Famed Yankees broadcaster leaves fans baffled over Stanton home run call

"I am Enzo! The Third Baseman!"

John Sterling is an ass. He's William Shatner and big fat Elvis, doing a bad impression of himself now. He's taking a lot of flack over this call, online and the radio. He just needs to stop, it was bad enough when he just sounded like Mr. Magoo when someone hit a home run.


In far more important baseball news to me... another part of my childhood lost. Rusty's gone. That news actually upset me this morning.

I don't know who he is and I damn sure don't follow American League baseball (You field? Then, you bat, pansy.)

I just thought it was a funny story.

I'm not a Yankee's fan, but as a baseball fan I listen to the games... as much as I can stand anyway, which at times isn't much because of him. Eventually he will be fondly remembered as a baseball broadcasting icon, like so many before him that were awful, but for some reason put of a pedestal.

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Originally posted by cas:Eventually he will be fondly remembered as a baseball broadcasting icon...

Nobody outside of the NYC area codes thinks of him as an icon, if anything, he's the donkey broadcaster of the Yankees. Like Berman and his idiotic nicknames or, the bafoon uncle at dinner pontificating about life, he believes his little lyrical twist to home run calls are cute and entertaining, when in-fact they expose him for the moron that he is. As much as the Steinbrenner's insist on professionalism and appearances, it's remarkable that Sterling has been kept around so long.

I don't think most people in NYC like it either.
But that's normal in baseball.
One that always comes to mind was the "beloved" Ron Santo... awful awful.