Howie Rose Says It's Time to Give This Generation a Winner

BT & Sal talk to Mets radio Play by Play announcer Howie Rose about the importance of giving the younger generations of Mets fans a Champion.

Transcript

00:00Wait, will Bowdoin text you yet today?

00:02Not today, not yet.

00:04He's been checking in a lot, right? I heard you saying that.

00:07He's the best. He's so invested in this.

00:10There's a lineage to this franchise that's refreshing because

00:14sadly we've lost a lot of guys now from the 69 team.

00:18But the surviving members of that club

00:22and even those who have passed on

00:25who lived for quite a while after 1969

00:28they were delighted when the team won in 86.

00:31And the 86 group, they want...

00:33Ask Ronnie and Keith how badly they'd like to see this Mets team win.

00:36Because, you know, they're the ones that are always looked at

00:39as sort of that last championship team

00:42and it's always 86, 86, 86.

00:44Well, even for me, you know, as a guy who

00:47you know, is on the air every day and reflects back on those years

00:50I want, you know, I'm...

00:52Never mind, I'm being 70, but

00:55anybody who's realistically

00:58under the age of 40 has no recollection

01:01of the Mets having won in 1986.

01:04I want this youngest generation of Mets fans

01:08to have a championship team all their own.

01:10That's a great way to put it.

01:11It's time, man. It's time.

01:13So, you know, whether it's Ron Swoboda

01:16or Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling or anybody else

01:19who's a link in that chain to today

01:22they're all on the same page.

01:23Great way to put it. I never thought of it like that.