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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.
New York Times
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The New York Yankees 2025: How to watch Aaron Judge and the Yanks this MLB season
It's about that time — for rattling trains to pull into the 161 St. stop, for right-field roll calls and spreading the news, for John Sterling impressions in every register. The New York Yankees? 'Da New York Yankees!' Watching this franchise fashions a pinstripe throughline across baseball's history. Different iterations have been the Evil Empire, 'the luckiest men on the face of the earth' and much in between. But watching all 162 games has never been more complicated due to the carousel of new streaming options and frustrating blackout rules. Advertisement Consider this your recap rundown of the ever-changing broadcast rotation. And make sure you're following the Yankees in your Athletic feed. Chris Kirschner and Brendan Kuty cover the team for us — they're among the very best in the Yanks' massive multiverse. Fubo is a cable-cutter streaming platform that provides local and national channels and add-on sports packages. Any game on YES, ESPN, Fox, or MLB Network can be streamed on Fubo (more on those below). TBS games cannot. What you need to watch these games: First, you'll need a Fubo subscription (the most MLB you can stream without cable). Most users can get away with the Pro plan for $84.99 a month. If you want 4K, the price increases to $94.99. For access to more games, there is the add-on, which streams every out-of-market game for $29.99 a month, and Sports Lite, which includes the MLB Network, NBA TV and the Tennis Channel for $9.99 a month. Cord-cutters in the New York tri-state area can catch the familiar trappings of Michael Kay and his crew with Fubo, DirecTV Stream or the à la carte Gotham Sports configuration. On there, the YES package goes for $200 per year (and includes the NBA's Brooklyn Nets), while a full $320 also gets MSG (with the New York Knicks, Rangers and Islanders, plus the nearby New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres). Hulu's live package recently lost YES, and it's been unavailable on YouTube TV for several years. Local streamers using the app will be met with a deflating blackout notice. What you need to watch these games: Fubo, DirecTV Stream, Gotham Sports Starting this season, Amazon will have 21 Yankees games, almost all of them streaming on Wednesday nights. It's the same YES production but will only be available on Prime. That's … different. As one Manhattanite put it, 'The Times They Are a-Changin'.' What you need to watch these games: A carrier that has YES From the Subway Series to Ryan Ruocco calling a languid summer Rays tilt, all of the YES broadcasts can be found on the following providers: Throughout the year, MLB Network picks up almost 300 local broadcasts for national audiences so out-of-towners can watch some YES games. Additionally, MLB Network offers 26 unique 'showcase' games that get original production but are not subject to local blackouts. In general, the package will give you the entire regular season (excluding national games and in-market games for your region), from the AL East to the NL West. Access to all teams on goes for a one-time $150. Fubo has an package for $29.99 a month. What you need to watch these games: MLB Network for some of them / for all of them The league has partnered with ESPN since 1990; that ends this fall. Yup, the purveyors of the iconic music are indeed opting out of their remaining baseball broadcasts. For this season, you'll still find select primetime Yanks matchups here, starting on Opening Day with the first Brewers game. The Sunday closer of the Subway Series is almost always on ESPN. Karl Ravech and Jon Sciambi are usually on the mic; former Yankee and regular YES-er David Cone pops up here, too, as does Buster Olney and Eduardo Pérez. Think Sundays, especially 'Sunday Night Baseball.' Advertisement There seems to be an annual Yankees-Red Sox game on Fox, and we get three this year (June 7 and 14, Aug. 21). New York will also run a World Series rematch with the LA Dodgers on May 31. Fox is where you'll hear Joe Davis or Adam Amin on the call, plus former players turned color commentators like John Smoltz and A. J. Pierzynski. Fox often has a Saturday spot. This is the Tuesday action. There's a lot of 'NYY' stamped around the first-half schedule: Tuesday, April 1 versus the Diamondbacks, May 6 versus the Padres, June 3 against Cleveland and June 10 against Kansas City. Brian Anderson does the TBS Tuesday games; Pedro Martínez, who these particular fans will recognize as the son of the Yankees, is in their studio show, along with four-year pinstriper Curtis Granderson. TBS games can also be streamed on Max. The purple metropolis now has 'MLB Sunday Leadoff' games free from blackout restrictions. The Yankees play here once: a June 22 morning matchup with the Baltimore Orioles. Similarly, there's one national look reserved for the team on Apple TV's Friday night slot. It'll be the opener of that Yankees-Dodgers series. That World Series grudge perfectly illustrates our primetime schedule at large: Apple TV on Friday, Fox on Saturday, ESPN on Sunday, and otherwise thoroughly blacked out for local viewers. Streaming and Betting/Odds links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic. Restrictions may apply. The Athletic maintains full editorial independence. Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication. (Photo by Jamie Squire / Getty Images)
