Jenny Dell out as Red Sox sideline reporter; leaves NESN sometime in the future
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Actually, the match-up of JD/WMB has been ongoing for almost two years. I've known about their relationship since a so-called media member whispered the news in my ear as gossip. They went all through spring training and 2013 living together and there didn't appear to be any issues with her ability to do her job. FWIW, she's a total peach and far less slutty looking than Hazel or Heidi, who banged everyone.
Jenny and Will are in love and will get married. Sucks their daily schedules will be screwed up this season. She just screwed out of a six week vacation in Fort Myers.
The kids are in love,That trumps everything.
Bring on sideline dudes.
Jenny and Will are in love and will get married. Sucks their daily schedules will be screwed up this season. She just screwed out of a six week vacation in Fort Myers.
The kids are in love,That trumps everything.
Bring on sideline dudes.
Wait a man can own the team, the newspaper that writes about the team, and the television station that covers the team and the conflict has zero impact on his life. Yet a young woman trying to make it in journalism loses her job because she's dating a guy with the plate discipline of Shea Hillenbrand?BoSoxLady said:
You know what? People who work at hospitals constantly "date" each other. They work screwy hours in close quarters. Sideline reporters keep the same schedule as ball players. Let love rule. It's human nature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmbYALa0no
Trautwein's Degree said:
If Dell was actually considered to be a journalist, this move would not only be justified, but mandatory.
But she's not a journalist, there's no conflict and the entire discussion is ridiculous.
Is my sarcasm meter broken? Because unless you like writers whose style mimics a WEEI caller, I don't see the appeal.John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
Using this particular article as an example, a quick check with any employment lawyer would have revealed that NESN likely couldn't have released Dell from her noncompete without giving their other sideline reporters free rein to jump ship to competing networks. Which pretty much blows up his argument.
Is going from sideline reporter to anchor a step down? Seems like it'd be a step up.
The gossip is hilarious, though. In what way does Jenny Dell leaving the Red Sox impact their business? I don't think a non compete would hold up.
The gossip is hilarious, though. In what way does Jenny Dell leaving the Red Sox impact their business? I don't think a non compete would hold up.
How can NESN offer the "sidelines" gig to a woman who was married to the assistant GM, but pull Dell for dating a player? Which would be a bigger conflict?
minischwab said:
I assume you refer to Wendi Nix, who worked for NESN in 2001, which would predate the current ownership/management at NESN. Can't find any dates as to when she was married to Cherington, but it's possible that their relationship/marriage came after her employment at NESN (or perhaps they met when she was there and she moved on to FSN (now CSNNE) in part because of her relationship.
Unless she was offered the sideline gig during the searches that resulted in Cervasio, Watney or Dell's hiring, I'm not seeing the relevance here.
Red(s)HawksFan said:
I've been told she was offered the job during that stretch. Her relationship with Ben went back to college, pre NESN days for her and pre Red Sox for Ben. The job was offered while they were still married and he was working under Theo, as far as I have been told. They might claim it was never "offered." but it was discussed and I'm pretty confident it's accurate that the job was hers if she wanted it.
EDIT: I know Wendi pretty well, but I have never specifically asked her about this situation, nor would I post it here if she told me. I am basing this on info from other people in Boston sports media.
WMB is in Fort Myers. It's going to suck for him the next eight weeks without his gal and suck for JD 'cuz she's stuck in Boston without him. They're now living a true baseball life.
Perhaps I'll prepare WMB a few home-cooked meals, now that he's "alone".
Perhaps I'll prepare WMB a few home-cooked meals, now that he's "alone".
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.BoSoxLady said:WMB is in Fort Myers. It's going to suck for him the next eight weeks without his gal and suck for JD 'cuz she's stuck in Boston without him. They're now living a true baseball life.
Perhaps I'll prepare WMB a few home-cooked meals, now that he's "alone".
Red(s)HawksFan said:
minischwab said:
Yeah, that's what I'd heard. They were both at UMass getting their masters' degrees in Sports Management.
Pardon my ignorance, but aren't Wendi and Ben divorced? I thought I remember reading somewhere that Ben got remarried. Unless your point is that Wendi might still hold a grudge against Ben, I don't know the relevance. I happen to think that Wendi would act professionally and not let her past relationship interfere with a possible Red Sox gig.mabrowndog said:
Ps.. This is directed more towards minischawb and not you dog.
Van Everyman said:
Why would they want to do that? We are currently spending perfectly good, non-refundable minutes of our lives talking and thinking about NESN and its on-air staff. In what universe would NESN see this as anything but awesome?
I agree that there's nothing to be bothered about here because these "sideline reporters" aren't in the journalism business, they're in show business. They are not reporting on the product, they are part of the product. To be concerned about them being "compromised" by canoodling with players is to be confused about their role. But I guess NESN can't really play it that way, because the charade that they are "reporters" is also part of the product.
what's that dating show they had on NESN? they might as well do reality TV with the players on the roster and the NESN reporters/local reporters
Dennis & Callahan making her the top story in their discussions from Fort Myers this morning, complete with requisite sarcasm and unflattering innuendo.
Meanwhile the pre-recorded NESN SportsDesk updates during commercial breaks on the simulcast are anchored by none other than... Jenny Dell, whose enthusiastically smiling face reminds viewers "more Dennis & Callahan on the way!!"
Uhhh... awkward???
Hell of a classy way to bid her adieu if yesterday was her last day at the network.
Meanwhile the pre-recorded NESN SportsDesk updates during commercial breaks on the simulcast are anchored by none other than... Jenny Dell, whose enthusiastically smiling face reminds viewers "more Dennis & Callahan on the way!!"
Uhhh... awkward???
Hell of a classy way to bid her adieu if yesterday was her last day at the network.
I, for one, support this move. I was in the dark about this relationship, but did feel last year that there was some pro-WMB bias that came through in the sideline reporting. Now it makes more sense, and I'm relieved that steps have been taken. I want my NESN broadcasts to be only of the highest journalistic integrity, from the sideline anecdotes to Don and Jerry's discussions of their favorite hotels at which to stock up on those mini bottles of shampoo and conditioner.
Now they just need to do something about Wally and his blatant left field wall favoritism.
Now they just need to do something about Wally and his blatant left field wall favoritism.
According to the article linked above, D&C have been harping on this for a while. People commenting on the article blamed the 'EEI idiots for her firing. I actually don't get it, after Hazel Mae and Heidi. What's the big deal? Or is it that JD and WMB acknowledge the relationship? Now, if only they could catch Remy dating the ballgirl. . .Do men ever lose their jobs this way?mabrowndog said:
InsideTheParker said:
I think that's the crux of it. If Hazel or Heidi were in relationships with players/coaches/managers, it never got beyond the rumor and blind items in a gossip rag stages. As far as I can recall, direct questions about such relationships were never asked and therefore never answered. In JD/WMB's case, they went public. They apparently went through the entire 2013 season in the relationship without much issue. It wasn't until they tweeted that NYE photo that any rumors were confirmed and they then became talk radio fodder. Minihane wrote a column that got a ton of attention in which he called for NESN to do something. I can see where the EEI idiots are being blamed for harping on it. Without that, JD might be in Ft Myers today "reporting" on the team.
I'm just astounded that NESN allowed a snafu like today's D&C airing to happen.
If you're John Henry or TV production genius Tom Werner, how the hell do you allow a show featuring a trio of overpaid obnoxious radio buffoons, being simulcast on a network you have complete and unmitigated control over, to trash one of your employees live on air while said employee is shown numerous times during that same simulcast delivering a pre-recorded briefing where she eagerly implores viewers to stay tuned to the very same show that's trashing her? And to compound matters, how do you allow it when that briefing was filmed on her last day on the job??
What a clusterfuck. Way to continue letting the yipping, toothless lapdog's tail wag one of the biggest bull mastiffs on the planet. Well done, Red Sox.
Unless this is just another example of the club throwing ex-employees under the bus, being party to it all along behind the scenes yet denying any participation or knowledge of it.
If you're John Henry or TV production genius Tom Werner, how the hell do you allow a show featuring a trio of overpaid obnoxious radio buffoons, being simulcast on a network you have complete and unmitigated control over, to trash one of your employees live on air while said employee is shown numerous times during that same simulcast delivering a pre-recorded briefing where she eagerly implores viewers to stay tuned to the very same show that's trashing her? And to compound matters, how do you allow it when that briefing was filmed on her last day on the job??
What a clusterfuck. Way to continue letting the yipping, toothless lapdog's tail wag one of the biggest bull mastiffs on the planet. Well done, Red Sox.
Unless this is just another example of the club throwing ex-employees under the bus, being party to it all along behind the scenes yet denying any participation or knowledge of it.
I've noticed that NESN will censor parts of conversations during the broadcast (you can see the guys talking and laughing but there is no sound). I can rarely tell exactly what they're cutting out because unlike when they dump out on the radio side and you hear everything up until the objectionable part, they blank out 15-20 seconds so you often miss the context of the conversation.
Surprised the whole show this morning wasn't entirely muted shots of the guys sitting at Jet Blue Park appearing to talk to one another.
Surprised the whole show this morning wasn't entirely muted shots of the guys sitting at Jet Blue Park appearing to talk to one another.
ForKeeps said:
They (NESN) aren't beholden to the FCC since they're a cable network. And given some of the stuff that does get let through uninterrupted, it doesn't seem like they have decency concerns either. So I can only conclude that most of the choices they're making are some kind of self-preservation. The hosts seem to dance around mentioning CSNNE by name when Minihane is talking about his appearances there, so it seems NESN might have objections to their competition getting airtime, just as an example.
InsideTheParker said:
You're asking for D&C to be rational and logical? Those guys are trying to increase their ratings, period. They're trying to push storylines/narratives that appeal to their listeners. And their listener demographic is old, conservative troglodytes. That's why D&C can be overtly racist and get nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
To put it another way, the "big deal" is that taking offense to her relationship increases D&C's ratings.
It's too bad for Jenny Dell that's the case.
edit: notwithstanding the above I agree with browndog: why the WEEI management allows this and Henry/Lucchino/Werner don't squash it is still a mystery
InsideTheParker said:
A number of women with actual jobs reporting on sports* seem to think it is a big deal, mostly because it is unprofessional.
From Richard Dietsch's sports media column on Si.com:
* I phrased it this way to avoid putting the Sox broadcast / ballpark food reviewer in the same category as, say, Susan Slusser or Christine Brennan.
Apparently Feb 20 was not her last day, as she was once again anchoring the sports desk last night. It doesn't change anything about what happened on yesterday's D&C show, but perhaps a dope/mod can remove the date reference from the thread title.
So,
Did D&C go off on her yesterday, the 21st, because they got their information from the thread title?
Did D&C go off on her yesterday, the 21st, because they got their information from the thread title?
