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Not a topic foreign to posters here, but did that need to be a whole article and the front of Boston.com? These Globe writers are like "Housewives of Patriots Place." Gossip and drama.
I always loved Gil's enthusiasm, but he is no longer an effective radio play-by-play guy. You don't really know what is going on in the play until he finishes his stuttering and pausing. Oddly, he tends to describe what happened after the play, instead of during the play. He's a bad tv play-by-play announcer. You don't know what is happening during the play.
"Brady throws...and..it's...caught!<pause> Gronkowski has it. And he...he's down at the 30."
Then after the play, he says what he could have said during his play-by-play.
But really, is that all the professional sportswriter has to write about?
As others have pointed out, this topic does come up occasionally and did so just a few weeks ago. I agree with Deb that you need to be careful what you wish for.
I could live with Zo over Gino but I have yet to hear a suitable replacement for Gil suggested. Perhaps McDonough (sp?). However many names that get tossed out there are just craptastic ideas, like Tanguay or Meterparrel, or they are not realistic because they have other national gigs and/or are employed in other markets in other sports. Dave Simms, who some have suggested, fall into this category.
Listening to other teams local play by play either through Sirius or the NFL App is eye (and ear) opening. So many, I'd argue too many, broadcasting teams are blind homers who provide too much style in place of substance. Yelling replaces knowledge. Imagine your typical sports talk show blowhard trying to do play by play and give analysis. It can be mind numbing. Would you rather a lot of "whoo hoo look at him go! Yeah baby! Yeah!"? Because that is what most team's pbp teams are now a days.
The errors are frustrating, I get that and the times (like later this afternoon) when I will have to listen to the game on the way to church, I would rather be certain that it was Wes Welker and not Danny Woodhead who caught the ball but, just like the product on the field, the booth is IMO better than most of their league brethren.
He and Gino follow that up with what unfolded during the play and why. Gil still does this adequately well despite missing players names at times.
And the McDonough contingent, don't know what they could be thinking. What an insufferably egotistical little twit he grew up to be. All his daddy's worst traits plus a ton of baggage and a skin too thin to bear it. Been there, done that back in my Sox days. No thanks.