Sterling is annoying when he...

by mickey07 on Aug 21, 2007 5:31 PM EDT

One of the posts got sidetracked into talking about John Sterling. His tag line on Joba is bush league stuff. Just reading some of the other comments about Sterling, I thought we might have some fun and have all of you sound off on some of the things he says that just make you want to pull the plug...Let me start off:

Hate it when he goes into his home run call..It is high...it is far...it is...caught on the track. Please man, we know you get excited, but ya gotta make an accurate call.
Runner on 2nd, none out...he will always remind us that the run can score without a hit. Then if batter does not move runner over, he will again remind us that we now need a hit. Hey Sterling...99.9% of your audience has played or watched baseball all their lives. WE KNOW ABOUT MOVING RUNNERS. You don't have to keep repeating this every game.
The Jeterian swing. Now we all love Derek, but whenever Jeter goes to the right side with the inside out swing, Sterling makes it sound like he invented it, patented it and no one else can do it.

Anyway thats for starters...whats your "favorite"

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It is high,

its is far, its is gone! Melky has tied the game! What a clutch home run by Melky! ............. Oh, it seems the ball was caught so only the runner from third scores. Its now 4-3 colorado

Pride, Power, Cocktease

by ReLaunch on Aug 21, 2007 5:35 PM EDT reply actions

Any time he

says "Well you can take all those stats and throw them in the East River for all they're worth..."

starts a story by mentioning someone who is not in the ballpark that day and continues "... told me once...".

makes statements like "The Yankees just cannot ever win a close game at Angel Stadium" or "There is no one in the bullpen capable of throwing strikes", and then repeats that thought seven or eight times in the next half inning.

And a bonus: Every time Suzyn Waldman says "I couldn't agree more."

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Aug 21, 2007 6:37 PM EDT reply actions

As lame as Sterling can get....

I am far more annoyed by his broadcast parter, Suzyn Waldman.

She is given a new job every few years and sucks even more than her previous position.

Sooner or later, they are going to make her part of the front office and she'll fail miserably there too.

She must have some dirt on Steinbrenner because there is no logical explanantion why she should still be employed by this club.

Okay, my rant is over.

by anaconda on Aug 21, 2007 6:38 PM EDT reply actions

Goodnes gracious,

Roger clemens is back!

Pride, Power, Cocktease

by ReLaunch on Aug 21, 2007 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Good example

by anaconda on Aug 21, 2007 6:43 PM EDT up reply actions

But

to me, that's far less offensive than "An Abomb from Arod" after every homer.
She seems to actually get caught up in the game. Sterling tries to manufacture excitement. And at least Waldman goes down to the clubhouse every now and then and talks to players, as opposed to Sterling who just lives on generalities and assumptions.

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Aug 21, 2007 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions

I think what annoys me the most about

Waldman is that she is terrible at everything she does and they still move her on to something else.

I don't get it. If I sucked at my job, they would fire me and get someone who can.

They wouldn't find something else for me to screw up.

by anaconda on Aug 21, 2007 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Even

the Yanks know when to stop playing shitty players (Farns, Igawa). I agree, don't know how Waldman gets away with it.

Pride, Power, Cocktease

by ReLaunch on Aug 21, 2007 7:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Employers

Are radio broadcasters employed by the team or by a specific radio station? I always thought the latter, that they're like newspaper beat reporters or the Fox broadcasters, so Waldman and Sterling work for WCBS.

by SP on Aug 21, 2007 9:02 PM EDT up reply actions

I hate that

He will ramble on with some story and never gives you the score. I sometimes get Hartford radio with Red Sox games and the give you score and inning every 2 minutes.

by Mr Farley on Aug 21, 2007 8:08 PM EDT reply actions

I heard

Sterling do the Yanks "cannot win in Anaheim/Tijuana" thing last night also...believe it was in the 8th inning. Come on...unless he's trying out for the job in Anaheim, you cannot be saying your team cannot win to your audience. As far as Suzyn, she loves playing the Ed McMahon thing to Sterling. He won't allow any other person to step on his microphone monopoly. Charlie Steiner was very good, but just could not deal with Sterling.

In his chase for No. 500, ARod broke one of Mantle's records. He took one more at bat than Mickey to get there!

by mickey07 on Aug 21, 2007 11:27 PM EDT reply actions

Sterling

and Steiner sounded the same. They weren't a good mix.

Pride, Power, Cocktease

by ReLaunch on Aug 21, 2007 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions

He's annoying...

...because he never says anything insightful, and he and Waldman waste half the broadcast advertising shit.

Yeah, that's probably not their fault, but it gets on my damn nerves.

by PsiFighter37 on Aug 21, 2007 11:44 PM EDT reply actions

This year

the advertisements have hit a new level. Its seems every other line they are plugging something away.

Pride, Power, Cocktease

by ReLaunch on Aug 22, 2007 6:38 AM EDT up reply actions

It's hilarious

when Sterling gets annoyed, and interupts the ad to call the game by saying "and this spot is too long, the 2-2..."

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Aug 22, 2007 9:13 AM EDT up reply actions

"A Rod's been struggling recently..."

JS: "But I was talking to Joe Torre the other day, and I asked him who he most wanted to see at the plate with two outs and the tying run on second, and you know what he said?"
SW: "Mmm."
JS: "And the right-hander deals---hit in the air, and it goes somewhere. You know what he said? 'Alex Rodriguez.'"
SW: "Hmm."

by Jack Roy on Aug 22, 2007 11:02 AM EDT reply actions