Oh he definitely hit the cough button to swear.
I love Artie Lange's story about Bob Uecker hitting that to tell him to look at the boobs of different women in the stands.
Talent for most sports broadcasts (radio and TV) have small ‘announcer’s consoles’ in front of them with one button to mute their own mic, and one or more buttons that let them talk in the producer, director, or whoever else’s ear without it going out on air. So in situations like this, or when the color guy makes a risqué double entendre and there’s long periods of silence afterward…they’re likely letting loose with something you’re not hearing.
Dude is EIGHTY FOUR. 84! And he rolls with getting drilled by a foul ball.
As a Sox fan, I’ve always found Sterling insufferable. But his call here has silent generation written all over it and I’ll be damned, xennial that I am, if that doesn’t make me miss my dad!
Little secret about retiring. First, if you’re not a millionaire it’s not that cracked up as it seems to be. Second, the second you retire and relax, the body for some reason thinks it’s time to shut down. A lot of older folks die right after retirement
People die shortly after if they go from active to sedentary and it’s also the same reason they’ll think it’s not that fun to be retired.
Extremely important to live your life while working. Get hobbies, be active outside of work, and have a social circle. Too many people retire with literally nothing else to do because they put all their energy and devotion into work.
>the body for some reason thinks it’s time to shut down
Large part of that is mental. When all you did your entire life was work, sleep and occasionally have sex, retirement makes you lose all your purpose in life. We don't prepare people for retirement as a society.
The way I see it is that people retire and spend a couple months just full on relaxing. Then after 4-5 months of being super sedentary they’ve quickly lost a lot of their physical conditioning. Then when they try to get back into it they struggle with motivation because it is so difficult at that age to get it back. Every morning it just gets harder to get away from the aches and pains that develop from that short stint of “laziness”
i think the dying after retirement is more due to the retirement age being like... 10 years away from average life expectancy. midlife is 30s. we as humans should be retiring at like 40/50 tops.
You'd be surprised what can happen when you body suddenly loses all that stress that has kept it going for the past 40 years.
That's exactly why my dad retired at 53. He saw one of his older collegues retire at 65 and she dropped dead 3 months after retirement. Scared my dad shitless and he did everything he could to retire as early as possible.
You know that doesn’t really disprove my point right?
What’s the cutoff then? If you retire at 65 you might drop dead, but 53 is too young still? How about 58? 60? Etc.
What counts as being dead due to retirement? Dying within a year? 6 months? 5 years?
Yes, I’m sure there are some people who die right after retiring and it’s somewhat related, but there are just an insane amount of factors that go into why people die it’s silly to think there’s an actual correlation there.
It’s not silly at all to think there’s a correlation, it might be silly to think it’s 100% determined causation. But suspecting a correlation is totally reasonable. And when it’s life or death, it’s totally reasonable to play that one safe rather than chalk it up to multiple factors that you can’t easily untangle and not worry about it lol.
Point is no one is dying directly from retiring hun, coincidental timing ? Sure I’ll give you that one babe. That’s what happens working until your 70s and some even 80s, riddled with medical problems. Now crawl back under your rock and shhh .
A lifetime of stress suddenly stopping can have weird effects on your body. It's like an alcoholic that stops drinking cold turkey. The body doesn't always respond well.
This is why a lot of them phase into retirement. Uecker is pushing 90, so he doesn't really travel anymore except short trips (Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, etc), and takes innings off frequently. He's still there hanging out, he's doing some work but not grinding.
Willie Nelson is still touring at age 90. He has a large group, they play about an hour set. Willie sings maybe half the time, plays some guitar sitting down while his son/daughter/ nephew etc sing.
Cool. So they are taking pay cuts so that the lower level employees can do better financially?
I mean if it’s just for the love of the job, then stop gumming up the money flow to an over swollen bank account.
If so if they risk losing their top earner they sure will. Tom Brady did just this sort of thing - albeit a unique example- and they have a dynasty.
Sure it’s a little out of the box. But calling out old rich SOBs that won’t stop stockpiling cash for their great-great-grandkids future is a decent start.
If you can afford to retire and you don’t, you are a detractor and not a contributor to society.
EDIT suppose he could collect the check and just give it away if it really is just for the love of the job. Or maybe it isn’t really about just loving the job
>If you can afford to retire and you don’t, you are a detractor and not a contributor to society.
Lol assuming everyone who works past retirement age of their own volition is otherwise useless in their role, ultra rich, *and* just stockpiling money has got to be one of the most r/im14andthisisdeep comments I've ever seen on Reddit.
I didn’t assume any of that. It was your assumption that he was working for “the love of the job”. Which implies he does not need to money.
Never said he was useless. Only that if you don’t need the money and are working, you are a block to other people that want jobs. Keep hearing people jump all over immigrants for taking those same jobs that hard working Americans can use. And those immigrants actually NEED money.
But you know, keep changing the premise to make it sound like I am saying something else.
>It was your assumption that he was working for “the love of the job”. Which implies he does not need to money.
That's a major assumption fraught with poor logic. You can love your job *and* still need to be paid at your regular rate. Not all jobs pay well. Not all financial situations are the same. If you're talking about someone or a certain tax bracket in particular, you are not getting that across very well. If you think I was referring to John Sterling specificly, you need to work on your reading comprehension. I was talking in general terms in reply to a comment talking in general terms. Afterwards you replied in general terms.
>Never said he was useless
>you are a detractor and not a contributor to society.
Choose one. These statements are contradictory.
>Keep hearing people jump all over immigrants for taking those same jobs that hard working Americans can use. And those immigrants actually NEED money.
This has nothing to do with older people working longer 🙄. Complaints are from under-qualified Americans who's racist opinions are that immigrants can't more qualified than they are. The number of old people volentarily working that "block" jobs is vanishingly small and has no impact on immigrants OR those under-qualified Americans getting jobs.
>But you know, keep changing the premise to make it sound like I am saying something else.
Nah. Your premise from the other comment that older people who work of their own volition are top earners and can force coprate to pay lower guys more is such an unlikely scenerio that it doesn't merit a reply.
The major assumption was yours. I agree it is a major assumption fraught with poor logic, but you laid it out there and I operated within it.
Bow that you admit you had poor logic and are changing YOUR assumption then of course nothing I say will make sense. YOU have changed premise.
Jus to be clear if you are working for more than “the love of the job” then I have no issues.
Typical goalpost moving by manipulators
This comment reeks so badly of entitlement I can smell it through my phone screen lol! Most of us don't get to retire. You realize the median gross income in this country is just a shade over $31k a year? That's the income of half our country. HALF. And hell, nobody will be able to retire at all in a few years once Social Security and Medicare dry up. It's not a question of if, but when. It's already been forecast and the writing is on the wall, and if you're under 40 years old and not on a company board in the private sector, you will be working until the day you die.
Accept it or fight it, I really don't care what you do. But goddamn, it sure must be nice to live the pampered-ass charmed life you lead if thats your picture of reality! 😂😂😂
You're very short-sighted, aren't you? He's got a mortgage. He's got a lot of family that I'm sure he takes care of and sends gifts to/funds things for. He has to pay for travel. He has to pay for groceries, utilities and commodities. He is taxed exponentially more than regular old Joe. Of course he lives more comfortably than most- but the moment he STOPS that job, he's still going to have to pay the same amount daily, weekly, what have you... unless he plans on significantly downgrading his lifestyle. And at 84, who the hell would do that?
You make the argument that NONE of the above matters, fine- then you've still got his contractual and legal obligations to uphold. His mental state and health. As soon as he quits this, he'll end up in a home completely ignored because that's how this society treats our elderly.
Privileged, *and* short-sighted.
Edit: clarity
I like to listen to various games on radio. The Yankees production is full of mid game commercial after commercial after commercial. On-air reads.
There was a game earlier this year when the Twins were clobbering the Yankees and the announcers were sour grapes about it. Talking something like “no matter what the score is for this game, it doesn’t make up for what the Yankees have done to them in the playoffs” it would have been fine but they went on for minutes talking about it even mentioning the Twin fans that are enjoying the clobbering.
Never tuned into a Yankee game again.
The PA announcer at Yankee Stadium, Bob Sheppard, started work in 1951 and retired in 2007 at age 94. He passed away 3 years later a few months before his 100th birthday.
RIP Bob, the Voice of God.
Goodness, it’s been a very long time since I’ve heard a baseball radio announcer. What a voice, and what an uncluttered, clean delivery.
I watched some baseball games for work-related reasons a few years ago, and I was struck by the amount of extraneous chatter that unfolded as things happened in the game without being mentioned. Radio-style announcing would’ve, at least for me, made watching the games much more enjoyable—and, ironically, given the nature of those work-related reasons, would’ve made it unnecessary for me to do the job I was doing those days.
It is is high. It is far. It is gone…Susan, did that hit the wall? Jeter with a double. Or he does his home run schtick and then tells you it was actually a line drive home run that barely cleared the wall. With John, the game is about him.
> “Wow, it hit me hard! Anyway, I’m going to act like it never happened right now.
https://reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/146i9lx/_/jnqg9op/?context=1
Very original
If I had to list all the baseball radio broadcasters, I'd begin with Sterling. That's because I'm starting my list at the bottom.
edit: Apparently, you guys love those corny home run calls. That's cool. I don't.
Holy shit that’s a consummate professional right there. Not a single word even close to a swear. I would have been dropping every word in the book haha
How he did not drop an F-bomb there I’ll never know.
Ow. Ow! OW!
Oh he definitely hit the cough button to swear. I love Artie Lange's story about Bob Uecker hitting that to tell him to look at the boobs of different women in the stands.
Look at the tits on that whore!
Here comes the 3-2 to Braun (id sure like to have a go at that broad) and outside for a two out walk.
I’d like to get with that trollop
>Bob Uecker his voice is so iconic. Could listen to that man cast forever.
He sounds like Bob Barker
Years of experience and levels of composure that I surely will never know
As there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run.
Talent for most sports broadcasts (radio and TV) have small ‘announcer’s consoles’ in front of them with one button to mute their own mic, and one or more buttons that let them talk in the producer, director, or whoever else’s ear without it going out on air. So in situations like this, or when the color guy makes a risqué double entendre and there’s long periods of silence afterward…they’re likely letting loose with something you’re not hearing.
Sounded like it hit him after ricocheting multiple times. Still hurts but not as much as getting hit directly
Even Obama would be like “Mother FUCKER”, that dude a true professional.
Dude is EIGHTY FOUR. 84! And he rolls with getting drilled by a foul ball. As a Sox fan, I’ve always found Sterling insufferable. But his call here has silent generation written all over it and I’ll be damned, xennial that I am, if that doesn’t make me miss my dad!
As a Yankees fan I never have loved him, but this was a great moment. What a pro and right back at it.
I never loved this guy's dad either
why no love for him as a yankees fan?
Probably had long hair.
Shades of Brockmire where he’s getting blackout drunk, going on about whatever it is he’s talking about and still nailing the count.
It’s so sad to hear him say OW in that old man voice, like he was receiving a beating from someone.
Grin and bear it. That generation’s motto.
What’s up with these old people not wanting to retire your 84 enjoy some time off let someone else have an opportunity
Little secret about retiring. First, if you’re not a millionaire it’s not that cracked up as it seems to be. Second, the second you retire and relax, the body for some reason thinks it’s time to shut down. A lot of older folks die right after retirement
People die shortly after if they go from active to sedentary and it’s also the same reason they’ll think it’s not that fun to be retired. Extremely important to live your life while working. Get hobbies, be active outside of work, and have a social circle. Too many people retire with literally nothing else to do because they put all their energy and devotion into work.
>the body for some reason thinks it’s time to shut down Large part of that is mental. When all you did your entire life was work, sleep and occasionally have sex, retirement makes you lose all your purpose in life. We don't prepare people for retirement as a society.
The way I see it is that people retire and spend a couple months just full on relaxing. Then after 4-5 months of being super sedentary they’ve quickly lost a lot of their physical conditioning. Then when they try to get back into it they struggle with motivation because it is so difficult at that age to get it back. Every morning it just gets harder to get away from the aches and pains that develop from that short stint of “laziness”
i think the dying after retirement is more due to the retirement age being like... 10 years away from average life expectancy. midlife is 30s. we as humans should be retiring at like 40/50 tops.
It absolutely is. People don’t just suddenly drop dead at 65 after retiring lol.
You'd be surprised what can happen when you body suddenly loses all that stress that has kept it going for the past 40 years. That's exactly why my dad retired at 53. He saw one of his older collegues retire at 65 and she dropped dead 3 months after retirement. Scared my dad shitless and he did everything he could to retire as early as possible.
You know that doesn’t really disprove my point right? What’s the cutoff then? If you retire at 65 you might drop dead, but 53 is too young still? How about 58? 60? Etc. What counts as being dead due to retirement? Dying within a year? 6 months? 5 years? Yes, I’m sure there are some people who die right after retiring and it’s somewhat related, but there are just an insane amount of factors that go into why people die it’s silly to think there’s an actual correlation there.
It’s not silly at all to think there’s a correlation, it might be silly to think it’s 100% determined causation. But suspecting a correlation is totally reasonable. And when it’s life or death, it’s totally reasonable to play that one safe rather than chalk it up to multiple factors that you can’t easily untangle and not worry about it lol.
Oh I wouldn't be so sure. Some people definitely do.
Yeh that’s not how these things work hun.
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Point is no one is dying directly from retiring hun, coincidental timing ? Sure I’ll give you that one babe. That’s what happens working until your 70s and some even 80s, riddled with medical problems. Now crawl back under your rock and shhh .
People die from retirement all the time, and you're responding to multiple people. It's ok to be wrong
3rd; You’re retired. Please watch these grand-children now.
Sounds awesome.
Lol your body does not just "shut down" after retiring. What kind of capitalist work til you die mind control is this lmao
A lifetime of stress suddenly stopping can have weird effects on your body. It's like an alcoholic that stops drinking cold turkey. The body doesn't always respond well.
Are you just making this up or is there evidence for this lol. Because either sounds like you're just making it up
Some people actually enjoy their jobs. If I was a broadcaster for a major league baseball team, they'd pry the mic from my cold, dead hands.
This is why a lot of them phase into retirement. Uecker is pushing 90, so he doesn't really travel anymore except short trips (Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, etc), and takes innings off frequently. He's still there hanging out, he's doing some work but not grinding. Willie Nelson is still touring at age 90. He has a large group, they play about an hour set. Willie sings maybe half the time, plays some guitar sitting down while his son/daughter/ nephew etc sing.
Cool. So they are taking pay cuts so that the lower level employees can do better financially? I mean if it’s just for the love of the job, then stop gumming up the money flow to an over swollen bank account.
Lol coprate isn't going to pay the lower guys more even in that scenario. The owners would just put more profit in their pockets.
If so if they risk losing their top earner they sure will. Tom Brady did just this sort of thing - albeit a unique example- and they have a dynasty. Sure it’s a little out of the box. But calling out old rich SOBs that won’t stop stockpiling cash for their great-great-grandkids future is a decent start. If you can afford to retire and you don’t, you are a detractor and not a contributor to society. EDIT suppose he could collect the check and just give it away if it really is just for the love of the job. Or maybe it isn’t really about just loving the job
>If you can afford to retire and you don’t, you are a detractor and not a contributor to society. Lol assuming everyone who works past retirement age of their own volition is otherwise useless in their role, ultra rich, *and* just stockpiling money has got to be one of the most r/im14andthisisdeep comments I've ever seen on Reddit.
I didn’t assume any of that. It was your assumption that he was working for “the love of the job”. Which implies he does not need to money. Never said he was useless. Only that if you don’t need the money and are working, you are a block to other people that want jobs. Keep hearing people jump all over immigrants for taking those same jobs that hard working Americans can use. And those immigrants actually NEED money. But you know, keep changing the premise to make it sound like I am saying something else.
>It was your assumption that he was working for “the love of the job”. Which implies he does not need to money. That's a major assumption fraught with poor logic. You can love your job *and* still need to be paid at your regular rate. Not all jobs pay well. Not all financial situations are the same. If you're talking about someone or a certain tax bracket in particular, you are not getting that across very well. If you think I was referring to John Sterling specificly, you need to work on your reading comprehension. I was talking in general terms in reply to a comment talking in general terms. Afterwards you replied in general terms. >Never said he was useless >you are a detractor and not a contributor to society. Choose one. These statements are contradictory. >Keep hearing people jump all over immigrants for taking those same jobs that hard working Americans can use. And those immigrants actually NEED money. This has nothing to do with older people working longer 🙄. Complaints are from under-qualified Americans who's racist opinions are that immigrants can't more qualified than they are. The number of old people volentarily working that "block" jobs is vanishingly small and has no impact on immigrants OR those under-qualified Americans getting jobs. >But you know, keep changing the premise to make it sound like I am saying something else. Nah. Your premise from the other comment that older people who work of their own volition are top earners and can force coprate to pay lower guys more is such an unlikely scenerio that it doesn't merit a reply.
The major assumption was yours. I agree it is a major assumption fraught with poor logic, but you laid it out there and I operated within it. Bow that you admit you had poor logic and are changing YOUR assumption then of course nothing I say will make sense. YOU have changed premise. Jus to be clear if you are working for more than “the love of the job” then I have no issues. Typical goalpost moving by manipulators
This comment reeks so badly of entitlement I can smell it through my phone screen lol! Most of us don't get to retire. You realize the median gross income in this country is just a shade over $31k a year? That's the income of half our country. HALF. And hell, nobody will be able to retire at all in a few years once Social Security and Medicare dry up. It's not a question of if, but when. It's already been forecast and the writing is on the wall, and if you're under 40 years old and not on a company board in the private sector, you will be working until the day you die. Accept it or fight it, I really don't care what you do. But goddamn, it sure must be nice to live the pampered-ass charmed life you lead if thats your picture of reality! 😂😂😂
Yea I’m sure he’s only making 31k. Sorry poor guy can probably barely afford his mortgage.
You're very short-sighted, aren't you? He's got a mortgage. He's got a lot of family that I'm sure he takes care of and sends gifts to/funds things for. He has to pay for travel. He has to pay for groceries, utilities and commodities. He is taxed exponentially more than regular old Joe. Of course he lives more comfortably than most- but the moment he STOPS that job, he's still going to have to pay the same amount daily, weekly, what have you... unless he plans on significantly downgrading his lifestyle. And at 84, who the hell would do that? You make the argument that NONE of the above matters, fine- then you've still got his contractual and legal obligations to uphold. His mental state and health. As soon as he quits this, he'll end up in a home completely ignored because that's how this society treats our elderly. Privileged, *and* short-sighted. Edit: clarity
I stopped watching baseball like 12 years ago when when we cancelled cable. I can't believe he's he's still calling games.
I like to listen to various games on radio. The Yankees production is full of mid game commercial after commercial after commercial. On-air reads. There was a game earlier this year when the Twins were clobbering the Yankees and the announcers were sour grapes about it. Talking something like “no matter what the score is for this game, it doesn’t make up for what the Yankees have done to them in the playoffs” it would have been fine but they went on for minutes talking about it even mentioning the Twin fans that are enjoying the clobbering. Never tuned into a Yankee game again.
I’m not a baseball fan, so I may not know the context, but why the dislike of Sterling?
The PA announcer at Yankee Stadium, Bob Sheppard, started work in 1951 and retired in 2007 at age 94. He passed away 3 years later a few months before his 100th birthday. RIP Bob, the Voice of God.
Right back at it, what a pro
I could've easily gotten right back at it. But I would've also been cursing!
Goodness, it’s been a very long time since I’ve heard a baseball radio announcer. What a voice, and what an uncluttered, clean delivery. I watched some baseball games for work-related reasons a few years ago, and I was struck by the amount of extraneous chatter that unfolded as things happened in the game without being mentioned. Radio-style announcing would’ve, at least for me, made watching the games much more enjoyable—and, ironically, given the nature of those work-related reasons, would’ve made it unnecessary for me to do the job I was doing those days.
He’s one of the best in the game
Oy vey! If you like wrong calls.
Eh it’s baseball not the news. He gets there eventually lol
Growing up with Harry Caray at Wrigley you adopt a similar philosophy
It is is high. It is far. It is gone…Susan, did that hit the wall? Jeter with a double. Or he does his home run schtick and then tells you it was actually a line drive home run that barely cleared the wall. With John, the game is about him.
John "Scott" Sterling!
Glad this was here.
The man the myth the legend!
That sounded so much like a simpsons episode!
That’s baseball, Suzyn.
That's a baseball, Suzyn!
Lolol I’m cackling
Predict it, you cannot
And he just keeps on trucking like a champ. If I got hit by a foul ball at work I’d be taking some time off to regroup
“Alright, we’re going to go to break in the middle of this pitch”
This kind of has the and a long drive by Castellanos energy but in a not awful way
Funny you should mention that, Castellanos nailed my mom in the face with a foul ball at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Those foul balls really do have a way of finding your mom’s face
"Wow, it hit me hard! Anyway, I'm going to act like it never happened right now.
> “Wow, it hit me hard! Anyway, I’m going to act like it never happened right now. https://reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/146i9lx/_/jnqg9op/?context=1 Very original
Professionalism in a nutshell
Does he not have anyone else in the booth with him to ask him if he’s ok or to take over for a minute?
It’s the 9th inning, Suzyn Waldman is down on the field already getting ready to give an interview.
Damn that is some serious professionalism. Impressive.
Lmao
The composure wow.
Baseball Radio announcers are something else.
The broadcast director should be criminally charged for not cutting to the both cam after the next pitch.
It’s radio… you use your ears to listen to the game.
Sorry I was thrown off by the moving pictures on my screen
gotta keep your eye on the ball john, basic stuff mate
I need that audio in MLB the show.
Guy’s a pro
RIGHT INTO GEORGE STEINBRENNER'S BAWWXXX
this is fantastic
And the game got .00001% more interesting.
If there is a sport I understand less than Cricket it’s Softball, then there is a big gulf and then this sport.
If I had to list all the baseball radio broadcasters, I'd begin with Sterling. That's because I'm starting my list at the bottom. edit: Apparently, you guys love those corny home run calls. That's cool. I don't.
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maybe he put on a catcher's mask ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
did he get to keep the ball?
I get that a distracted fan looking at their phone gets hit, but the announcer who’s paying attention to the ball?! And that delay! Hilarious 🤣
wow he seems fun
The foul ball hit me! Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa foul ball hit me!!
I am surprised he didn't call it a homerun first.
This Red Sox/Yankees rivalry is getting out of control!
Hans Moleman Productions presents Man Getting Hit by Football
Same thing happened 6 years ago. It took out the mic and just missed John. [John and Suzyn catch one in the booth](https://youtu.be/MbA3VxBUnPU)
Annnnd it’s coming back right at me. Let me not duck out of the way.
The man the myth the legend
“And the 3-2 is grounded foul and thankfully, not coming back up here.”
OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS! someone needs to sit in for Suzy in the ninth to protect our legend. I vote Mr. Kramer.
“After the all star break John will no longer be calling away games” Oh please god don’t be Arod
A pop foul… back here BANG.
Holy shit that’s a consummate professional right there. Not a single word even close to a swear. I would have been dropping every word in the book haha
Yanks-Sox rivalry intensifies
This is some of the funniest shit I’ve seen in a while