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Tom Werner: Don Orsillo ousted to 're-energize' broadcast

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NEW YORK -- Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner, in his first public comments about the ouster of Don Orsillo as the play-by-play broadcaster on NESN telecasts after this season, said that the chance to replace him with Dave O’Brien was too good to pass up.