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Boston Globe
(December 11, 2009) Forget Granderson to the Yankees or Marco Scutaro to the Red Sox. The early winner of this hot stove season has been NESN, which improved its roster with two significant transactions, adding Peter Gammons and bidding farewell to Dave Roberts.Hiring Gammons, whose 21-year run with ESPN ended, appropriately, at the conclusion of baseball’s winter meetings, is a coup of the highest order for NESN. Gammons, a Groton native who became a sportswriting icon to a generation of baseball fans while at the Globe in the ’70s and ’80s, did not try to mask the sentimental aspect of returning to the city where he made his name, particularly when discussing a fellow NESN employee whom he saw play in high school. “I saw Jerry Remy play out in Somerset in the summer of 1973,’’ Gammons said. “And I remember walking away and thinking, ‘That little guy is one heck of a ballplayer. He was just terrific.’ ’’ As for Roberts, after one season as an in-studio and color analyst, he departed to join new general manager Jed Hoyer’s staff as a special assistant to baseball operations with his hometown San Diego Padres. It should not have been difficult to give Roberts the benefit of the doubt during his season with NESN. The camera caught his natural affability, and Remy’s early-season leave of absence while recovering from lung cancer surgery put the novice Roberts in a higher-profile role than he was prepared for. But it was difficult. Roberts was almost too friendly, to the point where he was either reluctant to or incapable of criticizing players who had recently been his peers. And he maintained many of the same verbal tics at the end that he had at the beginning, such as the habit of saying “right there’’ or “great’’ when analyzing a replay. In the end, he proved how difficult the transition to television really is. _______________________
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