January 27, 2014

Remy Will Return To NESN Booth

Jerry Remy announced today that he will return to NESN and work alongside Don Orsillo in 2014.

Remy left the booth in mid-August last year after his son was arrested for murder. The trial is not scheduled to begin until October. Remy made a lengthy statement before taking several questions. WEEI has posted the statement and the Q&A.
People have told me in time that things get better. Time has not gotten things better. I still feel the same way today as I felt on the night of August 15. ...

Once the World Series was over, the trickle-down effect of this tragedy was even more than I could imagine — how it affected not only the Martel family, obviously, but also how it affected our family. I just fell into a thing where every day, something was popping up that was worse than the day before. At that particular time, I was giving no thought at all to whether I was going to be back doing this, not doing it, didn't care. ...

Right around the turn of the year, after a miserable holiday season, that baseball clock clicks in a little bit, and people reminded me — my inner circle of friends and my wife — about my career and where it came from and where it is. ... Some of these things started to resonate a little bit with me. ...

I must say that I hope in no way that my decision to come back to do games has a negative impact on the Martel family. I'm quite certain they'll understand that we have to make a living. Unfortunately, mine is in the public eye. I think they'll understand that. ...

I just want to be super sensitive to the Martel family with all of this because we do feel horrible for them. We just can't imagine what it's like, waking up every morning and not being able to be with your daughter who is a very, very special person.

4 comments:

laura k said...

We were just talking about Remy today. I hope that going back to work helps him, eventually.

johngoldfine said...

There is bound to be a little cognitive dissonance in the audience when he treats some subject light-heartedly, but to be condemned to eternal public penance for his son's alleged actions is not fair to him.

laura k said...

Very true, John. I hope most people will be rational, if not compassionate.

gojohn said...

I think most will be rational. Hoping fans are smart enough to separate Remy from his son. Sports talk was all in favor of Remy's return.