Red Sox hire Gordon Edes

[RedOctober3829]

Pete Abraham ‏@PeteAbe 6m6 minutes ago
Fenway Sports Group announces it has hired @GordonEdes as the #RedSox historian. He leaves ESPN for the job. Congrats to Gordon.

Awesome news for Gordon. He's been great to us here.

 

[Corsi]

Pete Abraham ‏@PeteAbe 4s5 seconds ago
According to FSG, @GordonEdes will be a “strategic communications advisor” and report directly to ownership.

 

[Number45forever]

Interesting. Perhaps a solution to the tone-deafness exhibited by the front office in the last couple years? Good for Edes I guess, I'll miss reading his stuff though.

 

[AlNipper49]

That's awesome. I can only think of a handful of people that I'd want doing that, and Gordon is definitely on that list.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

I wonder who will replace him at ESPN....

Who gives a shit? One less reason to give clicks and views to ESPN.

Congrats to Gordon. I'll definitely miss his writing. The list of reasonable twitter follows for Sox news and updates keeps getting shorter, unfortunately.

 

[HangingW/ScottCooper]

Gordon has essentially taken over for Gammons for me in terms of my go to Red Sox source. Congrats to him, but selfishly I will miss reading his content.

 

[Don Buddin's GS]

Good luck, Gordo...keep representing Lunenburg!

 

[bankshot1]

one less articulate voice reporting on the Sox
and one less reason to visit the WWL

 

[soxhop411]

Will he be working with Jon Shestakofsky?
He has been giving historical nuggets about players and the team the past few season on twitter

https://twitter.com/Shesta_Sox

 

[Snoop Soxy Dogg]

Can't say that's the DD move I was expecting to kick off the hot stove..That's a far cry from Carrasco.

 

[mauidano]

Gotta be a dream job for him! Love his insight, hope he will continue to have a forum for sharing his in depth writing as well. Welcome aboard!

 

[JBJ_HOF]

Who gives a shit? One less reason to give clicks and views to ESPN.

It will suck if it is someone good, like Britton

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

If only the Sox had a major newspaper outlet under their control in which Gordon could use his talents . . .

 

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

This is fantastic. Gordon is amazing and historian is definitely a good position for him to have. Glad to have him with the team now.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Congrats, Gordon. Hope your agent wrangled into your contract the use of JWH's yacht for a couple of weekends a year.

 

[jacklamabe65]

Congratulations, Gordon! He's always been a gentleman to me as was Dick B. Two class acts.

 

[Corsi]

re: Edes' replacement

Chad Finn ‏@GlobeChadFinn 3m3 minutes ago
Assume it'll be Joe McDonald. Would be surprised by a hire given how ESPN has treated those sites lately.

 

[Montana Fan]

ESPN needs Cafardo.

Congrats Gordon Edes!

 

[TheoShmeo]

This sounds great for Gordon Edes.

There are not many level headed, clear thinking writers covering the Red Sox. He was one. He will be missed from that perspective.

 

[Hildy]

This is great for Gordon, who has long been one of my favorite Sox reporters. Congrats!

 

[JimD]

I've always liked Gordon's writing for the Globe and ESPN and will miss him, but he did seem to be getting a little pissy at times as the team struggled for relevancy over the past two seasons so maybe it was time to move on from the beat.

As for who to go to now - Sean McAdam is solid for CSNNE, and Brian MacPherson has been doing some great work at Projo. Alex Speier is a great follow on Twitter and does good work at the Globe if you're willing to pay or limit yourself to 10 free articles a month.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

I've always liked Gordon's writing for the Globe and ESPN and will miss him, but he did seem to be getting a little pissy at times as the team struggled for relevancy over the past two seasons so maybe it was time to move on from the beat.

As for who to go to now - Sean McAdam is solid for CSNNE, and Brian MacPherson has been doing some great work at Projo. Alex Speier is a great follow on Twitter and does good work at the Globe if you're willing to pay or limit yourself to 10 free articles a month.

You can also subscribe to Speier's free newsletter 108 stitches. He also links to other Sox related stories in it.

 

[JimD]

You can also subscribe to Speier's free newsletter 108 stitches. He also links to other Sox related stories in it.

Not surprisingly it's heavier on Globe links these days, but still worthwhile.

 

[iayork]

As for who to go to now - Sean McAdam is solid for CSNNE, and Brian MacPherson has been doing some great work at Projo. Alex Speier is a great follow on Twitter and does good work at the Globe if you're willing to pay or limit yourself to 10 free articles a month.

All good choices, and I want to emphasize just how good MacPherson is. Maybe he doesn't get quite as much attention because he's in a smaller-market paper, but this summer in particular he was just consistently excellent, coming up with a bunch of insightful stories with new and interesting takes.

 

[Laser Show]

All good choices, and I want to emphasize just how good MacPherson is. Maybe he doesn't get quite as much attention because he's in a smaller-marker paper, but this summer in particular he was just consistently excellent, coming up with a bunch of insightful stories with new and interesting takes.

I'm a big Tim Britton fan as well.

 

[Eddie Jurak]

I'm a big Tim Britton fan as well.

Yep. Britton, Speier, McPherson are the best Sox reporters.

 

[terrisus]

Well, that was unexpected.
Congrats to Gordon.

Wonder what the job will actually entail/produce on a regular basis.

 

[Alex Cole's Rec Specs]

I hope Gordon is holding court at Gibbet Hill all week. Good for him. A very thoughtful hire by the front office.

 

[JimD]

I'm a big Tim Britton fan as well.

Agreed. The new guard of Sox beat reporters is in fine shape.

 

[dohnjoe]

Congrats Gordo! I am very curious to see what historic pieces he produces.

 

[Hombre]

Hopefully Gordon can help produce some documentaries for NESN. Would be nice to have programming that isn't complete garbage.