It is high! It is far! It is...

Read the first two grafs and turned away...

I remember when Ernie Harwell was eased -- OK shoved -- out in the waning days of the Monaghan regime. One of the WJR sports guys -- and not Frank Beckmann -- would complain that Harwelll couldnt see the ball either. A long fly ball was a popup, a popup was a homer.
"He's still got the pipes," compained the uptight broadcaster, "but he just can;t see the ball any more."
Harwell retired 10 years later, legend intact. And ego is one thing that Harwell doesn't have.
I'd listen to Harwell now in his 90s and cant see than Sterling in his 70s and cant see.

 

he stood like a house on the side of the road and watched it go by.

 

. . . making him a perfect Yankee employee . . .

 

Check that ...

My fave Harwell line: "He's out for excessive window shopping."

 

He is the real life Ted Knight. I've listened to him for all of his 21 years doing the Yankees and there was a time when he was not such a pompous jackass. It seems like only the last 5 or 6 years that he added too much to his act such as the personalized HR calls ( abomb for a rod) . Suzyn Waldman does not help. His best years were with Michael Kay.

 

Love it.

I so badly want to approach him and ask him to do "Dominique... Mag-ni-FIQUE!"

 

Does anyone here know ANYONE
who goes out of their way to listen to Yanqui games on the
wireless because Mr. Self-Reverential Douchebag is
doing the game?

 

Depends what the mix is on TV, even on YES. But if it's a choice between a sometimes annoying local announcer who handles the coverage every day and listening to Fox or ESPN announcers who are unfamiliar with the team and repeat anecdotes I've already heard/read during the week, you bet your ass I'm picking Sterling, warts and all.

My philosophy on broadcasters is:

1.) I don't consider them journalists, so I don't set the bar very high for them informing me. There is no real harm if, for four seconds, I am misled into believing someone has hit a home run. I've also been known to misjudge whether a ball is going out when observing with my own eyes, much closer to the action than the broadcast booth.

2.) They are not the perfectly grilled steak, they are the undercooked baked potato. I'm not going to judge the overall experience on whether I enjoy the announcers, even on radio. Baseball is still the entree and I won't let any announcer ruin it for me.

3.) I don't think most of us have a huge frame of reference with broadcasters around the country, at least not on an everyday basis. I've lived/worked in four MLB markets and found most of them annoying, at least sometimes, when I listen to them enough.

 

It's gross he calls a Nick Swisher home run "Swishalicious."

 

That's probably the worst one.

One more reason to hate the Yankees: Their assclown announcers.

 

With the advent of XM and the ability to hear all every MLB game you realize even further how bad Sterling and Waldman are.

I love listening to Uek do a game by himself. It's clean broadcast without the extra white noise of color person adding useless anecdotes. Waldman delivers one useless story after another.