It was a rough day for our man Sterling. He lost two (three?) of his classic calls: “Robbie Cano! Don’t ya know?” and the Grandyman (a.k.a. “Something sort of Grandish!”).
But have faith in the Yankees, my son. New York quickly signed aging free-agent slugger Carlos Beltran to a 3-year, $45 million contract. So it’s back to the drawing board for Mr. Sterling. Luckily, Salt in Wound is always here to help!
— “Beltran belts one!”
— “‘Tran is gone!”
— “Carlos, to the cosmos!”
— “A Beltran Bulletin, bulleted deep to left!”
— “Belt loops the bases!”
— “Belt buckles Bucholz!” (only for home runs against Clay Buchholz)
— “Back-to-back, Beltran-to-belly!” (back-to-back home runs only)
— “Le Bel Age!”
— “Do not ask for whom the Beltran scores, he scores for thee!”
— “Homers? Carlos has carloads!”
— “Carlos Belle-tran! The Beast just hit a Beauty!”
— “We’ll have ‘Tran, ‘Tran, ‘Tran till the skipper takes the pitcher away!”
— “A world inside the scorecard where man has never been. Never before now!”
— “Carlos Bakery, home of the Crank Boss!”
— “It’s Carlito’s Way around the basepaths!”
— “A positive charge from a Beltran electron!”
— “The next mayor of New York—Carlos Dinger!”
Previously featured:
• Jacoby Ellsbury
• Brian McCann
• Kevin Youkilis
so weird, not on the internet, but i think 3 times this week I’ve come across the name Sterling. Makes me think of the recent death of Lou Reed, and how his VU bandmate Sterling died not long ago either. Check it, he played in a cool music group, then got his PhD! in Medieval Literature! Then got a Master Mariner license to be a captain of tugboats!
Sheesh! So recent and yet I have to say they don’t make men like that anymore.