Legendary Mets broadcaster Howie Rose retiring after 2026 season
NY Post
PORT ST. LUCIE — One less familiar voice will be heard over the Mets’ airwaves next season.
Howie Rose, a longtime fixture in the Mets booth on both television and radio, announced Thursday that he will retire after this season. Rose, 72, is scheduled to work only Mets’ home games this season (and the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium), after reducing his workload in recent years. But he plans to travel should the Mets reach the postseason.
“Trust me, I did not arrive at this decision to retire easily,” Rose said. “I have been going back and forth in my mind about it for the last few years. But the simple reality is that I am 72 years old and my wife Barbara, who has sacrificed so much for so long, deserves to have her husband around a little more often — whether she likes it or not.”
Rose has served as the Mets’ lead radio voice since 2006, following Gary Cohen’s move to the SNY booth. Rose previously served as a lead play-by-play announcer for the team on television, starting in 1996, after beginning his tenure covering the club as a pregame and postgame host on WFAN.
Rose’s signature moments include his call of Mike Piazza’s dramatic home run in the first game played in New York following the Sept. 11 attacks and the final out of Johan Santana’s no-hitter in 2012. It was the first no-hitter in franchise history.
Cohen told The Post he knew Rose was considering retirement based on conversations with him in recent years, but that only slightly dulled the weight of Rose’s announcement Thursday.
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