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 	Dennis Eckersley - NESN (New England Sports Network)
Dennis Eckersley - NESN (New England Sports Network)
Dennis Eckersley serves as a Red Sox studio analyst for select Boston Red Sox games. He delivers pre-game analysis and commentary on "Olympia Sports presents The Boston Globe Pre-Game Show," NESN's one-hour pre-game show. After the game, Eckersley returns for extra analysis on the network's ...
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Dennis Eckersley hates when you call his hairstyle a mullet
Big League Stew — ... Big League Stew: So what's the biggest difference between working for a regional station like NESN and being an analyst on a national level like you are now? ...

Dennis Eckersley would prefer you lay off the mullet jokes
Red Sox Monster — If you ask me, a somewhat undercovered sideplot of the 2008 playoffs is the way Dennis Eckersley has come into his own as a TV color man. On a national stage, he has built on his experience at NESN and chipped in on TBS admirably, serving as a sarcastic voice of reason in the studio -- ...

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