Yankee fans… can you explain why this woman is destroying every broadcast of a Yankee game?
How does she continue to keep her job? Is she related to the Steinbrenner’s? There has to be something that keeps her employed. She is without a doubt the worst baseball announcer I have ever heard, and that’s saying something. But when I hear that voice, I might as well chew tinfoil.
She is a scientific experiment designed to find out how awful, grating, incompetent a baseball announcer can be while being such a pro-Yankee homer that Yankee fans will tolerate her.
As a Yankee hater, I want to say it’s karma. 
The Yankees on the radio is like listening to a game called by Mr. Magoo and Olive Oyl.
She actually makes Charlie Stiener sound good.
And he’s awful.
Mnnnnngit it high! It is far! It is caught at the warning track.
Fucking canned phrases. An A-bomb from A-Rod. A ribbie for Robbie. A Tex(t) message from Tiexeira. You are on the Mark, Tiexeira.
And the absolute worst.
Yankees win. Thuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh mnnnnYankees win!
But yeah Waldman sucks.
I agree with you about those forced catchphrases, but they’re the work of John Sterling, not Charlie Steiner.
Right, right. My mistake. Sorry Charlie, didn’t mean to disparage you.
Surely they can’t be as bad as Pat Tabler.
Who is not nearly as bad as his sometime-broadcast mate, Rod Black.
In the first game of the year, Curtis Granderson hit a home run. This is what John Sterling said, using exactly the same tone of voice you’d use after a particularly enthusiastic marital assignation:
“Oh, Curtis! You’re something sort of grandish!”
Checkmate.
Well, whatever you may want to say about Waldman, she is nowhere near as poorly informed and embarrassing as her predecessor, the immortal Phil Rizzuto.
“Look, White, there’s the moon. Look, you can see Texas…”
Lou Boudreau, on the Cubs radio broadcasts with Vince Lloyd back in the day, was pretty bad too. What is it with former American League shortstops?
Waldman on Roger Clemens’ return.
Waldman on Joe Torre’s departure.
Those two get lots of airplay on Boston sports talk radio. 
Like here, with commentary.
Looking at Waldman’s career objectively she has succeeded in the male-dominated world of sports broadcasting. A former Broadway actress and singer, she worked on WFAN when it converted to a 20/7 all sports format in the late 1980s. She would put in extra hours at minor jobs (such as being the WFAN reporter covering the pitiful New Jersey Nets and being a substitute host when needed).
In Yankee circles she is credited with bringing Yogi Berra back in the Yankee family in 1999 after a 14 year estrangement. Buster Olney’s book “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty” mentions her as having a close friendship with many players on the 1996-2001 Yankees and getting information from them that other reporters couldn’t. Those Yankee players were noted for not saying much-give as little information as possible away- but be polite about it.
I don’t have any ratings available but I am sure Yankee radio ratings outdraw the cross-town Mets. Of course that is closely related to how good the team’s is but Waldman and Sterling don’t seem to repel too many listeners, despite the fact many critics prefer the Mets broadcasters. I also think Waldman can handle working alongside John Sterling better than others (Charley Steiner) could, although Michael Kay has always said he liked working with Sterling). Sterling is a man who likes to talk.
Besides, ABC Monday Night football in the 1970s can tell you the value of having controversial analysts such as Don Meredith and Howard Cosell. Nobody cared a bit about the NBC duo of Jim Simpson and John Brodie even if Cosell-haters like Dick Young used to write about how great they were.
Waldman is not related to the Steinbrenner's. Although it's one of those ironies that she grewup a passionate Red Sox fan, George actually grew up a Cleveland Indians in the 1940s and 1950s when they were the Yankee's biggest AL rival. Although George has often been temperamental and abusive, he did have a certain loyalty to people in his circle.
I don’t know if having a woman as a broadcaster helps the Yankees with the feminist groups but it might. The Yankees also have a female assistant GM, Jean Alterman, who stays out of the spotlight and handles player’s contract. She doesn’t go around picking fights with minor leaguers like former Mets asst GM Tony Bernazzard did. Steinbrenner also
hired a Black Coach for his ABL basketball team in the early 1960s at a time when no NBA, NFL or MLB team had a coach and wouldn’t for years (in the NFL’s case, it was 30 years).
So Steinbrenner may just like doing things differently than others.
Rizzuto was poetic though. There’s a book called “O Holy Cow: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto” detailing some of the best “found poetry” in Rizzuto’s broadcasts. A review and some examples are here.
Dear Jesus.