Miscues put Sterling in shticky situations

WHY US? Reader Brian Keenan asks why John Sterling continues to describe to a radio audience what’s happening when he

knows it is not happening. Specifically, Keenan asks why last week he described a Didi Gregorius home run as “It is high! ... It is far! ...” then next telling his audience, “It was a line-drive bullet”?

That is an easy one. He just doesn’t care. He always has put his self- smitten, worn-out and inaccurate signature calls ahead of all else.

That is why the moment Dwight Gooden’s 1996 no-hitter was completed, Sterling went with his affected and elongated, they’re-all-thesame, “Thaaaah Yankees win!” — before reporting Gooden just threw a nohitter.

That remains the call that best — or worst — typifies Sterling’s placement of sense of self above sense of games and professional responsibility .

Then this from reader Willie Luncheonette, who tuned in to Wednesday’s Reds-Yanks radio to hear Sterling report on a Gregorius at-bat: “First pitch, low inside ... but called a strike by the umpire.” Outside of Mike Fran

cesa, no one in New York over the past 25-plus years has provided more bad radio guesswork than Sterling. Unlike Francesa, however, Sterling kinda, sorta has to admit it, often needing another stab or two and an excuse or two before getting it right.

Finally, from reader/ sportswriter Doug

Branch: “Whenever I listen to Sterling I hear a man doing an imitation of Ted Baxter.”

A question bold, fearless WFAN/CBSSN hosts Craig Carton and Week- day Boomer Esiason haven’t yet asked N.J.’s selfentitled Gov. Chris

Christie, as he continues to spend hour after hour in WFAN’s studio, daylighting as a sports talk wannabe:

“Why aren’t you being impeached or recalled for dereliction of sworn duty?”

Here’s hoping the current candidates for N.J. governor are asked if they regard the position as parttime or seasonal work?