June 2009
Memes of Ma & Pa Yankee
It’s time. Those truths broadcast into existence by WCBS Yankee radio announcers John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman deserve to be documented here, and here’s a start:
Heard today [again!]:
“You can’t predict baseball.” -Sterling
“It always starts with a walk.” -Sterling
Heard prior to today [and, to be sure, again soon- You could bet on it, but not on baseball!]
“There was no such thing as an oblique. Players got a pain in their side.” -Waldman
Oh, today’s game? What about it? (15-0 Yankees over Mets at the new Stadium, gaining back a game as Boston dropped one 11-5 to the Phillies, despite pitcher Josh Beckett’s self-help homer.)
Speaking Personally
Today we learned that WCBS-AM Yankees broadcasters John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman have been married — to others, I must add — and that wedding-day weather had no discernable effect on the temporality of either marriage. (The sun shined for John’s, and folkloric good-luck rain fell on Suzyn’s.) The weather didn’t help, they agreed.
John referred to Suzyn as his “partner” at home during today’s afternoon game against Tampa, started by CC Sabathia and David Price. Last weekend, I believe, he referred to his “companera,” sans the delimiter “Yankees.”
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