Sentence:  And so it <WSD>was</WSD> over the weekend what with 40 - year old Warren Spahn pitching his no-hit masterpiece against the Giants and the Giants ' Willie Mays retaliating with a record tying 4 - homer spree Sunday . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)