The Boston Globe reported Monday that Eckersley will retire this fall in order to move back to the Bay Area to be closer to his grandchildren. It's great news for the Hall of Famer's quality of life. It's selfishly terrible for the rest of us.
-- but pointed commentary and criticism. There's a reason everyone -- and I mean everyone -- took his side vs. David Price during the whole,"Yuck!" fiasco in 2017. Eck is a treasure, and if Price wanted to make fun of his feathered hair, he'd have to come through all of us.
If Joey Votto goes 3 for 4 with a couple of bombs against the Phillies, or Carlos Rodon throws a four-hit shutout in San Francisco, you can guarantee that Eck not only knows about it, he was flipping between the two games. On the two percent chance it comes up on the broadcast, no need to start furiously Googling.
I grew up watching him and then covered him at the end of his career in 1998 as a young pony-tailed reporter. Manny Ramirez hit his final pitch over the left field fence for an ALDS-clinching home run, and Eckersley tearfully announced his retirement a couple of months later after being non-tendered at age 44. He hesitated to walk away from a game that had been the driving force in his life since age 8. He wasn't sure what he'd do next.
He remains the best in the business, but the change in the broadcast this season, with multiple analysts cycling through the booth, took a clear toll. Where Eckersley had easy chemistry with the laconic, gleefully antisocial Remy, it has occasionally sounded like a struggle to squeeze a word in alongside the loquacious Kevin Millar, for instance.
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