We lost the best baseball broadcaster the world has ever seen this week. Ernie Harwell died of cancer. In an unusualy thoughtful speech our senator summed up his greatness

While not overly familair with him other than name, I feel for you.

I think the same will be said about Remy at some (very hopefully distant) point here in New England.

I've always thought, though hockey announcers have an obviously difficult and fast paced challenge, a baseball announcer has to make an admittedly slow paced sport sound interesting.

Not an easy job, and especially not an easy job over decades, as Ernie Harwell did.

he aint no Bob Uecker.