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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 15:28:34 GMT -5
I agree that Sterling SUCKS. I agree in wishing he were NOT the voice of the Yankees. I think he's way too pompous and doesn't, at all, exude any kind of "sports fan" persona whatsoever. He seems to me like he should be hosting some stupid assed Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous type show.
But what I DO NOT agree with is this...
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.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 20, 2009 15:34:19 GMT -5
Sterling gets just as excited when the other team makes a great play or hits a homerun as he does when the Yankees do. LOL!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL!!! Are you kidding me? ? Wow. Just wow. I guess you are going by what you THINK, and not what you hear. How much of the Yankee "radio crew" do you hear anyway? You are talking out of your ass again. Sterling is one of THE biggest homers in sports HISTORY. And it goes beyond his "excitement." I have talked on her about how the Yankees do NO wrong, he explains away everything, whines about the umps treatment of the team, complains about other teams and fans.... Wow, just wow. You lost all credibility with that argument.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 15:37:04 GMT -5
Sterling is a homer.
But again, I have actually always found it quite credible that YES quite often gives player of the game awards to non-Yankees.
There are other teams that NEVER do that. The Angels, especially the radio team, ALWAY provide the award to an Angel. It could be a 15 nothing romp and Chone Figgins might get Player Of The Game for drawing a walk.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 20, 2009 15:38:32 GMT -5
YES puts it up for a vote, by the fans. And Sterling has nothing to do with YES, aside from Yankeeography and such.
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Post by IronHorse4 on May 20, 2009 15:52:58 GMT -5
Moskowitz is certainly a company shill, as it were, but he calls a home run for the other team with just about the same enthusiasm as when a Yankee does it. And I'm not sure how I feel about it, to be honest. But that's not what bothers me. The rehearsed calls, like Cho mentioned, are awful. It's weird, because it doesn't seem as bad when a guy like Mike Lange in Pittsburgh throws out one of his catch phrases after the Pens score.
I, too, think Hawk Harrleson is worse, though he is thankfully kept in check now that Stoney is back on TV doing Sox games. Hawk and Darrin Jackson together made you want to lose your lunch before you ate it.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 15:56:48 GMT -5
I was not implying Sterling has anything to do with YES. I was just saying that I always found it nice that YES is willing to acknowledge players from other teams.
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2009 16:34:19 GMT -5
Oh my God, I forgot about Darin Jackson.....BRUTAL as well....could be the worst tandem in the game, no?
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Post by CBC Guy on May 21, 2009 6:12:07 GMT -5
Cho hit the nail on the head. these rehearsed calls are just "terriawful" (I think that one was Shaq's) . last night after Swisher's HR he used "swish-alicous"... I mean please.....really.
Just f'ing lame.
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Post by 4dogg on May 21, 2009 6:20:46 GMT -5
they used to use that call in chicago
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Post by IronHorse4 on May 21, 2009 7:48:01 GMT -5
They called him Swishalicious in Oakland, too.
I was driving to work when I heard Sterling make that call, and I almost drove into a light pole. Intentionally.
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Post by Jason Giambi on May 21, 2009 8:12:45 GMT -5
I'd rather listen to Marlee Matlin do the Yankee games.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 21, 2009 10:12:58 GMT -5
Sterling is not a homer. Sterling is a Sterlinger. That's all he cares about. Listening to his calls makes me absolutely sick.
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Post by Chris on May 21, 2009 12:29:37 GMT -5
I will say, the Joe Dirt commercials they used to run on local TV in Oakland for Swisher were hilarious.
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Post by CBC Guy on Jun 3, 2009 7:54:33 GMT -5
A quote from last nights game (made right after Posada threw that ball into centre field)
" I don't know what this means but the Yankees came into this game with one more error ahead of the Twins for the lead in least errors"
what? I rewound it and played it twice to make sure I got it right.
That is one convoluted sentence.
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Post by 9 on Jun 3, 2009 14:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 15, 2009 7:30:11 GMT -5
This link is very funny: mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?affiliateId=facebook_share&content_id=5026043Here, you have all 4 calls of the Castillo pop up drop. I know this may come as a shock, but Sterling's call was by far the worst. He was literally dumbfounded. What was surprising was that Michael Kay actually did a great job. The SNY announcers actually made a good call too, if you are a Yankees fan. I thought they were a little too excited, and if I were retarded and therefore liked the Mets, I would have been even more pissed. But then again, it's hard to contain yourself with such an odd ending. Sterling though, was horrible.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 17, 2010 9:54:38 GMT -5
More Yankee announce-team fun....
Yankees broadcaster used radio show to get girlfriend
Listeners of Michael Kay’s ESPN afternoon-drive radio show may not know it, but the beautiful girlfriend he sometimes talks about is News 12 Long Island anchor Jodi Applegate. The couple have been dating for a little over a year now, and Applegate tells Gatecrasher that they met after Kay, the TV voice of the Yankees on the Yes Network, spied her from afar at the 2009 Emmy Awards. The next day, he waxed romantic about the former “Good Day New York” anchor at length on his ESPN show, telling the audience that Applegate was his idea of the “perfect woman” - “so perfect” that he couldn’t bring himself to talk to her. When Applegate heard about Kay’s on-air mash-o-logue, she says her response was, “Michael who?” But she ended up calling Kay’s producer and, without letting the sportscaster in on the goof, phoned in to his show the next day as “Jodi from Long Island.” Their call went on for 12 minutes, and when Kay realized he was talking to his idea of the perfect woman, “he began asking me out on the air,” Applegate says. The News 12 anchor turned him down because she was seeing someone at the time, but when she found herself unattached a few months later, she e-mailed Kay. After a first date at Pomodoro restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen, “we’ve been together ever since,” she says. They even attended this year’s Emmys together. — NY Daily News
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Post by joetee316 on Jun 17, 2010 16:28:40 GMT -5
More Yankee announce-team fun.... Yankees broadcaster used radio show to get girlfriendListeners of Michael Kay’s ESPN afternoon-drive radio show may not know it, but the beautiful girlfriend he sometimes talks about is News 12 Long Island anchor Jodi Applegate. The couple have been dating for a little over a year now, and Applegate tells Gatecrasher that they met after Kay, the TV voice of the Yankees on the Yes Network, spied her from afar at the 2009 Emmy Awards. The next day, he waxed romantic about the former “Good Day New York” anchor at length on his ESPN show, telling the audience that Applegate was his idea of the “perfect woman” - “so perfect” that he couldn’t bring himself to talk to her. When Applegate heard about Kay’s on-air mash-o-logue, she says her response was, “Michael who?” But she ended up calling Kay’s producer and, without letting the sportscaster in on the goof, phoned in to his show the next day as “Jodi from Long Island.” Their call went on for 12 minutes, and when Kay realized he was talking to his idea of the perfect woman, “he began asking me out on the air,” Applegate says. The News 12 anchor turned him down because she was seeing someone at the time, but when she found herself unattached a few months later, she e-mailed Kay. After a first date at Pomodoro restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen, “we’ve been together ever since,” she says. They even attended this year’s Emmys together. — NY Daily News Because I was curious....
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 18, 2010 5:59:21 GMT -5
Since I woke up with Good Day NY for a long time, I was well familiar with Jodi Applegate. What's interesting is that she's no relation to Christina Applegate, and she looks like her.
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Post by Chris on Jul 6, 2010 10:59:40 GMT -5
I twitted this yesterday.
For a long time I've despised John Sterling. I've used terms like "over the top", "bombastic", "pompous", etc... but I could never quite articulate that exact reason why he is so annoying to me.
I've toyed with the idea of calling him feminine, but that just didn't quite do it just. It's not as if he's Liberace or something.
But here it is...it's the constant references to show tunes and Broadway (not that there's anything wrong with those things..they just don't mix with baseball talk ... and BTW, Waldman's theatrical background only encourages Sterling in this way), it's the overly silly and yes BOMBASTIC home run calls which are absolutely ridiculous...it's the double-breasted suits and the handkerchief in the pocket, it's the hyper-emotional calls on mundane plays ... I know I'm being superficial here, but it's the whole package that makes Sterling what he is, not just one thing.
So, my summation of Sterling is that he brings a Thurston-Howell-like femininity to the baseball broadcasting booth...where it is completely out of place.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 6, 2010 13:36:16 GMT -5
Ok, well, Sterling gets a lot of hate, but so much of it is unwarrented. My biggest problem with listening to the radio broadcasts (aside from Waldman who I can not and will not defend or warm up to) is the constant reading of ads. It just throws everthing out of wack.
On July 4th I listened to all 10 innings of the game on the radio and enjoyed it. This year I have listened to more Yankee radio than any year I can pretty much remember. I have always been fine with Sterling. Yes, his theatre references are silly (but they take up SUCH A MINISCuLE AMOUNT OF HIS TIME) and the home run calls are corny beyond belief. Yet 30 people on Facebook mimic them - with joy, not sarcasm, whenever Yankees hit home runs.
So you guys can keep complaining but if the guy lives another 20 years he will still be in that booth 20 years from now. The whole Yankee brass LOVES HIM. And im fine with that.
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Post by Chris on Jul 6, 2010 14:21:13 GMT -5
In all honesty Tom (and I don't begrudge you liking Sterling at all .. I am completely aware that love or hate for Sterling is solely a function of personal taste) I just don't understand WHY the Yankee brass love him.
He easily generates as much ire from listeners as that complete tool Hawk Harrelson. I just don't get it.
His persona reeks of a non-sports-guy. The old criticism of sports--media is "he never played the game." I don't always think it's a valid criticism - some members of the sports media are complete non-athletes, but can eloquently articulate the world of sports without coming off like total dweebs. Sterling is not one of them - John Sterling sounds like Robin Leach calling a baseball game. He just doesn't exude "sports fan" in any way whatsoever. He comes across as this arrogant, pompous blue-blood type posturing as a baseball analyst.
His act is completely hokey. At least Hawk Harrelson, who I equally despise, comes off as a "baseball guy." Sterling, like Harrelson, is a CLOWN, but without the "sports cred."
For the life of me, I just CANNOT understand how the Yankees can possibly think this guy is doing a good job.
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Post by MSBNYY on Jul 6, 2010 15:07:49 GMT -5
I think ALL the hate he gets is warranted. He's a disgusting disgrace to the booth.
He's more concerned about his own catchphrases than he is about calling the game right.
He's one of the reasons I go to so many games--so I don't have to hear his crappy calls.
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Post by Chris on Jul 6, 2010 16:21:08 GMT -5
People like to use Rizzuto's campiness as a defense for Sterling.
But the differences are huge - Rizzuto was a ballplayer, and his character was much like that of Bob Eucker or Yogi Berra - an unofficially patented unique Baseball Personality. His shtick was goofy, yes, but at then end of the day you knew he was an ex-jock and his corny dialog came from an aw-shucks-like innocence and love for the game.
That is not the case with Sterling. He is corny and campy for all the wrong reasons - to self-promote his gimmick. He's trying to become somewhat of a Michael Buffer of baseball analysts and it's just not working. He's not credible, he's not an ex-jock, and he's not a "regular Joe" sports-guy like other non-jocks such as Vin Scully, Ernie Harwell, and the like.
He is, in sum, an effeminate, prissy, cornball posing as a baseball analyst.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Jul 6, 2010 16:24:56 GMT -5
Ok, well, Sterling gets a lot of hate, but so much of it is unwarrented. My biggest problem with listening to the radio broadcasts (aside from Waldman who I can not and will not defend or warm up to) is the constant reading of ads. It just throws everthing out of wack. On July 4th I listened to all 10 innings of the game on the radio and enjoyed it. This year I have listened to more Yankee radio than any year I can pretty much remember. I have always been fine with Sterling. Yes, his theatre references are silly (but they take up SUCH A MINISCuLE AMOUNT OF HIS TIME) and the home run calls are corny beyond belief. Yet 30 people on Facebook mimic them - with joy, not sarcasm, whenever Yankees hit home runs. So you guys can keep complaining but if the guy lives another 20 years he will still be in that booth 20 years from now. The whole Yankee brass LOVES HIM. And im fine with that. You mean the "Lowes" broadcast booth, let's build something together......
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Post by Chris on Jul 6, 2010 16:48:35 GMT -5
The Daily News 5th....w/Mark Feinsand
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Post by Chris on Jul 6, 2010 16:54:39 GMT -5
Maybe I'm particularly annoyed because I didn't purchase the baseball package and am doing the ENTIRE season on GameDay Audio....I've pretty much moved to listening to all of the opponent's broadcasts...but that pisses me off because I know I could be listening to a YANKEE broadcast and that they should hire someone better.
The NEW YORK FUCKING YANKEES deserve to have an iconic figure in the booth like a Vin Scully, Chick Hearn, Ernie Harwell ... and they DON'T. They don't have anything anywhere remotely close to that. Hell, Charlie Steiner is LIGHT YEARS ahead of Sterling in terms of a credible analyst that can endear himself to the fans...and they lost him.
What is the story there anyway? Was there a beef between Steiner and Sterling/Yanks? Or was the Dodger's gig just too good to turn down. From all indications, Steiner is poised to slip into Vin's role. I also heard that Sterling, the big BABY, was miffed that he didn't get to call Aaron Boone's HR on radio - Steiner did.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Jul 6, 2010 21:40:03 GMT -5
I enjoyed Steiner......
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Post by MSBNYY on Jul 7, 2010 8:50:20 GMT -5
I totally agree with Cho.
They are the New York Yankees, and their announcer should be HOF worthy. This team once had Mel Allen calling the games.
People blast Phil Rizzuto, but there's a reason he endeared himself to the fans. Rizzuto loved what he did, and loved the Yankees. John Sterling loves himself.
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Post by IronHorse4 on Jul 7, 2010 12:03:06 GMT -5
The Yankees already had iconic figures calling games. They just died, that's all. Vin Scully is iconic because he's been doing games for decades, and he hasn't died yet. When they replace him (however they plan to do that), it won't be with someone iconic. Because iconic people are old or dead, and they don't make them like they used to.
And Cho, pony up for the computer package at least. It's discounted now. I'm not paying $180 for the TV package anymore, but the key is to go half with someone on the computer package. You can be logged in simultaneously several times with same ID, and it will cost you like $60 for the year. And it includes the radio package for when you can't keep your eyes on the screen.
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