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Ill Remy flies home
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Beloved NESN announcer Jerry Remy will miss at least the remainder of this road trip with an illness, the symptoms of which are the same as those that kept him sidelined for the outset of spring training. Remy will fly home to Boston from Tampa tomorrow and might return for Wednesday's game against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park. Best wishes to Remy from us.
Buck Martinez will fill in for Remy tonight, as he did for last night's 13-0 Red Sox loss to the Rays. Martinez usually works for TBS and MASN, the local broadcasting channel for the Baltimore Orioles.



We all hope you feel better Jerry! Buck is good but he is no Rem-Dawg! We missed you last night and await your return. Get well soon!
Wishing the Red-Dog a speedy recovery. He's an AWFUL announcer and a shameless self-promoter, but I hope he's better soon. Expect the inane banter and obnoxious laughter to drop 85% with him gone.
I live down in FL and the Rays make me sick too as I am forced to watch the "local" broadcast during these games. It's like being beaten with toilet brush. It doesn't really hurt but you feel all dirty and soiled afterword. Get well Jerry.
I hope you get better Jerry soon, I kind of think you are necessary to keep things in perspective. Like the humor of Van Every pitching would have been evident instead of desperate.
I thought he finally got ditched for pawing off his web site crap instead of covering the game
No loss.
I'm sure the Sox performance last night didn't make remdawg feel any better.
*Almost* agree with Mike D. above.... Remy is actually a very good baseball analyst when he sticks to the game... it's the shameless self-promotion and inane banter that has me keeping the TiVO remote in my hand at all times.
In any event, I certainly wish him good health and a speedy recovery. Buck Martinez' voice is like nails on a chalkboard. I'll take the 70% of Remy I like over that.
OK...I would like to go on record as saying that I'm worried about Jerry! OMG I hope that he doesn't have cancer!
It must be nice for all you baseball "experts" who probably have never even played the game, to sit at your computers and criticize the man while he's ill. Gutless cowards. Play the game first, become an analyst, then maybe we'll care about what you say.
swine flu?
Get well soon Rem Dawg! We miss your, but most importantly we hope you're feeling better! Sox broadcasts are not the same with out you....
Here's wishing Jerry Remy a speedy recovery. I have MLB TV over the Internet, and freaquently watch the NESN feed. However, Buck Martinez is a very good analyst, including working for ESPN during the 1990s, and I'm sure he'll do a fine job in the RemDog's abscence.
OMG...get well soon...Remy!!!! It is not the same without you. Especially in a blow out...which is when you and Donny O...get rolling...which is hilarious! I miss you.
Games are nowhere near the same w/out Remy. He's a big a part of the Sox and the experience as the players are.
Get well soon Rem-dawg!
Get weill RemDawg - miss you incredibly out here in Wyoming. A game without you doing the commentary would be like playing with no balls....
Get well, Jerry! We can't stand it! We NEED you in the booth. Take care and get well.
rem dawg, you want i should go to the venus and get you some zoup. hope you feel better
Miss you, Remy, and wish you a speedy recovery. Some of these guys are nuts - you and Don are the ultimate team. We love EVERYthing you say and do. My mom can't wait for the season to start so she can hear the banter. Thanks, Buck, for filling in.
OMG. You MORONS complaining about Remy. He is the best freakin analyst in the game. SO WHAT if he promots himself. AND, it is FUNNY when he and Orsillo crack up and provide "inane banter." LIGHTEN UP.
All that being said, I hope Remy is o.k. This is quite worrisome.
Rem-Dawg Rocks. Who cares if he promotes his businesses or whatever?!? He's funny and fun to listen to. He's the "color guy", and he adds a lot of color . . . get well soon Jerry! GO SOX!! P.S. Manny who??? Jason Bay is the Bomb!
Get betterm, Jerry! It's just not the same without you, and I have been listening to the Sox since April of 1967! I love Buck on XM, but YOU are the voice of the Sox!
Jerry, hope you get well soon. You are the voice and heart of Red Sox Nation, Fox and ESPN are not even close... We need you!! A lot and all the time!! Come back asap...
Jerry, hope you get well soon. You are the voice and heart of Red Sox Nation, Fox and ESPN are not even close... We need you!! A lot and all the time!! Come back asap...
Jerry, hope you get well soon. You are the voice and heart of Red Sox Nation, Fox and ESPN are not even close... We need you!! A lot and all the time!! Come back asap...
Jerry, you should stop smoking!
Jerry,
Get well soon.
You are the best color guy in baseball.
It's not the same without you.
The best announcer in the game...bar NONE. I've been watching baseball for over 30 years, yet I learn something new every night listening to Jerry Remy on NESN. I hope you're okay Dawg.
Hate is a four letter word that too many on here like. How about something beginning with "L" and ending with "ove"?
Sending you the best, Remdawg!! Get well soon.
The rest of you folks ----stuff it!!!
Jerry, hope you are on the road to recovery asap. The Sox broadcast is not the same without you! Feel better! Go Sox!
Thank you JaquesSoufle and suesunswim! Remy is a great analyst and he's fun to listen to! Him and Orsillo make a are so great together. Its almost distressing to listen to a sox game without him. Jerry, we are all wishing you good health and a speedy recovery! The broadcast isn't the same without you.
MIke D, talk about a backhanded compliment. You're an embarrassment. Artie, you're no better,nor are you antgen. The poor guy is sick and you can't wait to jump all over him. I'd ask you to show some class, but you've shown that you can't. Go play in traffic.
Your incredible knack at mixing baseball with your own brand of entertainment are sorely missed. Enjoying the game isn't the same without being able to laugh at you and Don. Get well soon!
First thing I did last night when I heard someone else calling the game was to check in everywhere I could to find out whassup with Jerry. Did Wally fly home with the Rem-Dawg? I feel this is a bad omen for Red Sox Nation.
You people cirticizing Rem Dawg's self-promotions are idiots! Do you really think NESN (a station owned by the Red Sox) would allow Jerry to promote his private business on their network?? The stuff Jerry sells has the Red Sox logos all over it. I would guess that much of the money made from sales goes to The Red Sox Foundation.
I too am stuck in H--- watching the Rays coverage of the game. Get well soon, Jerry! We miss you terribly!
We love you Jerry Remy. Get well soon and come back to the booth. A Sox game without you is like a day without sunshine.
Jerry...get well soon!! I't's just not the same without you!!
Remy is done!The whole nesn thing has worn thin.Actually so have the sox.A lot of friends I know have lost interest since 2004.Unless you have money on the game who cares?
Get well QUICK... we need you; Don needs you; and the Sox need you! it's just not the same without you at the mike!
I'm a little worried: the illness last month, now again; I am the only who thinks that recent booth shots of Jerry, he is looking awfully thin? Hopes and prayers may be in order, especially when you hear he's 'under the weather'. Belichek gives out more health info than that.
Wow, what a long weekend in will be. Get well soon. My Dad was real sick when he quit smoking too, so hopefully this will be the end of it for Jerry.
Hey Rem Dog get well and fast. The way the Sox are playing there's nothing to watch, we need you to entertain us for the rest of the season. Hope you are okay.
The game is NOT the same without you!!!! GET WELL SOON!!!!!!! Hurry back -- we all miss you!!!!!!!
As a fan who has moved away, I miss RemDawg! I hope he gets well soon! Feel Better Jerry! You are missed. And those of you criticizing need to shut your mouths. You don't know what you have until you've lost it. Be grateful for the outstanding job they put into every single Red Sox game. Thank you Jerry and Don.
Eric and his friends aren't much of fans if they think the Sox have "worn thin". Get lost. You're no fan of the Sox.
Jerry, feel better!
Type your comment here...
Get well soon Remdawg, these games are only half the fun without your color and humor. ESPN, Fox make listening unbearable, your humor gives us the strength to get through verbal waterboarding we are forced to endure when NESN doesn't have the game. Take care of yourself we need you!
After the rays finish of the sox that will complete my 4 teamer for 770.Thank you rays!Not a bad way to start the weekend.Don't like betting against the sox but I won money so who cares?
Hey paul.Don't worry I got lost about 7 years ago to a little place called San Diego.It was absolutly miserable there.Have fun with your miserable winters and your 20 degree ocean water in the middle of july.Has it reached 50 up there yet?Would like to verbally assault you all night, but I got to get myself some rest for another day of golfing and surfin.Have a cold night!Bye bye!
Good riddance. Maybe now they'll actually talk about the game instead of Remy's side-projects "RemDawg night at RemDawgs! Check it out on Remdawg.com. The RemDawg girls will be there" etc...etc..
That said, get well soon.
I live in CA and watch ALL the announcing teams on the MLB package. Remy and Orsillo are in the bottom 1/3 of all National broadcast teams. Watch some of the other guys and then tell me that Remy is good. All you fools are force-fed Remy, so you have nothing to compare it to. He's brutal.
whats up remdawg. we all worry about you and hope you are well. you do the guitar so well and you know the sox do better when you are in the booth.
I don't want to see the man sick, but the games are better without him. I am forced to mute him most of the time anyway....
eric, it was 91 two days ago here =)
I love cali, but there's something missing there that we have in boston: heart, soul and personality. Your state is very bland.
I'll take that, and real people over a nice beach and sun all year round.
get well soon remy!!!
After watching two games w/o you I just had to go to your web site to find out where you went. I'm sorry you are sick but thank GOD you'll be coming back, I was worried. You and Don make a great team and the "team" is just not the same w/o you. Get well soon!
Innane banter? C'mon, listen to the Sunday night telecast on espn with Joe Morgan speaking out of an orafice other than his mough to hear a terrible broadcast. You morons don't know what you have.
It's a game, and Remy has fun with it. In a game decided early, it's a good thing. I still have the pizza throwing incident Tivoed. One of the best live moments I've ever seen on TV. Good for him for having fun and enjoying his job, and get well.
The Red Sox have simply one of the the worst broadcast in baseball. Those who have MLB Exra innings can watch a good broadcast team for the Giants, Dodgers or Orioles. Palmer is the best analyst in baseball.
I love the Sox but watch with the sound off.
I hope Mr. Remy recovers fully and enjoys an early retirement.
The RemDawg has me very worried. He's lost a lot of weight, has suddenly quit smoking...I hope he's gonna be OK!!!
fall river ma wishes you well.
Much love for the RemDawg, and best wishes for a speedy recovery. However, his is not the voice of the Red Sox. That belongs to Joe Castiglione, thank you very much.
And, with all due respect, Mr. Buck Martinez, it's David Or-TIZ. Not OR-tiz. Pissed me off in the playoffs last year. Still does. But thanks for filling in.
I watch the RedSox games on NESN but mute out the sound. I listen to Joe Castiglione and Dave O'Brien broadcast the games which makes Red Sox games much more enjoyable than listening to Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy. I have listened to the RedSox games with Buck Martinez and Don Orsillo which have been much enjoyable without Jerry Remy. I never wish anyone to get sick but maybe it is time to put someone else in the TV booth with Don Orsillo.
Get better REMDAWG!! You are missed.
I moved to N.C. a few years ago and let me tell you Jerry and Don ROCK! I get MASN , TBS games and Fox with those nitwits Buck and McCarver and I can't begin to tell you how good Rem is as a color guy. Get welll soon Jerry even if I can't hear you
I certainly do hope that Jerry Remy will be healthy soon and I do recognize that Sox fans could do worse--some of those who did fill in for him during Spring training were even worse than he is.
But it was refreshing to hear Buck Martinez and his contributions/analysis. We could clearly do much, much better than Remy.
And, too, it's refreshing that NESN didn't waste all different kinds of time showing fans seeking attention by touting Remy with their signs. That stuff is simply juvenile. Who really cares that it's someone's birthday or their first visit to Fenway?
I wish Buck was taking over for Orsillo.....the most ANNOYING announcer ever!.....TOO MANY STATISTICS,NEVER SHUTS UP,SAYS THE SAME THING TWICE IN THE SAME STATEMENT/SENTENCE.........TELLS US THINGS THAT WE ALREADY KNOW........Dave O'Brien is 100 times BETTER!
He doesn't have the swine flu does he?
I seriously have to wonder about any idiot who will wish a sick man well and insult him in the same paragraph. Talk about being devoid of class!
Jerry...you're great, Orsillo without Remy is like Laurel without Hardy, Sonny without Cher or Hannity without Colmes (actually, I kinda like Hannity without Colmes). Anyhoo....best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Jerry: If you read the comments from the folks who criticize you, please know that they are in the minority. We love you, and hope you get well soon. As for the folks who stoop so low to criticize a man when he is ill, shame on you.
Nice to know there are a few others forced to watch the Sox on local Tampa feed. Misery loves company. Dwayne Staats and now Kevin Kenned, gag.
Staats has a long broadcast history which is a mystery. Only the lowly Devil Rays would hire such a looser. Once you've heard Staats you become even a bigger Don and Remy fan. The toilet brush comment in much earlier posting is a classic painting.
Get well soon Jerry!
Get well soon Jerry!! I have to watch on MLB Extra Innings, and I'm always SOOO happy when it's NESN. I love you guys. I hope you are resting and concentrating on regaining good health!
NESN without Remy is like a donut shop with no coffee. Get well soon
Alex,if your talking about snow,weather beaten people,and people tailing me why I'm driving everywhere I go,then yeah I guess cali is missing a few things.Your summer's last from memorial day weekend to labor day weekend.After that everything just dies and everybody goes into depressed mode.I will give you this alex at least you have traveled.I knew so many people that thought new england was the end all be all.People on the west coast don't care about sports as much cause there are other things to do!I got so tired of wasting 7 months a year waiting for the weather to get nice.Quit my job and moved out here and never looked back,I recomend it to anyone.Jerry remy sucks!
Please be well soon Jerry.
I've always thought he should try managing with his baseball knowledge. Hope he's back with his shameless promotions soon!
nice touch by all the a-holes on here saying what an awful announcer, etc Remy is.. The guy is sick you jerks!! This article wasn't about his skills, it was about his health
Get well Rem Dawg
swine flu?
Hope he is OK, but hope NESN get rid of both Don and Jerry. Get 2 smart announcers that are less giggly, distracted at every foul ball and less 'comedians'. Because these 2 are hugely tiresome... Someone who isn't cheezy enough to sell scorecards on air. As far as Don, has he ever had an original thought or insight beyond Jerrys? Sorry all the games are too long for you guys! Must be tough having the easiest and best job in the world. Radio is 100Xs better just wish it wasn't delayed so I could mute the TV. Time to shake it up NESN!!!!
I can not say anything kind -- so I am going to listen to my mother and say nothing.
In middle february jerry was hospitalized on phillips22 at MGH.This would have been around the 16 th or 17th. I hope he's ok.
Hope he is OK, but hope NESN get rid of both Don and Jerry. Get 2 smart announcers that are less giggly, distracted at every foul ball and less 'comedians'. Because these 2 are hugely tiresome... Someone who isn't cheezy enough to sell scorecards on air. As far as Don, has he ever had an original thought or insight beyond Jerrys? Sorry all the games are too long for you guys! Must be tough having the easiest and best job in the world. Radio is 100Xs better just wish it wasn't delayed so I could mute the TV. Time to shake it up NESN!!!!
In middle february jerry was hospitalized on phillips22 at MGH.This would have been around the 16 th or 17th. I hope he's ok.
Remy, get well soon, we miss you in the booth.
Also, will someone tell Buck that Ortiz's name is pronounced or-TEEZ not OR-teez
Get well soon, Jerry. The game seems "blah" without you.
Miss you Rem! Just not the same in the booth without you. Buck is professional and tries his best but just not you and Don. Worried about you and wish you speedy recovery. The Sox need you. We all need you. And to all the critics above - lighten up!
Please get well soon, Jerry! Listening to you & Don is like overhearing two fans discussing the game in the next row up. It just isn't the same without the remdawg's funny quips!
Get well soon! I for one love the inane banter and the laughing fits!
well said JacquesSouffle. Seriously people, the guy is obviously battling something more than the common cold, keep your stupid remarks to yourself.
Get well Jerry -- we miss you
The games suck without you, Jerry. You are in my prayers.
Jerry I hope you get well soon.
Your not one of my favorite color announcers, your not one of my favorite people (I've meet the man, and he is not the nicest guy) Still, I don't wish anyone ill health. Get well soon.
I dislike the inane banter as much as anyone...
but Remy's right in the game - when Ellsbury stole home, Miller was speechless. I remember thinking "Remy would have told us it might happen before Ellsbury moved off 3rd"
Get Well Soon XOXO From the Tessier's in Milford NH
All of you people who dis the Remy ... go f$@# yourselves. man I wanted to print the cuss word but i was afraid they would censor me. you get what i was getting at though
Remy , you are in our thoughts and prayers. Get well soon.
I wish you critics would save your comments for another forum.
What is the line of succession for the presidency of the Nation? Has the civilian president taken over duties during his illness? Should he have to resign or be replaced for health reasons, will there be another election? I don't think the Nation can take a period of rudderless life for very long.
I too well remember growing up as a Sox fan and having to listen to the boring montone of Curt Gowdy. Almost made me a Yanks fan! Long live Jerry and Don!!
Get well soon Rem Dawg, we miss you already!!!
PS LOVED the piece in the BGlobe magazine
Its pawning off, not pawing off, Jim Garvin (comment 5). Whats it to you anyways....the man is sick, back off.
Eric...you sound like such a miserable person...You make all californians sound so ignorant....Real classy to say Jerry sucks whens hes sick....Jerry we West Coast and East coast wish you a speedy recovery....
Good for you Jacques! We all hope Rem-Dawg is not seriously ill, and it seems a little callous to read "No loss" fromr one moron!! It's fine if you don't care for his comments and/or commentary; everyone is entitled to their own opinion of Remy's broadcasting, but a comment like "No loss" is just rude and in poor taste and has no place here! He's a knowledgable broadcaster and I for one will miss him over the next few games. Jerry, I hope you're illness is not serious and you're up and running in no time! Best of health to you; and I personally love the inane banter and uncontrollable laughter (at times!!)
Ok Remy haters. My family has the direct tv baseball package so we get to watch all of the red sox games, and up until last year, some of them were broadcast from the other team's local station (ex. some of the yankees games would be on YES, lots of games on local FSN stations) instead of nesn. so i've heard lots of different analysts and they all suck compared to rem dawg, seriously. so quit your bitching because you have no idea what you're talking about!!!! get well soon remy!!!
To the poster "eric" you sir are a pathetic excuse for a human being. If you never looked back what the h*ll are you doing on this website? Glad you moved to away now if you can only find yourself a life. To the Remdawg: Get better soon! The games are not the same without you. More importantly though I wish you a speedy recovery.
To all you “Flapping Lips” concerning the banter in the booth. Get a life!!! We have two of the best baseball commentators in the Major Leagues. Those two guys know baseball AND make it FUN!!!! Get well Rem-Dawg, the REAL fans miss you.
I live in CA, so I watch all the games on MLB Extra Innings. I have been doing this for 4-5 years, and I can honestly say that Remy is one of the worst announcers in the league. You folks in Boston have nothing to compare Remy to, so how can you provide any insight?? He's awful, and NESN's coverage is also terrible. I watch the other team's feed as often as I can. Remy has become totally unbearable.
The NESN broadcast is terrible, but it's not all Remy's fault. Sure...he can't speak English and he seldom focuses on the game, but at least he played baseball at some point.
Jerry Remy= mediocre player & mediocre announcer. Nobody overrates their own quite like Bostonians.
WHETHER YOU LIKE REMY OR NOT YOU'LL LOVE HIM AFTER A FEW GAMES WITH BUCK M.
get well soon, Jerry.
We are out of town and have to watch on Extra Innings. You guys in NE who have NESN have no idea how good you have it with Orsillo and Remy. They are far superior baseball knowledge-wise to most of the broadcast teams elsewhere and always funnier and more entertaining! Martinez's alternate color guys for the Orioles can't even pronounce players' names correctly. They repeatedly say Pedrosia and Papelbomb!
Get well soon, Jerry!
A lot of well wishers in the last few comments, not. First don’t you think you could wish the man well? And secondly berate him. I’m almost positive that all of you have a remote and the ability to change the channel.
Buck Martinez......will you please SHUT UP!!!!! New Englanders know the game and we know the Red Sox. Don't tell us the obvious. If you can't have the RemDawg on, don't have anyone else. PLEASE!!!!!!
I guess its time to quit smoking, Jerry.
sad, basement-dwelling mouth-breathers have to give their idiotic opinions of how Remy does his job.
Nobody cares, geeks.....go back to your video games.
get well remdog
I'd like to give Buck a shout out. His comments are good and right on the money. And unlike Jerry, who seems easily distracted and gets off track a lot, he keeps focused on the game and players.
We miss you Jerry! Watching the game is not the same without you -not even close. We wish you a speedy recovery! Can't wait until you are back in the booth.
When ever I have to watch a game ( and I watch them all) and I don't get Jerry and Don, I get real ugly. One game I had to watch ( Yankees) the announcers were so boring I nearly died. Get well SOON Jerry. I hope everything is OK. Don, you're doing a great job but I am sure you miss your side kick. I need the team back!
Maybe we are losing to Tampa because your gone!! Get your butt back here!
Get well Rem Dawg. It's just not the same without
both of you at the helm....
Miss you Remdawg!! I have only been a fan of baseball for 2 years now (moved to CT in 2007), but I love when the games are on NESN, cuz I love listening to you and Don call the game. It would be totally boring if you just did the actual "play by play" I love the jokes, and the distractions...
You guys are great, and you are missed. Hope you get well soon!!
David-
You shouldn't use your real name when giving out info like where Remy as hospitalized. You will be found and dealt with.
Hey Dawg,
Sorry you under the weather again and i trust it is not anything serious that will keep you out of the booth with "Dandy Don in the sky blue suit".
Get well and get you duff back soon so we can enjoy all the anecdotes and see what you can do about getting Joe Castiglione a permanent partner on the radio. Be well and God bless
Dave
Jerry, you are not supposed to get sick!
Those other gentlemen cannot hold a candle to you, my ears hurt just having to listen to them! Hurry back!
Jerry Remy, we miss you and want you back in your seat.
We admire you Jerry! Get well soon.
Jill and family
Rem dawg i miss you