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Keeping Score: The sounds of spring
Published: 3/12/2021 6:00:22 PM
Good morning!
This week, I clomped through the mud in my yard, raking leaves and picking up broken branches in the company of Will Flemming and Rob Bradford, who were calling the Red Sox-Braves game for WEEI Radio.
Bradford’s voice reminds me of Kevin Ball, the character on “Shameless” who owns a bar called the Alibi. Flemming, however, in no way sounds like Ball’s partner Veronica, not even close.
His brother Dave Flemming does the San Francisco Giants radio play-by-play. Both are Stanford graduates, and while Dave was in San Francisco, his brother was calling games in Pawtucket until Tim Neverett left to join the Dodgers broadcast team.
January 6, 2021
Over the course of this offseason, FanGraphs is compiling a crowdsourced ranking of our readers’ favorite broadcasts. Last month, we announced the results of the crowdsourced vote on TV broadcasts. Now we are once again asking for your help, this time for each team’s radio broadcast.
The radio broadcasts will follow the same general format as our earlier TV broadcast surveys. When you peruse the section for your team or teams of choice, you will find a link to a poll. That poll covers three categories, as well as an overall ranking. In addition, there is a separate space for any additional comments you would like to make. The eventual ranking of radio teams will be quantitative, but I will include relevant comments from this section in my writing of those rankings.