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

The former "SportsCenter" host will be calling a handful of Red Sox games on local radio.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 13:  Chris Berman of ESPN on the set before the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams at the Los Angeles Coliseum during preseason on August 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 13: Chris Berman of ESPN on the set before the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams at the Los Angeles Coliseum during preseason on August 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
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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.

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.

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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