

But his Hall of Fame career and success as a game commentator was a beautiful thing.įrom the Globe: What the heck is The Eck talking about? A guide to his unique vocabularyĭennis Eckersley will retire from NESN booth at season’s end That creative language and Eck’s willingness to call it like he sees it makes the news that he’s retiring from broadcasting at the end of this season tough to take. If you understand the baseball lingo “high cheese” (sometimes “easy cheese,” “educated cheese,” or “cheddar”), “can of corn,” “salad,” “some hair on it,” “moss,” “going bridge” and “pair of shoes,” then you listened to former pitcher Dennis Eckersley provide very colorful commentary on Sox NESN games.
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Hey, sport: The annoying Red Sox are back at unfriendly Fenway today for two games against the Braves, followed by a makeup game against the Orioles, and then a weekend series vs. The heat breaks tomorrow when temps dip into the high 70s and stay right around 80 the rest of the week.įrom the Globe: The past three weeks have been the warmest ever recorded in Boston Watch out for popup rainstorms with a lot of wind and maybe even some hail. What’s it like outside? If you like walking around with a sticky sheen of sweat lubricating your skin, then lucky you: The official heat wave continues for one more day today, with temps in the 90s but feeling like 100+ in some areas of metro Boston. Even though the fattening moon may interfere with the view, the best time to look for the meteor shower is before dawn look north. 11 and 12, as Earth passes through the ice and rock debris left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle.

The peak this year is Thursday and Friday, Aug. The Old Farmer’s Almanac says that August means the return of the Perseid meteor shower.
