John Sterling’s retirement gives the powers that be the “final say” to “identify and anoint the next radio voice of the Yankees,” according to Bob Raissman of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. Raissman: “That’s a good thing. There is only one certainty: The next Yankee radiocaster will sound nothing like Sterling.” Raissman wrote Sterling “controlled the broadcast.” Throughout his time in the Bronx, he “rarely allowed his partners to do play-by-play.” And if they did, their innings allotment was “far less than his.” Sterling’s “priority was his style (or shtick) over the ‘minor’ details” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4/20). In N.Y., Mike Vaccaro wrote the task of being the new Yankees radio voice “now falls on a couple of very talented kids,” broadcasters Justin Shackil and Emmanuel Berbari, who “for the rest of this season, at least, will do what feels like an ominous assignment, to fill the shoes of John Sterling.” There is a “chance the Yankees will look elsewhere for a permanent replacement, because it’s a platinum-plated job” (N.Y. POST, 4/20).
