Unfortunately, no one knows. Or at least no one is saying.

NESN spokesperson Gary Roy said via e-mail this week that NESN did not have an update on Remy’s plans to return to the booth. Roy also said Joel Feld, NESN’s executive vice president of programming and executive producer, was in meetings the past two days and not available for comment. It’s rare when Feld isn’t available.

In early June, Feld said Remy hoped to be back soon. But the natural reaction to NESN’s lack of update this week is to jump to the conclusion that Remy won’t be back anytime soon.

Remy joined the NESN booth in 1988, but the heavy smoker underwent surgery for lung cancer last November and he worked his final Sox game on April 29. Remy blogged on May 6 that a “very small, low-grade cancerous area” was removed from his lung, but admitted he returned to the broadcast booth too soon and was weakened by an infection and pneumonia. He’s made no further public comment.

Nearly two dozen analysts have taken turns filling in for Remy alongside Sox play-by-play voice Don Orsillo. Dennis Eckersley has been the best of the bunch, but none has the following of Remy.

The games, not the broadcasters, are supposed to be the reason to tune in, but the entertaining Remy was different. Fans wanted to hear what he had to say. Whenever the Sox played on national television, fans missed his analysis. Now fans haven’t heard him in nearly three months.

Occasionally, you’ll see a fan in the crowd hold up a sign wishing Remy well, but NESN has not made it a standard practice to mention Remy’s absence every broadcast, choosing instead to respect either his wishes or his privacy.

As understandable as that might be, it’s still sad not to hear anything about, or from, the RemDog.