Casey Stern (born October 17, 1978, in
Massapequa, New York
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) is an American television personality and radio host who currently works for
Turner Sports
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and
Sirius XM Radio
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.
Career
Stern departed
MLB.com's BaseballChannel.tv, formerly MLB Radio where he was most recently host of the Fantasy 411. On April 28, 2006, he began hosting a half-hour television show on the Baseball Channel on
MLB.com called
MLB.com Midday. Stern hosted "State of the RedSox.com Nation" on the Redsox.com
until November 7. Peter McCarthy now hosts "State of the RedSox.com Nation". McCarthy took over from Stern on ''Under the Lights''. He also used to host ''Under the Lights'' on MLB Radio but left in November 2005 to pursue video at
MLB.com.
Stern is also a die-hard
New York Mets
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fan and hosted "Next Stop Shea" on Mets.com. Stern hosted ''The Bottom Line'' on the Baseball Channel which took over from ''Stayin' Hot'' with Seth and Bone when Darryl Hamilton left to work for MLB. He previously co-hosted the Fantasy 411 on the Baseball Channel with longtime hosts, Mike Siano and Cory Schwartz.
Turner Sports
During the October 17, 2015
TBS postgame coverage of Game 1 of the
NLCS
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, Stern issued an on-air apology for the apparent use of profanity when sending the broadcast to commercial. He took full responsibility for the "hot mic" incident and apologized to anybody he offended.
On March 31 and December 15, 2016, he hosted
TNT's pregame and postshow
NBA
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coverage, including ''
Inside the NBA'', substituting for
Ernie Johnson. He hosted the show of December 15, filling in for Johnson because of a family illness, on a day that was devoted to the death of sideline reporter
Craig Sager.
On August 26, 2016, Turner Sports reached a multi-year agreement with Stern to join Turner as a studio host for the
MLB on TBS and the
NBA on TNT
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, as well as
NCAA March Madness, replacing colleague
Matt Winer. Stern was later removed from March Madness for the
2020 NCAA tournament, which was canceled due to the
COVID-19 outbreak, as he was to be replaced by
CBS's Adam Zucker.
Personal life
Stern grew up in Massapequa and spent 13 years, as an adult, living in
Seaford.
References
External links
BaseballChannel.tv page on MLB.comMLB.coms Host Information PageNext Stop Shea show pageThe Midday show page– Bottom line show archive is on this page.
The Fantasy 411 blog*
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Living people
1978 births
People from Massapequa, New York
People from Seaford, New York
Participants in American reality television series
Major League Baseball broadcasters
NBA broadcasters
American television sports anchors
American radio personalities