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Dennis Eckersley filled in for Jerry Remy last night and tonight do the color analysis for the Red Sox broadcast.

He has been one of the studio guys for the Sox for a while now but I'm not sure how long. I'd never heard him do a game before and I thought he was very good.

As I mentioned the other day a hall of famer with rings (or a ring anyway) has the credibility to say just about anything. He was more comfortable tonight so he had more to say. First, I would mention that I have never heard a color analyst who was less prepared in terms of knowing the players' back stories. There was very little effort there.

That said his baseball insight combined with his to the point manner were fantastic. Jose Molina came up in the 6th inning with a chance to knock in Nick Swisher from third base to tie the game with two outs and Eckersley commented from the mindset that Josh Beckett should have had at this point. "This guy is an out, he just needs to go take it, he is an out. If he (Molina) knocks a run in Beckett deserves to lose."

Wow.

In the top of the fifth when Joba Chamberlain hit Jason Bay with a pitch Eck said he didn't like that at all. He said that since the first he's been pitching well in the game and that he didn't suddenly lose it, he added that enough guys in the Red Sox club house don't like him and repeated that he did not like that.

All in all, pretty good stuff Eck.

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