We have been remembering and celebrating the great life and broadcast career of John.

And we welcome in now a friend and colleague of Johns for many years and the current Spanish

language radio broadcast voice of the New York Yankees, also the Philadelphia Eagles, our

friend and colleague, Ricky Ricardo.

Ricky, good morning.

Sorry, we are speaking under these circumstances, but certainly needed to get your thoughts

and memories of John this morning.

Oh, Gio, you know, I was awakened by the news just maybe a few seconds before Al

reached out to me because, you know, I do our sister station, WIP, until late Sunday nights talk show down there.

So I didn't really get to bed to like 2.30.

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.

But look, obviously it's a huge loss for the baseball world,

for the broadcast world itself, because this is a man that goes back to the 70s,

who did it all in this business. You know, what we do for a living today was made possible

in a certain way by John Sterling. He did talk shows.

He did hockey.

He did basketball.

He did, you know, Braves baseball when it first was on TBS, when, you know, the country

could watch Braves games each and every night, and then obviously transitioned to being

the radio voice of the Yankees.

But on top of all that, he was my friend.

He was almost like a second father to me.

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