Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley has been filling in for Jerry Remy in the NESN broadcast booth recently. Friday night was rough on him: during the Mets-Red Sox broadcast, he managed to commit not one, but two, off-color slip-ups.We should be able to empathize, I think. To steal a thought from Daniel Okrent in Ken Burns' Baseball, the core nuances of a baseball game are predicated upon the absence of action. There is a lot of nothing going on, and for the broadcasters, there is a lot of space to fill. After a couple of hours in the broadcast booth, I think our verbal inhibitions would begin to slip as well.
Sunday's Dugout is after the fart.
