The Greg Hill Show welcomed Sean McDonough to WEEI on Monday morning. He was there to share memories of the late Jerry Remy. The two covered the Red Sox together for nine years on television.
“I have worked with hundreds of analysts in all the different sports in all these places I’ve worked – I’ve kept a list and the last I looked there have been 160 different people – and nothing felt as special as the nine years I spent with Jerry,” said McDonough. “People knew he was real.”
McDonough was asked to share his favorite memory of working with Remy. He said almost all of his favorite times with Remy came during blowouts. That, Sean McDonough said, is when Remy was willing to be silly and let his true personality shine.
He did have one specific story he liked. It involved Judith Scheindlin, better known to daytime TV fans as Judge Judy. She was at Fenway Park with her grandkids and was invited into the TV booth to promote her show.
“She wasn’t warm and friendly, but she’s Judge Judy,” Sean McDonough remembered.
After the banter, Scheinlind posed for pictures in front of a display of donuts and coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts. It would be a mundane detail if Scheindlin and her family had not taken a box or two without asking.
“So that evolved into Jerry being very funny for quite a while talking about we probably have a legal action against her because she stole the donuts out of our booth,” he remembered. “Then we kept taking shots and the kids were stuffing their face with donuts.”
Sean McDonough said that Remy was always willing to share his sense of humor. That is what won him fans not just amongst the Red Sox faithful but his colleagues as well.
Jerry Remy passed away over the weekend. He had been battling lung cancer for 13 years.
