Reimer Trades Sports For Politics

• After nearly three years with Entercom Sports-Talk WEEI/Boston, Alex Reimer announced his resignation from the station and revealed his new career path: he’s been named Director of Communications for Massachusetts Democratic State Senator Eric Lesser, who represents the 1st Hampden and Hampshire district near Springfield.

Reimer is a graduate of Boston University who started at WEEI as a rotating personality on the station’s now defunct Kirk & Callahan show. To be frank, his tenure has not always gone smoothly — in January 2017 Reimer was named to the somewhat nebulous position of “Brand Personality” — less than two weeks later, he was suspended for comments he made after watching the first episode of Tom vs. Time, a video series about New England Patriots’ QB Tom Brady, referring to Brady’s then-five-year-old daughter as “an annoying little pissant.”

In a lengthy farewell blog post, Reimer said, in part, “I never imagined doing anything else in my life besides working in sports talk radio — as weird as that may sound. As a high schooler, I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning editing Red Sox podcasts. In college, I once recorded said podcast on an empty bench outside my dormitory. The abyss needed to hear my take on Bobby Valentine‘s disastrous summer. That is why I always laughed at the notion that I’m not an actual sports guy. I used to spend every summer night falling asleep to Felix Hernandez or Clayton Kershaw pitching out on the West Coast. For an extended period in my life, I could name every player in the league, including the September call-ups. But that is no longer the case, so it is time to try something new. At this stage in my life, I am more apt to live-tweet Rachel Maddow than tomorrow night’s Red Sox game. Those of you who are misfortunate enough to follow me on Twitter could’ve already guessed that.”