Notre Raison d'être est morte !

I can no longer access images via google ( I'll work with Mustang to get this corrected ), but I can't let this day pass without comment.  

John Sterling, our " reason for being" is dead.  In his 87th year, I believe.

"What," as the French writer , Albert Camus, once said, " do we do now?"

The honorifics and messages of condolence will last but a few days. 

Do we carry on as if unaffected?

As a line in one of my favorite country song states, " a link in that chain has been broken."

Can we continue to represent this man now that he is calling games for Babe Ruth and Lou?

I still remember meeting John on two occasions;  at the mayor's mansion in NYC after a World Series win, and in a bar in Tampa during spring training ( he was drinking martinis).

"It is high, it is far...." will live forever.  For John and all his calls. 

I'll drink to that