YES producer Troy Benjamin spends every night telling the story of Yankees games, but his own tale is a pretty good one. He grew up in Harlem and The Bronx, listening to WFAN, dreaming of working in sports.

“I wanted to be the black Chris Russo,” said Benjamin, 49. “That was the dream.”

That changed around 2000 when Benjamin found out what his good friend and MSG Network teammate at the time, Bill Boland, made as an associate director.

“I said, ‘How much you get paid?’” Benjamin said. “He said, ‘$67 per hour.’ I said, ‘What? I want to be an AD.’ I just wanted to go on that path.