NESN’s Red Sox broadcast team being more streamlined would be better for fans

Jerry Remy and Dennis Eckersley are missed on NESN's Red Sox broadcasts.The list of things worth yearning for from 2020, baseball-related or otherwise, has to be pretty short. But here’s one that rattles around in the brain of an incurably nostalgic sports media columnist this time of year:

I deeply miss Jerry Remy and Dennis Eckersley on NESN’s Red Sox broadcasts.

I know, I’m hardly alone here. Individually, both were superb analysts — two of the best I’ve ever heard, regionally, nationally, anywhere — whose rich insights on the game were enhanced when they began to reveal their humanity.

Once Remy realized that Eckersley was a true friend and not someone trying to take his job, their bond…