Great News: Gammons returning to the air on 9/20

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Gammons to report from Fenway tomorrow. Glad to see him back up and at it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2594245

 

[GB-Hack]

Makes me smile. It'll get him ready for the playoff coverage.

Hopefully he'll start writing again as well. I'm sure his fingers are itchy.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Great return column by Gammons. http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/insider/columns/story?columnist=gammons_peter&id=2594637&univLogin02=stateChanged

The lede:

The first clue that my cell towers were intact came right around the trading deadline, approximately a month after my aneurysm. By that time, I had been transferred from the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston to the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and the Islands. I was perusing the morning box scores in the Cape Cod Times when I brusquely asked my nurse, "Linda, how did Austin Kearns get to the Nationals?"

 

[Oz]

You're right. Just read that column now.

"Just to be able to type Kearns' name makes me one of the luckiest people on earth."

 

[leo1]

that's terrific

 

[Guy_Incognito]

They couldn't pull THIS column from behind the Insider wall?

 

[Football_Bat]

Great news.

 

[bigpern23]

They couldn't pull THIS column from behind the Insider wall?

It is free.

 

[D-3 Fan]

I wanted to bump this up the topic board. I saw Pete on t.v. yesterday. He looks good and I'm so happy to see him back. I wonder if Fenway gave him a standing ovation or noticed he was in the house??

 

[Angola!]

They couldn't pull THIS column from behind the Insider wall?

It is free.

Well, the thank you part of it is free. The part where he starts breaking down pitchers is definitely Insider only access.

 

[indiansnetwork]

I was very happy to see Peter Gammons back on tv again. He is so intelligent about baseball and really does his homework unlike say Dan shaughnessy.

 

[D-3 Fan]

As far as I'm concerned, ESPN just got their cleanup hitter back. Tino, Krukie, and Destrates couldn't score runs with Stark, Buster, and Tim K. on base.

 

[Angola!]

I was very happy to see Peter Gammons back on tv again. He is so intelgent about baseball and really does his homework unlike say dan shaughnessy.

Wow, even auto racing fans are "intelgent", who knew?

 

[Columbo]

Gotta say, I was happily stunned at how his speech made it through this unaffected.

 

[KP]

I wanted to bump this up the topic board. I saw Pete on t.v. yesterday. He looks good and I'm so happy to see him back. I wonder if Fenway gave him a standing ovation or noticed he was in the house??

He was at the Saturday game of the Massacre part 2 (4-5 weeks or so ago?) as a guest of John Henry, got a standing ovation when they showed him on the scoreboard.