""It's like I've been a kid away at college and I'm coming home. I could not love this city more. I come back all the time to visit friends. I plead for Red Sox games every time we have them. It just makes me so happy to walk into Fenway and see familiar faces - the security guys, the clubbies are for the most part still there from my time - and hear 'Sweet Caroline' in the eighth inning. It brings back a flood of memories.""
""I'll think about a game in Kansas City that was a blowout, so they started talking about this praying mantis [on the field], and I'm trying to report on what this praying mantis is like with a serious face. I remember talking on the air once about how Don had the biggest hairbrush of the three of us and the least amount of hair, or when something ridiculous would happen, like someone would get a slice of pizza thrown in their face, and those guys would be laughing so hard that that they had to throw it down to me.""
Heidi Watney worked NESN's Red Sox coverage from 2008-2011. Fourteen years have passed since she reported on NESN broadcasts. She spent nine years as a host and reporter with MLB Network and has worked nearly four years as the Apple TV+ reporter for Friday Night Baseball. Watney returns to Fenway for the Red Sox opener against the Yankees and describes Fenway as feeling like coming home. She visits friends often, prioritizes Red Sox games, and delights in familiar faces, longtime staff, and hearing 'Sweet Caroline.' Watney recalls camaraderie with Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy and humorous on-air moments.
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