NYC's Weak Sisters, 2007 (part II)

[soupcan]

="Centerfield"]Nicknames aside, Raissman has really been cranking them out of the park this year. It's nice to see someone in the media call out those MFY broadcasters for what they are.

Now if he would just shave that squirrel off his face he might approach respectability...

[Frayed Knot]

Pssst Suzyn, it's not just MadDog ... EVERYONE is making fun of your Clemens rant!

[nymr83]

I'm with Russo on this one. She acted like an IDIOT on the radio and he is free to call her out on it. If she doesn't like it she should try harder not to sound like some screeching kid over the airwaves.

[Guest Edgy DC]

seawolf17: "Ruined her life?" Come on, Susan. First, you brought this on yourself by acting like the N64 kid. Second, you've been in NY long enough to have a thicker skin than that.

/Edgy DC Googles "N64 Kid" and figures out reference.

Edgy DC: I know, come on!

[Guest iramets]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: You're probably not totally wrong. However, I do remember us mocking David Wright for some of his "golly gee" comments, and his endorsement of that feces drinking guy. We made fun of Mike Piazza for his metrosexuality and his comment about how history moves chronologically through time. And I think we got on Keith Hernandez when he reacted to the female trainer in the San Diego dugout that time. I don't think the problem is that Mets employees don't get enough bile from us; I think that sometimes we're probably too quick to tear apart comments from sportswriters and sportscasters. It's okay to disagree with what they write, but at times we're too nitpicky about it.

Yes, these are all incidents where good-humored fun-poking was tolerated briefly. But if anyone tried to suggest that Piazza's metrosexuality (for example) was any way significant, telling, meaningful, symbolic, emblematic or had serious carryovers to his essence, I doubt whether that would go over nearly as well as the perpetual castigations of character of, say, a Bob Klapisch if he were discovered to have written a suspect line or image.

I'm not suggesting that I expect much different from a Mets fan site at this point. But I'll contrinue to advocate for an unbiased outlook--I just find that more interesting than the predictable pile-ons (and "Hey, get off him"s) that occur.

To me, ballplayers, managers, celebs in general are more interesting the more human they are, the more varied, the more flawed, etc. Randolph (to pick an arbitrary example) has strengths, no doubt, and weaknesses. I think his fans are perhaps a little too quick to celebrate (or even to invent) strengths and much too quick to excuse, apologize for or even deny the weaknesses.

But this is too much of a hijack, I think, in a thread otherwise devoted to piling on Suzyn Waldman, so maybe you should skip this point for now. I know I've made it often enough and I'll make it again elsewhere. Carry on.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

When I read "N64 Kid" I thought of this guy:

[seawolf17]

No, the N64 kid is definitely this kid:

[metirish]

A british view of the Mets/MFY series...chock full of cliches.

Cliches Here