Exactly. I never truly understood the hate in the game threads during the giggle fits. There are 162 games. The games sometimes tend to drag on. It’s a long season. The broadcast needs to appeal to the general audience. Not the SoSH .0001 percent. Sure there were times I preferred them to focus on the game rather than some stupid fan interview or whatever. But the giggles made Rem and Orsillo relatable.Orsillo and Remy made baseball fun. When they cracked up together, I cracked up with them. Some of the most contagious laughter and chemistry I'll likely ever encounter on a sports broadcast team. I'll miss him.
Sorry, Google transltor doesn't do Boston.It’s pronounced pizzer
Agreed, such a stupid and foolish thing to do.Man, hard to forgive NESN for breaking up that team. I am feeling for Don Orsillo and DOB today. As well as all the NESN crew that worked with the RemDawg every day during the season. A lot of broken hearts in that family.
And, of course, Johnny Pierson.Losing Tommy and Remy in the same year really does feel like the closing of an era.
My favorite memories of Jerry will be of the few dozen games that he broadcasted with Eck and OB in the improbably successful spring of 2021. It was the best broadcasting I've ever heard. They were sharp, funny, wisecracking, balanced (Eck did pitching, Remy did fielding and baserunning, and nobody could do hitting), and full of mutual respect. Truly Hall-of-Fame material.
It really should be pronounced wicket pissah.It’s pronounced pizzer
I remember this when it happened. 68 is too young, because I feel like Remy & Eck were just beginning to scratch the surface in telling stories from their playing days. Their stories always seemed to come from two different perspectives, which was so interesting. I feel we lost so many future shared experiences. He will be so missed.My favorite memories were him and Eck sharing stories of their time in the big leagues. RIP Jerry, you will be missed.
View: https://youtu.be/Rfuqqy9CTto
I think an incredibly underrated part of the Jerry Remy story is how he recommitted to really serious and insightful baseball analysis very late in his career. We all know that during a lot of the 2010's Don and Jerry were so comfortable with one another they could get really silly. Some fans loved it, others didn't. Personally, I didn't hate it and I get why people are sentimental about that era of them broadcasting together -- but I didn't love it.I really enjoyed the Remy/McDonough combo but at that stage of my life I primarily followed the Sox on the radio and from afar. Later, I didn't always love some of the staged silliness and, toward the end, I felt like the Orsillo pairing had run its course. But to his credit, Remy continued to work to improve at his job. In my opinion, his time with Eck was the best output of his broadcasting career. He will never be replicated and will be greatly missed.
It's been sad to watch the transitions over the past couple years, as wannabes have trudged through the booth. I just don't believe them in the same way. Maybe I never will.
I really enjoyed the Remy/McDonough combo but at that stage of my life I primarily followed the Sox on the radio and from afar. Later, I didn't always love some of the staged silliness and, toward the end, I felt like the Orsillo pairing had run its course. But to his credit, Remy continued to work to improve at his job. In my opinion, his time with Eck was the best output of his broadcasting career. He will never be replicated and will be greatly missed.
It seems like NESN scrubbed that video from existence which is a shame really. (Two of my favorite clips were as follows:
Don Orsillo explains how a Lunar Eclipse works and Jerry breaks out the telestrator to show how wrong he is. I haven't been able to find this one anywhere.
The other is Jerry mispronouncing names...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4Rfzvc9i0
Another funny Remy line was him joining Eckersely in the booth after one of the prior rounds of cancer treatments. He was done for the year but made an appearance to say he was coming back the following season. The line to Eck was "I see the traded Masterson for you..."
Wasnt that followed up by Remy encasing little Wally in tin foil, since Orsillo's version had the Sun ending up between the Moon and the Earth, IIRC.It seems like NESN scrubbed that video from existence which is a shame really. (
View: https://twitter.com/mike_petriello/status/1123965892461772802?s=21
http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2009/04/you_know_youve_struck_broadcas.htmlEvery regular viewer has a favorite example, like the time Remy mentioned an eclipse was coming, and Orsillo replied, "A lunar eclipse is when the sun crosses in front of the moon, right?" Remy waited a few beats before saying no. "We wouldn't be around here very long if that happened." As Orsillo began to convulse, Remy said, "I don't have a lot of schooling, but I'll tell you what -- oh my God -- even I knew [that]."
If you're not a native and want to know how to speak in a New England/Boston accent, all you have to do is listen to Remy say "Carlos Baerga" and that basically teaches you everything.Two of my favorite clips were as follows:
Don Orsillo explains how a Lunar Eclipse works and Jerry breaks out the telestrator to show how wrong he is. I haven't been able to find this one anywhere.
The other is Jerry mispronouncing names...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4Rfzvc9i0
Another funny Remy line was him joining Eckersely in the booth after one of the prior rounds of cancer treatments. He was done for the year but made an appearance to say he was coming back the following season. The line to Eck was "I see the traded Masterson for you..."
It seems this hasn't really gained a ton of traction outside of maybe one or two replied in this thread. I have a ton of sympathy for Remy due to his battle with cancer and the tragedy of his son. But I'd have a hard time supporting such a change - at least permanently - when we also just lost Tommy within the last year. Yes, this is a Red Sox board first and foremost (is it really anymore though?). And yes, Remy was the voice of my sports-watching childhood and that of many here. But so was Tommy, and possibly even more so and for a longer period of time.Can we rename the Media forum in his honor, at least temporarily?
Re-name the media forum for Remy and transfer ownership of the Port Cellar to Tommy?It seems this hasn't really gained a ton of traction outside of maybe one or two replied in this thread. I have a ton of sympathy for Remy due to his battle with cancer and the tragedy of his son. But I'd have a hard time supporting such a change - at least permanently - when we also just lost Tommy within the last year. Yes, this is a Red Sox board first and foremost (is it really anymore though?). And yes, Remy was the voice of my sports-watching childhood and that of many here. But so was Tommy, and possibly even more so and for a longer period of time.
I'm not sure what the right answer is, but just wanted to put that out there.
Those both seem like good ideas. I’ll all for naming the media thread after Remy. This is a Sox board, first and foremost, at least in my estimation of it and historically. Just because we have Yankee threads and NFL forums doesn’t mean that the Sox aren’t number one here. Again, at least how I interpret things.Re-name the media forum for Remy and transfer ownership of the Port Cellar to Tommy?
Well at least we can all agree we'll never have a center as good as Blount.Y’all understand that Gammons will die some day as will Bill Russell and other Sox media greats and Celtics legends, right?
Exactly.Well at least we can all agree we'll never have a center as good as Blount.
We've been fortunate enough to have some fabulous sports announcers in this town - this year we've lost Tommy, Jerry, Johnny Pierson, and Bob Neumeier. But lest we not forget Curt Gowdy, Johnny Most, Gil Santos, Bob Wilson, Ned Martin, Ken Coleman....Re-name the media forum for Remy and transfer ownership of the Port Cellar to Tommy?
The media forum should be renamed Where Have All The Good Ones Gone?We've been fortunate enough to have some fabulous sports announcers in this town - this year we've lost Tommy, Jerry, Johnny Pierson, and Bob Neumeier. But lest we not forget Curt Gowdy, Johnny Most, Gil Santos, Bob Wilson, Ned Martin, Ken Coleman....
Glad that you mentioned Curt Gowdy and Ned Martin. I spent so much of my childhood and teenage years listening to the genial Gowdy that he seemed almost like an uncle to me. Someone said he sounded like everyone's favorite brother in law. He had the bad luck to broadcast during the desert of noncontention between 1951 and 1966, before being called up to NBC just before the Impossible Dream year.We've been fortunate enough to have some fabulous sports announcers in this town - this year we've lost Tommy, Jerry, Johnny Pierson, and Bob Neumeier. But lest we not forget Curt Gowdy, Johnny Most, Gil Santos, Bob Wilson, Ned Martin, Ken Coleman....
This is a lovely post. It was all before my time (some of it barely so), but it does serve as an argument against naming the media forum after Remy (who I loved as a player and a broadcaster).Glad that you mentioned Curt Gowdy and Ned Martin. I spent so much of my childhood and teenage years listening to the genial Gowdy that he seemed almost like an uncle to me. Someone said he sounded like everyone's favorite brother in law. He had the bad luck to broadcast during the desert of noncontention between 1951 and 1966, before being called up to NBC just before the Impossible Dream year.
And Ned Martin was a classy guy. When things fell apart on the field with one mishap after another, he quoted Hamlet: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in batallions." He had a crazy streak too. He began the broadcast of a meaningless late season game on a bleak day before a minimal crowd by tapping the microphone and saying, "Hello...Is anybody there?...Is anybody there?"
And while Jerry and Orsillo were a great team, some of us remember the wonderful rapport between Martin and Jim Woods on radio from 1975 to 1978 before WITS fired them for their disdain for having to read too many commercials.
I concur. In this town, in baseball - Remy, Martin, Coleman, Gowdy - were all the high priests of baseball broadcasting. And for a far too-brief period - Jim Woods. I can never forget my wife's uncle, sitting on the porch in Caroga Lake, NY, listening to the Sox on WTIC - the voice of Jim Woods = "and it's a long fly to left , and it is ... UP THERE for a home run! Number 25 for Mister Rice"....The media forum should be renamed Where Have All The Good Ones Gone?
Guy had an amazing run. His partners over the years were a who's who of mostly HoF broadcasters. Mel Allen, Red Barber, Russ Hodges, Jack Buck, Bob Prince, Monte Moore and Ned Martin. And he died way too soon at 71.I concur. In this town, in baseball - Remy, Martin, Coleman, Gowdy - were all the high priests of baseball broadcasting. And for a far too-brief period - Jim Woods. I can never forget my wife's uncle, sitting on the porch in Caroga Lake, NY, listening to the Sox on WTIC - the voice of Jim Woods = "and it's a long fly to left , and it is ... UP THERE for a home run! Number 25 for Mister Rice"....
If we can keep people who primarily write for local papers out of it, sure.The media forum should be renamed Where Have All The Good Ones Gone?