00:00What's the number one thing that comes to mind to properly tribute John Sterling?
00:06I mean, he is a great guy. We've all had a chance to interact with him.
00:09He was a friendly guy.
00:10But I think that John Sterling's voice and everything he described,
00:17he was truly the soundtrack of the New York Yankees for an entire generation.
00:23I think about myself growing up as a baseball fan,
00:26and it was his voice describing the improbable pink Cadillac run of 1996.
00:33It was his voice who was articulating the back-to-back perfect games and seasons by David Wells and David
00:40Cohn.
00:40It was his voice describing the greatest baseball team I've ever seen in the 1998 Yankees.
00:45It was his voice, painfully as a Met fan, describing the Subway World Series.
00:50It was his voice describing, I know they didn't win the series, but 2001's World Series will always live with
00:57all of us
00:58and some of the improbable moments, all the way until even the bad of losing the World Series to the
01:04Dodgers.
01:05He was the narrator. He was the voice.
01:08And when you think about this incredible era of New York Yankee baseball,
01:12it's described by John Sterling.
01:16Like 99.9% of the awesome or painful moments, depending on your perspective,
01:22was described by him.
01:24And he did it brilliantly.
01:26And the best word I can use to describe John Sterling was he was entertaining as hell.
01:32And so it's a sad day to know he's not around anymore,
01:35but it's also a day where we should celebrate one of the great legacies in New York sports and New
01:41York media,
01:42the great John Sterling.
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