SNY's Cohen gets to call Mets game from upper deck -- -

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WatchDog joins Mets voices in boomer nostalgia-fest
Published 5/16/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
Here is a story based on my afternoon in the upper deck at Shea with Gary Cohen and his SNY pals. It was a pleasant experience on a lovely day. The timing for such a warm-hearted piece would have been helped immensely had the Mets not base-ran themselves into a 1-0 loss, and had Billy Wagner not thrown lighter fluid onto the fire afterward. Oh, well. Much more on all this in the blog on Friday, where I will include quotes and observations for which there was no room in the paper. For example . . . 40 ...

Newsday: Best: SNY’s Cohen gets to call Mets game from upper deck
Published 5/16/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Newsday: Best: SNY’s Cohen gets to call Mets game from upper deck Well it’s about time somebody called the g-d Met game!...I sat in the freezing rain with Belth and Lederer the other night for over an hour and a....ohh, announcing. It was two hours before Thursday’s Nationals- Mets game, and SNY’s play-by-play man was sitting a few rows from the top of Shea Stadium, surveying the vast, red stretches of the upper deck. Soon Cohen would be fulfilling a decade-long aspiration, calling a game from the cheap seats he used to occupy as a fan, just in time before they tear ...