WARNING: This blog will discuss topics that may be NSFW. Reader’s discretion advised.
Earlier last week July 7 marked 10 years since this moment in Red Sox history…
Don Orsillo, together with Jerry Remy, was just magical. I grew up listening to these two commentating Red Sox games, tuning into nearly every game before I had to go to bed. I even remember one year in summer camp where we had a TV and would just watch the Sox games at night, including a moment when Tony Graffanino hit a towering homer over the Green Monster (it’s crazy how long ago that was).
Don and Jerry had a special chemistry that a lot of Sox fans cling onto. The two just teed off each other so well and there would always be a chance where the two would share a moment that had everyone watching (as well as themselves) in stitches from laughing so hard. It was a shame that Don was let go after the 2015 season in questionable fashion, because it meant breaking up a bond that every Sox fan shared (no disrespect to Dave O’Brien, by the way, who has done very well as the play-by-play since he came in and has gotten better and better).
So let’s use this anniversary to talk about the best moments of Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy’s time together in the NESN booth. I won’t be talking about them all that much, instead providing a short blurb because I’ll let the clips speak for themselves.
Note: I will not be discussing the moment I showed above, because I think that one just speaks for itself. Best Don and Jerry moment, period.
Don opens a window and Jerry isn’t happy
Let’s start off light with a moment from near the end of the tandem. The fact that they might have some small squabble but then laugh about it uncontrollably after is part of why every Sox fan loved these two together. Breaking down every moment while still laughing is just icing on the cake.
Don and Jerry on the holiday season
They can talk about anything, including kicking people out after enough time’s passed for holiday gatherings. That’s normal, right?
Jerry won’t save Don if he isn’t breathing
Sometimes Don and Jerry will get caught off guard with something that has one or both of them incapacitated, and this is another fine example. If Don ever needed mouth-to-mouth, Jerry wouldn’t hesitate to save him, just not actually giving mouth-to-mouth, and he’d rather delegate it to someone else. Pretty reasonable to draw a line there, but I’m not sure if Don would make it…
Jerry’s tooth cap unexpectedly comes loose and falls out live on the air
Don, I just don’t think you’re qualified to be all happy with those tools, there bud. Him getting giddy over it, though, was priceless.
Don loves Tom Hallion’s Backwards K call
To this day, Don STILL loves Hallion’s strikeout call. This was just one of the first few documented moments of him showing his admiration.
Jerry gifts Don a lamp and starts regretting it
I remember when Jared Carrabis was saying how this was funnier than another moment that I’ll talk about later on the Section 10 Podcast, so I had to look it up. I wasn’t disappointed.
Don and Jerry attempt to imitate their own bobbleheads
I think Don needs to loosen his neck a little and he’s got it.
Jerry talks about his accent
“I said ‘Xanduh Bogahts’ and they all start laughing!” Never change, Jerry. Never change.
Julian Tavarez gets his head pet
Oh, look. It’s just Manny being Manny.
Lenny Clarke and Denis Leary raid the booth
This one isn’t so much about Don and Jerry but more of their presence and their reaction to Lenny and Denis going off. They were pretty much the NESN audience that night.
HERE COMES THE PIZZA
You knew this was coming. HERE COMES THE PIZZA!
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