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Somers’ Monologue: Oh What A Grand Night For Curtis
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Curtis Granderson, No. 14 in your program and the No. 1 Yankee on Thursday night, oh boy did he ever have a chance — actually, two — to slug his way into the record books. Steve...
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Somers’ Monologue: Rangers 40 Minutes From Bitter Disappointment, Then Goal!...
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Yes, it is good to be King! The Rangers trailed 1-0 on Monday, didn’t they? The Senators were getting the best of Broadway. They were winning the battle, but hadn’t yet won the war....
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Somers’ Monologue: Silver Lining After Mets’ Double-Double Disasters
NEW YORK (WFAN) – As everybody knows, the Mets came into Tuesday night’s game after a double disaster against San Francisco on Monday. Then there was the double dose of bad news with the injuries to...
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Somers’ Monologue: Gear Up For A Crazy Thursday, NY Sports Fans!
NEW YORK (WFAN) – It’s winner-take-all for the Rangers and the Senators at MSG. Down I-95 it’s do-or-die for the Devils at Panthers. Of course, there’s also the Mets’ series finale against Jose Reyes —...
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Somers’ Monologue: Break Glass In Case Of Amar’gency
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Amar’e Stoudemire read the sign. It said: “Break glass in case of an Amar’gency.” Kevin Brown thought it was a stupid thing to do. Plaxico Burress said the Knicks are going to miss...
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Somers’ Monologue: Mo No! Yankees’ Loss In KC A Blip Compared To Rivera
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Thursday night saw another Knicks debacle and a Yankees loss to the Royals. But that’s not what we’ll all be talking about Friday. Mariano Rivera, the immortal one himself, went down...
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Somers’ Monologue: A Good Day To You Indeed, Rangers Fans!
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Well, NHL playoff can take your breath away. It can leave you speechless. It can provide, even, for dead air! After those two goals, what can you say other than, “absolutely stunning”...
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Somers’ Monologue: What Do Rangers And Con Edison Have In Common?
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Wednesday night’s Rangers game reminded Steve Somers of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic: both looked good until they hit the ice. We know the Rangers in seven can be heaven. But...
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Somers’ Monologue: It’s Good To Be King — Right, Rangers Fans?
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Repeat after Steve: It’s good to be King! Henrik Lundqvist and the Rangers took Game 1 on Monday night. Manhattan is abuzz. New Jersey? Better luck next time. Were the Rangers tired...
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Somers’ Monologue: It’s Good To Be Wright!
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Phil Mickelson could not have made a better placement than the Mets’ Rob Johnson! We’ll call it the bunt heard ’round New York City. Alright, if not NYC, Queens. It was the calm...
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Somers’ Monologue: Mets And Yankees Win; It’s A 3-2 New York Night!
NEW YORK (WFAN) — Talk about a triple-double. Sort of. First for the Metropolitans, three more two-out runs! Mr. Kilimanjaro himself, R.A. Dickey, scaled the mound at PNC Park in Pittsburgh on Tuesday...
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Somers’ Monologue: More Ducks Than Fans At Lake Citi Field
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Before the rain on Thursday night, the Mets had Jeremy Hefner on the mound. After the downpour? He looked more like old man Hugh Hefner. There were more ducks than people at Citi...
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Somers’ Monologue: Devils Lose In The Details
NEW YORK (WFAN) – If Wednesday night’s Stanley Cup opener was played on the gridiron, everything for 60 minutes would have been from the 20-yard line to the 20-yard line. Both teams suffocated each...
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Somers’ Monologue: Devils Facing Own Demons
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Funny how it works, isn’t it? What goes around comes around. Now it’s the Devils facing their own demons. The King (Henrik) is dead. Long live the Kings. Wednesday night at The Rock,...
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Seinfeld And The Schmoozer: ‘Jerry From Queens’ Talks Mets Magic On WFAN
NEW YORK (WFAN) – It has become an annual rite of spring-slash-summer: comedian Jerry Seinfeld and WFAN host Steve Somers, two peas in a pod, talking Mets baseball. Only there was something different...
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Somers’ Monologue: Devils Suspend The Sadness
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Hey, what an exciting night for the Devils! When the Kings scored to tie Game 4 right after New Jersey took their first lead of the series — that’s right, the series — Steve Somers...
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Somers’ Monologue: Bronx Is Burning; Mets, Not So Much
NEW YORK (WFAN) – The weekend at Bernie’s wasn’t very much fun for the Mets. No, not a very good vacation for the Amazin’s. Terry Collins took the blame for the broom appearing in the Bronx. Maybe the...
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Somers’ Monologue: Pinch Me, Mets’ Bullpen Got The Job Done!
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Well, the Metropolitans may have a better bullpen than the no-sting Rays of Tampa Bay. No, we don’t want to hear about the Mets’ bullpen any more! The Rays got no hits and no runs...
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Somers’ Monologue: R.A. (Really Awesome) Dickey Simply Amazin’
NEW YORK (WFAN) – R.A Dickey did it again Wednesday night! The R.A. standing for Really Awesome, as the knuckler twirled yet another great game in his 10th win this year for the Metropolitans. OK, it...
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Somers’ Monologue: Dickey Don’t Lose That Knuckler!
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Mets vs. Yankees. Sunday night. R.A. Dickey vs. CC Sabathia. Oh boy, what a matchup. But before Sunday there’s Friday night, with Jon Niese against the Yankees’ good ol’ Andy. Before...
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Somers’ Monologue: Against Mets, ‘Chickens’ Rule The Roost
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Well, on Saturday and Sunday, Terry Collins was more like Tom Collins. On the rocks. You’ve heard this before, and it’s true: the “chickens” rule the roost. The last laugh from Little...
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WFAN Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Special Guests And Surprises
NEW YORK (WFAN) – “You’re sharing a part of radio history with us today, this is the beginning of the first 24-hour-a-day sports station; I’m Suzyn Waldman. The message board outside Yankee Stadium...
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Somers’ Monologue: Steve Nash Goes Hollywood!
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Los Angeles had a little something extra to celebrate on the Fourth of July. That’s right, Kobe Bryant will be teamed up next season with none other than Steve Nash. As for the...
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Somers’ Monologue: Comeback Kid Mets Give Us A Game To Remember
NEW YORK (WFAN) – What a ball game Thursday night for the Mets. You’re going to remember this 6-5 win over Philadelphia as a game with serious October-esque intensity. A July 5 game with fireworks more...
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Somers’ Monologue: Say It Ain’t So, Joe — And The Freeh Report Says He Did
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Let it be shown, let it be read, let it be stated that any thoughts should be directed to the health and welfare of Jerry Sandusky’s victims. Meanwhile, back at not-so-Happy Valley,...
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Somers’ Monologue: Jeremy Lin, From Knicks’ Shooting Star To Rocket Booster?
NEW YORK (WFAN) — No, he did not live in Lin-denhurst. And no, he did not commute through the Lin-coln Tunnel. But Jeremy Lin did produce as many puns as turnovers — and even made a couch famous. He...
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Somers’ Monologue: Mets’ Bumbling Bullpen Blows It — Again!
NEW YORK (WFAN) – What is there left to talk about? If you’re a radio yakker like Steve Somers, your job description reads: “You’d better come up with something to say.” But Steve was at a loss for...
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Somers’ Monologue: Dancin’ The Knucklebug With R.A. Dickey
NEW YORK (WFAN) – R.A. Dickey baffles, doesn’t he? He dazzles, doesn’t he? Deliciously deceptive, he mesmerizes with mystifying magic. Wait a minute, there’s another dancing dart! Wait another minute!...
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Somers’ Monologue: Steve Returns From Vacation, Schmoozes The Week That Was
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Where has Steve Somers been? Well, where we all wish we were last week and even right now: on vacation! When Somers and his listeners were last together as one, schmoozing to and at...
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Somers’ Monologue: Mets Stuck In Neutral At Deadline
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Now you see them, now you don’t. The trade deadline has come and gone, and so have a number of ballplayers now with new zip codes. First of all, how about those the Mets, who decided...
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Somers’ Monologue: For Mets, A Great Day By The Bay
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Well, the Mets didn’t leave their heart in San Francisco. Not after they basically ripped the heart and soul out of the Giants, taking their third game out of four on Thursday. Now...
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Somers’ Monologue: Everybody Untuck! Yankees Get It Done In Motown
NEW YORK (WFAN) – The shirt was coming out! Yankees closer Rafael Soriano wasn’t ready to go full-frontal Tebow, but he was able to undress Detroit in the ninth inning Thursday. He managed to get out...
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Liguori: Serena Deserving Of More Attention As She Vies For No. 15
By Ann Liguori » More Columns Much of the attention here has been on Andy Roddick who decided to announce his retirement on his 30th birthday and whose last appearance ever as a player could be...
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WFAN Radio Launches 660 AM-101.9 FM Simulcast
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – For 25 years, four months and one day, WFAN made its terrestrial radio home solely on the AM dial. Friday marked Day 1 of FM transmission. At 12:01 a.m., WFAN launched its 660...
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Emotional Kenny Anderson: Jack Curran ‘More Than A Coach To Me’
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Kenny Anderson was a star at Georgia Tech and a mainstay in the NBA. But it was his time at Archbishop Molloy High School under the tutelage of coach Jack Curran that laid the...
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After Breakout Season, Rising Star Derek Stepan Has Eyes On Stanley Cup Playoffs
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — With four days off until the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs, John Tortorella is tired of talking about the Rangers’ matchup with the Washington Capitals. And, of...
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LISTEN: Steve Somers Talks Knicks With Steve Somers
NEW YORK (WFAN) – Steve Somers here, you there? Not on Monday night. For a few hilarious seconds it was Steve Somers here, Steve Somers there when the iconic WFAN radio host unknowingly took a call...
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Palladino: Kiner Took Another Part Of The Soundtrack With Him
By Ernie Palladino » More Ernie Palladino Columns We bid farewell to another part of the soundtrack Thursday. If you were a Mets fan growing up in the 1960s and 70s, let alone the 80s, 90s and into...
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Frank Viola On WFAN: Mets’ 2016 Rotation Could Be Best In Franchise History
NEW YORK (WFAN) — The Mets have arguably the best starting rotation in the major leagues, and few people — if any — know more about the club’s young starters than Frank Viola. Viola, a Long Island...
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LISTEN: Seinfeld And Somers Talk Mets, Syndergaard, Stand-Up And More
NEW YORK (WFAN) — Jerry from Queens — aka iconic comedian Jerry Seinfeld — called into WFAN host Steve Somers’ radio show, as he’s been known to do from time to time, on Saturday. Seinfeld, a lifelong...
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: Remember The Good Times, Knicks Fans
NEW YORK (WFAN) — Remember the good times! That is, remember the Jeremy Lin highlights — because you won’t be seeing anything like them until around Halloween. Jeremy, as you know, Lin-active....
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: You’d Better Believe It, Knicks Fall Apart In Indiana
NEW YORK (WFAN) — Steve Somers kept saying to himself, “I don’t believe it!” And they he said again, “I don’t believe it.” Then for a third, fourth and fifth time, “I don’t believe it.” Sorry, Steve....
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: A Warm Welcome To The Mets’ New Additions
NEW YORK (WFAN) — Finally, it’s here! Opening Day at Citi Field! We will all be introduced to those the Mets spent money on in the offseason. Their two big additions: Home Depot for redesigning the...
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: One Down For Mets, 161 To Go
NEW YORK (WFAN) — It was an Amazin’ start indeed for the Mets in 2012. But isn’t it always? The Mets, after all, have the best Opening Day record in all of baseball. So here it is: One down. 161 to go....
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: Say It With Me, Mets Are 4-0!
NEW YORK (WFAN) — Steve Somers was sitting around Monday night, thinking to himself, “Let’s see, would I rather be 4-0 or 1-3?” All together now: it’s good to be king. Murphy’s law says if you can make...
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: Sound The Alarm, Wright Breaks A Pinkie!
NEW YORK (WFAN) — You knew no Ike Davis for Tuesday night. And then you heard a little something, not much, nothing to get out of shape about with David Wright. Nothing too serious, said the Mets beat...
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: Dear Mets, Happy Golden Anniversary (Sort Of)
NEW YORK (WFAN) — Happy Golden Anniversary to the New York Mets — with Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg coming out of the birthday cake. The Mets started the next 50 years on Wednesday the same way...
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: Rangers Get The Radio Back Page
NEW YORK (WFAN) — The Rangers — that’s right, hockey — got the radio version of the back page Thursday night. For the moment, A-1. Top of the heap. We’re talking skates over sneakers or cleats. It was...
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: Boyle’s Blueshirts Get It Done In Ottawa Thriller
NEW YORK (WFAN) — How about we just call ’em Boyle’s Blueshirts! On Monday night, Rangers forward Brian Boyle put the biscuit into the basket for the third consecutive game. Off the boards, the puck...
View ArticleSomers’ Monologue: Hey Rangers, Where’s The Late Hustle?
NEW YORK (WFAN) — You could smell the overtime loss coming. Sure, the Blueshirts had their chances. But near the end of the third period, felt the Rangers were wearing themselves out. All of the...
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