Cheese

Am I the only one who thinks Eck's cheese references are getting to be a bit too much? He said 'cheese' twice in the last inning. I (think I) like him, and I definitely prefer NESN to the Fox, TBS, ESPN, and the local SF Bay Area stations when the Sox play Oakland, but someone needs to drop him into a vat of Velveeta. Eck! Enough with the cheese already!

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Eckersley in the Booth

The great thing about having Eck in the booth is you know he can go off the reservation at any moment. He can throw in some F-bombs or an occasional "hair cheese with gas." He even has Orsillo dropping some salad references and since Wake is pitching tonight we should get our fair share of them. We all miss Remy but Eck has been entertaining in his absence.

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As If the Night Was Not Bad Enough

Those of you who threw a brick at your TV after Drew's throw missed the mark did not get to see sing along time for the TBS crew. The video from Sox and Dawgs below shows that Craig Sager is not the only disaster at TBS.

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TBS v. Fox

No contest! Thank Christ Fox is not broadcasting the playoffs! Although I don't particularly care for the sound of Buck Martinez's voice, what he has to say is a helluva lot more interesting than Ken Rosenthal or Jeanie Zelasko and company. I'd still rather be watching NESN, but TBS works just fine for me, (except for the 'shotgun' commercials and that damn fanfare they play too much.)

During the post-game show, they showed the Kirk Gibson walk off HR off of Eck, who is on the TBS panel. They were discussing the origin of the 'walk-off' phrase when Eck said he used that term before that game. He called that Gibson HR a 'Walk-off Johnson'.

And whatever happened to Don Orsillo? Wasn't he supposed to be working this game?

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