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Red Sox Castiglione Free Zone on Saturday
- Thread starter Varulven
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It was his two sidekicks, Dave O'Brien and Glenn Geffner...Castiglione has been absent on occasion
a few times before, like for a family event (graduation, wedding, etc.)
What really stunk was on Friday night when a couple innings had tech. difficulty. They lost the feed
from Fenway and eventually got back up via cellphone. Which meant that Geffner's tenor voice
sounded extremely tinny...and there was no crowd noise (nothing from effects mike) so it sounded like
a minor league baseball, or maybe high school baseball, game from a tiny station with maybe 5
people in the crowd. Eventually it got fixed.
a few times before, like for a family event (graduation, wedding, etc.)
What really stunk was on Friday night when a couple innings had tech. difficulty. They lost the feed
from Fenway and eventually got back up via cellphone. Which meant that Geffner's tenor voice
sounded extremely tinny...and there was no crowd noise (nothing from effects mike) so it sounded like
a minor league baseball, or maybe high school baseball, game from a tiny station with maybe 5
people in the crowd. Eventually it got fixed.
sheesh... all this hatin' on Joe Castig. O'Brien's voice is more suited to a national broadcast. Geffner is more of a read-the-scores guy... so what station was it on today?
It was on WRKO. From henceforth games are on RKO except for Wednesdays or weekday afternoon starts.
Castiglione isn't bad, except for maybe talking over Robert Goulet when he sings. What we need is for him to talk over Howie Carr when HE sings!
Yes Geffner does sound more like a "read the scores" guy...
Castiglione isn't bad, except for maybe talking over Robert Goulet when he sings. What we need is for him to talk over Howie Carr when HE sings!
Yes Geffner does sound more like a "read the scores" guy...
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Mickey37
Guest
Geffner worked in Red Sox PR before this. How in God's name did he get chosen for this gig?
>>that hollow tunnel sounding thing was awful the other night
yes and since I was at work it was my only way to hear it...Geffner was doing the "middle innings"
when it happened. Just him; Joe C must have stepped outside for a bit. After a long break where
ads and promos were played to the hilt, they came back and Joe was on a bit early (5th inning?)
It sounded fine, dropped out again, and then finally was restored for good
>>How in God's name did he get chosen for this gig
friend of Lucchino or Henry? I think he worked in San Diego too with Lucchino
Geffner is expected to fill in for O'Brien when the latter has ESPN stuff to do.
From a Phil Mushnik NY Post article, last Dec.: "Also added to Boston's radio crew is Glen Geffner, who - and we kid you not, broadcast journalism majors - is also the Red Sox's VP of Communications."
talk about an inside job!
Possible explanation for the foulups yesterday: it was Friday the 13th, Jason Wolfe broke a mirror,
a black cat crossed Kahn's path, Howie rolled snake eyes while playing dice, it was a full moon (well
maybe not). And if none of those are the real reason we'll just blame it on Imus.
yes and since I was at work it was my only way to hear it...Geffner was doing the "middle innings"
when it happened. Just him; Joe C must have stepped outside for a bit. After a long break where
ads and promos were played to the hilt, they came back and Joe was on a bit early (5th inning?)
It sounded fine, dropped out again, and then finally was restored for good
>>How in God's name did he get chosen for this gig
friend of Lucchino or Henry? I think he worked in San Diego too with Lucchino
Geffner is expected to fill in for O'Brien when the latter has ESPN stuff to do.
From a Phil Mushnik NY Post article, last Dec.: "Also added to Boston's radio crew is Glen Geffner, who - and we kid you not, broadcast journalism majors - is also the Red Sox's VP of Communications."
talk about an inside job!
Possible explanation for the foulups yesterday: it was Friday the 13th, Jason Wolfe broke a mirror,
a black cat crossed Kahn's path, Howie rolled snake eyes while playing dice, it was a full moon (well
maybe not). And if none of those are the real reason we'll just blame it on Imus.
raccoonradio said:
Please explain something for those of us out of market.
While I understand weekday day games would be moved to WEEI
(geez, I almost typed WHDH) since nothing preempts El Rushbo,
why won't Wednesday night games be on the Big 68?
WEEI wanted to have at least a share of the Sox "pie". I think Entercom
figured they had a good deal going with sports talk for 'EEI and putting the Sox on 'RKO could help 680's
lineup (plus 'RKO's signal is slightly better, or at least the lower dial position may help).
Having the weekday
aft. games pn 850 also allows for no pre-emption of Rush and Howie on 680, though Howie's last half hr will often
be pre-empted with 7 pm games (pre-game)...
And WEEI is selling the idea of "Red Sox Wednesdays" where the talk is nothing but baseball, and the games
are a part of that. This way they're not totally shut out of carrying the Sox.
WEEI "Wed Night Baseball":
http://weei.com/pages/235623.php
It looks like about 3 dozen of the 162 reg. season games will be on 850.
By the way JT The Brick may not be happy about this but lately he's only on for an hour on WEEI because
Mike Adams has been going home at 11 pm and a new show called "The Little Show" with Jeff Joyce,
I believe, is running 11 pm to 1 am. It helps to extend the Sox talk, etc.
figured they had a good deal going with sports talk for 'EEI and putting the Sox on 'RKO could help 680's
lineup (plus 'RKO's signal is slightly better, or at least the lower dial position may help).
Having the weekday
aft. games pn 850 also allows for no pre-emption of Rush and Howie on 680, though Howie's last half hr will often
be pre-empted with 7 pm games (pre-game)...
And WEEI is selling the idea of "Red Sox Wednesdays" where the talk is nothing but baseball, and the games
are a part of that. This way they're not totally shut out of carrying the Sox.
WEEI "Wed Night Baseball":
http://weei.com/pages/235623.php
It looks like about 3 dozen of the 162 reg. season games will be on 850.
By the way JT The Brick may not be happy about this but lately he's only on for an hour on WEEI because
Mike Adams has been going home at 11 pm and a new show called "The Little Show" with Jeff Joyce,
I believe, is running 11 pm to 1 am. It helps to extend the Sox talk, etc.
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Nizam
Guest
I board opped games for a station before. When you're ahving a probhlem with the feed, you call a number, I beleive that is direct to the park, and the broadcast booth. Its not a cellphone, but yeah, it sounds much different.raccoonradio said:
probably used a voice coupler when the main broadcast line went down and used a regualr telco line, Before Gerry Trupiano trademarked "Way Back".... On the play by play of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Bernie Carbo's Home Run, Joe Garolglia on NBC, "drive deep to center fiels, way back, way back ..were tied up..."
Mickey37 said:
you just answered your own question...
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Mickey37
Guest
SonicAl said:
Tongue was firmly in cheek whe that was written
People who know Geffner personallly tell me he's a nice person, btw.
That's fine, but not a criteria for giving him one of the most high-profile radio gigs in New England.
I'd heard that Joe C. and Trupe didn't get along that well. Was that part of the reason for Jerry's dismissal?
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