One of you Yankee fans explain to me who Suzyn Waldman's talentless is sleeping with to keep her job. She seriously is the worst announcer I have ever heard. She sounds like she has marbles in her mouth and she stumbles over her words constantly. The Yankees radio broadcasts are unbearable thanks to her..... She isn't even a good looking woman, she hit every branch on the ugly tree. Somebody please explain this to me.....
I never liked Waldman as an announcer even when she was doing some Devils stuff. She is a decent guest from time to time on the radio shows. I also think that she does get some breaks because of the whole breast cancer thing she went through.
Personally, I like her. She has been covering the Yankees exclusively since WFAN first took over 660 from WHN (a country music station.) She has access to members of the organization no one else could even dream of. Any day of the week, I would take her over Tim McCarver, who the Mets let stick around for waaaaaaay too long.
Oh McCarver is terrible..... he's bad but not as bad as Waldman. I still can't stand Joe "the only reason I have a great job is because my dad was a legend" Buck Now Vin Scully is the man, I will go out of my way to watch the Dodger games just to listen to Vin and he is one the nicest guys I've ever met on top of it.
I suspect she has gone down on George. My wife and I scream at the TV when she talks. She is absolutely HORRIBLE.
Yeah, that's exactly it. She's put in a lot of years as a reporter for the Yankees and has walked the company line for Steinbrenner and then for YES whenever asked. Working with Stirling is her "reward." BTW working with Stirling is the best thing that ever could've happened to her because anybody looks like a genious working with him.
I'll take Sterling over Kay any day. I remember when Sterling/Kay was a great team on the radio, while the Yankee games were still miserable to listen to.
The only thing in announcing worse than John Sterling... is Michael Kay. Actually, I don't dislike Sterling as much as most. But Kay is the anti-Christ. Although, Fran Healy is worse than both. Good thing he doesn't do games anymore.
Kay's an idiot but he has Jim Kaat, Ken Singleton and Bobby Murcer to cover up his mistakes and make the games enjoyable to listen to. Not only does Sterling do the games more or less by himself, uninterupted, he turns the broadcast into "The John Sterling Show" instead of the Yankee game. Case in point: his stupid catch phrases. An A-Bomb from A-Rod! It is High! It is far! The Giambino! The BamTino! Bernie Goes Boom! THEEEEEEEEEEE Yankees Win! It drives me insane.
I know I am in the minority, but I can't stand Singleton and Kaat. Both of them throw too many "Well, when I was playing, we did it this way..." out there. Murcer only tells about his experience when asked, and only gives relevant information. The team I would like on YES would be Murcer, Leiter, O'Neil. Those three only say what needs to be said, when it is appropriate. Everyone else could be left behind and I would never miss them.
When you realize Sterling is just all shtick you realize he's pretty harmless... in fact if you laugh at it and take it at face value it can actually be entertaining, even his constant verbal fumbles. He is bad at play by play which makes his games hard to listen to, but whatever... I don't listen to him much anyway. The thing about the rest of the NYY team that's so annoying (Kay/Waldman) is that they actually attempt to be taken seriously, and believe they are good at analyzing baseball. So then you get these goofball NYY fans that take their words as gospel because they have no idea how to analyze the game themselves. For instance Kay said something about Jeter not breaking bones in his hands when he gets HBP yesterday…. which is by any standards just dumb luck… yet last night at the bar some guy is telling me Jeter has the strongest hands in baseball and that they were talking about it during the game LOL! I know every fan base has fools like this, but when your main announcers are so overwhelming homers and total morons, it magnifies the effect. Singleton makes me laugh... he reminds my of some smoothed out 1960's hip cat beatnick.
This is probably the best point made in the thread. The biggest issue is that many "Yankee fans" actually take this crew of rejects seriously! It makes me laugh when Kay will ask questions about playing to the other guys. I am just waiting for the day when one of the old players says "Look you worthless piece of crap, we all realize you were a fat, ugly, uncoordinated turd when you were a kid, now shut the hell up and let me watch the game!" If Kay didn't know the stats he does (which I think he looks up anyway) he would have no job. I used to really like him with Sterling. I thought that team brought a very good mix of knowledge and personality to the broadcast booth, but they have both become victims of their own success. They act like celebrities, not realizing, or perhaps not caring, that no one gives a damn about them now that the Yankees are interesting to watch. The filled in the void left by White and Rizzuto very well back in the dark 80s, but those days are long gone now.
I don't care for Her much. But as far as Sterling,Kay,Murcer etc. I find the Yankee broadcasts to be pretty entertaining compared to most. I listen a lot on XM and some of these teams have the most boring broadcasters ever.
July 31, 2006 -- IN YANKEE ads Michael Kay voices for the YES Network he exclaims, "Pride, Power, Pinstripes." It may be time to officially add Propaganda. This weekend, when it came to the booing of Alex Rodriguez, YES - as if scripted by the Yankees - chose to either ignore the issue or accentuate the positive. On Friday the YES-produced Ch. 9 telecast failed to even show the crowd's reaction as Rodriguez walked to the plate for his first at-bat in The Bronx since the epic "To boo or not to boo" debate peaked with Rudy from Manhattan taking a moment from plotting a presidential run to call WFAN. Despite the monumental buildup, Ch. 9 chose a pitch-by-pitch replay of a Jason Giambi strikeout instead of A-Rod and the fans. When Rodriguez was neatly tucked in the batter's box, Kay said, "Here is Alex Rodriguez, who just got a very warm hand from the crowd." Wow. That would have been nice to see and hear. During Rodriguez' second and third strolls to the plate, drop-in advertisements, voiced by Kay, superseded the crowd's reaction. While we couldn't see or hear for ourselves, Kay and Bobby Murcer informed (propagandized?) us that Yankee fans love Rodriguez and he works really, really hard. On Saturday, Kay said his "work ethic is amazing" and "it is not for show." On Friday, Murcer said there were "a lot of cheers tonight for Alex Rodriguez." Kay told us, the fans were chanting "A-Rod's" name. But yesterday on YES, when Rodriguez struck out three times and the boos were easy to pick up from our couch, neither Kay nor Murcer somehow heard a thing. There seems to be only two explanations. Either the network is turning its baseball games into state-sponsored telecasts. A YES spokesman denied this charge. Or YES totally missed the A-Rod story. Either way, it smells. * http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/yes_on_a_rod__shhh__yankees_andrew_marchand.htm
2 things need to be kept in mind about this: 1) Kay is a YES schill, there's nothing he can do about that. Let's be honest, who else is gonna hire him if he runs afoul of YES executives? 2) The NY Post has had an axe to grind with YES since it's inception for some reason (especially Phil Mushnick.) It's kind of like the boy who cried wolf--they "call" YES on so many minor or unimportant details that when they have a real outrage it's hard to believe that they aren't just overexaggerating again.
I think the points in this story are totally legit, if they weren't you'd be attacking the story instead of trying to undermind the source.
