So I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about Suzyn Waldman’s post game emotions. And I thought maybe it’s time to offer a female’s take on this. Newsday ran a great article on Waldman’s reaction to the big deal everyone is making about her on-air tears.

During Monday night’s postgame, Waldman was crying as she described the scene in the locker room with Joe Torre and the coaching staff saying “The coaches are sitting in Torre’s office and they are watching this, and the tears that you hear in my voice are coming down the faces of the coaches in that coaches room.”

In the article, Waldman defends her actions, explaining:

“What’s the big damn deal? That I cried for four seconds of a 10-minute postgame? The idea that I can’t choke up because a man I went through cancer with 11 years ago is going to lose his job and I was describing his coaches crying? It’s absolutely ludicrous.”

Waldman makes a good point if you ask me. She wasn’t crying because they lost, she was crying because someone who she feels close to, is about to lose his job. In the article, she says she will take the criticism for getting excited about Roger Clemen’s return, because it was inappropriate, especially during in game, but then goes on to say “It’s, ‘Oh, you’re a journalist.’ For Pete’s sake, I am not Walter Cronkite. I’m not talking about Iraq.”

Now, first of all, I just want to point out that while some are saying Mike and the Mad Dog ripped her a new one on WFAN, from what I heard the next day, the were angrier about Torre not being put on the air right away, and having to listen to a 30 minute postgame on the ride home before Torre’s press conference. Second of all, I think everyone should get off her case for getting emotional. I mean hell, there were men crying because the Yankee’s lost, and I know men that cried because the Mets lost. She was NOT crying because the Yankee’s lost. She was crying because Joe Torre, someone she is close to, was crying in his office with the coaching staff, knowing what was to come of his career. Now, I think that if a man had cried on the air, the media outlets would have said the same thing, so I don’t like that she’s pulling the “I’m a female” card.

I am not commenting on her broadcasting skills…frankly I think the whole team of announcers at CBS Radio are a bunch of morons, but hey…that’s nothing new in the baseball world (Joe Morgan…I am looking at you). But get off her ass for crying in the clubhouse. She was emotional for a good reason, she was feeling for Torre, a close friend.