Thank you, Susan. We appreciate you coming out on this sad day. Thank you very much for joining Charlotte.

Oh, you're very welcome. Thanks for having me on. If there's someone who deserves to be talked about, it's John Sterling.

For everyone who knew him by listening to him but didn't know him personally, tell us about the man that John was.

Well, what you actually heard was who he was. It was, the job was something he had dreamed about since he was six years old.

He wanted to be Mel Allen.

He wanted to have this job forever.

There are a couple of things I'd love that people would know about John.

One, he didn't have a mean bone in his body. He had no guile and he never

understood why anyone would be mean to him or to anybody else. That's who he was. He was kind to

everybody. He didn't know how to fight back when people were mean to him and that's who he was.

He had the best soul of anyone I've ever met in my life. And I don't think we're ever going to see that again. Susan, for many Yankee fans like me growing up, and we just had a couple callers start of the show, it was the home run calls, I think, that really listeners gravitated towards. When you heard some of these home run calls, were you always hearing them for the first

time or did he run any volume? Oh,

absolutely. No, he would never tell

me, never. And sometimes

if you look at some of them, if you listen

to some of them, you'll either hear me

laughing or you'll hear a dead

silence. That's what was, yeah.

And he always, he always knew. But. That's what I was, yeah. And he always knew.

But some of them, I laughed hysterically.

He would never tell me.

He said, I've got it.

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