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Castiglione to return

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Joe ended his radio broadcast season this evening. He will not be joining Dennis Eckersley in retirement in '23. Although he didn't say --that I heard-- that he would be back it is just assumed he will. NESN has lost Remy and Eck in successive seasons. They will have to add some talent. Maybe Lou Merloni from 'EEI.
 
I thought Youk (Kevin Youkilis) did a very nice job on NESN this year. I've read a lot of criticism that he talks too much but I think he did a great job. I'm sort of neutral on Tony Massarotti but I wouldn't be totally against him coming back. I didn't hear enough of Kevin Millar or Will Middlebrooks. And I don't catch much of the pre-game or post-game shows but was Tim Wakefield not around much this season or is it my imagination?
 
Might the future of Red Sox broadcasts (maybe not in 2023 but in later years, after Joe Castiglione retires) become a TV/radio simulcast with the joint announcing team doing radio only for preseason games not on TV, nationally televised regular season games, and postseason games (as all postseason telecasts are only televised in a national basis with no locally produced TV coverage)?

NESN and WEEI-93.7 would save a lot of money as each entity would only have to pay half the salaries of the announcers.

However, I think it's been quite a few years since any MLB teams have had announcers simulcast games on TV and radio. I think the late Vin Scully was the last to do a TV/radio simulcast (calling Los Angeles Dodgers games) and before that, I think Harry Carey and Steve Stone may have called Chicago Cubs games on a TV/radio simulcast basis win the 1980's, but I'm not 100% sure.
 
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