On Tuesday afternoon, the Yankees "broadcaster" met with a small group of media to issue an apology for his over-enthusiastic "A-Bomb from A-rod" home run celebration call. Sterling has come under fire from many Japanese-American groups for what is deemed as insensitivity towards the victims of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Holding up a sign which read "I'm Sorry" in Japanese, Sterling spoke to the crowd. "I tend to get very excited in the booth and I just go with the first thing I can think of.", Sterling told group "It's easy to forget that over 100,000 people have lost their lives because of the A-Bomb. I think in the future I have to be more careful and I am very sorry to those I have offended."
This is not the first time Sterling has come under fire. Earlier this year the announcer was named as the defendant in a class action lawsuit filed by a concerned group of baseball fans. The suit, which was eventually dismissed, alleged that fans were getting into car accidents because they were concentrating too hard on the radio trying to decipher what the heck was going on in the Yankee game.
The Apple caught up with Hideki Matsui, who was in town with the Angels, and asked what he thought of John Sterling's comments. Speaking through an interpreter, Matsui said, "Who is John Sterling?"
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