Howie Rose

from any significant other and the family.

And I've just had it with seeing that.

And as I get older, I don't enjoy working at night as much anymore.

Look, if you could parachute me into the booth at 7 o'clock and parachute me home 10 minutes after the end of the game, maybe we can go a little further.

But that's not the way it works.

And I also...

Look, I've taken to saying that maybe the synapses don't fire as quickly as they once did.

But as objectively as I can put it, I still think, you know, if I've lost anything off my fastball right now, it's just a tick or two.

And I know how to compensate for that.

But I don't want to hang around too long to where it's evident that whatever I was, I'm not.

And I just don't want to go through that.

So I think the time is right.

Yes, absolutely.

Because I've seen guys hang around too long.

I know what that sounds like.

I know what that looks like.

And it's amazing the little things that, you know, when you get to this point, sort of drive your memory.

I don't know what the context was.

But when I was doing the Islanders, and I honestly don't remember what season it was, but it was a long time ago.

And I don't know even what the context was.