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The Bostonian with the fake Boston accent

adamg — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:32:51 -0400

Dan Tobin outs Fitzy Fitzgerald, who, granted, grew up in Braintree but now lives in New York.

Grading Jerry Remy's replacements

adamg — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:06:01 -0400

Jimmy grades them from a B for the Eck to a Z for Lenny Clarke:

... I think Boston was hit with a reality check over the past few months. Even if you are of the opinion that Jerry Remy is mediocre at what he does, "mediocre" is difficult to find in a world where Joe Morgan is considered the gold standard.

Return of the RemDawg!

Kaz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:47:25 -0400

Jerry Remy just twittered:

As NESN just announced I will be returning to the booth on Friday-I can't wait-Thanks again to all of you- Jerry

He also says that he's going to ease back into it and may not go on road trips initially.

All in all, though, it's going to be great to have him back with Don Orsillo in the broadcast booth.

Remy also battling depression; to appear on air tonight

adamg — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:50 -0400

Ian Browne tweets form a long discussion between Jerry Remy and the media; Remy also hopes to return to the booth this year and thanks fans who have reached out to him.

The Globe reports he'll actually make a visit to the NESN booth in the top of the second inning tonight.

Gasp: Red Sox mini-movie actually shot mostly in New York

adamg — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:03:30 -0400

Jere reports that he couldn't really get into "What About Sal?" partly because it was so short, partly because it was actually filmed in New York and the actors seemed to have New York accents:

... The bar they show--at least the outside shot of it--is Pat O'Brien's! In New York City, a few blocks from where I used to live. It's a Sox bar on the Upper East Side, with a big sign in the window (they now have a second sign, I saw it recently when I was at Chan's place in the same area) saying "watch all the Red Sox games here." ...

An Eck-to-English dictionary

adamg — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:29:37 -0400

I was starting to compile one, but Beth has already put together an Eckersley/English dictionary.

The only ones she's missing are "gas," "punchout" (translates as "strikeout") and some word for "million" that begins with a "b" (grr, I can't remember the word, anybody know?).

Eck didn't know it's a no-no to chat up a no-no

adamg — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:20:10 -0400

Controversy was news to him.

Via Daigo Fujiwara.

A little Remy for you

adamg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:28:49 -0400

A brief audio message from the President.

Eck being Eck

adamg — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:25:08 -0400

Dennis Eckersley is proving to be quite the color commentator for Sox games. If you missed tonight's game, you missed some exuberant lip reading after Youk got hit by a pitch (remember the scene in "A Christmas Story" where Ralphie lets loose with the Big F? Imagine if he'd said the Big S instead) and what is perhaps the best mangling ever of Justin Masterson's last night (he got the "Master" part right, but somehow managed to swap what you use to catch fish for "son"). Couple that with all the discourses on young cheese, paint and gas and you've got quite the parlor game (my wife asked me more than once tonight: "What? What did he just say?").

Video from tonight, at least, until NESN orders it taken down.

Fitzy Fitzgerald to get NESN show

adamg — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:18:29 -0400

Bruce Allen gets the scoop on everybody's favorite foul-mouthed sports commentator signing a deal to do a sorta trivia game show on NESN.