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Post by MSBNYY on May 4, 2009 12:57:26 GMT -5
I will! HA!
The guy absolutely sucks. It's absolutely abhorrent that a booth once occupied by the likes of Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto, Bill White, and Frank Messer, is now used by pissants like John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman.
It's like going from Lou Gehrig to Steve Balboni.
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Post by sean on May 4, 2009 13:52:32 GMT -5
I was a big fan of Charlie Steiner. He could have been the voice of the team for decades
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 4, 2009 13:54:29 GMT -5
Sterling ran him out of town, and that is not a joke.
When they announced Steiner was coming to town, I threw a party. I was absolutely thrilled, as I would spend Sunday nights listening to the night games on the radio cause he was doing them.
But Sterling despised the man, and wanted him gone. And poof - he was gone.
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Post by Chris on May 4, 2009 13:57:05 GMT -5
Charlie Steiner was good...and his biggest value was keeping Sterlings' bombast in check.
Now that he has carte blanche to do whatever he wants with Waldman serving, basically, as his Robin Quivers, he's a clown.
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Post by 9 on May 4, 2009 13:58:46 GMT -5
I agree on Steiner: I always liked him, I was very happy about him coming to town and I was irate when he left.
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Post by Chris on May 4, 2009 14:06:19 GMT -5
Sucks for Charlie Steiner, because now he has to deal with two COMPLETE tools in the form of Rick Monday and Steve "Psycho" Lyons.
Rick Monday says, although innocently enough, some of the dumbest baseball takes I've ever heard.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 4, 2009 14:09:46 GMT -5
Hey, cut the man some slack, he saved the flag from being burned by those hippies.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 4, 2009 14:12:36 GMT -5
But Lyons pulled his pants down in the middle of a game at 1st base.
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Post by Chris on May 4, 2009 14:22:00 GMT -5
You don't have to be articulate and bright to be Patriotic, Tom.
Rick Monday is a dim bulb on the radio.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 7, 2009 22:38:37 GMT -5
Great to hear David Cone tonight now knowing what team Randy Johnson is on. Had him as a Diamonback still, till someone buzzed his headphones and had him make the correction. Would be nice if our announcers watched and paid attention to baseball.
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Post by Chris on May 8, 2009 0:27:24 GMT -5
I don't think YES has the crack research team that Vin Scully has.....like, Cone would never know that Will Ohman has 9000 or some ridiculous number of songs on his iPod.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 8, 2009 6:03:37 GMT -5
David Cone not knowing what team Randy Johnson is on is not the worst thing I've heard from that booth.
The other day, Michael Kay actually said that with the exception of the final game of last season, Derek Jeter, in his entire career, never knew for a fact that the last game he was playing, would be the last game of his season. He even went as far as saying he never played in a Game 7 of a World Series.
Look, I want to forget 2001 too, but it did happen.
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Post by CBC Guy on May 8, 2009 7:13:02 GMT -5
Jesus Balls...thats crazy. I listen to the games I can't watch up here on my XM and Sterling...well he just strikes me asa clown.
When he does his over the top calls....I wonder....what's the market for this? Who is he appealing to?
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 8, 2009 7:24:17 GMT -5
Ah, I had forgotten about this gem, from Waldman while she was reading through the scores a couple of weeks ago. She mentioned Max Scherzer on the hill for the DBacks, and stopped for a second, and then goes, "ah, I remember where I know him from....he was pitching against Melancon in college."
Eh...he was in the majors last year. You said his name a bunch of times before reading those same scores. I understand not knowing every nickel and dime that picks up a bat and ball in the majors, but how can a professional MLB broadcaster not realize who Max Scherzer is?
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Post by MSBNYY on May 8, 2009 7:36:12 GMT -5
You sure Waldman was talking about last year? Both Melancon and Scherzer were drafted in 2006, and they did go to college at the same time. One played for Missouri (Scherzer), and the other for Arizona (Melancon).
It's very possible they competed against each other.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 8, 2009 7:40:19 GMT -5
Balls, my point is not that they never competed against one another. THEY DID. My point is that was obviously the ONLY way she remembered his name. As she read it on air, she was trying to figure out why it was familiar to her.
She SHOULD have remembered his name as someone who was in the majors last year, and has been a hot prospect since the beginning. Even his initial callup was "baseball news." She should keep up on "baseball news."
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Post by MSBNYY on May 8, 2009 8:01:37 GMT -5
I get what you're saying now. As in, "why the hell did she have to go that far back when the guy was a MLB player?"
I don't get how the Yankees still employ either of these people.
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Post by CBC Guy on May 20, 2009 7:38:54 GMT -5
Because of my start time at work, I often have to record the games on my XM and then listen to them on the way in to work. So I often have to listen to these two fuckos.
Last nights game...Sterling called Swisher....."Steve Swisher".
and the other day after saying Damon leads the team in HR with 10....ten minutes later he said Tex was leading the team with 9 HR.
And that fucking "Text message....your on the mark" call when he hits a HR...Might be the most annoying, awkward, stupid call in baseball.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 11:32:58 GMT -5
And let's not forget his latest contribution....The Cisco Kid (aka Francisco Cervelli)
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Post by MSBNYY on May 20, 2009 12:34:39 GMT -5
I'm half tempted to get a Fire Sterling petition going. The big reason not to do it is because it would be a fruitless gesture. It's utterly awful.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 12:40:52 GMT -5
They've already done it in Chicago for Hawk.
As a matter of fact, as much as I loathe Sterling, no one needs to be OFF the air more than Hawk.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 12:42:30 GMT -5
I think with the right partner, Sterling would be tolerable.
Kay and Steiner held his bombast in check. With Waldman, it sounds like a Will Ferrell Harry Caray SNL skit.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 20, 2009 12:52:14 GMT -5
But this is the NEW YORK YANKEES. They shouldn't deal with an announcer that needs to be tolerable. They should have a great announcer calling the plays. They had Mel Allen for cryin' out loud. The voice of the Yankees should not be some jerkoff that cares more about his ego and self promotion than the team or calling the game.
I grew up with Rizzuto/White/Messer. THAT was a tandem.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 13:01:15 GMT -5
Clearly someone thinks Sterling IS great (hard as that may be to believe.)
And clearly Suzy has naked pictures of Steinbrenner or some damning piece of information.
She is just SHITTY at her craft.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 20, 2009 13:04:05 GMT -5
I think if you took a demographic of people who like Sterling, most of them would be under the age of 30. They never HAD good announcers and don't know what they missed. I was talking with Domi about it last night. He was born in 1981. That means when Bill White called his last game, Domi was just 7 years old. And Messer I think was done in the booth by 1983.
It is a total disgrace that Sterling is still in the booth. You need a hometown guy in the booth.
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Post by jwmcc on May 20, 2009 13:27:25 GMT -5
"You need a hometown guy in the booth"
what does that mean? If you do that you're mpre likely to have a bigger hotdog/homer in the booth. Jw
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Post by 9 on May 20, 2009 14:30:56 GMT -5
Sterling has always been irritating, but lately, he's flat-out getting things wrong. It's inexcusable.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 14:32:26 GMT -5
I don't think anyone minded Rizzuto being a "hot dog" or a homer in the booth.
I think that it's the fact that Sterling is pompous that is so bothersome. Rizzuto was about as far from Pompous as you could possibly be.
And also, I think the silliness, the funny little catch phrases used by people like Rizzuto and Jerry Coleman come naturally...they are/were from an era where phrases like "Holy Cow" and "Oh Doctor" and "Gee Wiz" were part of the regular vernacular.
With Sterling, all of this fucking moronic puns and metaphors come off as rehearsed and deliberate, as opposed to spontaneous joy or excitement. He's a fucking pompous douche, and his double breasted suits and fucking ascots don't do anything to endear him to the "Regular Joe" sports fan.
I think that the Yankees think he's "classy" when really he's just a tool.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 20, 2009 14:51:47 GMT -5
You need a hometown guy in the booth
Um, I was always under the impression he was from around here. Jersey product, I think. He was doing sports radio in New York in the early 70s, for crying out loud. He did hockey, basketball, and sports talk for decades out here before he got the Yankee job. He even hosted a show alongside Mel Allen, and called games for my Islanders.
So that is not our problem here.
When Sterling is not acting like he is on the stage, he is fine. Years ago, around the time he worked with Kay and before, I actually liked him. And this year i have already listened to a ton more Yankees on the radio than in years prior, and I have not minded him nearly as much as I thought I would.
He has a good rep outside of NY. While its not a locksolid source, a well-respected book rating baseball announcers out there had him around #55, which was well higher than Frank Messer, who no one outside of hardcore Yankee fans remember or give a crap about.
Its all for moot - word is he pretty much has a contract for life around here, as the Steinbrenner family and others upstairs love him, and he is, quite frankly, the voice of the team.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 20, 2009 15:17:27 GMT -5
If you think Sterling is a hometown guy, you probably aren't getting what I mean by a hometown guy. Sterling gets just as excited when the other team makes a great play or hits a homerun as he does when the Yankees do.
That is not right.
If he has such a good rep outside of NY, let him go to some other team dumb enough to hire him.
If he is the voice of the team, the team should shut the fuck up.
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