John Sterling's Ichiro home run call

If Sterling replaced Marty in the Reds booth, he would be bound, gagged and pushed into the river before the top of the third.

 

You've really seeing it through pinstriped eyes now Manky. Detroit Tigers. The late Ernie Harwell. The next person I come across who disliked Ernie Harwell, not only as an announcer, but a human being, will be the first.

And the Reds? What Dixiehack said!

 

And how can anybody forget his call EVERY time the Yankees win.

"BALLGAME OVER! YANKEES WIN! THHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN!"

It's not funny, it's not cute, it's not iconic, it's ... shitty. Really.

 

I believe you forgot someone ...

 

His he run call for Russell Martin is equally embarrassing. "Russell shows muscle. Monsieur Martin. C'est beau (?)".

I would put the Red Sox announcers (sans Dave O'Brien) near the top of the list. You can hear the air go out of them should another team hit a home run. Should the beloved Home Towne Team lose, they don't have a
Post game show.

 

The best was when Matsui hit a home run one year.

"It's an A-Bomb!" Long, long pause. "... At least it would have been, if A-Rod hit it!"

Of all the players he could have mixed that call up on, obviously, Matsui was the worst.

 

It's always fun to do "Yankees lose . . . THEEEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES LOOOOOOOOOOOOSE" after the boys drop one on the road, and you're sitting beneath the booth housing the village idiot.

 

I think Harrelson would fit nicely into the No. 4 spot, then everyone else. Physioc is absolutely un-listenable, and Hudler is just flat-out bad. Bad, bad, bad.