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Yankees Announcer Fires Back at Former NFL MVP Over Early Criticism
Yankees Announcer Fires Back at Former NFL MVP Over Early Criticism originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When the New York Yankees traveled to California for a May series against the Athletics, they had a notable name missing from their traveling party—and, luckily for their sake, it wasn't Aaron Judge or Max Fried. Advertisement First-year Yankees radio announcer Dave Sims took that series off and instead flew to Seattle, the Yankees' next stop on their West Coast road trip, to spend time with his son. Sims rejoined the Yankees several days later for their three-game set against the Mariners. At the time, longtime NFL quarterback and New York radio host Boomer Esiason slammed Sims for taking a series off '40 games into his career' as the Yankee announcer. Although Esiason clarified that he enjoys Sims' work, the 1988 NFL MVP also wondered how and why a first-year play-by-play would skip a series so early in the season. 'You just took the Yankee job!' Esiason said then. 'It's supposed to be the job of your life.' Sims fired back on the 'Awful Announcing Podcast,' explaining that the Yankees and WFAN approved his decision beforehand. Advertisement Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason in 2023Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK 'If you look at the schedules of just about every broadcaster in the major leagues, they take time off,' Sims said. 'It's not like I took time off Labor Day in the middle of a pennant race. 'It was May — almost middle May — and I wanted to see my son,' Sims continued. 'And it was the only time we were going to be going out west, and we had some things we had to take to him ... I wasn't going to make my wife do that.' Neither Esiason nor WFAN had commented at publication. WFAN airs Esiason's morning show and also holds the Yankees' local radio rights. Related: Jazz Chisholm Jr. Has Unexpected 2025 Home Run Derby Odds This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
New York Post
2 days ago
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Yankees announcer Dave Sims fires back at Boomer Esiason over games he ‘blew off'
Yankees radio announcer Dave Sims has no regrets about taking time off in May to see his son, despite his WFAN colleague's dismay. Sims, in his first year in the Yankees booth after taking over for the retired John Sterling, addressed Boomer Esiason criticizing him for taking the Yankees-A's series off just more than a month into his first season calling Bombers games. 'People in our business — in this line of business — take time off,' Sims, who was the Mariners' TV play-by-play voice for the previous 18 years, said on the Awful Announcing podcast. 'I have a son in Seattle. And the three games I blew off were in Sacramento. If you look at the schedules of just about every broadcaster in the major leagues, they take time off. It's not like I took time off Labor Day in the middle of a pennant race. It was May — almost middle May — and I wanted to see my son. And it was the only time we were going to be going out west, and we had some things we had to take to him, yada, yada, yada. I wasn't going to make my wife do that. Yankees radio announcer Dave Sims (r.) talks to manager Aaron Boone (l.) Getty Images 'The radio station said, 'Fine, you have X amount of days off. If those are the days you want to take off, hey, you're good. We got you covered for it. Safe travels.'' Esiason was in disbelief that Sims, 72, would take a series off at the time. 'I've worked with Dave, great guy,' Esiason said on the 'Boomer and Gio' show on May 12. '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.' There is 'plenty of time in the offseason' to be with family and friends, Esiason went on. Boomer Esiason Getty Images '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.' Esiason and his radio partner, Gregg Giannotti, were out last week on vacation.
Los Angeles Times
19-06-2025
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- Los Angeles Times
Why is Dodger Stadium SO LOUD? ‘It's just all part of an entertainment show'
The two New York teams dropped by Dodger Stadium a couple of weeks ago, first the Yankees and then the Mets, and broadcasters for each team made sure to complain about how loud it was. 'The Dodger Stadium center field speakers are in full assault mode,' Yankees radio voice Dave Sims tweeted. On the ESPN Sunday night broadcast from Dodger Stadium that week, Karl Ravech introduced an in-game interview with the Dodgers' Tommy Edman this way: 'He's in center field now, being blasted by, I think, arguably the loudest speaker system I have ever heard in my life.' Notwithstanding the audacity of New Yorkers whining about someone else's volume, the broadcasters did lend their distinguished voices to a long-running debate among Dodgers fans: Is it loud at Dodger Stadium, or is it too loud? 'It's just all part of an entertainment show,' Mookie Betts said. 'There is no 'too loud.'' Organists Helen Dell and Nancy Bea Hefley soothed generations of fans, but the traditional soundtrack to a Dodgers game has gone the way of $10 parking and outfield walls free of advertisements. The fan experience now includes a finely choreographed production at virtually every moment except when the ball is in play, and that includes recorded music, cranked up. 'We don't make it louder just to make it louder,' said Lon Rosen, the Dodgers' executive vice president and chief marketing officer. 'It's all part of what fits in the presentation.' And the players, the ones whose performance determines whether the Dodgers win or lose, love the presentation. 'I think it's great,' Clayton Kershaw said. 'Even on the road, I'd rather have that than quiet. St. Louis was just really quiet. It almost felt like golf at times. 'The louder, the more fun, the better. The Dodgers have the best sound system out there. So why not use it?' Said former Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen: 'When I used to come out to 'California Love,' that thing used to bang. The bass they have, you can feel that thing shake in your chest.' Just how loud is it at the ballpark? To find out, I downloaded a decibel meter and visited Southern California's three major league ballparks during an eight-day span this month. At Dodger Stadium, I walked around the ballpark, and up and down to different levels, but the readings were relatively consistent no matter where someone might be sitting. Bottom line: It's pleasant at Angel Stadium, lively at Petco Park, booming at Dodger Stadium. Caveat: Even with all other things equal, it always will be louder at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers sell 50,000 tickets to a game more often than not; no other major league ballpark even holds 50,000. At 60 and 30 minutes before game time, as fans settled into the ballpark, Angel Stadium and Petco Park registered in the 65-75 dB range, roughly the sound of a normal conversation on the low end and household appliances on the high end. The introduction of the home team lineup registered in the 80-85 dB range at Angel Stadium, 85-90 dB at Petco Park, and 90-95 dB at Dodger Stadium, roughly the sound of a noisy restaurant at the low end and power tools on the high end. The high-end levels would be hazardous if sustained throughout the evening, but sounds ebb and flow as the game does. (Decibel levels are measured logarithmically, so an increase of 10 dB means sound is heard 10 times louder and an increase of 20 dB means sound is heard 100 times louder.) The highest levels at any stadium occur not when a voice pleads 'Get loud!' or 'Everybody clap your hands!' but organically, as the result of a big moment in the game. My decibel meter hit 100 dB twice during my three test games: immediately after the Angels' Travis d'Arnaud homered in Anaheim, and as the Dodgers' Will Smith slid safely into home plate with the tying run at Dodger Stadium, as the opposing catcher tagged him but dropped the ball. What distinguishes the Dodger Stadium experience is the hour or so before the game starts. The Angels offer music, spotlight fans on the video board, and 'invite you to enjoy the hospitality of Angel Stadium.' The Dodgers impose a relentlessly loud pregame show, with hype guys and hype girls, pounding away well above the 65-75 dB levels in Anaheim and San Diego, with dB readings into the 80s. The Dodgers' pregame show attempts to force anticipation upon the audience, as if that is somehow necessary. It's not. You're about to see Shohei Ohtani! There is always something happening before the game in the center field plaza: a band, product giveaways, Instagram-worthy photo opportunities, the live pregame broadcast for SportsNet LA. You can get hyped there, if you like. Or you can enjoy a conversation with your friends in your seats, instead of getting a headache before the game even starts. Tyler Anderson, who pitches for the Angels now and used to pitch for the Dodgers, said he finds no fault in the traditional way of presenting the game, or in the Dodgers' way. 'It's like you're trying to turn that venue into one of the best bars in town, where you just go to the bar and listen to loud music and people are having a good time,' Anderson said. 'I think that's the atmosphere they're trying to create. It's a fun atmosphere for the fans too. 'And then some places are more family-based. They'd rather have kids and older families, and young kids and grandkids coming to games. They probably have less of a party atmosphere and less of a bar kind of atmosphere. 'There is no right or wrong way.' In his ESPN in-game interview, Edman called the Dodgers' sound system both 'absolutely absurd' and 'great.' I asked Edman about that seeming contradiction. 'That was one of the things that stuck out to me my first time playing here, just how loud the speakers are,' he said. 'You can't hear yourself think.' He got used to it, and to how he need not be distracted because the sound shuts off 'once the play actually starts.' He likes it now. 'It makes it more fun,' he said. 'It's like a big league game.' The Dodgers' game presentation is creative and compelling. And, instead of eliminating the beloved organ, the Dodgers include talented organist Dieter Ruehle as part of the show. Really, just tone down the pregame hour, and we're good. Rosen shrugged off the notion that the Dodgers should tone down anything. If fans did not enjoy the production, he wondered, why would they keep packing Dodger Stadium? 'It's really not any louder than any other of the more popular stadiums,' Rosen said. He might be onto something. Veteran baseball columnist Bob Klapisch reported that, during last month's Yankees-Mets series at Yankee Stadium, 'the decibel levels at the stadium routinely reached the mid-90s.' That, Mr. Yankee Announcer, would be 'full assault mode.'
New York Post
18-05-2025
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- 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
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- 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.'
