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Herald I-Track: Trupiano may be gone from Sox radio

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Maybe only speculation but the Herald's Inside Track says Jerry Trupiano may be gone from Sox
radio. " Betting odds are that Trupiano will be replaced next season by former Sox PR man Glenn Geffner."
Who knows if this will turn out to be true:

http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=159425

His "way back! wayyy back!!" (more recently replaced by "there it goes!") homer calls may wind up in
St. Louis instead, but we'll find out for sure once the season ends. (And, while WEEI will do selected
games next year, the Track gals should be aware that it'll be the _WRKO_ Red Sox network. Same
owner, anyway.)_
 
It was a done deal long ago. Its all the doing of that phony Lucchino!
Mark my words Sox fans. This ownership group is taking you a for a ride and as soon as the Kenmore Square area is built out and no more seats can be built, they are outa here selling the team and you down the river. They think you all are suckers. You got your precious championship and now they keep cutting the budget and the team stinks more and more, but you keep buying tickets and filling the pockets of the bastards!
 
70sdj said:
It was a done deal long ago. Its all the doing of that phony Lucchino!
Mark my words Sox fans. This ownership group is taking you a for a ride and as soon as the Kenmore Square area is built out and no more seats can be built, they are outa here selling the team and you down the river. They think you all are suckers. You got your precious championship and now they keep cutting the budget and the team stinks more and more, but you keep buying tickets and filling the pockets of the bastards!
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living out the american dream, ya baby.

great point. effin' henry made a fortune of buying and flipping companies. red sox are no different. they're blowing it up right before your very eyes. he and the rest of those charlatans will be out once all the new upscale condos on boylston street are sold out.

feel bad for entercom. they're stuck with a long pricey contract and a team that will suck
for years to come. welcome to florida marlins world, red sox nation. this is only the beginning.
 
well they might be able to be competitive enough to make the playoffs or almost make the playoffs,
but another World Series might be very tough to do. But who knows: The Marlins won it all with a small
budget...

JT The Brick on 'EEI tonight was complaining about how, in Oakland, they're putting a tarp over upper deck
seats...would rather NOT sell them to fans hungry to see playoff games! Can't picture THAT happening here.
(Fenway btw is now no longer the smallest park. Whatever-it's-now-called in Oakland is thanks to those
roped off seats).

Which will be the bigger waste of money: 10 yrs of Sox on WRKO, or 7 years of Severin on WTKK?
 
"Which will be the bigger waste of money: 10 yrs of Sox on WRKO, or 7 years of Severin on WTKK?"

biggest waste: salaries of managers who go for these stupid deals.
 
Trupiano and Castigleone may be the worst radio play by play team I've ever heard.
They are beyond lousy. Any change will be an improvement.
 
raccoonradio said:
JT The Brick on 'EEI tonight was complaining about how, in Oakland, they're putting a tarp over upper deck
seats...would rather NOT sell them to fans hungry to see playoff games!
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The upper deck's been tarped all season. IIRC, the strategy behind the move was to generate more season-ticket sales by getting A's fans in the mindset that their team's big games will probably be sellouts, so they'd better make sure they have seats well in advance. However, the average attendance for A's home games this year was about 24,000, well short of even the new capacity. All the tarp on the upper deck did was artificially limit the attendance for the big-drawing games on the schedule (Yankees, Giants).

Back on topic: I find Red Sox radio unlistenable. Part of it is the announcers -- although it's Castiglione, not Trupiano, who really gets on my nerves -- but a bigger part of it is all the sponsor/Jimmy Fund/friends of management on-air clutter that breaks up the natural flow of the game. They could bring in Vin Scully to replace Trupiano and I'd still do what I usually do for road games -- listen to the invariably superior out-of-town broadcast on XM.
 
I don't think they're too bad, though both were guilty of making foul balls or fly balls sound like home runs--oops! Well, I guess once a ball is hit high, sometimes you wonder if it'll go out...but really. "...but this one will stay in the park..."
Many consider Castiglione one of the best. Trupiano sometimes can be too quiet or laid back--there are times when the Sox score a run and he barely sounds excited, but at other times like with a dramatic home run,
he can really turn on the passion. But their basic talk about whatever; the info on the game going on
and other aspects of baseball...not bad.
 
David Scott, Boston Sports Media Watch:
http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/shots

"“If they don’t want me back, than somebody should just tell me,” said Trupiano. “I’m frustrated to have to read about in the paper.” Rumored for some time (as early as June, at this site), it appears nearly certain that Trupiano’s Sunday Sox-Orioles broadcast at 2:05 p.m., will be the sign-off on a 14-year association with the Red Sox and its radio broadcast partner, Entercom."

Neither Trupiano nor his agent were contacted by the Track Gals for their article. Dr. Steinberg of the Sox says the decisions on announcers are made by Entercom, though the Sox must give approval ("we have the right to approve their choices")
 
RadioHead06 said:
Trupiano and Castigleone may be the worst radio play by play team I've ever heard.
They are beyond lousy. Any change will be an improvement.
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bulls**t... who are your ideas of an ideal announcer? I think they're good together and if it's corny, so be it. I wish it was synced up with the tv broadcast because Don and Jerry wear thin at times. Especially when Jerry is pushing his hot dog stand, website, merch, etc...
 
Sorry Sonic but they are awful. They do not paint an accurate picture, no wait let me rephrase that, they don't paint ANY picture of what's going on during the game (a prerequisite for RADIO) and forget waiting for a score.
Easily the worst radio play by play team I've ever heard.
 
IF today's season finale gets played (raining right now--game has already been pushed back to 3 pm at the very least, acc. to NESN) it might mark the last appearance of Trupiano on Red Sox radio, if the rumors prove to be true...
 
BoSox radio team: Not the worst

RadioHead06 said:
Trupiano and Castigleone may be the worst radio play by play team I've ever heard.
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You've never heard John Sterling doing Yankees PxP. He alone is the reason I'm a Mets fan.
 
You are right about the clutter, but they are still better than Gill and Gino. Gino stayed about two years too long at the dance and now sounds almost as out of touch as John Madden and Gill is an arrogant sounding weeble.
 
I taped the Sunday game on a C-120 (well, from 3rd inning on)...with Little Walter coming on toward the end.
The Sox radio network had a great compilation of Ortiz HR calls (many of them coming from Trupiano, including HR # 50 that tied Foxx)..."Superman" music in background, and the phrase "Big Papi does it again!" kept
popping up. At the end, Castiglione did his usual recitation of the words of Bart Giamatti ("It breaks your
heart. It is designed to break your heart...") following in the tradition of Ken Coleman and he could be
heard thanking Jerry T. for "14 great years, and a wonderful friendship". Emotion was in his voice, as in
Jerry's...it seems inevitable he's gone (and those who don't like Jerry's voice--I think he sounded just fine
on HR calls, etc.)

want an aircheck, contact me at [email protected] (I _would_ post it online but somehow
that restriction MLB has on "broadcasts, rebroadcasts..." might apply to the Net...but who knows). I could
dub it as a cass. or some other way
 
Re: BoSox radio team: Not the worst

chuckydoll said:
RadioHead06 said:
Trupiano and Castigleone may be the worst radio play by play team I've ever heard.
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You've never heard John Sterling doing Yankees PxP. He alone is the reason I'm a Mets fan.
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LOL


I'll see your WAY BACK.. WAY BACK... and raise you YANKEES WIN... OHHHHHHH... YANKEES WIN!!!!! for obnoxiousness...
 
btw I had taped that last Sox game on WBOQ...hence the reference to Little Walter's Time Machine coming on afterwards. WBOQ plays Sweet Caroline (including quite a bit where Diamond's voice is edited out) in the background as they read their own list of sponsors
 
Trupiano is a lot better than Castiglione. Bring back McDonough full time! Put him on RKO!

http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/aboutus/onair/seanmcdonough/

Notice how two Sox coaches just got the axe. How many more, Mister Speaker?

How many ex-Sox players are on teams in the playoffs? That seems to be a topic on sports radio. And a non-radio comment - did I see a guy named Castiglione on TV 7 Sports this weekend? It must be his son, right?
 
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