Newsday’s Neil Best, caught up with Mets radio play-by-play announcer Howie Rose who says covering the 2015 Mets season is undoubtedly “the greatest damn season of broadcasting I’ve ever had.”
“I can’t find the right words to tell you how much I loved this season, from the 11-game winning streak and even through the down periods, because even at their worst they were in close enough proximity to first place. They lost that miserable game in the rain in July and were three games out, but then Washington comes in and they swept them and they’re in a virtual tie.”
“It was an honor – an honor – to do those games. I can’t look at it any other way, man. Look, you want to take exception to this, or other media people want to, fine. But people know what I’m about. Cut me open and I have a Mets logo in there. I’m just so proud to have been there for this season. I can’t say it any other way.”
Just how highly does Howie put this season in the context of his legendary broadcast career? He said it surpassed the 1994 Rangers’ run to the Stanley Cup and his famous “Matteau! Matteau! Matteau!” call when those Rangers won Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final over the Devils.
“Up until now I could say on one level ’94 with the Rangers was the biggest thrill of my career,” he said. “But when those words, ‘The Mets win the pennant!’ came out of my mouth in Chicago that beat everything. That was the trump.”
You can read the rest of this fascinating interview here.
