 Lynn native Leah Nobile, Lynn Vanderleeden and Jessie Heywood wait their turns at Sunday’s casting call.
(Photo/ Alan Webster)Saugus gets ‘Sox Appeal’
By Dan O’Brien/The Daily Item
SAUGUS _ Scores of people stepped up to the plate Sunday at Bob’s Store for a chance to be cast in “Sox Appeal,” the show in which contestants go on several dates during the course of a Red Sox game.
NESN sportscaster Hazel Mae was on hand to greet the potential contestants for much of the eight-hour casting call.
“Today’s turnout was more than we expected,” Mae said. “I’m absolutely thrilled.”
In the next season of Sox Appeal, to begin airing on NESN after Sunday Red Sox games in August, each episode will showcase a chosen fan that goes on three blind dates during a game at Fenway Park. Each date lasts two innings. By the seventh inning, the contestant chooses the person he/she wants to continue dating.
Lynn native Leah Nobile, 24, says she just hopes to have fun with being on the show if she’s selected.
“I don’t even care if it’s on the bloopers,” Nobile said.
So did Jonathan “Bird” Marchant, 25, a producer from Mix 98.5 FM who was working the event and decided to try out at the last minute.
“They talked me into it,” he said. “I’m doing it just for fun. It’s good for the experience.”
Several contestants drove for hours, or across state lines, for the chance to be on the show.
Jessie Heywood, 24, of Londonderry, N.H., mixed her hardcore dedication for the Red Sox with style as she tried out, wearing a skirt coined from the Dropkick Murphy’s remake of the song “Tessie,”
“During every game of the playoffs last year, I had this on,” including at work, Heywood said.
The dress is in reference to a woman who sweeps the bases in between innings. Heywood hopes to find a man who enjoys watching the Sox as much as she does.
“I’m obsessed,” she said. “My ex, he used to get mad at me for watching the game because I would ignore him.”
Lynn Vanderleeden, 36, drove to Saugus from East Longmeadow (near Springfield) with high spirits but said she was expecting “absolutely nothing” from the try-out.
“When you expect things, you get nothing,” she said.
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