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5 October 2005, 8:09 pm“The importance of keeping Podsednik off base cannot be understated.”
– Jerry Trupiano, WEEI Radio
Mind you, it’s lucky I don’t have to avoid tripping over my tongue for a few adrenaline-charged hours a night, and I’m very grateful to Jerry and his partner Joe Castiglione for saving me from wanting to get cable. So we kid, but we kid with affection.
Go Sox!
Last world series (the big one), Fox’s dynamic duo of Tim McCarver and Joe Buck were so intolerable that we ended up watching with the sound turned off and WEEI turned on. I suspect we weren’t the only ones, because we noticed that they started syncing the broadcast so that there was no discernable delay between the radio and Fox (at first, the radio would be a few seconds ahead, but you’d start to hear some weird crackling noises, and suddenly, they were in sync). It was clear they were watching the TV, too, because they’d comment on the celebrities Fox was showing.
Oh, and by ‘we’, I mean me and Terri. Not the royal we. :)
We (and by we I mean me and Editrix when Kingdom of Loathing wasn’t occupying her attention, not the royal me) have watched at least one game that way already. The time distortion was a little odd — robbed the suspense of each pitch, because we knew whether it would be hit before it was thrown. But I tried to roll with it in a Theory-of-General-Relativity sort of way.
update:Right now, the lag is going the other way. Funny.