Charlie Steiner fights back. Weakly ...
"From the beginning of spring training until the end of the postseason, between pregame shows, the game broadcasts and the postgame shows, John Sterling and I are on the air between 800 and 900 hours a season. We are on the air without the benefit of a backspace on our keyboard, without a delete button, without a script, without anything but our eyes, brains and mouths. We don't have the luxury of crafting award-winning words that some of those fine critics of our work have. Anyone can sit and listen and find something, anything, to second-guess or to complain about over the course of a broadcast or a season.
So do we notice? Yes. Are they occasionally insightful? Yes. Have they become increasingly personal? Yes. Why? You'll have to ask them."
Why is he asking himself so many rhetorical questions? Just to answer those questions himself? I don't know. Does he sound a wee bit defensive? Yes. Does Charlie Steiner really have eyes, brain, and a mouth, as he claims? Two out of three ain't bad.
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