Yankee Announcer Drinking Game

This list is an inferior imitation of the Mets version. Credit/blame goes to several of my friends for adding to the list.

One sip

• "It is high, it is far, it is gone."
• After the 15th out, John Sterling explains how you can save 15% on your car insurance.
• After a homerun, Suzyn Waldman analyzes the pitch location and determines it was right down the middle of the plate.
• One of Suzyn Waldman's keys to the game is that the Yankee pitchers need to keep the ball down.
• One of Suzyn Waldman's keys to the game is that the Yankee batters need to be patient.
  
• Paul O'Neill says, "You know?"
• John Sterling says, "Whoa!"
• Daily News Hometown inning goes by quickly.
  
• John Sterling mentions that baseball is different than other sports.
• John Sterling mentions that baseball is difficult to predict.
• Specifically, baseball is different than other sports because the most important player on the field changes every game.
• Specifically, baseball is different than other sports because baseball players can't physically dominate their opponent.
• Complaints about the length of the game.
• Complaints about the travel schedule.
• Complaints about the sound effects in the ballpark.
• Suzyn Waldman says something she thinks is funny, but you don't laugh.
• Suzyn Waldman explicitly describes the art of hitting a baseball or pitching a baseball, though she has never played major league baseball.
  
• Ken Singleton brings up Eddie Murray.
  
• Michael Kay brings up "Moneyball."
• Suzyn Waldman is impressed when Nick Swisher works the count full.
• A full count with two outs "helps the runners out."
• Fouling off a lot of pitches constitutes a good at-bat.
• Hitting the ball to the opposite field is a "good piece of hitting."
• Ordinary catch described as "one of the best plays you will ever see."
• Michael Kay doesn't understand why a fielder can't get an error on a flubbed double play.
• John Sterling decries the Yankee bad luck if an opposing batter gets a soft hit or if a Yankee player hits a line drive at a fielder.
• Al Leiter jokingly takes the pitcher's point of view while Paul O'Neill jokingly takes the batter's point of view.
• Al Leiter describes a pitcher's attribute as "plus."
  
• "Jeter-esque."

Two sips

• "It is high, it is far, it is caught."
• After the 15th out, John Sterling forgets to explain how you can save 15% on your car insurance.
• Michael Kay confuses Channel 9 for the YES Network.
• Ken Singleton brings up Earl Weaver.
• Al Leiter describes a pitcher's attribute as "plus-plus."
  
• Michael Kay contradicts something he said on his radio show.
• David Cone explains the pitcher's mindset during a particular game situation and concludes that the pitcher should try to minimize the number of runs allowed.
• Complaints about the Yankees' inability to hit young pitchers they've never seen before.
• Alex Rodriguez is best when he hits the ball to the opposite field.
• "Nominal first half" of the season.
• The runs scored in the top of the inning are not "validated" until the bottom of the inning is concluded.
• Michael Kay texts a newspaper columnist.
• Player records all three outs in one inning and Michael Kay announces the player just tied a record "held by many."
  
• John Sterling mocks the complaints of small-market teams.
• Lengthy radio silence because John Sterling is irritated with Yankee play.

Five sips

• Joe Girardi is referred to as Joe Torre.
• Robinson Cano is compared to Rod Carew.
• Paul O'Neill overhypes Melky Cabrera.
• Michael Kay mentions his 1976 trip to the first game at the refurbished Yankee Stadium.
• John Sterling mentions his triplets.
• Suzyn Waldman effusively praises the worst player on the team.
• John Sterling complains about an umpire who takes too long to indicate the ball/strike call.
• Michael Kay says a resting player is "getting a blow."

Ten sips

• John Sterling gives a homerun call for the wrong player.
• Suzyn Waldman says "goodness gracious."
• Suzyn Waldman weeps on the air.
• John Sterling mentions the Triple Play contest after an out has already been recorded in the inning.

Twenty sips

• Suzyn Waldman sings on the air.

Fifty sips

• John Sterling misses a game.