last couple of innings. Just drop outs and break up and terrible. I assumed it was the app. I was wrong. My sincere apologies to those who work on the app for my cursing you up and down and saying bad things about your mothers as I was getting more and more frustrated. I was wrong. I am sorry.

No, the bush league shit is actually WEEI itself. It was the actual radio feed that was failing. They are currently broadcasting a major league baseball playoff game via a cell phone. I shit you not. Now, I have a teeny tiny mini spec of radio experience and I am willing to accept that this is actually Tropicana Field’s fault. If that is the case then it’s just another in a long line of garbage coming from that stadium. The team is epic. The facility is the shittiest of shit. I will not, however, let WEEI off the hook because they should expect crap like this and have some sort of backup in place for when the shitty stadium goes to shit. Nope. They have a cell phone. Bush. League. Crap.

Anyway, it’s the top of the fourth inning. The Red Sox are down 5-4. The Sox opened the game with two runs in the top of the first and then Sale sucked up a storm and gave up five in the bottom of the first, including a grand fucking slam. Remember when David Price was a post season dog who was guaranteed to choke in the big game? He overcame that eventually and has a ring to show for it. Sale was supposed to be different, and I know he’s coming off a gigantic injury, but he choked in a must win in his last regular season start, and he was god awful tonight. The fuck, dude? Are you a new pre-redemption David Price?

The Sox did manage back to back home runs in the third inning to close the gap, but I didn’t hear it because WEEI was falling apart at the time.

Come on, Red Sox. Let’s get that lead back and let Mr Sale off the hook.

I Don’t Live in Cleveland

I’ve been listening to sports talk radio regularly since about the year 2000 when I was getting stuck in brutal traffic driving from Tewksbury to Lowell each day. (note for non-townies, the two towns are right next to each other)

These days Boston has two sports radio stations. This morning I went to the car so that I could drive to dunks and get breakfast for me and the love of my life. One sports radio station came out of commercials as I started up the car and started discussing the Cleveland Cavaliers. My thought? Who gives a rats ass about the Cleveland Cavaliers. The hell with them and the hell with this show.

I switched to the other sports radio station and they topic there was the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Yeah, I think I might be completely done with Boston sports talk radio. Screw you all.