Rickie Ricardo Reminisces About John Sterling | Boomer & Gio
WFAN Daily
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3.8 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The Yankees Spanish broadcaster calls in with his anecdotes and remembrances of John Sterling.
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| 0:00.0 | We have been remembering and celebrating the great life and broadcast career of John. |
| 0:04.9 | And we welcome in now a friend and colleague of Johns for many years |
| 0:08.7 | and the current Spanish language radio broadcast voice of the New York Yankees, |
| 0:14.2 | also the Philadelphia Eagles, our friend and colleague, Ricky Ricardo. |
| 0:18.9 | Ricky, good morning. |
| 0:19.9 | Sorry, we are speaking under these circumstances, but |
| 0:22.7 | certainly needed to get your thoughts |
| 0:24.8 | and memories of John this morning. |
| 0:27.3 | Oh, Gio, I was awakened by the news just |
| 0:30.0 | maybe a few seconds before Al reached out |
| 0:32.6 | to me because, you know, I do |
| 0:34.3 | I do our sister station, WIP, until |
| 0:37.3 | late Sunday nights talk show down there. |
| 0:40.2 | So I didn't really get to bed to like 2.30. |
| 0:42.7 | You know, I'm on a baseball schedule, so I really don't wake up until usually the like 9, 9.30 catch the end of you guys show every day and keep it moving. |
| 0:51.6 | But look, obviously it's a huge loss for the baseball world, |
| 0:57.1 | for the broadcast world itself, because this is a man that goes back to the 70s, |
| 1:03.0 | who did it all in this business. You know, what we do for a living today was made possible |
| 1:08.8 | in a certain way by John Sterling. He did talk shows. |
| 1:11.6 | He did hockey. |
| 1:12.4 | He did basketball. |
| 1:13.9 | He did, you know, Braves baseball when it first was on TBS, when, you know, the country |
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