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The Story Behind The Story of The Change In The Red Sox TV Broadcasting Booth?

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Keep hearing rumors that the real reason for the change in the Red Sox TV Broadcasting Booth may be pure homophobia ??
Very sad if true but it happened before when the son of a sports writer legend was moved off camera. Actually, move out of Fenway Park.

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Well, let's see. The sports writer legend would be Will McDonough. His son would be Sean McDonough who was the Red Sox TV voice for, I believe, 17 years. For his final year or two, Sean was doing very few games on broadcast tv (Channel 4, Channel 25, etc) while Don Orsillo was calling the NESN games before Sean was finally tossed out and Don became the fulltime play by play guy.

So, you are insinuating that Sean was dumped because of his lifestyle??? And you are insinuating that Don leads the same lifestyle and was dumped because of it??
 
WMC2006 said:
Well, let's see. The sports writer legend would be Will McDonough. His son would be Sean McDonough who was the Red Sox TV voice for, I believe, 17 years. For his final year or two, Sean was doing very few games on broadcast tv (Channel 4, Channel 25, etc) while Don Orsillo was calling the NESN games before Sean was finally tossed out and Don became the fulltime play by play guy.

So, you are insinuating that Sean was dumped because of his lifestyle??? And you are insinuating that Don leads the same lifestyle and was dumped because of it??
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Yes,that is the rumor. Sadly, it adds up. Hope time finds the rumor untrue.
 
My take is that Sean was dumped because he was a bit too controversial in his personal commentary during Sox games and, perhaps, he was making too much money. Plus, his network jobs on the side had really become his priority and, towards the end, he was really only working 30 or 40 Friday night games per year. Whether he is gay or not, I can't recall any stories about his lifestyle that may have interfered with his job or caused bad publicity.

Same with Don.

Who is it that you think would have been offended by this? Someone on the Sox? Someone at NESN?
 
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My take is that Sean was dumped because he was a bit too controversial in his personal commentary during Sox games and, perhaps, he was making too much money. Plus, his network jobs on the side had really become his priority and, towards the end, he was really only working 30 or 40 Friday night games per year. Whether he is gay or not, I can't recall any stories about his lifestyle that may have interfered with his job or caused bad publicity.

All executive in professional sports - specifically the NFL and Major League Baseball are deathly afraid that an openly gay person will be in a position of prominence on the field on behind the microphone. Perhaps, they think they will lose sponsors, viewers or listeners.

It makes no sense in 2015 but we have all heard the rumors about the two mentioned above. To quote Hilary Clinton, " ....at this point what difference does it make..."

Can you imagine if Brady came out or even Orsillo and the owners of the NFL or Major League Baseball had to deal with it out in the open. Not making any assumptions about either but used their names as examples.
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WMC2006 said:
My take is that Sean was dumped because he was a bit too controversial in his personal commentary during Sox games and, perhaps, he was making too much money. Plus, his network jobs on the side had really become his priority and, towards the end, he was really only working 30 or 40 Friday night games per year. Whether he is gay or not, I can't recall any stories about his lifestyle that may have interfered with his job or caused bad publicity.

All executive in professional sports - specifically the NFL and Major League Baseball are deathly afraid that an openly gay person will be in a position of prominence on the field on behind the microphone. Perhaps, they think they will lose sponsors, viewers or listeners.

It makes no sense in 2015 but we have all heard the rumors about the two mentioned above. To quote Hilary Clinton, " ....at this point what difference does it make..."

Can you imagine if Brady came out or even Orsillo and the owners of the NFL or Major League Baseball had to deal with it out in the open. Not making any assumptions about either but used their names as examples.
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Google returns no legitimate hits on "Don Orsillo gay" other than your "rumor," which apparently begins and ends with you. I certainly had never encountered it before. And yes, it doesn't make a difference, especially in this part of the country. Maybe if Chick-fil-A or Hobby Lobby (hobby supply chain with conservative Protestant ownership) were advertisers, but they're not.
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CTListener said:
Omnibus said:
Google returns no legitimate hits on "Don Orsillo gay" other than your "rumor," which apparently begins and ends with you. I certainly had never encountered it before. And yes, it doesn't make a difference, especially in this part of the country. Maybe if Chick-fil-A or Hobby Lobby (hobby supply chain with conservative Protestant ownership) were advertisers, but they're not.
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The world does NOT begin and end with GOOGLE. You must live in a sheltered world if you have not heard or read the rumors.
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I live in Massachusetts and watch Red Sox baseball on television as much as possible. I can't ever recall hearing or reading any rumors regarding Don Orsillo as gay so I'm with CTListener on that.
 
WMC2006 said:
I live in Massachusetts and watch Red Sox baseball on television as much as possible. I can't ever recall hearing or reading any rumors regarding Don Orsillo as gay so I'm with CTListener on that.
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Do you ever listen to the various sports talk stations and read the various sports columnists. That's the source.
 
Omnibus said:
Do you ever listen to the various sports talk stations and read the various sports columnists. That's the source.
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Can't say I listen to much Boston sports talk radio living here in Connecticut, but I do check out the Globe and Herald online several times a week. Care to "out" any of these "various" columnists you say have speculated on Orsillo's sexual orientation? By the way, gay sportswriters aren't unheard of either. The fine horse racing writer for the Herald back in the '90s and early '00s, Ed Gray, was, and openly so, and I can't imagine anyone not reading his work (or advertisers pulling their ads from the Herald) because of that. Because they weren't interested in racing, yes. Because the writer was gay, no.
 
CTListener said:
Can't say I listen to much Boston sports talk radio living here in Connecticut, but I do check out the Globe and Herald online several times a week. Care to "out" any of these "various" columnists you say have speculated on Orsillo's sexual orientation? By the way, gay sportswriters aren't unheard of either. The fine horse racing writer for the Herald back in the '90s and early '00s, Ed Gray, was, and openly so, and I can't imagine anyone not reading his work (or advertisers pulling their ads from the Herald) because of that. Because they weren't interested in racing, yes. Because the writer was gay, no.
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I agree it makes no sense in this day and age. Can't be specific as to the radio sports talker who made the allegation. There is also a sports reporter for the Globe who is openly gay. Again, it's not what we think that matters but the owners of the major professional sports teams that matter. And yes, they control the on-air product and it is a saleable product. They bottom line everything (read that John Henry). If I were to point a finger at anyone it would be the many times married John Henry.
 
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I agree it makes no sense in this day and age. Can't be specific as to the radio sports talker who made the allegation. There is also a sports reporter for the Globe who is openly gay. Again, it's not what we think that matters but the owners of the major professional sports teams that matter. And yes, they control the on-air product and it is a saleable product. They bottom line everything (read that John Henry). If I were to point a finger at anyone it would be the many times married John Henry.
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So now everyone who's been married more than once is a homophobe? Wow.

You said that "various" talkers and columnists -- plural -- speculated publicly that Orsillo is gay, public speculation that somehow escaped the attention not only of Google's media-crawling "spiders" but of any other poster to this thread. You heard it from multiple radio hosts and read it in numerous newspaper columns. Surely you can "be specific" about the identity of just one of these alleged people. Are you afraid of outing someone as a potential homophobe? I would think that going on the air or in print with the speculation would have done that job for you. I am one step away from calling BS on this whole "rumor."
 
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