Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, April 16th.

Derek Van Riper, you know Sarah.

It's Britcheroli here with you on this episode.

We've got some big news in Yankee land.

John Sterling announced his retirement on Monday.

We'll talk about Sterling's legacy as a longtime voice for baseball's probably most historic franchise.

We're talking about a curious decision made by the Marlins on Monday. Max Meyer sent AAA after a really good weekend start against Atlanta. We're

to dig into a few rivalries, a heat check on rivalries, if you will, talk about the most intense

rivalries around the league right now. We had a great listener email suggesting we may have

forgotten the Cubs as a possible top five team for the next five years based on the quality of their system, their ability to spend money.

So we'll talk about that.

And time permitting, we've got some buy, sell, hold lined up for the end of this episode as well.

Let's get right to it.

Let's start with the most surprising news of Monday, which was actually the John Sterling retirement, mostly because of timing, right?

It's the middle of April where you have this guy just decide, no, I'm done.

And that's more or less what he said.

I was reading a story about what he said to Michael Kay.

He just didn't want to do it anymore, which is not usually what you hear people say when they walk away from a job they had for as long as Sterling had that one, 36 years with the Yankees and certainly a style all his own, right? I mean, his home run calls are unique. They are legendary. I think if you are, if you're not a Yankees fan, the first time you'd hear one, you'd be like, wait, what did he just say? And why is he singing? But the more you listen to him, even if you were not a Yankees fan, I think the more of that style sort of grew on you. 100%. Like I, the first time, the first time I heard, like the first few times, for a while, I really disliked him. I just have to be honest. Like, I was living in New York.

I was like, what is this? It's like some weird, like, you know, reminded me a little bit of Hawk Harrelson, but like, you know, a little bit smarter, you know, but like also just kind of hokey at first. I thought. I was just like, this is, but it does grow on you. I mean, the one thing that I like is like, I say this a lot, but like, at least they have an ethos.

Like, at least he had it. I was just like this is, but it does grow on you. I mean, the one thing that I like is like,

I say this a lot, but like at least they had an ethos, like at least he had like a style,

you know, like, you may not have loved the style, but like at least he had a style. He tried something.

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