We awoke to some horrible news, some sad news around the great John Sterling who passed away earlier today.

And I was thinking, what's the number one thing that comes to mind to properly tribute John Sterling?

I mean, he is a great guy.

We've all had a chance to interact with him.

He was a friendly guy.

But I think that John Sterling's voice and everything he described, he was truly the soundtrack of the New York Yankees for an entire generation.

I think about myself growing up as a baseball fan.

And it was his voice describing the improbable pink Cadillac run of 1996.

It was his voice who was articulating the back-to-back perfect games in seasons by David Wells and David Cohn.

It was his voice describing the greatest baseball team I've ever seen

the 1998 Yankees. It was his voice painfully as a Met fan describing the Subway World Series.

It was his voice describing, I know they didn't win the series, but 2001's World Series will

always live with all of us and some of the improbable moments all the way until even the

bad of losing the World Series to the Dodgers. He was the narrator. He was the voice. And when

you think about this incredible era of New York Yankee baseball, it's described by John Sterling.

Like 99.9% of the awesome or painful moments, depending on your perspective, was described by him.

And he did it brilliantly.

And the best word I can use to describe John Sterling was he was entertaining as hell.

And so it's a sad day to know he's not around anymore,

but it's also a day where we should celebrate one of the great legacies in New York sports

and New York media, the great John Sterling, because he brought, and I hope he understood

this, he brought so much joy to Yankee fans and non-Yanky fans for the way he so brilliantly and hilariously described decades and decades of Yankee baseball.

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