Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

A message from Howie Rose…

A message from @HowieRose: pic.twitter.com/PwC89TDduy

— New York Mets (@Mets) March 19, 2026

Well this is a sad day.  Hopefully Howie’s final broadcast will include the phrase “the New York Mets are the World Champions” – I mean hopefully it’s “Francisco Lindor of the (his new American League team) after Steve DFAs him strikes out and the New York Mets are the World Champions” but I guess the former would be ok.

One thing that caught my ear is “in one capacity or another.”  As the Tale of Howie Rose And The Mets has become lore, what gets left out is that pesky period where the Mets wouldn’t let Howie come on immediately after Mets games because he was too critical of the organization.  We’re not supposed to talk about that because it ruins the nice story, and since I think Howie is the best announcer in baseball, I will choose to play along and not talk about it.

I also feel bad that Howie thinks there will be postseason games.  Will he call it a season on NFL Sunday Sep 20th for the final home game? Or will he wrap with a meaningless road game at Washington on Sep 27th.  Boy, both of those scenarios suck.

Thank you for your service sir, ESPECIALLY “the young Howie Rose” who threw HEAT back on Mets Extra.  I really miss that.

Someone who must be “happy” is Gary Cohen who likely gets to be the Master of Ceremonies heading forward.  If not Gary, I have no idea who you’d even have do that.  It’s not like we’re gonna ask Steve Gelbs to handle Opening Day.

Keith Raad finds himself in a good place.  He could get 40-50 years out of being a Mets broadcaster.  I don’t think anyone is ahead of him on the internal food chain.

Howie started in 1987.  What if there is a CURSE OF HOWIE ROSE and they win it all in 2027????

Look at the nice present the Mets gave me for St. Patrick’s Day.  I agree. TIME TO GO.  People on the Mets should like Mets fans.

I look forward to getting years out of this one.  Well, hopefully only a few days if you do the right thing and get him off the team.  Steve has paid $1,800,000,000 for sillier things so its not like he can’t eat this contract to fix the karma.

Hey everyone, I believe this is a naive mistake, and a common one.

The Mets stopped wearing this particular logo a few years ago and I thought we were done with it.

I am sure if the Mets, MLB, the MLB store and New Era do some basic research they will find themselves horrified to be playing on this side of the street.

 

Please consider withdrawing this cap from sale.  I bellve you meant no harm.  I am here to educate you.   Please reconsider.

The Mets shared part one of their promotional schedule.  Early in the season will be a great time to go see the Mets as Francisco Lindor is out, so he won’t be giving you the thumbs down, and Vulgar Pete is gone, so you can feel assured Citi Field is family friendly again!

We begin with Opening Day – you can get in for just $127!  I used to go to Opening Day every year until 2016 when the Mets decided they would jack the prices and have New Friends rather than us loyalists.  Now I don’t go. And Opening Day isn’t sold out (!) so I hope that plan worked out for you guys.

Saturday March 28th brings a 1986 Replica Ring.  You know what would be nice? A 2026 Actual World Series Ring.

On Sunday…well…what are we even doing

 

After that, some bobbleheads.  I never understood the appeal, I find them to be clutter.

 

And then it’s the “Retro” T-Shirt designed by someone who clearly wasn’t around in 1986.  Maybe the retro means 2006, but this isn’t how shirts looked in 1986.

More to come as I have time…

So do the Mets just suck at branding?  Are they unwilling or unable to control their players?

Suddenly Pete goes to Baltimore and he’s able to say Go O’s without an F in the middle.

On the other hand, he doesn’t seem to be able to say Orioles, he says Earls…which locals might tell me is proper, which would be even more annoying since he came to my team and vulgar’d all over it.

It appears that Elon disabled embedding, or moved it, or broke it…boy Twitter sucks these days….click the link to hear Non Vulgar Pete