No matter who joins him in the NESN broadcast booth for the rest of this Red Sox season now that his partner Jerry Remy goes off to fight cancer again, Dave O'Brien says it will still feel as if there is an empty seat somewhere in that booth. And so much more than that.
"It will be an empty place in what has been such a magical season," O'Brien said Thursday from Toronto. "And no one has enjoyed watching it and talking about it and being a part of it more than my partner has. And why wouldn't he?