Hear from Suzyn Waldman as she tells Bret about her experience working with the great John Sterling for so many years in New York.
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Go to Shopify.com/MLB podcast to take your retail business to the next level today. Shopify.com/MLB podcast. Recently, John Sterling stepped down. A long time. I can hear it right now. Yankie's win and I'm just pissed and I'm going to shut up John as a player. I heard it enough with the Yankees win, but he was a long time you've got to have been partners for so long. How different is it for you now coming to work and not having John sitting next to you? Well, it's really different. By the way, this was our 20th year together when he just figured he just couldn't do it anymore. I've actually known him since 1987. When I started on WFAN, I was an update person. It might have been the one. You were one of the first voices ever. I wasn't the first person. The first voice ever. I was the first person. I was an update person. They hired me because I have a big mouth and they thought I was going to be circuit characteristic with the afternoon hosts. Well, the afternoon hosts that they hired had a heart attack and couldn't come, so they had all these guest hosts. And during the all-star break, one of them was John Sterling, who was doing Atlanta Braves games then. And this guy came in and that's when I met him in 1987. And he stood up for four hours with his hand cupped and talked into a microphone. And I said, what an interesting man this must be. He really was, John Sterling, and I know that people pick on the home run calls and, you know, his idiosyncrasies, John Sterling, for most of his, almost all of his career was as good a play-by-play guy, never missed a thing, and was really, really good. But he is a showman. And I think that's really old school. You don't get that anymore. You don't get the Harry Carries and you don't get the Vinskullies and you don't get those the Ernie Harwells and Jack Buck, you just don't get those people anymore. And John was one of them and he is unique and he was an original and being an original is like the best thing I can ever say about anybody, because no one can ever do that. And I know the style has changed and I understand the games are different. I really understand that. But for generations, and I mean generations of Yankee fans, he is and always will be the voice of the New York Yankees. So I'll tell you, Brett, we'd go to dinner in places and if John's sitting there, well Susan and I are going to prime Ridge and there'd be a line standing outside to see John Sterling walk into the restaurant. I mean, it was just the most incredible thing I've ever seen and that never stopped till the day he walked out the door. And every day I hear it. We miss John, we miss John. And by the way, he's happy as a little lark and when you're going to be 86, you get a chance to live the rest of your life the way you want to. So I'm really happy for him. I was blessed to be with him because he was the one that went to George Dinebrenner when George was thinking of putting a woman in the booth 20 years ago. And until last year, there's still just me. That's a long, long time ago. My first radio game was 1992. So if you ask me how far we've come, we haven't come a long way because 1992 was my first game. And then television and finally the full time, it was John that said to George, oh go ahead. What a wonderful book, it'll be great. It's New York. We can do anything. And he absolutely did. It'll be great. And it actually was pretty great. No, it is cool. You guys became, I mean, kind of in, especially in the East Coast, it's like, it was John Sterling and you were known just as, oh, it's Susan, Susan, John and Susan. Yeah. Right. And it wasn't, you know, if you, I don't know, it's hard to say if you're on the West Coast and you're in California and people said, you know, there were somebody in the booth and they just called him Joe. It's like, we don't, but in New York, when anything around sports or, or, or the Yankees, and they say, Susan, I know right away, oh, it's Susan Waldman and they don't call you Susan. Well, it's Susan's. Susan's. No. Do you just notice, Susan, you're the only person in sports just known by Susan, it's like Madonna, like Madonna, only it's just a common name. It's Susan. It's pretty cool though. It's pretty cool. You know, it's pretty cool about that. And I think that it's radio and I think there is a connection between radio. I'll, I'll bet you, you know, who your first broadcast was, who was the first voice you ever heard on the radio? I'll bet you know who it is. People don't know television was, but they all know their first radio announcers and I think it's the connection and radio because it's an emotional connection, not just because you can't see it. You're depending on them to be your eyes and ears and be, you know, see it the way you see it. And I think it's radio, but you know, somewhere between get that smart ass bitch off the, off the air and prime time and now it's, it's changed. It's taken a long time, but yeah, so it's a lot different now and it is just Susan. Yeah, I think it's because I changed the spelling of my name. When you're interacting with fans, when you're meeting fans out in, out in the city, what do they want to talk to you about? Mostly about the team. Number two. Now it's John. Is John okay? And this is, this is what I mean about radio. Everybody wants to know if John is okay. And that's a connection that people have with their radio and announcers. If it's a, if it's a young woman, they want to know, will you listen to my tapes? They don't call them tapes anymore, but I, you'll always say yes. And mostly now, now that you're making me think about this, an interesting question. So much about John and do you miss John and where did he get his call of Robbie Kanow, don't you know, et cetera. But a lot of young women want to know where they can send me stuff and can you critique my, my tapes? I want to do this. And I think that's very important. Hey, it's Rob Bradford with zombie technologies. The world's hottest cloud storage provider recently asked themselves. What good is storing data if you can't access what you need when you need it? Their answer? Wasabi Air is the first intelligent cloud storage with built in AI auto tagging capabilities. Now everything you store with wasabi, every game ever played, every movie ever produced can be searched through quickly and easily. Go to wasabi.com to see how wasabi air can breathe new life into your content.
