KTE MFY LOL

[Edgy MD]

JCL touches on what I'm trying to say. I wouldn't say I share his terror, but... .

Waldman's deference creeps me out, though. Sometimes she disappears for an entire inning and I forget she's there, and she just feeds him some stats from the data sheet she really doesn't seem to understand or doesn't seem to think it's her role to, but rather she's setting him up to pontificate on. She's like an assistant director who gets to occasionally be part of the show just to keep things colorful and familial --- like Gellman or Biff Henderson.

But I also have to say, much as I may snicker at Fman's deveiancy, the fact that she's a very rare woman doing what she does, and she's getting hammered with sexual innuendo, makes me more than a little uncomfortable. And the idea that the only(?) woman regularly working an in-game broadcast booth is taking the role of a subservient toady to a pompous caricature of a sonorous baritone dude almost makes it worse than not having any women at all.

As much as the Yankees deserve credit for crossing that line, they deserve perhaps an equal amount of discredit for how they crossed it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: Waldman's deference creeps me out, though... the idea that the only(?) woman regularly working an in-game broadcast booth is taking the role of a subservient toady to a pompous caricature of a sonorous baritone dude almost makes it worse than not having any women at all.

Oh, yes. A bit like, "Would you rather have this party mixtape be woman-free, or would you rather have a little 'Wives And Lovers,' 'He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss),' and 'Put It In Your Mouth' on there?"

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wow... I've never listened to him. I don't even know what his voice sounds like.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Here's a pretty good example of Sterling in full befuddlement.

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[Fman99]

Edgy MD wrote: But I also have to say, much as I may snicker at Fman's deveiancy, the fact that she's a very rare woman doing what she does, and she's getting hammered with sexual innuendo, makes me more than a little uncomfortable.

In my own defense, I did a KTE a few years ago that was a mock conversation on "Loudmouths" between Adam Schein and Chris Carlin and it had an equal amount of crass sexual humor. I don't discriminate.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're on TV or the radio talking about baseball, and you're not Cohen, Rose, Ron, Keith or Josh, you're just another paid Moe with a (cartoonishly awesome) dick in your mouth.

[Frayed Knot]

I LOVE John Sterling, and I'm terrified of those reports suggesting the MFYs will dump him after this year. I'm serious, I really like listening to him. I like that he's ridiculously pompous and gets confused way too often. I like that he never appears on camera anymore but always wears a suit to the ballpark. I like the way he says "Thuh-uh pitch.. a fast strike..." I often agree with him when he says "Y'know Suzyn, you just can't predict baseball. You can't!" I admire him for so shamelessly serving up cheese, knowing by now that everyone expects it from him. I like that there's someone out there with the balls to think we're actually entertained when the announcer tortures himself just to come up with this: "Oh, Lyle hits it a mile! I love it! I Lyle-love it!"

Sure, but you'd be less forgiving if he were YOUR team's announcer.
I get a kick out of him too, mainly because I only occasionally hear him, I don't take his multitude of mistakes personally, and I know how much he pisses off a certain pct of YLDB nation.

Waldman's deference creeps me out, though. Sometimes she disappears for an entire inning and I forget she's there, and she just feeds him some stats from the data sheet she really doesn't seem to understand or doesn't seem to think it's her role to, but rather she's setting him up to pontificate on. She's like an assistant director who gets to occasionally be part of the show just to keep things colorful and familial --- like Gellman or Biff Henderson.

Thing is, that's exactly what she was hired to do. When Sterling & Kay were teamed up on the radio they split p-b-p and color duties and it was probably the inability of the booth to hold both egos that prompted the break-up and Kay move to main man at YES. So they hired Waldman but, rather than split the p-b-p 7/2 or 6/3, Sterling had his contract call for him doing all nine every game* while Suzyn, who had been in radio for years but never live sports**, was in there just to read the stats plus the ever-increasing load of on-air ads they shoe-horn in each half-inning: 'and that failed sacrifice bunt was brought to you by ...'


* Sterling has never missed a single game since being hired I think in the late '80s
** Sterling previously spent many years announcing Braves baseball, Hawks basketball, and even Islanders hockey