The miraculous New York Mets season has officially concluded after falling to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS.
It was a tough way to go out for the Mets after coming within two victories of facing the Yankees in a crosstown rivalry rematch of the 2000 MLB World Series. Instead, however, baseball fans will get to see two juggernauts of the sport face off on the biggest stage as Shohei Ohtani takes on Aaron Judge.
For the Mets fans who are feeling sad about coming up short, however, no one better contextualized all of the emotions than legendary radio broadcaster Howie Rose.
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Late in the game against the Dodgers, he reflected on the wild ride that led the Mets to where they landed on Sunday night.
Put the season in the books…but not before @HowieRose reflects on a wild ride. pic.twitter.com/Uy2jirweTs
— WFAN Sports Radio (@WFAN660) October 21, 2024
Here is how Rose started his monologue:
“If you are emotionally invested in this Mets team and you’re sad right now, it’s certainly understandable. But I promise you that won’t take long to wear off … Because once the immediate disappointment … here wears off, you’ll realize what an incredible ride this team took you for this year. Started out 0-5, showed some signs of life before they fell to eleven games under the .500 mark, and a lot of people had them written off right there.”
The start of this is similar to the call Mets announcer Gary Cohen made on SNY when the team clinched a playoff berth.
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Rose continued:
“When you’re lying around during the offseason anticipating the next one and you think about what the 2024 Mets were all about, you won’t be able to keep yourself from smiling. Remember the talk over the winter? Transitional year. They’re punting on the season. Well, they’ve kicked all the way to the sixth game of the National League Championship Series.”
The Mets were not expected to have a contending season, trading away staff aces Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer last year.
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But instead, they did the unthinkable and went as far as they could.
Here is more from Rose:
“I’ll say this on a personal level: I was 15 years old when they won the 1969 World Series. That’s 55 years ago. So you can do the math yourself. But I’ll just say this about the 2024 New York Mets. This 70 year kid feels 15 all over again. You can watch baseball for a lot of years and never see the run that the Mets went on during this postseason and even the days prior.”
If that didn’t give you full body goosebumps, who knows what could?
As always, Howie Rose articulates what we're all feeling to a tee. What a ride for the 2024 Mets. pic.twitter.com/BODHwFBEz4
— jack (@Jolly_Olive) October 21, 2024
But here is an edit of Rose’s words with some music and some mesmerizing highlights of the season behind it.
That should give some added emotion and context that could make you tear up a bit if you are a fan.
