Before Jerry Remy became Don Orsillo’s broadcast partner and close friend, before all of those moments of side-splitting hilarity that they shared in the NESN Red Sox booth during their 15 seasons together, before any of that, Remy was something else to Orsillo:
He was his advocate in getting the coveted play-by-play job in the first place.
“Jerry was so much more than just an analyst to me,” recalled Orsillo during a conversation after Remy died last Saturday night from lung cancer at age 68. “He was largely the reason that I got to the big leagues.