NESN’s Red Sox broadcast team being more streamlined would be better for fans

I know, I’m hardly alone here. Individually, both were superb analysts — two of the best I’ve ever heard, regionally, nationally, anywhere — whose rich insights on the game were enhanced when they began to reveal their humanity. The list of things worth yearning for from 2020, baseball-related or otherwise, has to be pretty short. But here’s one that rattles around in the brain of an incurably nostalgic sports-media columnist this time of year: Once Remy realized that Eckersley was a true friend and not someone trying to take his...