Mike
01-25-03, 09:15 AM
Remy gets the call for 4 more years
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/025/sports/Remy_gets_the_call_for_4_more_years+.shtml
By Bill Griffith, Globe Staff, 1/25/2003
Attention, poster-board artists of Red Sox Nation. It's OK to resume working on your Jerry Remy signs.
The Sox analyst has signed on for the full ride - all games on NESN and channels 4 and 38 - for the next four seasons. He'll be alongside Don Orsillo on NESN and Sean McDonough on 4 and 38.
''This is the best contract I've had since I've been in the business,'' said Remy yesterday after signing the deal at the NESN offices. This season will be his 16th in the booth. He started out working with Ned Martin and since has been seated alongside McDonough, Bob Kurtz, and Orsillo. Besides NESN and Channel 38, Remy has been seen on channels 25, 56, and 68.
''There is a provision to take a few games off if I want to,'' said Remy. However, the opposite is more likely to happen. Remy is likely to again work national Sox telecasts on Fox, based on his work for the network the past two seasons.
''[Fox] treated me very well, and it was nice to get a follow-up call from [Fox producer] Mike Weisman after I worked the Dodgers-Sox game in Los Angeles.''
Remy and play-by-play man Orsillo basically negotiated their own deals. Orsillo signed a two-year deal in early December but NESN officials wanted to wait until Remy was in the fold before acknowledging the signings.
''I can't say enough about how well the process went,'' said Remy. ''[NESN general manager] Sean McGrail and [Sox chairman] Tom Werner were professional and respectful throughout. It was nice to go through the entire experience, then shake hands and remain friends at the end.''
Remy is now off to Aruba for a few weeks before he heads to spring training and 11 spring telecasts, three on NESN and eight on Channel 38.
It's the first multiyear deal for Orsillo, who worked his way through the minors on a series of 10 one-year deals and worked on one-year contracts his first two years with the Sox.
''I'm very happy with the contract and the faith the new ownership, Sean McGrail, and [NESN vice president of programming] Rick Abbott showed in me,'' he said. ''Doing 125 games will be a bit of a throwback. I was used to doing 144 in the minors, and it only has been an 86-game schedule the last two years.''
Orsillo wouldn't change anything about his long road to Fenway. ''Believe me, I know what the young players have been through when they make it to the majors,'' he said. ''When you do come up - either as a player or broadcaster - you need a veteran to show some leadership. For me, that guy was Jerry.''
Besides negotiating, Remy has been busy writing a book (''It's not a kiss-and-tell book. It's going to be more along the lines of how to watch a game the way an analyst does.'') and launching a Web site, www.TheRemyReport.com.
''I consider myself a very lucky guy,'' said Remy. ''It's fun to go to work every day.''
The Sox' eight-station Spanish Broadcast Network has agreed on a two-year deal with WROL (950 AM) to serve as its flagship.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/025/sports/Remy_gets_the_call_for_4_more_years+.shtml
By Bill Griffith, Globe Staff, 1/25/2003
Attention, poster-board artists of Red Sox Nation. It's OK to resume working on your Jerry Remy signs.
The Sox analyst has signed on for the full ride - all games on NESN and channels 4 and 38 - for the next four seasons. He'll be alongside Don Orsillo on NESN and Sean McDonough on 4 and 38.
''This is the best contract I've had since I've been in the business,'' said Remy yesterday after signing the deal at the NESN offices. This season will be his 16th in the booth. He started out working with Ned Martin and since has been seated alongside McDonough, Bob Kurtz, and Orsillo. Besides NESN and Channel 38, Remy has been seen on channels 25, 56, and 68.
''There is a provision to take a few games off if I want to,'' said Remy. However, the opposite is more likely to happen. Remy is likely to again work national Sox telecasts on Fox, based on his work for the network the past two seasons.
''[Fox] treated me very well, and it was nice to get a follow-up call from [Fox producer] Mike Weisman after I worked the Dodgers-Sox game in Los Angeles.''
Remy and play-by-play man Orsillo basically negotiated their own deals. Orsillo signed a two-year deal in early December but NESN officials wanted to wait until Remy was in the fold before acknowledging the signings.
''I can't say enough about how well the process went,'' said Remy. ''[NESN general manager] Sean McGrail and [Sox chairman] Tom Werner were professional and respectful throughout. It was nice to go through the entire experience, then shake hands and remain friends at the end.''
Remy is now off to Aruba for a few weeks before he heads to spring training and 11 spring telecasts, three on NESN and eight on Channel 38.
It's the first multiyear deal for Orsillo, who worked his way through the minors on a series of 10 one-year deals and worked on one-year contracts his first two years with the Sox.
''I'm very happy with the contract and the faith the new ownership, Sean McGrail, and [NESN vice president of programming] Rick Abbott showed in me,'' he said. ''Doing 125 games will be a bit of a throwback. I was used to doing 144 in the minors, and it only has been an 86-game schedule the last two years.''
Orsillo wouldn't change anything about his long road to Fenway. ''Believe me, I know what the young players have been through when they make it to the majors,'' he said. ''When you do come up - either as a player or broadcaster - you need a veteran to show some leadership. For me, that guy was Jerry.''
Besides negotiating, Remy has been busy writing a book (''It's not a kiss-and-tell book. It's going to be more along the lines of how to watch a game the way an analyst does.'') and launching a Web site, www.TheRemyReport.com.
''I consider myself a very lucky guy,'' said Remy. ''It's fun to go to work every day.''
The Sox' eight-station Spanish Broadcast Network has agreed on a two-year deal with WROL (950 AM) to serve as its flagship.