Dick Stockton Wants You To Stay In The Game

"On The DL" podcast host Dan Levy will be checking in on The Sporting Blog twice per week with a look at sports media. Be sure to visit his podcast every weekday. We all know veteran play-by-play man Dick Stockton is a pro’s pro, but did you realize he is also quite a man’s man? There’s no other way to describe the sage bit of wisdom dropped by Stockton during the eighth inning of Saturday’s Angels and Yankees game. Stockton is still going strong in the booth, even into his mid-to-late sixties, and two pitches before an Alex Rodriguez home run in the late stages of an Angels victory over the Yankees, Stockton gave the older chaps in the viewing audience a little life advice. No lower-third chyron with a graphic of a man peppering up his salt. No obnoxious Valspar-like paint apparatus swiping across the screen with black hair dye dripping from its bristles. This was just Dick Stockton, serving the aging public, telling us how t...