SuzynWaldman/ John Sterling Support Group.

There's nothing better than Mike and the Dog critiquing Sterling's calls after a big game.

 

Mikee and Doggy critiquing any radio broadcaster is hilarious, in and of itself.

 

Love Charley Steiner. What is he doing now? Is he with YES?

To threadjack:
Has anyone been watching the Pirates on Fox Sports Pittsburgh?
When they won the other night (against the Astros) Greg Brown didn't utter his (crappy) catch phrase: "There was Nooooooo doubt about it."
I always hated that phrase. Especially since the Pirates have sucked for so long. I never thought it fit with a lot of Pirate wins.
Maybe he - or one of his bosses - finally wised up.

I think he did say "Raise the Jolly Roger." though. And that's still better than the other one.

 

Damn, I'm sorry he didn't get the chance to call, um, provide silence, when Bobby Jenks blew the game in the 9th

 

This is revisionist history. Steiner may well be all of the things you say he is - great guy, a real pro etc. But if he knows anything about baseball, he kept it hidden during his Yankee tenure. He was absolutely brutal. Waldman seems insightful in comparison.

 

"Noooo doubt about it" is the catch phrase of the other Pirates play-by-play man, Lanny Frattare, who was doing radio for that particular game.

 

You are right. I stand corrected.

I still the phrase is stupid regardless of who said it.

 

He's doing Dodger games on radio and TV, whichever one Scully isn't doing.

 

One of Sterling's best calls is A-Rod's grand slam the other day.... he didn't do his :"It is high it is far....." bullshit because old John didn't see where the ball was going.
While the ball was bouncing in the blacked out seats in dead center field, Sterling, whose eyesight is failing badly by the way, was saying it's going to be over the center fielder's head.

Hilarious!

 

That's like Pol Pot criticizing Stalin's prisons

 

Has anyone lately checked to see if Denny is alive? Guy sounds like he's broadcasting a game of tiddlywinks. I don't want my announcers all-excited, all-the-time, but Denny and his buddy Ryan redefine the term 'dull.'

 

Boomer, great thread.

As a lifelong Yankee fan, I simply cannot listen to those two anymore. It's not the home run calls, or the THUUUUUUH YANKEES WIN stuff... it's the unrelenting idiocy that permeates the entirety of the broadcast.

Sterling: "Blah blah blah blah strike one blah blah blah blah some other retreaded catchphrase that I've been blathering about for years blah blah blah blah Suzyn can you read the the scores now blah blah blah."