Ranting about Announcers

[MFS62]

metirish wrote: I tell you what I liked last season, when Wladman joined Cohen in the Mets radio booth and Rose went with Sterling for a few innings of fun during the Subway series.

Too bad Sterling and Waldmann didn't learn anything from them about how not to be a homer.

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[Frayed Knot]

I've always said that Sterling's biggest failing isn't that he spends too much time promoting the home team, it's that he spends it all promoting himself.
He can be entertaining at times if you can get through the fact that he treats big moments of the game as merely a set-up for his catch-phrases. The problem lately is that he's making a lot of mistakes on regular action calls; it's like maybe his eyesight is going or something. Or maybe just the strain of having to do all 9 innings of p-b-p every night while having not missed a game since the NYY hired him.

Meanwhile, there's a caller to FAN who not only does a dead-on impersonation of him but also calls is as "John from the Bronx" and has conversations with the hosts as his character.
Hysterical.

[Elster88]

The first few times I heard that guy I thought it acutally was Sterling.

Like the guy who does Letterman for Howard Stern's show.

[MFS62]

Bob Raissman (NY Daily News) just loves John Sterling:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/col/story/425016p-358531c.html

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[metirish]

That article backs up what FK said....the "Melkey way"...that's just terrible.

[Frayed Knot]

The only difference between what I was saying and what Raissman is, is that occasionally (and w/what seems like inceasing frequency) Sterling would have called Melky's catch as a HR - and then not corrected it until Melky was half way back to the infield with a smile on his face.
(and then make the excuse that he doesn't have access to replays)

[Elster88]

metirish wrote: That article backs up what FK said....the "Melkey way"...that's just terrible.

I had thought that the only original thing about Chris Berman was his nicknames (even though it's annoying now, back in the day I loved hearing things like Jeff Brown Paper Bagwell), but maybe he lifted that from Sterling.

[metirish]

I have to say I am really enjoying Howie in the TV booth, I like his sense of humour a lot and he's very strong on PbP.

[MFS62]

Holy Cow!
I had a Scooter flashback this weekend.
I was tuning in to WCBS for the weather report and forgot the Yank game was on. And I heard another Sterling moment.

Remember when Phil was doing the Yankee games? Every night, he would mention the name(s) or birthday of every person in New Jersey from whom he could get, or just got, a free meal or free round of golf.

Well, Stirling was wishing a happy three month birthday to the grandson of somebody we never heard of before. I wonder what he's expecting to get from that guy.

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