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July 29, 2003
42 Years Of Memories
Congratulations to Mets broadcaster Bob Murphy, who announced on Sunday that he would be retiring after 50 years as a Baseball broadcaster, the last 42 with my beloved hometown New York Mets. For many fans, Murphy will be best remembered for his calls during the magical 1986 postseason, where a Mets squad that had totally dominated the National League during the regular season tempted fate with chilling regularity. But for me, a New Yorker who left for college in Washington, D.C. in the Fall of 1985, I'll never associate those great moments (which I watched either on television or in person) with Murphy's signature call. Instead, I'll remember Murphy best as part of the broadcasting team that accompanied the Miracle Mets of 1973 to within one game of the championship, only later to soldier through the rest of the 1970s with Ralph Kiner and Lindsey Nelson as the Mets descended into chaos both on and off the field. As I got older, I began to think that a broadcaster like Murphy deserved better than the misery that was the Mets in the late 70s and early 80s. And when they did win that second World Series in 1986, I can remember being as happy for Murphy as anyone else. Someone as good behind the mic as him deserved to have a chance to cover another team that won it all. It's only fitting that his radio call of Game Six will live on long after we are all dead and gone.
Eric
01:33 AM
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