Since the first one was so nice, they’ve decided to do it twice.

Then again, if the second “Evening with Joe and Jerry” precedes the same kind of Boston Red Sox season the first one did, this should become an annual gig.

The special event, held for the first time last January, is a “baseball hot stove” session of sorts where Red Sox radio announcers Jerry Trupiano and Joe Castiglione talk about the World Series champion Red Sox, offer anecdotes, answer questions from fans and meet with attendees afterward.

“We’re going to have some sort of warm-up act that will be determined,” said WZON program director and broadcaster Dale Duff. “I don’t know if it will be a comedian or what, but there will be some kind of a lead-in with them as the star attraction.”

The Red Sox radio crew will be back in Bangor Monday, Jan. 24, once again at the Bangor Civic Center.

Bangor all-sports radio station WZON (620 AM) is again sponsoring the event and will broadcast the session live on radio and the Internet (zoneradio.com).

The first session drew 282 fans and although there will be room for more this year, there will still be a limited number of tickets available for the encore event, which will start at 7 p.m.

Both Trupiano and Castiglione, who have called Red Sox action on the radio for the last 12 seasons together, have remarked on the air and in print interviews how much they enjoyed last January’s event and how neither of them had ever participated in anything like it before.

“They actually did talk about it a half dozen times over the course of the season during Red Sox broadcasts,” said Duff. “I must say, when they said they’d never done anything like this, I was surprised. I just assumed other stations had done things like this before. There’s no question that in this area and most of Maine, the Red Sox are a radio team.”

Duff said an auction or silent raffle to benefit the Jimmy Fund will also likely be held at or before the event.

Rice, Ryan, Red Sox on Retro

Give the folks at New England Sports Network credit. They know how to stay on a winning horse and keep riding it, especially if that horse’s colors are navy blue and red.

Just a little more than a month removed from the Boston Red Sox’ World Series-clinching victory, NESN Retro – the regional cable and satellite television sports network’s weekly original program – will take a look back on the 1975 Red Sox season.

This hour-long program should be particularly intriguing to longtime Sox Fans as show host and former Portland Pirates radio voice Tom Caron will be joined by former Red Sox greats Jim Rice and Luis Tiant, as well as Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan.

The show will air Tuesday (Dec. 7) at 8 p.m. on NESN.

High definition parquet

In case you hadn’t already noticed the difference on your high definition TV set or you haven’t seen the promos airing on Fox Sports Net New England, Boston Celtics games are now being broadcast in HDTV.

HDTV is the latest advance in TV picture technology featuring a highly detailed quality with images up to six times sharper than analog TV, a wide-screen picture with a width-height ratio of 16-to-9, and more than two million pixels per picture with CD-quality Dolby Digital surround sound. Comcast cable and satellite TV subscribers with HDTV sets will now be able to see the parquet floor and hear the sneaker squeaks on it in much more detail.

Andrew Neff can be reached at 990-8205, 1-800-310-8600 or at aneff@bangordailynews.net