ESPN Legend Chris Berman's New Gig Mocked Mercilessly on Social Media

Chris Berman is back, back, back, back … in the radio booth.

The former SportsCenter host and mainstay of ESPN coverage has taken a job as a radio broadcaster doing a handful of Boston Red Sox games.

Though he won’t be the main man, Berman joins a rotating cast of radio broadcasters who will sit in WEEI’s Red Sox booth that also includes former Monday Night Football host Sean McDonough, longtime Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione, and Sox television play-by-play man Dave O’Brien.

We are excited to announce our 2019 @RedSox radio broadcast team!

Read the full press release here: https://t.co/qi4qhWc7u9 pic.twitter.com/tja2JLVmMg

— WEEI (@WEEI) February 14, 2019

Unfortunately for Berman, Sox fans were not particularly pleased about the announcement that Boomer was coming aboard in Beantown and his hiring was mocked mercilessly on social media.

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— Stephen Tallent (@STallent180) February 14, 2019

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— Daniel Q. Carruthers (@DanQCarruthers) February 14, 2019

Good thing I’ve got a TV…

— Bert0529 (@Bert0529) February 14, 2019

I guess this will be an opportunity to learn Spanish by listening to the alternate language broadcasts when he’s on. pic.twitter.com/p991i1MgdC

— Peruna Belle (@CaughtLookin) February 15, 2019

I'll be back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back to listening when he's gone…

— Karate Nights 🐬 (@KarateNights) February 15, 2019

Though he has not returned to ESPN on a full-time basis, Berman has started taking a slightly bigger role at the Worldwide Leader and did appear sporadically during the network’s NFL coverage.

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