Talk:John Sterling (sportscaster)

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In October 2003, after the World Series, Yankee haters from all over were saying, "THEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES LOSE!!!!"

Is there any evidence of his imitators?

Evidence? Not really. I heard a couple times though. --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 03:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Is there a reason why the mention of Jim Norton was excised from the article? His rants on Sterling during the O&A show is what brought focus to the problem of the home run calls.

Where is the evidence of Sterling using a fake name? Prove it or it should be removed-it's incredible ridiculous. Also am I really supposed to believe Sterling lost eye sight and hearing from fireworks? COME ON! That should be removed! It's all incredibly made up BS!68.194.178.84 06:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure about blindness/deafness thing, as a google search for that and the Harold Moskowitz thing turns up nothing.

However - why are taglines for Lowe's and Sharp included in "Catchphrases"? A particular way of reading a radio plug does NOT count as a catchphrase.

• Some of the catchphrases aren't catchphrases, such as references to his mentions of Suzyn Waldman. Also, the calls of incredulity are paraphrases, not catchphrases. He never says them the same way each time. To whoever put those up: If you want to note Sterling's penchant for overstating the unpredictability of baseball, just say he has one in the article. It doesn't take a list of paraphrased "quotations". 67.188.159.75

He says the same 5 things over and over and over and over again. Isn't that amazing? You cannot predict baseball etc etc. They are catchphases. This whole thing is crap and unreliable anyway.

• A catch phrase is "a phrase or expression that is spontaneously popularized after a critical amount of widespread repeated usage in everyday conversation", according to the article. Something like high-far-gone or "Theeeee Yankees win" is a catchphrase. Something like Sam Rosen's "It's a power play goal!" or "And this one will last a lifetime!" is a catchphrase, or Ken Harrelson's "He gone" or "You can put it on the board...yes!". Just because a radio personality says something a few times doesn't make it one; nobody associates John Sterling with "Isn't that amazing?" like people associate Homer Simpson with "D'oh!" If you want to include that, how about "Lined, like a bullet, base hit", much more frequently said than "You can't predict baseball". The list of "quotations", as it was, did no justice to the personality - and I suspect that the point of the list was to behave as such. 67.188.159.75 10:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)