The only quality broadcasters who cover the Yankees are Ken Singleton, Al Leiter, and Paul O'Neill; they bring depth and knowledge to the game without obscuring it with commentary, notes, and other contrived Kay-isms (the Yankees HAVE to WIN THIS GAMEZ0RZZZ!!!). The rest are pretty bad. John Flaherty is annoying, for some reason. David Cone is a nice guy, I don't mind his voice, but he tries too hard (plus, in an epic gaff last year, he said Ian Kennedy got "jerked off" in the bullpen). Michael Kay is terrible, I mute the game whenever he goes into some sort of tangential conversation (with himself) about the Yankees while shit is happening on the field. John Sterling is the quintessential homer, but he fails...so hard.

Suzan Waldman just makes me want to put a bullet through my left temple.

I don't mind John Sterling, but Susan Waldman just grates on my nerves. I like most of the YES announcers, but the one announcer that I can't stand is Joe Buck. When the Yankee games are broadcast on FOX, my husband mutes the TV and puts on the radio.

I tried doing that years ago when Tim McCarver, who I can't stand, was a fill in broadcaster for the Giants, and it was almost worse because of the TV delay. You heard what was happening 4 or 5 seconds before you actually saw it.

That is true, Blib, but that's sort of fun! You find out if a strike or a ball is next! Just kidding!

I agree, the delay thing is annoying, but anything is better than listening to Joe Buck!

I don't think Joe Buck is that bad, it's Tim McCarver that he's paired up with that's horrible. I can't believe how often he uses the wrong players names, or mispronounces them. He was run out of town awfully quick in 2002 when he was the fill-in Giants broadcaster when the Giants went up against the Cardinals in the playoffs. He went on and on about how great the Cardinals organization is and that was the year for them to win it all, etc... When he talked about Giants players it was always in a negative tone, even though he was being paid by them. I don't know why he's always there for the World Series.

I'm rambling about broadcasters now. I guess it's because there are so many great ones and I don't understand how the bad ones get some of the best jobs. They must be sucking somebody in charge hard.

McCarver did Met game for 15 years, so I feel your pain. He wasn't too bad in the beginning, but he got more full of himself each year.

15 years... I feel your pain.

To be honest, I thought he was pretty good the first few years. Then he just changed.

I thought you were a Yankees fan??

AMEN! All the FOX announcers suck, Buck especially.

I don't mind Sterling either - he is what he is. Kay & Sterling were great. But Susan is horrendous. OMG, Rogers Clemens is a Yankee!!!

How about ol' Al Trautwig from the MSG days? Now he had a face for radio, but he was on TV. But he wasn't all that bad I guess, for slow-talking non-action-packed sports. Wasn't he covering gymnastics for a while? lol

Sorry. Out in the sun for 11 hours yesterday. My brain's probably fried. My favorite pair personally is Jon Miller and Joe Morgan for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. I also miss Harold Reynolds who's now on the MLB Network.

BAM was right. He's Ken "Hawk" Harrelson - announcer for the White Sox. I can't stand him, much like I do all announcers who are so blatantly homer.

He used to play for Boston and was a real fan favorite.

I don't really dislike any baseball announcers, but there are some who don't measure up to the others.

I have to agree with those, who were critical of Sterling. His "Yankees Win" call is obnoxious. I don't mind John Kay. I heard him interviewed a number of times on various sports topics, and he's pretty insightful. He can also be more critical than team announcers are used to.

I may have posted this before, but soon after Ian Kennedy made comments that he thought he pitched well in a start where he gave up about 5 runs in 4 or 5 innings, Kay said that it's remarks like that that will make his teammates livid and get you benched or traded. Not many team announcers would bring this up.

I'll bet the sight of Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin together at yesterday's Yankee game gave DJ a woody.

Maybe. But if he were listening to Susan Waldman at the time, it wouldn't have lasted.

Big win for the Yankees tonight as they get ready to play Boston.

At least my dick would last longer than Jose Reyes' calf.

Nice win for the Yankees last night. Are we over 100 HRs in the new stadium yet???

Hey.... look what fell out of this thread when I opened it:





It says "Used by Boston" on it.

Unbelievable, SC.

The Red Sox are just in the Yankees heads right now (actually, for about a decade now). I still think both teams are very close "on paper." But head-to-head, the Sox just effing own them, and I can't imagine that changing anytime soon. I doubt that even Sterling-Waldman-Kay would argue that fact.

To throw three of your best and still get swept is very disheartening. When your Ace (Sabatthia) gives you a solid effort in game 3, and you still find a way to lose, well, that just about sums it up.

And Big Papi! The guy's been hibernating all year, like a big, harmless, cuddly bear. And when does he decide to wake up? Against the Yankees of course.

Girardi looked like poop on a plate in the post game.

I was watching the Phillie/Met game, but flipping to the Yankee/Sox game too.

At a coaching/umpire clinic given a few years ago, a former MLB coach showed us how to watch a baseball game backwards, and literally made us watch a game from the 27th out to the first. The point was that while we focus on the developments late in a game, games are just as much decided in the early innings as they are in the late innings.

Early in the Yankee game with the score 0-0, NY had runners on first and second, nobody out and Cabrera failed to sacrifice successfully, which would have put runners in scoring position with one out and the Yankee ace on the mound. After the failed bunt a fly ball was hit to left and Swisher was inexplicably doubled off second. I thought the failure to advance the runners was as key to the outcome of the game as any other play in the game.

Also, Swisher is starting to live up to his reputation as a great guy with respectable power, but a bit of a bonehead between the foul lines. And Johnny Damon just wanted to hide after dropping a routine fly in Fenway.

But don't despair Yankee fans. Take care of the Mets this weekend and the Phillies will try to stifle the Sox.

I always wondered how a guy who hits 30 home runs a year gets traded as much as Swisher. Now I know .

I told people that Nady was still the guy who should be manning right field for the Yanks. He isn't a revelation, but compared to Swisher, is maybe a chapter from the book thereof.

Can't wait until he comes back from his injury. Incidentally, they used the same blood injection technique on Nady to avoid surgery that Takashi Saito used on his arm.

it is always great when the yanks get sweeped lol

Don't worry Yankee fans. Jerry Manuel is managing the Mets. He just brought in a minor league free agent to pitch to the tying run.

I told you not to worry, Yankee fans.

I guess the broom can be put away huh?

Are the Yankees really going to count tonight's game as a win?

Well Kly it does go in the books as a win, but it was more like a Met loss.

Sunday: 15-0 Yankees. I'd call that one a win.

Looks like Wang's going back on the DL, this time with should problems. This will give Hughes more time to develop in the starting rotation. Now we just need someone to take over for Hughes in the bullpen (and please, no Joba remarks about moving him back to the pen). I'm thinking more along the lines of the minor leagues.