00:00Look, what can you say? It's in this business, I said this this morning, longevity is the one thing that
00:07escapes most people in broadcasting.
00:09It is very hard to get a job on radio and keep that job for a considerable length of time.
00:14The men and women that are able to do it are usually regarded as the greats because people come and
00:20go all the time.
00:21Good people come and go all the time.
00:22But to have a job under the spotlight of the New York Yankees and the New York media and the
00:29fan base and to keep that job, despite failing hearing, failing eyesight and age, and still deliver great broadcasts day
00:39in and day out, says all you need to know about the great John Sterling.
00:44John Sterling took the compliments in the same stride he took the funny moments when he might have missed the
00:49call, messed up a call.
00:50We mocked him for it every single morning when I was on mornings, we do it in the afternoons, but
00:55we also couldn't wait to hear the great calls.
00:58When any new free agent or trade acquisition came to the Yankees, typically for most of us, one of the
01:06first questions always was, what's the home run call going to be?
01:10And we couldn't wait to hear that new Yankees, first home run as a Yankee, to hear what John Sterling
01:16had up his sleeves.
01:17And one of the great things you can say about a broadcast, whether that's a talk show host or a
01:24play-by-play guy, is whether or not they're original.
01:27Whether or not they steal their quote-unquote schtick and act from somebody else.
01:32John Sterling, whatever you might have thought about him, good or bad or in between, was an original.
01:38And there's not a lot of that left in broadcasting.
01:40No, this is not a podcast.
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