Last week, the Yankees completed a three-team trade that landed them Didi Gregorius, a 25-year-old shortstop from the Arizona Diamondbacks. Though not yet an outstanding offensive player, he shows a very strong glove and arm, and seems to have a lot of potential. Fans wonder if he will be an effective replacement for Derek Jeter in the years to come. But fans also wonder: What will John Sterling’s home-run call be for Didi Gregorius?
Once again, Salt in Wound humbly offers some suggestions for the Yankees’ veteran play-by-play radio announcer.
— “Didi shoots a BB, deep into the right-field seats!”
— “Gregorius is glorious!”
— “An H.R. for Didi!”
— “Didi’s gregarious with the fans in right!”
— “Gre-GONE-ius!”
— “Didi-d-didi-d-didi-d-didi is Morse code for OUTTA HERE!”
— “Didi was born in the Never-lands!”
— “Dutch ’em all!”
— “Amster-damn he really got a hold of that one!”
— “Curaçao long!!”
— “Nothing sketchy about it!”
— “It’s D-Day for Didi, as he invades the bleachers of Normandidi!”
— “Mariekson Julius Gregorius, you come home this instant—after circling the bases, that is!”
— “Tried to warn ya, about 3-and-oh and Didi G!”
— “Did Didi? He did!”
— “Diddy smacked Drake; Didi smacked BALL!”
— “Yes in-Didi!”
Previously featured:
• Carlos Beltran
• Jacoby Ellsbury
• Brian McCann
• Kevin Youkilis
It’s gonna be Gre-GONE-ious.
Yes inDIDI. Gregorious-well he comes up glorius!
Hopefully someday we’ll find out!
Just discovered this. So which one was it? Regardless, Sterling’s voice makes my skin crawl. Is Suzyn Waldman still in the booth? She lost me the day she referred to Mattingly as “Dawny Baseball.”
Not sure if he stuck with it, but he began the year with:
“Gregorius makes Yankee fans … uproarious! Yes, in-Didi!”
so I was half-right.
Suzyn in indeed(i) still in the booth. The whole Donnie Baseball thing confuses me. I was an obsessed fan during his heyday, then i went away to college in the days when it was much harder to religiously follow out-of-market teams. Cut to his retirement era, I’m back around NYC, when I start hearing Mattingly referred to as Donnie Baseball. And I’m thinking, “That’s not his nickname! He doesn’t HAVE a nickname! You can’t retroactively give him a nickname!”