Best of the Mets on WFAN: Howie Rose's final season
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What is the significance of Howie Rose's retirement announcement?
But I do want to play, before we get back to your phone calls, a lot of Howie Rose today.
Obviously, the show began with the announcement that the great Howie Rose, longtime member of this radio station, obviously has been broadcasting the Mets now for a million years, great history with the Rangers and the Islanders. He is going to be retiring at the end of this upcoming season. So we have played some of Howie Rose's greatest moments. I want to play two for you right here. One is a deep cut, and the other is my personal favorite Howie Rose call of all time. Okay. Okay. Which one do you want to hear first? The deep cut? Let's hear a deep cut. All right, this is 1998.
How does Howie Rose reflect on his career and decision to retire?
Mike Piazza's a Met. He's been a Met for a few months. He's put up good numbers, but he hasn't had his moment yet. This was on television. So this is Howie doing TV for Fox Sports New York, and Mike Piazza came to the plate trailing in the eighth, ninth inning against Hall of Famer Billy Wagner.
Two and two to Piazza.
Wagner deals. And a high fly ball.
What are some of Howie Rose's greatest calls in Mets history?
Deep right center. This ball is. How do you like that? Piazza gives the Mets the lead. This is unbelievable. Three to two, New York. What a battle. Piazza and Wagner in another late inning home run. What a series here in Houston!
I mean, Fran kind of jumped on his call. Yeah, that's the challenge. That's the negative.
That's the hard part as an analyst is when do I go? When can I get in and not ruin this thing? Fran didn't care much about that. Yeah, true. He jumped in. I'm just saying in general as someone who's done that job as an analyst, it's hard sometimes. That was another one of those moments that Howie captured because it was September.
We're in a pennant race.
What does Howie Rose say about the impact of his calls on Mets fans?
Here's Piazza, Billy Wagner. And what I love about that is you can hear the Met dugout celebrating in the clip.
That's funny, yeah.
That's how quiet the Astrodome became after the Mike Holm run. And then the other one, this is my all-time favorite call. I was talking to you about it earlier. Mets-Dodgers, Game 5, 2015. It's this incredibly just, like, agita-filled game. DeGrom's putting guys on base every inning. He's fighting out of it. They take the lead. J-Riz Familia's trying to get a six-out save. He survives this scare where Chase Utley hits one of the warning track. And here was the final out that sent the New York Mets, kind of in stunning fashion, to a series victory over the Dodgers and on to the NLCS.
What are the implications of the World Baseball Classic on player legacies?
Drops the ball! And the score is Sean! My bad, my bad. Hold on. My bad. Sean! My bad. That's the second time you've given us that he dropped the ball. All right, hold on. Are you screwing with me?
Familia, one strike away. Thank you. You can hear the nervous murmur from the crowd. And hear the heartbeats of Mets fans 3,000 miles away. The 0-2 pitch. Swung on and missed strike three. Put in the box. The New York Mets are going to the National League Championship Series. Familia jumped on by Travis Darnot. The Mets pour out of the dugout, pour out of the bullpen. They're mobbing each other at the pitcher's mound. The New York Mets have defeated the Dodgers in five games of the division series. They win game five, three to two. Jacob DeGrom every bit the bulldog that Oral Hershiser was all those years ago. And Daniel Murphy has the game of his life with probably the most famous stolen base in Mets history, the catalytic agent, and later, Murphy hit what proved to be the game-winning home run, the Mets and the Cubs in the National League Championship Series, beginning on Saturday night at Citi Field.
What future plans does Howie Rose have after retirement?
And get ready for a long narrative about 1969.
I think the best part of that call was before the call happened. The heartbeat's 3,000 miles away. Yeah. Because that perfectly, again, exemplified how we were feeling. I had to look it up after he said that. What? It's 2,500 miles away.
You're really doing that? You're really doing that?
Yes. I'll tell you something else, Howie. That might be just as the crow flies, though. Not that a crow could fly that far, but you know what I mean.
I think I do. And also, before the break, when we spoke to Howie, and if you missed the interview, you can rewind it between 11 and 11.30 on the Odyssey app, he did confirm what I tried to tell Tiki and the fake Long Islander Sean Morash, which is that Brooklyn and Queens are not a part of Long Island.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the significance of Howie Rose's retirement announcement?
0:01–0:32
2
How does Howie Rose reflect on his career and decision to retire?
0:32–1:19
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What are some of Howie Rose's greatest calls in Mets history?
1:19–1:52
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What does Howie Rose say about the impact of his calls on Mets fans?
1:52–2:33
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What are the implications of the World Baseball Classic on player legacies?
2:33–3:49
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What future plans does Howie Rose have after retirement?
3:49–1:07:23
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