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Perhaps this is why McDonough has been asked to take a pay-cut by the Red Sox after 15 years of being “the voice” of Boston Red Sox baseball on television. Instead of ponying up the cash for the best announcer in major league baseball, the Red Sox are opting for the cheaper—and sadly, more boring—Don Orsillo. Perhaps Orsillo was afraid to show his personality last year, his debut season behind the microphone for the 86 games on NESN (McDonough only worked the FOX broadcasts). Maybe he?...
...right now, it appears as though the Red Sox are rejecting McDonough because management does not value an announcer with personality or honesty...
This is not the first time McDonough has been ushered out the door. In 1999, CBS decided to hire Dick Enberg away from NBC rather than re-signing McDonough, the son of Boston Globe columnist Will McDonough. CBS’ choice to go with the then-65 year old Enberg rather than McDonough, who is twenty-two years younger, raised eyebrows in the industry...
...York Post’s Phil Mushnick wrote that “while CBS is naturally attracted to stylish Enberg, his career is clearly in the wind-down stage. McDonough, on the other hand, not only has many good years coming, he’s the rarest of sports television commodities: He’s a practicing, highly credible journalist, unafraid to speak measured but hard truths to his audiences...
...schedule this year is shifting Red Sox games from FOX 25 to UPN 38 and Channel 4. The move means that McDonough would have a diminished work load even if the Red Sox decided to give McDonough the money he is asking...