With the Red Sox in the playoff hunt on the eve of September, hundreds of thousands of New Englanders will be glued to their television sets over the next four weeks. They’ll see dramatic plays, hear frenzied crowds and maybe a bark or two.

Yes, television analyst Jerry Remy — the “Rem Dawg” — will be overseeing all the action of that rarest of late-summer treats, a pennant race. He likes the Sox chances of playing a bit this fall, too.

“This team is going to the playoffs,” said Remy as he prepared for this weekend’s Fenway showdown with the Yankees. “I can’t say what’s going to happen after that, but I definitely think they’re good enough to make it.”

Remy has worked more than 2,000 games over the past 16 years. Not bad for a former player who expected his broadcasting career to end quickly.

“I never thought I’d last a year,” laughed Remy. “I hated it at first because I was so bad at it.”

In the interests of full disclosure, I am not the most objective authority on Remy. I’ve been fortunate enough to work with him over the past two seasons. But with the passing of Ken Coleman last week, and Ned Martin a year before that, we were reminded that great baseball broadcasters are hard to find and sorely missed when they are gone.

Coleman and Martin were play-by-play men. Remy’s a color man; New England native who hit .275 over 10 seasons as a second baseman with the Angels and Red Sox. He’s been involved in the game his whole life and shares that lifetime’s worth of experience with the viewer every night.

He has also become one of the top analysts in the game. FOX now uses him for a handful of national broadcasts each season.

Watching and listening to Remy on a nightly basis, you’ll laugh a little, learn a little and come away from a broadcast thoroughly entertained. Check out the number of Remy signs in the stands any given night at Fenway and you’ll see just how popular he’s become with Red Sox Nation.

Better yet, check out his website, theremyreport.com. While you’re there, you can buy an autographed scorecard or T-shirt (with proceeds going to the Jimmy Fund), or rant and rave following each Sox game in the chat room. Sox owners John Henry and Tom Werner as well as actor Ben Affleck have been known to frequent the site.

“When I started to do this, I didn’t know what to expect,” said Remy. “It’s just crazy. You never know who’s on the site. Someone just told me it’s the second largest baseball site going.”

This is one of the most popular Sox teams in years, and Remy’s popularity has never been greater. Next weekend, he’ll return home from Yankee Stadium to host the “Rem Dawg Green Monster Tailgate Party” before the historic Bruce Springsteen concert at Fenway. Some 250 to 300 people will be on hand to eat lobster and steak before seeing the Boss play the Fens.

The next day, Remy will be back at his post at Yankee Stadium as the Sox get ready for their final meeting of the year with New York.

He won’t miss another game the rest of the way, and few Sox fans will miss what he has to say. In the off-season, Remy will stay busy working on a book offering fans an insight into what he looks for in a game and how to pick up on many of the little things that fans don’t see.

“This won’t be a kiss-and-tell book,” deadpanned Remy. “That one won’t come out until my last season.”

Sox fans are hoping that season is still a long, long way off.

Lewiston native Tom Caron covers the Red Sox for NESN.