Seth Mnookin transcribes the Mel Gibson rant.

Alternet posts the actual video (yes, the one NESN got removed from YouTube, so hurry over before NESN finds out). Audio-only MP3 version (from Webloggin).

Of course somebody recorded Denis Leary and Lenny Clarke ranting about Mel Gibson and Kevin Youkilis on NESN last night. And of course he put it on YouTube (Update: And, of course NESN fairly quickly got it removed. Update update: Alternet posts it; tip to Berto):

... Yeah, where's Mel Gibson now? Where's Mel Gibson now? HUH? He's in rehab and YOUKILIS IS AT FIRST BASE. Alright Mel, ya happy, Braveheart? Huh? You see that grab, Mel? Huh? ... We got two Jews on this team, Mel! Where's your father now, Mel? ...

Via Kristin.

Seems the Channel 5 sportscaster wants to lead a righteous crusade against Leary and his ilk who would dare to portray the death of a child as part of a TV show. Spatch tells Halloran, You go, girl!

... That'll show Leary and his hack show, which added the death in there for the obvious cheap laugh. It's about time someone took a stand against this terrible televised trend -- oh, sure, we laughed when it happened on Everybody Loves Raymond, and the kid dying on the series finale of Friends provided much-needed comic relief amidst the nostalgic tears and farewells, and "America's Funniest Child Deaths" was, really, the best midsummer replacement ever. But now enough is enough, and it's got to stop, and it's going to take a man like Bob Halloran (who forbade his 11-year-old son from watching the Drew Carey Show--known around these parts as "Gomorrah Rocks!"--because it got too randy) to start the stop. ...