According to the Daily News, we’ll still hear Eddie “Grey Goose” Coleman next season, but only as WFAN’s Mets beat reporter, and not on WOR in any capacity. Bob Raissman still believes Josh Lewin will ultimately still be in the 2014 Mets WOR booth, but WOR won’t make a long-term commitment:
Ed Coleman will be back covering the Mets, but won’t be hosting the pre- and postgame shows, or doing play-by-play, on WOR-AM.
He will be serving strictly as WFAN’s Mets beat reporter. WOR suits did not look for continuity in their first broadcast season. A radio source said they wanted to shake things up and even were reluctant to bring Howie Rose back.
Mets brass stuck its beak into that situation, but apparently didn’t go to the mat for either Coleman or Josh Lewin, who likely will be back but not under a long term deal.
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Shannon here (thanks Mike for grabbing)
WHAT????????? Reluctant to have Howie back????
Fred pick up the gosh darn phone and smack the suits back into understanding BRAND. Putting on Fuzzy & The Bean in the booth to “cool” up the games isn’t going to work. Fish where the fish are and THE FISH LIKE HOWIE AND JOSH.
Grrrrr. Can’t I even be Mets-happy for 24 hours?
The mere fact that WOR was reluctant to bring Howie Rose back does not bode well for Mets baseball on WOR. Of course, it’s still early, and we haven’t actually HEARD Mets baseball on WOR yet, so I hope to be proven wrong.
Mets continue to prove their front office is CLUELESS. Fans love Howie and Eddie C, can’t stand Lewin and his scripted schtick. This ownership has watched
its fan base deteriorate, its record slide beneath mediocrity, they used to own
this town, now they’re lucky to get one rack at Modell’s to sell their gear,
even then that’s usually a Mo Vaughn or Jose Reyes jersey to be found…..
We had a great home on WFAN for years, now we’re handed the indignity of having
to listen to Yankee broadcasts on what was “our” station and move down the dial
without our longtime pre and post game guy in Coleman. We were on a sports talk
station, now we might as we’ll be on a Ham radio frequency. They just handed
away another piece of their dwindling empire, or what’s left of it. The
Wilpon’s are empty suits, they don’t deserve to own a major league team in NY.
I wish they would take their Jackie Robinson statue back to Brooklyn, run the
Cyclones into obscurity like they’ve done to the Metropolitans, and sell my team
to someone who will put a 41 foot statue of Tom Seaver in the rotunda. Selig
and the Wilpon’s, two of the worst baseball families in the history of the game,
they were made for each other: The Clueless Empire.