John Sterling is set to skip select Yankees games in the second half of the season, and WFAN has planned to use fill-in broadcasters for those games. The station has begun announcing the replacement voices for those games, so far road games. WFAN continued on Thursday naming replacements.
Carton and Roberts announced on their show the next two voices to take the reigns in Sterling’s absence. Sweeny Murti will head to the booth when the Yankees play the Houston Astros on June 30.
“I know it’s not going to be easy. I’m going to try and have some fun with it,” Murti said when asked by Craig Carton.
“I would hope that maybe I do a good enough job that maybe he’ll ask me to do it a couple more times along the way,” Murti announced. He also added, “I would really just like to do a good job so that I can pat myself on the back and say I did a good job and not too many flubs get played on the air the next day.”
The next fill-in was announced as Brendan Burke who will take the chair for a five-game road trip July 1-6 in Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Before Carton could finish crongratualting Burke, he jumped in.
“You guys need to understand, this is my great white buffalo, if you will. This is where I got the spark for being a broadcaster. When I was a kid my dad was the Yankee beat writer and so I used to sit between Sterling and (Michael) Kay in the booth when they were together when I was a nine-year-old .”
“To be able to bring this all the way around full-circle,” Burke continued, “is something that’s even more special than just broadcasting the crown jewel of Yankees radio.
