Saturday, July 02, 2005

Tears of a clown

There's nothing more entertaining than listening to Yankees radio announcer John Sterling when the Bombers are bombing out.

Last night, in the first inning at Detroit, the Yanks got runners to second and third with no outs. Sterling was talking about how NY could score two runs without getting a hit, and that a 2-0 lead with Randy Johnson on the mound was solid.

The Yanks could only scratch across a run against Jeremy Bonderman and the Tigers erupted for a 10-2 win. (Welcome back, Maggs!)

By the seventh or eighth inning, Sterling was lamenting the poor pitching of the Yanks. He was on the verge of writing off the season. The Yanks aren't a team that goes on winning streaks, he whimpered, and can't make up ground. (Even though NY has had win streaks of 10, 6 and 5 games this season.) He said, plain and simple, the top three pitchers in the Yanks rotation simply aren't good enough.

Sterling reverses field better than anyone, including Barry Sanders.

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