The Delta House

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Since the Sox were on the left coast this weekend, I was listening to the Yankees game on the radio Saturday and got an unexpected delight. No, it wasn't that I heard A-Rod hit his 500th career home run. It was that I heard the voice of the Yankees, John Sterling, blow the call.

For those of you lucky bastards that have never heard a Yankees game broadcast over the radio, let me bring you up to speed. Sterling has a very distinct and very annoying "home run call". When the ball is hit, he says that ball is high, it is far, it is GONE! Well, for A-Rod's historic home run, he paused because he wasn't sure that it was a fair ball. After about three seconds of dead air, he said It's gone, then went into what seemed like a script about Rodriguez becoming the youngest player ever to hit 500 home runs. Of course he had to finish it off with his signature an A-Bomb, from A-Rod.

Two batter later, Sterling was at it again. Melky Cabrera hit a long ball to left and Sterling's call went like this; It is high, it is far, it's.... off the wall! It was an absolute joy for a Sox fan like me to hear him blow it twice in a game. Let's face it folks, you can plan out history.