“Some people just don’t understand how hard this game is.”
On June 30th, after a less-than-stellar rehab outing by one Eduardo Rodriguez, some unflattering stats of Rodriguez were inserted into the Boston Red Sox broadcast.
“Yuck,” was the response of Red Sox color commentator, and former Oakland great, Dennis Eckersley.
The mostly harmless statement was apparently the latest of many mostly harmless statements from Eckersley, whose job is to provide context and commentary to a broadcast and not spout empty niceties about the team he works for, and it was enough to entirely set off Red Sox’ ace David Price before the team’s charter flight the next day.