Wait a minute, I thought she WAS Walter Kronkite.

Would this be reverse-sexism???

sorry i'm a female...and a redsox fan i never cried in 75,78,86,2003. i was pissed...

So she admits she was crying over the fact she was losing HER friend? Sounds very selfish indeed. Especially when the very organization she shills has the same man in their sights to fuck out of a job, despite doing one of the best managing jobs of his career.

She should have been angry it might be his last day, not crying. But like most in that pathetic overhyped organization, it's all about your own self.

I'm just surprised her and Sterling haven't spun it to be the greatest cry in baseball history.

Totally unprofessional and lame. Even the announcer was trying to spin the story back to how Joe Torre will be golden without the Yankees.

Great point both Anons. You get mad in that situation, you tell the listener why he shouldn't be fired. If you love the guy so much take a stand and let the public know how you feel that way.

Thanks for those points of view.

Here's another thing. It's pretty cheap to use your own cancer to retroactively justify such unprofessionalism. It's even worse to bootstrap someone else's to it. Waldman and Torre's bouts with cancer have absolutely zero relevance to the story -- which she was presumably hired to report -- of Monday night. Her own feelings for Torre also have no relevance to the story to be told Monday night. She has a single mandate, and she needlessly injected herself into it and then tried to retrofit her own importance when she was called out.

"It's pretty cheap to use your own cancer to retroactively justify such unprofessionalism"

Outstanding point.

I've worked in local news for a while now and seen a reporter do the same thing Waldman did and get absolutely ripped for it. The story he was covering? A triple-murder involving kids.

That she doesn't see 'what the big deal is' is all the more maddening.

I think 1 thing really needs to be made clear. She was not crying because the Yankees lost. I repeat, NOT because the Yankees lost. I can't emphasize this enough.

She was crying b/c Joe Torre managed his last game in pinstripes. Much like Roy Williams cries every time he has that final press conference of the season, talking about his seniors that will be leaving him (this happened more so when he was at Kansas), she was crying about the fact that Torre would be moving on.

Of course, society says there is a big difference. Society says, "She's a member of the media, and shouldn't grow as attached to the manager of the team she's covering as, say, a college coach does to his players." Yet the college coach spends 4 years with the player, while she has spent 12 years with Joe, and has grown to love him.

While her point about this being sexist is a stretch, I had absolutely no problem with her crying a little bit on air. Her gushing over Rogah...much worse, and definitely way over the top.

I don't watch Sportscenter much, but that guy who did the "Archie! Archie!" joke was great.

If you listen to the tape it was longer than four seconds she was blubbering almost the entire time listen to her sniffling.

Its pretty bad when the idiots at ESPN get to mock you on the air.

What's the big deal? This IS a man's/woman's issue. No one would have said a word if a man was crying. Waldman did nothing wrong. You are jealous because YOU never had a job on the air.

Name the last time a guy was crying over a frickin baseball game.

My assumption is that she shouldn't own up on the orgasm she had about the Bottle Rocket coming back to the Janks. Ridiculous!!!! She's an ass. And completely unbiased too....yeaaaaaaaaah right. She's a total HOMER!

Wah Wah Wah Waldman with the big tears, Yankees lose THAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!

Steve,

If it was a man crying on the air, he would have gotten ripped even worse. This was almost as unprofessional as it gets. If she wants to cry about sports, then she should go and call women's gymnastics.

see you next tuesday susan!

There's no crying in baseball!

Worst. Announcer. Ever.

Pam Ward was born without tear ducts.

I still can't get over the fact that she looks like a Fred Willard female impersonator.

Back to topic . . . she puts shame on anyone who wants to take up sports journalism as a career. Grab yourself by the bootstraps and dust off the tears. It's just a game. It's not like Torre is going to be buried under Giant Stadium by Steinbrenner anytime soon.

Guys just got name checked by the Kenny on Sportcenter.

I cannot believe no one has said this: There is no crying in baseball!

Second, Joe Torre is still the manager of the New York Yankees. Sure it appears he may not be back, but there has been no conformation. Truly unprofessional and truly represents the spoiled and cry baby nature of Yankee fans. I always thought announcers were to repress their personal feelings when announcing games.

"You are either born with a brain or a cunt, never both." Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen.

Yes, I would cry also if my multi-millionaire friend was getting fired from his job. Right. Joe Torre has enough money to do whatever the hell he wants for the rest of his life, it's not like he announced he has leukemia and 2 weeks to live. I can't listen to Yankees radio broadcasts because of her shrill, hyperactive yodeling.