John Sterling mistakes Shane Bieber for Justin Bieber on Yankees radio broadcast

Yankees broadcaster John Sterling mixed up Indians pitcher Shane Bieber with pop star Justin Bieber.

Justin Bieber is a renowned pop star who’s beloved all over the world, but apparently that love doesn’t extend to the Cleveland Indians dugout.

In Game 1 of the AL Wild Card series Tuesday night, New York Yankees radio broadcaster John Sterling mixed up Indians pitcher Shane Bieber with singer Justin Bieber, which is apparently a big no-no in the pitcher’s book.

“I got a note from Jack Maldonado, who hears everything,” Sterling said on the call. “And he said, ‘You just called him Justin Bieber instead of Shane,’ and Shane hates that whole thing.”

As the broadcast team went on to mention, opposing teams in college used to heckle Shane Bieber with the whole Justin Bieber thing, calling him “Baby Boy” and anything else related to the pop star, and Shane Bieber hated every minute of it.

While JB has since progressed into producing some legitimate bangers these days, apparently Shane is feeling something like young Mike Bolton feels toward Michael Bolton in the cult classic Office Space: absolutely annoyed when people compare him to his celebrity name-alike.

Bieber couldn’t hear his name be mistaken for JB’s, but he had a rough night either way, giving up 9 hits and 7 runs in 4.2 innings pitched as the Yankees held an 11-2 lead midway through the seventh inning.

No one likes to have their name confused with a more famous celebrity, especially when said celebrity started off as a scrawny 16-year-old crooning “Baby” over and over into a microphone alongside Usher, but if he wants to put the comparisons behind him, mixups like this don’t help. At least the broadcasters caught Sterling’s error and corrected it?