Michael aptly summarizes the unique charms of Howie Rose as a Mets announcer, a job he has held since 1987 and, as a play-by-play man, since 1995. As Michael notes, Howie is not the “voice from nowhere” favored by professional broadcasting; he has been deeply and unmistakably a voice from somewhere, a Jewish kid from Bayside with a Queens accent and a perspective that comes from that world. That has always made him more interesting. My son and I were at the game on Sunday that was his finale, and we bailed out after eight futile innings to listen to him give his valedictory in the ninth,........

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