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New York Post
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Yankees radio voice Dave Sims missing Subway Series finale: ‘Laryngitis sent me to the IL'
Yankees broadcaster Dave Sims announced he would not be on the call for the series finale between the Mets and Yankees. Sims is dealing with laryngitis and the illness became too much of an issue to deal with for him to be behind the mic in The Bronx on Sunday night. 'Anyone listening to Saturday's game on WFAN heard my voice on its way out,' Sims wrote on X. 'No amount of gargling, inhaling steam, hot tea with honey, or chicken soup has made the difference. First time laryngitis sent me to the IL in my 23 years calling baseball. Bummed to miss the rubber match of the Subway Series I. Go Yankees!' 3 Aaron Boone of the New York Yankees and Dave Sims talk before the game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium on March 27, 2025 in New York, New York. Getty Images The post was accompanied by a photo of Sims holding his head over a pot of presumably hot water, with a large cup of tea next to him. Sims is in his first year calling games as the radio voice of the Yankees after legendary broadcaster John Sterling retired last season. Emmanuel Barbari joined Suzyn Waldman in the booth. Sims' name had been in the headlines less than a week ago after he was ripped by WFAN morning show host Boomer Esiason for skipping broadcasts ahead of his first trip back to Seattle, where he had been calling games previously for the Mariners. 'I've worked with Dave, great guy,' Esiason said on the 'Boomer and Gio' show. 'We love Dave Sims, but I'm gonna call it out as I see it. You just got started as the Yankee announcer, and he's 40 games into his career as the Yankee announcer, and he decided to take off.' 3 Broadcaster Dave Sims of the Seattle Mariners looks on before a game against the New York Yankees at Safeco Field on July 10, 2010. Getty Images 3 Broadcaster Dave Sims of the Seattle Mariners talks with New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi before a game at Safeco Field on July 23, 2012 in Seattle, Washington. Getty Images He later added: 'What are you doing? You just took the Yankee job! It's supposed to be the job of your life. If he had been here as long as John Sterling had been here — if John wanted to take a weekend off later on in his career, totally acceptable.' Sims will have a few days to heal up with the Yankees not playing again until Tuesday, when they welcome the Rangers to Yankee Stadium.
New York Post
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Boomer Esiason rips Dave Sims for skipping Yankees-A's series: ‘What are you doing?'
The Yankees' newest announcer is already catching some flak. WFAN's Boomer Esiason didn't hold back after Dave Sims elected to skip the Yankees' series against the A's, fewer than 40 games into his tenure as the radio station's play-by-play announcer for the team. 'I've worked with Dave, great guy,' Esiason said on the 'Boomer and Gio' show Monday morning. 'We love Dave Sims, but I'm gonna call it out as I see it. You just got started as the Yankee announcer, and he's 40 games into his career as the Yankee announcer, and he decided to take off.' Advertisement 3 Boomer Esiason (right) ripped Dave Sims for missing the Yankees-A's series. Esiason did preface his criticisms by saying, 'Unless there's something major going on that I don't know about, then I'll gladly retract the criticism.' But Sims' situation didn't warrant much empathy from Esiason. Advertisement With the Yankees scheduled in Seattle for three games following the A's series, Sims, who worked on the Mariners' broadcast team for 18 years, elected to take the A's series off and head to Seattle a few days earlier to spend time with family. 'I may be a New Yorker through and through, but coming back to Seattle also feels like coming home,' Sims wrote. 'I'll be skipping the A's series to have a few extra days here to spend with family & friends. Grateful.' The show acknowledged Sims' post and the fact that it was Mother's Day weekend, but Esiason still rebutted. 3 The Yankees won the series against the A's in Sacramento. AP Advertisement 'I mean, there's plenty of time in the offseason to be spending with family and friends,' he said. 'I mean all those players have moms, coaches have moms.' Sims took over the play-by-play role ahead of this season after John Sterling retired, 36 years after taking the role. 'What are you doing? You just took the Yankee job! It's supposed to be the job of your life,' Esiason said. 'If he had been here as long as John Sterling had been here — if John wanted to take a weekend off later on in his career, totally acceptable.' 3 Dave Sims posted to his X account that he was enjoying the weekend in Seattle away from the Yankees. Advertisement Ultimately, Esiason understood Sims' side, but still felt as though he was a bit early into his tenure to be taking time off. 'I just found it very interesting that 40 games in, we're already taking the weekend off,' Esiason said. 'I'm sorry, but that's just my stance.'
Fox News
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
NFL MVP upset with Yankees' new radio announcer taking series off: 'You just don't do that'
For the first time since 1988, the New York Yankees have a new full-time play-by-play announcer on the radio. Dave Sims replaced John Sterling, who retired early in the 2024 season but briefly returned for the postseason, on WFAN. Sims was previously the television broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners. Sterling, of course, never missed a game from 1989 all the way until the summer of 2019, including the postseason. But Sims was not on the call for the Yankees' series this past weekend in Sacramento against the Athletics. Sims had said on social media he would be missing the series to visit family in Seattle – before the Yankees' three-game set there this week. Sims' absence bothered Boomer Esiason, who hosts a daily morning show on the Yankees' radio network. "John Sterling didn't miss any games, did he? You just take a week off?" Esiason said. "I'm sorry, I love Dave Sims… what are you doing? You just took the Yankee job. It's supposed to be the job of your life." "You don't miss a Yankee… you just don't do that." Esiason reiterated his fondness for Sims, "but I'm going to call it out as I see it." "He just got started as the Yankee announcer, he's 40 games into his career as the Yankee announcer, and he decided to take off," Esiason continued. Perhaps the issue hit a sore spot for Esiason, who has traveled to call NFL games and managed to make it back to New York to host his show, which he co-hosts with Gregg Giannotti. "I would fly to Monday night games and fly back in the middle of the night to be here in studio with Craig [Carton], especially when we were being simulcast… I have done the same thing with you, as well. It's the Yankees for God's sake," Esiason, the 1989 NFL MVP, said. There was a rotation of several announcers last year for the Yankees, but they landed on Sims over the offseason. The Yankees and Mariners series, where Sims will be calling the game from the visitors' broadcast booth, kicks off Monday night. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Mint
30-04-2025
- Business
- Mint
The hotel-room hacks seasoned travellers don't leave home without
I play a little game every time I pack for a trip. It's called, 'See if You Can Zip the Carry-On Bag Without Sitting On It." Frequent fliers everywhere make trade-offs to cram everything into a bag that fits in the overhead bin. What makes the cut and what stays behind is a chore up there with expense reports. The task is particularly hard when your packing list includes must-haves that aren't exactly must-haves. Creature comforts that make the hotel room a little more like home. Most of us have them. Some travelers pack their own coffee or tea makers. Serial airline entrepreneur David Neeleman, chief executive of Breeze Airways, brings his own pillow. He's careful not to use a white pillowcase so hotel housekeepers don't mistakenly swipe it. Luke Saunders always makes room in his suitcase for a portable steamer and his water flosser. For me, it's a bulky hair dryer with a built-in brush that means never having to search high and low for that hotel-room hair dryer or pay for a pricey salon blowout. In a tight race for space, it makes the cut over my running shoes. Luke Saunders, founder and CEO of Farmer's Fridge, the Chicago-based company that sells those vending-machine salads at airports and offices around the country, says he always makes room for a handheld steamer and a rechargeable water flosser. The steamer origin story goes back five or six years, when he used a hotel-room iron to press a white dress shirt. 'I got crusty, red rust all over the shirt,'' he says. He had to wear a white T-shirt to a meeting where 'that wasn't the vibe.'' His mother-in-law recommended a steamer, and now it's a trip staple. Even if it means bringing just one pair of shoes—the ones on his feet. 'It's just so much easier than ironing," he says. Marriott and other hotel chains have added steamers to their high-end hotels for just this reason. Dave Sims, the new radio play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees, brings a steamer, too. But that's not his only gadget. He also travels with a portable speaker, a thermos for tea and a portable blender that sells for $50 at Target. Dave Sims whips up protein shakes in the portable blender he takes on the road. In his room or at the field, he makes a shake with plant-based protein powder, ice and water. Fruit smoothies are out of the question because he never knows if the in-room fridge will keep berries suitably cold. 'I keep it simple,'' he says. Peggy Roe has already spent nearly 70 nights in hotels this year in her job as Marriott's chief customer officer. She has a laundry list of packing tricks. These range from putting pricey foundation and moisturizers into leak-proof contact-lens cases to always bringing three Velcro rollers of different sizes to add volume when blow drying. She picks her shoes first and builds outfits around those instead of vice versa. Black shoes mean she only packs outfits that go with black shoes. 'Then you're much more efficient,'' she says. Roe also tucks in something that helps with that age-old problem of tricky hotel lighting : a silk eye mask for bedtime. Coming soon to her repertoire on the road: a travel coffee press popular with campers. She just ordered it to make lattes in her room, her way, with bring-your-own coffee beans and oat milk she purchases upon arrival. Laurie Blair's packing must-haves are personal and courtesy of her 6-year-old daughter. The senior vice president of global marketing for Hyatt Hotels wedges a stuffed animal in between the red-light mask and two outfits per day she meticulously packs into her carry-on for every trip. ('You never know what you're going to feel good in.") For a recent business trip to New York, she brought a plush koala named Koala. She takes photos of the toys throughout the trip and sends them home to Chicago. They help her stay in touch with her daughter, especially when they are in different time zones. 'It's a way for us to feel connected and me to not have my mom guilt,'' she says. Her daughter's stuffies have been to Sundance, rooftop restaurants in Thailand and elsewhere around the globe. 'We've got a cohort of well-traveled stuffies,'' she says. Stuffies, steamers or sound machines that help you sleep, it all adds up to a more pleasant trip away from home. Write to Dawn Gilbertson at
New York Times
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Dave Sims' ‘amazing' first week in Yankees radio booth: ‘Welcome to Home Run Derby'
Nope. He wasn't in Seattle anymore. Imagine you're Dave Sims, the new radio voice of the New York Yankees. It's last Thursday — Opening Day — and your heart is thumping. It's your first day on the job of a lifetime. You're the proud successor to the legendary John Sterling. You've been thinking about this day, this game, for months. Preparing your notes. Preparing to deliver a message of appreciation and anticipation. You have three hours of baseball ahead of you to put your thoughts into words. And then … The home runs start flying through the New York sky. One after another after another … Starting with the very first Yankee to come to the plate since you settled into this booth — Austin Wells … leading off the season with a home run … and setting the stage for a 15-homer barrage before you've made it through your first weekend in the gig. Advertisement So Dave, anything happening with the Yankees since you showed up? 'Naaah,' Sims told me and Doug Glanville on the new episode of our Starkville podcast. 'I took a subway ride off to the ballpark — and then … next thing you know, it was: 'Hi, everybody, and welcome to Home Run Derby.'' No broadcaster has ever started their career with a new team quite like that. That's just a fact. Fifteen home runs in your first series in the booth? Have we mentioned that the new voice of the Yankees was not in Seattle anymore? He'd spent 18 great seasons there, and loved every minute of them. But he's an East Coast kind of guy, a former New York sportswriter and talk show host, and a man who has spent the past 50 years living in New York when he wasn't calling baseball games in Seattle. So when Sims awoke before dawn on Opening Day, his adrenaline was already flowing. He was jotting down notes by 6 a.m., pedaling on the Peloton before 8 a.m., riding the subway to the stadium by mid-morning. And then his day really became a blur. The handshakes. The congratulations. The catching up. The clubhouse meetings. And by that 3 p.m. first pitch, it hit him. 'I'm exhausted — at 2:45,' Sims said. 'And then … Wells goes deep. I mean, are you kidding? Come on. It's one of those deals where I went: This is really happening. Wow. I mean, Minute One of the regular season? Voice of the Yankees? That's amazing.' There are many cool things about calling baseball games in Seattle. Firing up all your signature home run calls would not be one of them. In the 18 seasons Sims spent in Seattle, the Yankees hit over 800 more home runs than the Mariners — oh, and also narrowly outhomered them in the postseason, by a count of 138-4. It took the Mariners three weeks to hit 15 home runs last season. It took the Yankees three games to hit 15 this season. Could there have been a more powerful reminder that not all baseball broadcasting jobs are made the same? Advertisement 'I love those guys,' Sims said of everyone in Seattle. 'But, good grief, nothing compares. I had two unbelievable moments there — that Cal Raleigh home run to send us to the playoffs in '22 and the Félix Hernández (perfect game) in '12. Those were monumental. But on this stage? In this town? Where I live? It's the New York Yankees, franchise of franchises.' Had this opportunity never presented itself, Sims would still have been a happy man, leading an idyllic life. He'd become a face (and voice) of Seattle baseball. He'd won two Emmys … and three straight Washington sportscaster of the year awards. He appeared on a Ford C. Frick Award ballot as a candidate for the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was quite a run. And those Washingtonians were sad to see him go. But when the Yankees are offering you a spot in one of the most hallowed radio booths in America, you don't say: 'Yeah, but it's tough to leave the cedar plank salmon.' 'I was talking to my wife about this,' Sims said. 'To be in the same — I won't say the same sentence or paragraph — but at least maybe the same page as Mel Allen and Red Barber and Bill White and Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer, I think at the end of the season it will really blow me away. But right now, I'm so focused on just doing the job, having fun and doing it the right way.' Nevertheless, as a self-professed lifelong 'broadcast nerd,' Sims doesn't need a media guide to know who has preceded him in that Yankees radio booth. 'Growing up in Philly … I knew, (at) World Series time, it was always Mel Allen. When I moved to New York and I was at the Daily News, I knew it was Scooter (Rizzuto) and Bill White and Frank Messer. Bobby Mercer (was) in there. I know the late, great Greg Gumbel had a time in there. Paul Olden. Geez, Charley Steiner. I am well aware of the guys who have been in that booth. And boy, it is nice to have my name next to them, I tell you.' Advertisement And then there's Sterling, the man who called Yankees games for 36 seasons, in his own, distinctive way. But just as Sims didn't step into Dave Niehaus' shoes in Seattle and get out the rye bread, the age of 'Judge-ian' blasts in the Bronx is also over. In the broadcasting business, there's a balancing act between honoring those who came before you but still being yourself. Sims not only understands that tightrope walk but also understands just what it means to succeed a legend. 'Well, I'm honored,' he said. 'I've known John since 1977. He was the voice of the Nets. I was covering the Nets with the Daily News. We don't hang out, but professionally, we've seen each other every year — a couple or three times a year. And certainly, his work spoke for itself. The only thing I can do is come in and (be myself). 'John said: 'I want to do my act.' He did it his way. I have my newspaper training behind me, along with a lot of time with the late, great Marty Glickman, who was like the guru, the rabbi of so many New York broadcasters, on how to do radio.' But even Glickman couldn't prepare him for calling back-to-back-to-back homers on the first three pitches of a game … or 15 home runs in one series … or explaining what the heck a torpedo bat is and what it might mean for the sport. Sims, 72, talked about all of that on Starkville — plus how he almost got hired by the Yankees over a decade ago — and much more. But he also put into words exactly how special it is to find yourself starting your dream job … a half-century into your career. 'I wasn't meant to be a mathematician,' Sims said, 'or a chemist working in a mortuary or anything like that. I've been around sports all my life. I tell guys I saw Wilt Chamberlain like five, six times a year — live. I saw Jim Brown every year — live at (Philadelphia's) Franklin Field — for about five, six years. I saw (Willie) Mays, (Hank) Aaron, (Roberto) Clemente, (Bob) Gibson, (Don) Drysdale, (Sandy) Koufax. … 'I love this stuff,' Sims said. 'And to be able to be calling games these last 18 years, and now with the Yankees? I mean, there's a great song on Broadway … 'If My Friends Could See Me Now.' I've got some guys back in North Philly; I'd like to say, 'Yo man. Hey. Take that.'' You can find the whole conversation with Sims, plus fun stolen base trivia and a Strange But True look at the Yankees' nine-homer game last Saturday here. (Top photo of Austin Wells: Mike Stobe / Getty Images)
