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It was the first time an announcer other than John Sterling was the main radio play-by-play person for a Yankees postseason game since Bill White, Frank Messer, Phil Rizzuto and Fran Healy rotated to call the 1981 World Series on WABC.
Yankees exceptionalism now exists not on the field, but in the team store — on slogans and souvenirs, not titles and trophies.
For the first time since 1981. the Yankees will play a playoff game on Tuesday without John Sterling in their radio booth.
As of 2025, eight Frick Award winners called games for the Yankees. Longtime Chicago White Sox play-by-play voice Ken Harrelson, who called Yankees games from 1987-88, is the most recent of the eight to enter the Hall of Fame; Harrelson was elected in 2020.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and David “Big Papi” Ortiz went viral celebrating the New York Yankees’ shocking American League Division Series exit.
It’s such a strange game, baseball. You really never know what a day at the yard has in store. John Sterling said a lot of memorable things in his 35-year run as the Yankees play-play man; the phrase that made all those T-shirts and sweatshirts and caps was this one:
For almost a week, Vlad Guerrero Jr. refused to take the bait from the New York media’s attempts to revive his disdain for all things Yankees, a deep-rooted feeling he shares with his Hall of Fame father.
As if being eliminated wasn't bad enough for Yankees fans, the club was trolled by both Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and David Ortiz.
The Blue Jays vanquished the Yankees with a 5-2 victory in Game 4 of their American League Division Series on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium, sending Toronto to its first AL Championship Series since 2016.
Working alongside Yankees legends Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez in the Fox Sports postgame show on Sunday, Ortiz broke into his “the Yankees lose” routine, poking fun at former announcer John Sterling. He was only getting started. After Jeter provided his analysis regarding the Yankees’ loss, he attempted to skip over Ortiz, who wouldn’t have it.