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The NESN Survey, Part One: The Play-By-Play Announcers

NESN and the Red Sox are inseparable. This is true not only on the balance sheet, with both entities rolling up to John Henry’s Fenway Sports Group (though Jeremy Jacobs’ Delaware North also owns 20% of the network), but in each of our homes. The Red Sox game is the meal and NESN is the chef. So how’s the chef doing?

Today, we begin a multi-part examination of Red Sox broadcasts, starting with the star of the show, the play-by-play man.

Dave O’Brien

If I could describe Dave O’Brien as a broadcaster in one word, it would be “underwhelming.