Confirmed with Link: Mears and Errey fired

[Empoleon8771]

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[PensFutures]

and you guys say Yohe never has the inside track on news...

 

[Deport Ogie]

Now we know where Pens X has been. Busy with auditions.

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

I'll miss Errey. Mears was replacement-level.

 

[LOGiK]

LOL... no kidding? REALLY!? It was no humanly possible to be a bigger suck up than those two people.... how can they treat their loyalty and blind eye to the club like this!

 

[Trade]

Haters be damned, Errey was great. Hopefully we have some good replacements lined up.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

From what I have heard, Getzoff and the Ole 2-9er are taking over on TV. I wonder if they will just simulcast the broadcast or will they create a new team for radio?

 

[FlightlessBird]

I really hope the rumor from a few months ago of Getzoff and Bourque moving to TV was true. Josh is 100x better than Mears, and Bourque is great. I found myself listening to the radio while watching on TV for the majority of games last season.

Also, the past few years felt like Errey was trying to go for a national thing. It’s fine to be unbiased in a sense, but he was almost trying to prove how WAY non-Pens homer he was and it just got annoying. I will still miss him though.

And I still want Colby to come on as a full-time between the bench person.

Now get rid of Potash and that’ll be the cherry on top this summer!

 

[John Price]

Mears was actually pretty solid when you compare him to his predecessor.

 

[Jacob]

I liked Errey. I don't like Bourque, if he's his replacement. Getzoff is good.

This is probably just to save money.

 

[WickedWrister]

Per Yohe it’s gonna be Getzoff, Bourque (maybe?) and Colby

 

[Sideline]

Mears was actually pretty solid when you compare him to his predecessor.

I too am able to limbo dance under an Olympic high jump bar.

 

[WickedWrister]

Getzoff=Mears
Bourque>Errey
Colby>>> All of them.

 

[LOGiK]

Mears was actually pretty solid when you compare him to his predecessor.

Mears reminds me of some kind of mixture of being incredibly uninteresting when he talks and being incredibly bland when saying it... it's a talent, but not one that should be celebrated.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I doubt too many people care about Mears moving on. He was dull at best.

But I'm really gonna miss Errey. I know he was a goofball but he was a pretty insightful one.

Getzoff is good news. Bourque not so much... at least to me. Colby I'd be pretty happy with, though.

 

[metalan2]

It's sad that Errey is gone. Damnit.

 

[LOGiK]

I doubt too many people care about Mears moving on. He was dull at best.

But I'm really gonna miss Errey. I know he was a goofball but he was a pretty insightful one.

Getzoff is good news. Bourque not so much... at least to me. Colby I'd be pretty happy with, though.

getting senile

 

[Fordy]

yikes. i like errey. i like bourque as well but hard to see any of the reasons i like him transferring to tv

getting senile

based on what?

 

[metalan2]

Mears was a very knowledgeable hockey mind, did play by play well, but just was a wet blanket. There is definitely a place for him in broadcasting, it just isn't as a play by play guy.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

getting senile

That's just the Old Grand-Dad

 

[pistolpete11]

It's hard to listen to somebody talk so much for so many years and not actively hate them, so kudos to Errey for that. He'll be missed.

Mears needs to go away for like 20 years and have a Scotch and a pack of cigarettes everyday. He was fine. Just too fresh, polished, and by the book for my tastes.

I've only listened to the radio a handful of times the last several years. Getzoff is alright. Honestly probably similar to Mears in that he does the job well, but is just kind of boring. I didn't particularly like Bourque. Would much rather have Colby in that role.

 

[Andy99]

Good…I know people liked Errey but he would rarely say anything critical of a player when I listened to him, even when justified…Mears grated…I would mute them when I listened to the Pens broadcast…

 

[Jacob]

If you think Errey was senile, wait until you hear Bourque.

He thinks he's a coach on the bench.

 

[BillPrep]

I'd see what ol max talbot is up to...thought he did well when he visited last year. Max was, at least, ableto talk about the action while mears and errey were busy fanboiing

 

[WickedWrister]

Yeah, Errey has been a part of the entire Crosby era so it'll be weird. Still nothing that compares to the outrage when Lange was demoted to the radio broadcast. I remember KDKA running a segment where they told people on the street to film their reactions.

Bourque-Colby would be my dream team but both are color guys and not a PBP.

If they touch Potash, there will be blood.