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☘️40 years ago today... Larry Bird went off for a career-high 60 points in a @celtics win! #LarryLegend (via @NBAHistory)

And to get selfish: in March 2020 a week before the world shut down, @TomScibelli @BarstoolHubbs @martymush and I went to Yankees Spring Training, and I got to set up the cams for a 40 minute sit down interview with John Sterling. It was by far the most nervous I had been in my time at Barstool so far, both because I was sitting in the presence of a legend, but also because I was terrified I would mess up the setup and ruin 3 Yankees fans getting the chance to talk to a legend like Sterling. Happy to have this tape exist, and thankful to be at a place like Barstool where these opportunities are made possible to someone like me who at the time was a year out of college barely knowing what I was doing. youtu.be/uG_9jNGrFR0?si…

John Sterling will forever be a Yankees legend. He is synonymous with Yankee baseball. The home run calls, "Theeeeeeeee Yankees win", the stories, the wrong calls, the genuine passion for the team, all of it made him the perfect Yankee announcer. I have so many childhood memories of listening to him call games on the radio. I also got to meet/interview him a dew times and was genuinely starstruck. Just an incredibly nice guy who was exactly what you'd expect. I got his phone number when I was a beat reporter for Fordham then two years later called him when we were at Spring Training for the @short_porch and asked if he we could interview him. He said "Sure. I'll meet you in my hotel lobby in an hour." A true legend who deserves a spot in Monument Park. Yankees better win the World Series this year as a retirement gift.