A Plea to Albany (From A Disgruntled Mets Fan)

Five Years.

That's all it took for WOFX 980 AM to dump the New York Mets in favor of the Boston Red Sox.

As a fan of both the Yankees and the Mets, I liked to have the opportunity to watch the Yankees, while listening to the inferior Mets on the radio. As I can no more watch two games on television than I can listen to two songs on the radio at the same time, I searched high and low to find my local affiliate of the Mets Radio Network prior to the 2011 season, KNOWING FULLY WELL that the Mets would not be a playoff team.

I quickly grew quite fond of listening to Howie Rose and Wayne Hagin broadcast the Mets games. The insight they provided, as well as the enthusiasm they exuded when the Mets made a great play or won a dramatic game, was genuine, and the presence of their voices soon became a familiar sound as I looked forward to almost each and every game.

Whether the score was 3-2 or 10-2, the duo made every game worthwhile to listen to, and by the time the season ended, Rose's enthusiastic "Put it in the books!", (as well as his "Put it in the books already!" after a 14-inning Mets-Phillies game in May) became as familiar and welcome as John Sterling's "THEEEEEEEE Yankees Win!".

The Mets may not be a playoff team next season, or the following few seasons for that matter, but that doesn't mean that us local Met fans shouldn't be able to hear the team, (or the announcers), that we love.