WenZink said:
Or on Sundays, invite Big E to the studio with TC and Psycho... or did Willie Horton ruin weekend furlough for everyone?
WenZink said:
Or on Sundays, invite Big E to the studio with TC and Psycho... or did Willie Horton ruin weekend furlough for everyone?
Lose Remerswaal said:Come Back Jerry! All is forgiven after Psycho last night!
I'm happily on an island on this one. I much prefer Psycho to the Rem-dog. Jerry checked out years ago, and the added baggage of his family turmoil was the tipping point.Lose Remerswaal said:Come Back Jerry! All is forgiven after Psycho last night!
Rovin Romine said:Honestly, I've been hoping for a Big E joke - http://www.thebige.com/ese/
No luck coming up with one myself.
curly2 said:With all the money he rakes in every September in West Springfield, it's amazing he turned to a life of crime.
This is exactly how I feel. Island is alone no more.JayMags71 said:I'm happily on an island on this one. I much prefer Psycho to the Rem-dog. Jerry checked out years ago, and the added baggage of his family turmoil was the tipping point.
Reverend said:I swear to God I must have been the only person to listen to Alex Speier do color for the Sox in spring training...
Edit: Wait--I think SF121 did too.
mabrowndog said:It isn't that Lyons provided poor analysis, irrelevant sidebars, or boring stories. Because he really didn't.
It's that he just WOULD NOT SHUT THE FLYING FUCK UP.
Caught that as well and thought the same exact thing. Kinda' strange for him to even say that. Freudian slip? Perhaps some awkward thinking out loud?The Napkin said:The other night some guy held up a sign about it being his 21st b-day and asking Remy for a hot dog. Remy said something like "I don't have any money for hot dogs". It took about .03 seconds for the "lots of legal bills, eh?" joke to be made in our house. I didn't look in the game thread but I ASSume it was made there too. And probably all across New England.
The Napkin said:The other night some guy held up a sign about it being his 21st b-day and asking Remy for a hot dog. Remy said something like "I don't have any money for hot dogs". It took about .03 seconds for the "lots of legal bills, eh?" joke to be made in our house. I didn't look in the game thread but I ASSume it was made there too. And probably all across New England.
Butting heads with a mod for literally no reason....smart choice.ForKeeps said:
Wow. Can't believe NESN didn't fire him on the spot.
ForKeeps said:Thank you, I appreciate the compliment, but let's try to stay on topic, fella.
Please don't take HIS name in vain. But I agree Mr. Keeps is on a short leash.URI said:
Enough.
Jesus.
richgedman'sghost said:Please don't take HIS name in vain. But I agree Mr. Keeps is on a short leash.
Remy belittled the Martel family as “trailer trash,” ordered the women to their rooms for mandatory naps, and forbade them to eat until he declared it was time, said Patty Martel.
The Martels visited their daughter about once a year after that. Remy made no secret of his distaste for them and refused to allow them to meet his own parents. “He didn’t want us to embarrass him,” Patty said, remembering Remy’s frequent critique of the Martel clan: “They’re fat, they’re gross, they’re lazy, they smoke, they smell.”
The Martels remained silent for months after the killing, wary of jeopardizing a three-way court battle for guardianship of Arianna, now 5. That case was settled by a sealed agreement this spring that called for Jennifer’s brother, Brian Jr., and his wife, Andrea, to raise Arianna with their children — the little girl’s first cousins —while granting both sets of grandparents visitation rights.
They are angry at the court system and the Middlesex prosecutors who did not hold Remy last summer or in his numerous previous brushes with the law, but they are mostly forgiving of his family. They know the Remys loved Jennifer and Arianna; Patty thinks they simply misjudged Jared, believing their son had stabilized after several years without a violent arrest.
“I don’t know,” Brian said. “I know they know their son’s past. . . . I think there should’ve been more caution taken.”
Though they understand why the Remys wanted guardianship of Arianna, they wished they had not pressed the case. The custody battle meant the girl spent seven months in state care and grew attached to her foster mother — bringing another kind of loss after the trauma of witnessing her mother get killed, Patty said.
"Remy’s frequent critique of the Martel clan: “They’re fat, they’re gross, they’re lazy, they smoke, they smell.”"crystalline said:I don't think this has yet been posted.
The Globe did a report on Sunday with the first interview with the Martels.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/17/planning-escape-jennifer-martel-said-days-before-death/ZKlTo1nRsvR1QQzdWje6mJ/story.html
Most of the new information is about how controlling Jared was.
Let's be careful not to mix up our Remys...mauidano said:"Remy’s frequent critique of the Martel clan: “They’re fat, they’re gross, they’re lazy, they smoke, they smell.”"
Jerry could very well be talking about himself.
Perhaps he realized the affect a trial would have on his family. There's NFW he was going to get off.glennhoffmania said:Why would he plead guilty to first degree? What would he have to lose by going to trial then?
Well thank god Jerry won't be further inconvenienced by the monster he set loose on the world.BoSoxLady said:Jerry no longer has his son's trial hanging over his head and can move on with his life.
Foulkey Reese said:Well thank god Jerry won't be further inconvenienced by the monster he set loose on the world.
MentalDisabldLst said:
I'm not sure Jerry has asked for sympathy, but regardless, I'm pretty sure that adults bear some responsibility for their own actions, too. Other than those recognized as mentally incompetent by the State, I suppose, which isn't even argued as being the case here. Either way, while Jerry Remy isn't up for sainthood anytime soon, I'm still having a hard time visiting the sins of the father upon the son.
I would sincerely like to hear a non-snarky explanation of why people are allocating blame to Remy Senior here, rather than just viewing him as a (very interested) bystander to a crime and tragedy.
“I would like to say, ‘Blame me for this and not my family,’” Remy said just before his sentencing. He said Martel and his family “both loved each other and I’m the bad apple.
And if you asked my family, they’d rather have me dead than her.”
"I would like you to know that I always told Jen she could leave, but do not threaten me with my daughter. That night Jen had a knife in her hand and threatened me with my daughter. So I killed her. I don't think it's right when women use their kids against their fathers. And to all the people that have blamed my family: go clean your clock and go clean your closet. I am an honest, loyal, and a person of my word, and everything I have said today is the truth, and I have nothing to lie about."
Rusty13 said:Remy also said this in his statement (video link below):
http://www.myfoxboston.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=10204579
joe dokes said:
Not sure, but to the extent that anyone considered my selected quote to somehow consider the Son in a better light, since this is the "Remy the Broadcaster" thread, I left out the considerable amount of "Remy's son is a monster who should never be free to walk the streets" info in the story.
Reverend said:
Yeah, he didn't exactly throw himself on the mercy of the court there did he? Wow.
To get to GHoff's question, I'm spitballing here but my guess is that his daughter is the last thing he really cares about besides himself and his lifeline to humanity. I mean, in real life you basically never get stabbing murders with this many eyewitnesses. At the end of the day, any money he blew on a pointless trial is money out of his daughter's pocket some time down the road. And if he cares about his parents at all, maybe he doesn't want to completely bankrupt them either. But he wasn't winning this one.
I'm not a criminal lawyer but I have watched a lot of Law & Order, partiuclarly SVU.glennhoffmania said:
I get that and I agree. I guess more than wondering why he pleaded guilty I'm wondering why he couldn't get a better deal to plead guilty to a lesser charge. Did he offer to plead guilty to second degree and the DA said no? If so, why?
I would like you to know that I always told Jen she could leave, but do not threaten me with my daughter. That night Jen had a knife in her hand and threatened me with my daughter. So I killed her. I don't think it's right when women use their kids against their fathers.