When Roger Clemens stepped up to the microphone from Big Stein's box at Yankee Stadium and announced he was coming back to the Bombers no one had a more uproarious reaction than radio announcer Suzyn Waldman. She shrieked, she screamed, she may have even experienced the widely rumored but rarely achieved female orgasm. Her reaction provoked rips from newspapers, sports radio and sports blogs for its lack of professionalism and downright ridiculousness. According to an article in yesterday's Daily News it also led to other reactions delivered directly to Waldman.
The harsh reaction to her frantic May 6 introduction of Roger Clemens on WCBS-AM has produced rough times for Suzyn (Georgie Girl) Waldman.
Well-embedded Yankee moles tell me that deviants, who get their kicks harassing women, have come out of the woodwork and landed on Waldman.
These creeps are fueled each and every time they hear some sports talkie play the tape of Waldman going gaga over Clemens' arrival. Playing this tape has become the macho thing to do.
The reaction of these losers has caused Waldman to react. This is why she tore into WFAN's Chris (Mad Dog) Russo on Saturday, May 19, prior to the Mets-Yankees tilt. Dog told Waldman "(He and Mike Francesa) were just having some fun," by playing the tape.
That kind of "fun," according to Yankee insiders, has led to Waldman receiving perverted E-mails and crank telephone calls.
Waldman declined comment when asked about all this. The only thing she would say is she has been forced to check into hotels under assumed names and have the phone in her room completely shut down.
It's not so surprising that people reacted with vitriol to Waldman's performance on the radio that day. It was hucksterism of the highest magnitude. Most of the displeasure we've seen with her work has been neither sexist nor bullying, just well-reasoned assaults on someone who has that little regard for doing their job in a responsible manner. You can read reams of negative things about Waldman's partner John Sterling for the exact same reasons. But really people, sexually harassing that? What's your line?
"Hey baby, I'd like to bend you over the microfiche machine in the back of the library and make you feel like you were 53 all over again."
Seriously, she looks like a character from Yentl. And not Barbra Streisand either. She's got the visage of an elderly male member of the local shul.
What are they doing to her? Pointing and laughing at her neck waddle?
Posted by: t leach | June 04, 2007 at 09:38 PM