This might be a way for reversing the trend - sacrificing Sterling on the retirement altar.
You would be surprised at how many of us in Middle America know about Sterling (or Michael Kay) because of national sports radio top-of-the-hour updates playing their home-run calls. I think Sterling got an extra lift when Judge arrived and he could riff off of Judge's last name but yes, the Granderson stuff was bad.
“The Grandy-man can. Oh! The Grandy-man can!”