If you can only read two pieces on the sad death of Eddie Andelman, make is John Powers’ remembrance at the Globe and Dan Kennedy’s long-ago profile of Andelman. … Eddie was indeed amazing. As a friend put it: “Hard to overstate the man’s influence. … He was the Iggy Pop of sports radio. Funny as hell.” … 

My friend and I also reminisced about, among other things, the ticking time bomb schtick Eddie used when a caller went on too long, such as “poor Violet from Malden (Saugus?) who was always getting blown up after praising the Red Sox for ‘all the pleasure they gave us this summer.’”