Joel Sherman is a sportswriter for the New York Post. He is also a baseball insider with MLB Network and co-hosts with Jon Heyman the baseball podcast The Show. He was born and raised in Canarsie in Brooklyn, New York.He graduated from NYU in 1985. Sherman worked for both the in-house Washington Square News as well as the UPI while at NYU. Sherman joined the New York Post in 1989 and served as a beat writer writing about the New York Yankees from 1989 to 1995. In 2013 Sherman joined MLB Network as an insider. Sherman has been a voter for the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1998.