Radio team announced

Awful. Dale Arnold is not good.
He is to hooky and howdy-dody like with his delivery, with the Bruins he became unlistenable. Why not use Eck or another former player. Just the thought of hearing Arnold's typical "Golly-Gee", "O-Shucks" and "Rah-Rah go team" calls this coming season is enogh to make me want to scream.

WHY NOT BRING BACK TROUPINIO!

Soooooo glad Geffner is gone! He sounded like a high school student doing radio for the JV basketball team. I think I speak for much of Red Sox Nation when I say...Where's Troop? We miss him!

Sounds like an awesome group. Now I won't have to worry that I might hear the whiny tones of Glenn Geffner on days when the Sox aren't playing on NESN.

Sounds like a great team. Now the only time I'll be cringing is when the Sox are on Fox and I'm stuck listening to McCarver. At least I know I can turn down the sound and not risk hearing Geffner this season. I'm definitely interested in hearing Dale Arnold. I like Rish's work on the pre- and postgame shows and think O'Brien is one of the best voices and most informed play-by-play guys in all of baseball.

BRING BACK JERRY TRUPIANO!!!

When are you guys going to dump Castiglione??! The guys the worst announcer I've ever listened to. He calls 20 "near" homers every game, he's excrutiating to listen to!

Do us all a favor and don't renew his contract.

Dale is a good talk show host but a lousy play by play announcer and I'm again disappointed that you have hired an inferior talent for this job. Oh well thank goodness we still have Jerry and Don on NESN

News that a broadcaster who sounds way too much like Ned Flanders has joined the Sox radio team is spine-tingly-dingly..

im just happy jon metapariel didnt worm himself into the mix here

Come on!! Dale Arnold??? He is AWFUL!!. He was canned by the Bruins!! After '06, Entercom shows Trupiano the door with nary a word of explanation and they hire a member of the Red Sox PR staff, Glen Geffner, a lackey who should've been calling Park League games instead of the bulk of the Red Sox schedule last season. Now, to replace him, they hire the bloviating, pontifical WEEI windbag Dale Arnold. Granted, it's only for a handful of games, but come on!!! And John Rish, too? I'm speechless, but I wish they were!

THANK YOU! NOW I CAN GET BACK TO LISTENING TO THE GAME WHILE SITTING ON THE PORCH OR WORKING IN THE YARD!

Here's my Jerry Trupiano imitation:

"swIIIING AND A DRIVE . . . WAY BACK!! . . . WAY BACK!! . . . and this one is gonna be CAUGHT . . . IN FRONT OF THE WARNING TRACK!"

Dale was screwed from NESN's Bruins home game telecasts because of budget cuts. The guy who is there now (Jack Edwards) should go back to SportsCenter. He flat out sucks.

The same thing happened to fomer Bruins play-by-play man Dave Shea. He got fired from NESN and took the Washington Nationals radio job for one season. Now Dale is in his former colleague's footsteps, going from hockey on television to baseball on radio.

Dale was screwed from NESN's Bruins home game telecasts because of budget cuts. The guy who is there now (Jack Edwards) should go back to SportsCenter. He flat out sucks.

The same thing happened to fomer Bruins play-by-play man Dave Shea. He got fired from NESN and took the Washington Nationals radio job for one season. Now Dale is in his former colleague's footsteps, going from hockey on television to baseball on radio.

The same thing happend to former Bruins play-by-play announcer Dave Shea, who went from NESN to the Washington Nationals for one season. Now Dale is in his footsteps.

Glenn Geffner was awful. Bring on Dale

Dale is bad. Bring back Troop!

I agree that Trupiano was very good with Joe Castiglione, but anything is better than Glenn Gefner. I am very happy with Dave O'Brian. He is awesome and I am very excited about 135 games. Who will replace Castiglione - Sean McDonough?
McDonough and O'Brian would be awesome.

Trupiano and Castiglione were the best play by play voices on radio. I was a little pissed when I heard Jerry wasnt coming back. I got used to Obrien right away and thought he had a great radio voice. but i had no idea they hired a high school voice to fill in for obrien. Arnold will be exciting to listen to, but I'm so used to having Jon Rish be the pre and post game announcer that I cant picture him in the play by play role. So good that Obrien is broadcasting 135 games rather than his 80 games last season.

Obrien is a good, consistent broadcaster, better than Trupiano or Castiglione. Arnold will be a good addition to the team. Jon Rish is good for the pre and post-game shows and I think he sould stay there. I wish they would bring in a former player to be the color guy and have obrien do 100 games or so, with arnold doing the rest. People like to slam him for his work with the bruins, where he was pretty good by the way, Have you heard the hacks who do it now?

dale is terrible . bring back troup.

For those of us who grew up listening to Red Sox on radio, Mr. Castiglione *is* the Boston Red Sox. He's the voice of the current Red Sox and a major tie to the team's past at the same time. I could care less if there are better sounding announcers out there - he's the man I want to listen most to when I hear a game called. I hope they keep him on in the booth in some capacity for as long as he's willing and able to call a game. Dale's a great pick for fill ins - he definitely did not "suck" as a Bruins announcer - it was (and still is) a Bruins Management decision that "sucked" (as anyone who watches them play these days knows, they are obviously clueless, and way behind the curve). Good choices, Jason Wolfe!

I was not a Glen Geffner fan, but now we have Dale "Homer" Arnold on the team. I think I'll listen to the opposing team's broadcast on Satelitte Radio or steal a television if I'm away from home during those nights he is on the radio. Jon Rish, Joe Castiglione, and Dave O'Brien are all good in my book. Jon Rish needs a larger role!

Dale "Homer" Arnold. Sheesh. Now all I will hear is homer-ness to the maximum power. At least call a kettle black and call a spade a spade Dale! For the love of god! Don't be telling me Kyle Snyder is the next Josh Beckett. I don't even want to hear it.

Win, and everything is "OK". Lose and everybody sucks!

Arnold was AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!! He made Geffner sound decent. Arnold is a classic case of a guy who kicked, screamed and cried when he was canned by NESN. Now EEI throws him this bone and the listener loses. Very sad.

Arnold was AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!! He made Geffner sound decent. Arnold is a classic case of a guy who kicked, screamed and cried when he was canned by NESN. Now EEI throws him this bone and the listener loses. Very sad.

Arnold was AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!! He made Geffner sound decent. Arnold is a classic case of a guy who kicked, screamed and cried when he was canned by NESN. Now EEI throws him this bone and the listener loses. Very sad.

two play by play guys? that's stupid. get a real color man, that's fun to listen too. Dale Arnold will ruin my summer. he doesn't know baseball. he doesn't know sports. he's terrible.

the 1st game of the year he screwed up. anyone that knows anything about baseball would never say this. after Kyle Snyder gave up a 2 run HR and the lead. Dale says "Dice K in now off the hook for the win" What the heck is that? idiot. get someone that knows what the hell their talking about.

I'm surprised no one has pointed out that Glenn Geffner's knowledge of baseball and the Red Sox far surpassed what Dave O'Brien presented. Geffner's command of the facts was on par with Joe Castiglione.

Troup seemed slack to me, for instance he would ignore great points made by Joe Castiglione. Joe would make a great point and Troup would let it lay flat.

Most postings refer to the sound of the commentators voice. I agree Dave O'Brien has a great voice, and great presence. I also admit that Joe C. and Glenn G. do not have great radio voices, but their respect for each other and their respect for the game created a great tandem last year. And they keep their comments relevant and concise. Dave O'Brien's comments had a prepared sound to them and they often did not fit the context of game events, and when he was spontaneous he would pursue a lengthy, insipid tangent.

I vote for Castiglione and Geffner.

I don't understand you Dale haters and you Troop lovers.....Dale is one of the best play by play personalities in the business....and Troop, though i miss his sense of humor, was the worst play by plays around...how can u follow a game on radio when every swing sounds like a homerun? And which team was up to bat? He had more emphasism when the opposition made a big play....Dave O'Brien has one of the best voices on radio....we should feel privledged to have this team doing our games....I had the MLB package last year and listened in to most of the other broadcasts....by far, the red sox have the best broadcasts out there....even though I felt all along that Joe and Jerry would have been good as long as Troop stuck solely to color commentating and Joe did play by play, I'm more excited about this team taking the reigns.

Troup Troup Troup! The chemistry that we are lucky enough to have with Remy & D.O. is rivaled only by the chemstry we had with Troupiano & Castiglione. Listening to a ballgame on the radio is not always about the box score or where a certain player went to school, Sometimes it IS about what the hit song was the year that player was born. One of the best memories of last years NESN broadcast was not any particular call in a crucial game or cogent point made by one of the announcers or guests it was no doubt Remy falling off the desk during his air guitar solo, or maybe D.O.'s school girl giggle after talking about the kid with the hairy back. Let's not take the art out of broadcasting let's put a couple of friends behind the mic to talk baseball 75% of the time and what ever else comes to mind 25% of the time.

I agree, Arnold is weak. The 10 o'clock a.m. shift is traditionally the weakest in the radio business slots and he has been mired there for ages going back to his days with Andelman. I could see him crying in Wolfe's office about his career and Wolfe saying, "let me see what I can do" to appease him. They are giving him a shot. It is almost impossible to be bad when you are broadcasting a championship team so he will probably be ok but yeah better choices could have been made.

Dale is a goof! What the hell are you guys thinking? Do you realize he is the joke of the town! The reason why you are putting him in the booth is to save money. People turn the radio off when they here his voice. He is nuuurd!

Arnold is bad on his radio show and worse doing Sox play-by-play! If it was only his annoying inflection (or is it an affectation) I might be able to live with it. But the clown messes up constantly! Tonight “Dice-K is ahead 1-2”, earlier in the week he referred to a runner stealing first! And NO, he wasn’t talking about beating out a ground ball. This is an experiment that failed – it is making the broadcast painful.