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This is the Michael Kay Show podcast. I got to get more K. Listen live weekdays at one on the ESPN New York app and your smart speaker.

Well, today, unfortunately, we are talking about the passing of my friend and your friend,

John Sterling, who spent 36 summers with you detailing Yankees baseball.

And he passed away today at the age of 87 he'd been

in bad health for the last couple of months um his heart which was always so full um finally finally gave

out it finally gave out and um no longer with us and we're just sharing some memories along the way.

I spoke to Susan Waldman earlier.

If you didn't hear that interview, please listen to the podcast.

I do want to share with you the story of my first game in the booth.

So it was 92.

I'd been a writer.

John had wanted to be the Yankee announcement since he was six.

So he had to jump on me because I wanted to be the Yankee announcement since I was nine.

So we're sitting in the booth at Yankee Stadium, the old Yankee Stadium.

And I'm about to do the game with John. And it's the Yankees and the Red Sox.

And the engineer, Brian Ferguson, who is no longer with us, with about 30 seconds left before

we go on the air, yells out 30 seconds. So you know, you have to get ready for the broadcast. And John turned to me. And when John would speak, he would always cover one ear. And if you're watching on YouTube right now, you'll see what I'm doing it. And what that does, if you want to try it yourself today, especially if you're in a room that's crowded, it's great advice. if you cover one ear, like just cup your hand over the ear, you could hear yourself better and you don't strain your vocal cords. So John turned to me with hand cupping his ear and said, Michael, my boy, I have two bits of advice as you begin this new stage of your career. So I'm sitting there thinking, oh, this is going to be great. He's going to say,

you know, talk from the sternum, you know, give me bits of advice. And he goes, um, I sometimes

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