In case you needed another reminder of how good we had it in the years that Jerry Remy and Dennis Eckersley were the color analysts on NESN’s Red Sox telecasts, consider this:
In the remembrances of Tim McCarver after the Baseball Hall of Fame announced Thursday that the four-decade MLB catcher and three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster had died at age 81, he was lauded repeatedly as the best baseball color analyst of all time.
On a national scale, that is probably true. I was partial to the thoughtful Tony Kubek on NBC growing up in the ‘80s, and Joe Garagiola was a charismatic storyteller.