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5/23/09
Dennis Eckersely Swears And Says Masturbate During Red Sox Mets Game
Dennis Eckersley Is Having A Tough Time Adjusting To The Announcing Booth
Dennis Eckersely is currently filling in on NESN for Jerry Remy, who's battling cancer. And while Eck may have been a Hall-of-Fame pitcher, he is anything but a Hall-of-Fame announcer.

Last night Eck was in rare form as the Red Sox took on the Mets. First, Eck let the audience know exactly what Kevin Youkilis said after getting hit in the arm by Johan Santana, which he probably shouldn't have done.



That was then followed by Eck producing this awesome Freudian slip when Justin Masterson was pitching.


Playing with him indeed.

Anyway, Eck has been on a roll since he got in the booth. In April he even let us know that Brad Penny's fastball was a tad effeminate.

"He's a little gay with his cheese."

Priceless. Here's hoping baseball's Emmitt Smith sticks around for awhile.

Now Eck, you can't be doing that [
Deadspin]
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5/23/09
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 hey,he says he ain't no color man. but i like listenin' to him.he says stuff  that those phonies mccarver and morgan would never dare to say. like him or not, he's tellin' it like he sees it. i'll take honesty over some corporate-polished a_hole any day

5/23/09
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Eck's a little too much of a throwback for this gig.  Although I've enjoyed some of his honest and direct analysis, I think this is a bad fit for a guy who has always been pretty blunt with how he's feeling.  I missed these two examples but early in last night's game he was giving the umpire grief for taking too long after he got zipped with a foul ball. 

This is a guy who was paid to come out in the ninth inning with immediate intensity and close down games.  You need to be pretty emotional to do that, and I think Eck has been able to express his emotions any way he wanted for so long, that sitting and doing color for a 3-4 hour baseball game is probably not the best fit for him.

5/23/09
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when he rolled out with the gay with the cheese comment I had to do a "what'd he say!?"

5/23/09
1
"Let's just forget about that."

5/23/09
2
They should ask him "on air" what he was thinking when Kirk Gibson took him deep to completely change the Dodgers/A's World Series.  That would be priceless. 

5/23/09
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Good for Eck! As long as we are basically gonna have rated R shows in prime time, network TV why can't we have an announcer who is off color every once in a while? Don't bother me a bit.

5/23/09
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 hey,he says he ain't no color man. but i like listenin' to him.he says stuff  that those phonies mccarver and morgan would never dare to say. like him or not, he's tellin' it like he sees it. i'll take honesty over some corporate-polished a_hole any day

5/23/09
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If he was doing color on A's games, I would watch a lot more A's games!

But he is a guy I just don't think belongs in the Hall of Fame anyway.  I'd say that at least 2/3 of his saves were of the 3 run lead with no one on variety.  And LaRussa used him in such a way that he was almost never given the opportunity to fail.  He made the Hall based on half a career because his years as a starter were certainly far from Hall of Fame material. 

 
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