
New York Yankees broadcaster John Sterling was helped out of his flooding car by Spanish radio play-by-play man Rickie Ricardo on Wednesday night after Sterling got stuck trying to drive home after a game.
Sterling’s broadcast partner, Suzyn Waldman, called Ricardo as he was trying to find a route to his home in New Jersey and told him that Sterling was stuck in his car on River Road in Edgewater, New Jersey, just over the George Washington Bridge.
“I’ve seen how bad it gets flooded on River Road in Edgewater, and with the kind of rain we had, I can only imagine,” Ricardo said. “So I said, ‘Suzyn, I’m on my way. I more or less know where he lives. I’ll figure out where he’s at and see what I can do.'”
Ricardo called Sterling and kept him on the phone until he found him in one of roughly 25 vehicles stuck in flooding that covered the tires of most cars. Ricardo, who drives a Jeep, pulled up behind Sterling’s car and helped him get out of the vehicle. He said it took them an hour to find a clear path to Sterling’s apartment about a half-mile away, but he eventually got Sterling there safely.
Read more at ABC7.
{Matzav.com}
There is something not right about this story. Please yidden avoid River Rd during a Ida. Hamaven yovin.
BARUCH HASHEM!
Phew! What a close call!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REPORTING THIS VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION!
My shabbos will be much calmer now.
I hope he saved Lucy too.
That car was low, it was far, it was caught by the wall!!
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees lose. They lose.