John Sterling goes too far with Marcus Thames call

I was busy for most of Labor Day weekend, so I didn’t get to see much of what was happening in Yankeeland (although Squawker Jon and I did watch a bunch of the Dallas Braden game when we were eating clam strips at Martell’s Tiki Bar!)

But I did hear John Sterling make a horrifying call — maybe his worst yet — about Marcus Thames. Sterling exhorted, “Happy Thames are here again” over a Thames hit. Um, no. It’s “Happy DAYS Are Here Again.” So the play on words here — using Thames as the word Times — makes no sense. If Sterling wants to say something about “Good Thames” or something, that would be one thing. But you can’t just willy-nilly throw in Thames’ name in the “Happy Thames” scenario. It just sounds terrible!

Speaking of terrible, it figures that when I sit down to watch a full game last night, like I did to watch CC Sabathia go for No. 20 against the Baltimore Orioles, that CC would lose his first game at Yankee Stadium in over a year. Bummer.

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