NESN

Heidi Watney's replacement named

adamg — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:05:50 +0000

NESN refuses to say if Jenny Dell's contract requires her to eat the disgusting gelatinous fried things served as food at other baseball parks.

Sox become a Hobbesian joke

adamg — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:47:04 +0000

You know it's bad when even Heidi Watney gets dragged into the mud (and comes up slugging; denies that rumored fling with Varitek).

Heidi Watney in a Boston Police jacket

adamg — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:39:55 +0000

Some cop must have seen her shivering or something at last night's game - the one where she kept talking even as Mike Aviles was hitting his first Red Sox home run.

Red Sox stat of the day

adamg — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:30:28 +0000

The Red Sox are 5-3 when Don Orsillo wears a gray tie with stripes.

NESN keeps it classy

adamg — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:43:45 +0000

If you're not a Sox fan, you missed this commercial during last night's game. At least it was a break from the millionth repetition of those SouthWest People's Court ads and gazillionth airing of the Coors commercials that alternate between idiots getting angry with beer bottles and idiots showing how much they'd rather do anything than spend time with their girlfriends:

Heidi Watney chats up the guy who'd been food-stalking her

adamg — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:02:24 +0000

His head does not explode.

Jerry Remy: Just a bad flu case

adamg — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:35:33 +0000

The Sox color commentator tweeted today:

I will not do Red Sox game tonight-except for a very bad flu I'm OK-my previous health issues have everybody concerned-please don't be-Jerry.

Jack Edwards doesn't need a wedding to rant about royals

adamg — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:32:00 +0000

People are still talking about Edwards's post-game-7 yawping about royalty. Turns out that's a favorite April theme of his. Here he is in April, 2009, comparing a game-3 Bruins win against the Canadiens to the battles of Lexington and Concord. Note how he calls the Habs hockey's "royalty," so the other night he was probably just assuming everybody remembers his every word and figured he didn't have to spell out that he was ranting about Montreal, not Westminster Abbey.

Heidi Watney learns to pace herself

adamg — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:14:47 +0000

Today on "What Can We Make Heidi Eat?" the NESN stadium reporter was pushed in front of some garlic fries and a chocolate-cherry shake in Anaheim. Unlike in Texas, where she was ordered to eat a four-pound pretzel, Watney took only a nibble of one fry and what looked like maybe a teaspoon of the shake.

She also denied, again, that she was gagging when presented with fried chicken and waffles in Cleveland, only laughing at a joke by her cameraman, but neither Remy nor Orsillo appeared to believe her.

Can't keep up with what Heidi's eating? Don't worry. Phoenix Music Editor Michael Marotta is tracking her every on-air bite on What Will Heidi Watney Eat Today?

Breaking: Watney says she was laughing, not gagging, when confronted with godawful stadium food in Cleveland

adamg — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:17:35 +0000

Maybe it's an effort to distract us from the games. In any case, NESN now has Heidi Watney trying to consume these insane foods that get sold in other ballparks - four-pound pretzels in Texas, blob-like fried chicken and waffles in Cleveland.

During the Cleveland segment of "What Can We Make Heidi Eat Today?" she appeared to start gagging and be unable to actually finish the cholesterol-in-a-box. But Watney just tweeted:

The food in Cleveland wasn't that bad. I was laughing at what my photographer said, not gagging.

Just in time for the new season

adamg — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:30:29 +0000

Don Orsillo Catchphrase Bingo - ready for printing; even comes with appropriate markers.

Laundry sticks together

adamg — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:44:54 +0000

NESN announced today a new slogan for its 2011 Red Sox coverage: "We're all in."

Just one problem, as Stephanie discovered:

And they announced it in December.

How NESN is making Sox games even more painful

adamg — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:22:05 +0000

By forcing Remy and Orsillo to kibbitz about advertisers in the middle of innings, Joy of Sox kvetches.

Peter Gammons comes home

adamg — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:24:25 +0000

Quits ESPN, joins NESN.

The Bostonian with the fake Boston accent

adamg — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:32:51 +0000

Dan Tobin outs Fitzy Fitzgerald, who, granted, grew up in Braintree but now lives in New York.