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Yankees: Luke Voit has NSFW celebration live on YES broadcast during spring opener

Thomas Carannante|
Feb 23, 2021; Tampa, Florida, USA;New York Yankees first baseman Luke Voit (59) during batting practice at spring training workouts at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 23, 2021; Tampa, Florida, USA;New York Yankees first baseman Luke Voit (59) during batting practice at spring training workouts at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

Luke Voit popped on the YES Network broadcast of the New York Yankees spring training opener against the Toronto Blue Jays to talk with the booth. Pretty awesome, right?

Well, awesome for the viewers, and not entirely for the network. It sounds like CC Sabathia’s on-air skills have rubbed off on the Yankees’ slugging first baseman.

Trailing 5-1 against the Blue Jays, the Bombers orchestrated a bit of a comeback in the fifth inning, with catcher Rob Brantly cranking a two-run homer — the team’s first of the spring — to make it a 5-3 game.

As Brantly crossed home plate and made his way to the dugout, the broadcast team asked Voit to provide some analysis and break down the swing.

That “analysis” gave the fans an inside look of the good old dugout speak. Voit let a cuss word slip live on the air.

His response when he realized? “Oooo sorry.”

Yankees slugger Luke Voit accidentally cursed live on the YES Broadcast

What did you expect? Voit LOVES hitting bombs. He’s the reigning home run champion. There’s no way we weren’t going to hear some sort of excitement-based profanity.

On that note, can we keep Voit on the broadcast, please? In the very next at-bat, Mike Tauchman sent a missile out to right field for a solo homer of his own. Just like that, it was only a one-run deficit.

“Ohhh Mikey! Do it!” That’s a 371-foot tank for Tauchman, who is in the midst of a heated position battle this spring.

Thankfully, Voit kept this one PG for the folks at home when Tauch returned to the dugout. “That a boy, Mikey. Swing it.”

The only way to improve is learning from one’s mistakes, and for a guy whose lip-reading constantly reveals a “Let’s F—ing Go” at various times during the season, we have to say it’s a step in the right direction.

Foul language or not, let’s get Luke on the horn during games on a consistent basis moving forward. That would be “good sh-t.”

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