Bob Raissman of the Daily News doesn’t sound like a big fan of Mets TV play-by-play man Gary Cohen.
Raissman ripped into Cohen, accusing him of big-footing it in 2006 when he pushed his way into the radio booth for the Mets postseason broadcasts. He hopes that doesn’t happen again this time around.
“The last time the Mets made the playoffs someone thought it would be a swell idea to move Gary Cohen into the radio booth to do two innings of each playoff game.”
“This was big-footing at its worst. Rose and McCarthy had worked almost every regular season game only to have postseason innings stolen by Cohen.”
Raissman says the move treated Howie Rose and Tom McCarthy like two schleps who were incapable of calling such huge games.
“And it wasn’t like Cohen was not involved in those playoffs. He was part of SNY’s pre- and post-game shows, which aired before and after the national playoff broadcasts.”
The current WOR-AM radio team includes Rose and Josh Lewin, who have been outstanding together. Lewin has quickly become a crowd pleaser, and of course Howie is Howie, the guy is epic. Wayne Randazzo also does a great job on the pre and post game shows.
As far as Cohen joining the booth, I don’t really have an opinion on it other than to say I do love the radio team as it is.
And if Cohen is going to do the W.B. Mason pre and post game show on SNY during the postseason anyway, I can get my GKR fix that way.
But seriously, I think Raissman has got far too much time on his hands.
