Not that it did much good, not when the Red Sox were playing. None of the local channels broadcast games to rural Carroll County. Making matters worse, it was about a three-hour drive to reach Fenway Park.
"So I grew up listening to baseball on the radio," Orsillo said. "I sat in the kitchen and listened to games. For whatever reason, we always had the best reception in the kitchen."
It was in that kitchen where Orsillo's love for baseball grew, hanging on the every word of popular broadcaster Ken Coleman, waiting, probably impatiently, for his favorite player, Dwight Evans, to take his next turn at bat.