Loving Sterling and Waldman

From the Wall Street Journal: How I learned to stop worrying and love John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman:

... for sheer radio listening pleasure for the casual fan, I don’t think anybody beats the Sterling-Waldman duo. Their style is conversational rather than testosterone-crazed; it’s almost overheard, as if you were eavesdropping on their tête-à-tête from the next table at Sardi’s. And they know their stuff ...

I don’t listen to many Yankees radio broadcasts. I listen to some -- MLB.tv gives you the option and I often find that listening to a game is easier to do while writing than watching a game is -- but not a ton. I’ll say that Sterling and Waldman are not as bad as many make them out to be simply because no one could be as bad as Sterling and Waldman are made out to be. But they’re not my first choice. Probably not in my first 20 choices, because they constantly make you aware that you’re listening to Sterling and Waldman. They at least have the “not boring” part down, and that’s something.

Radio is a tough balance that way. How not to be boring without being distracting. Not many do it well. The fact that even Sterling and Waldman have their fans is probably evidence that no one has totally figured it out yet, even 90 years after they started broadcasting baseball games.

Well, Harwell figured it out. And Scully. But not too many.

(thanks to Yankeesfanlen for the heads up)