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The Mets said their final goodbye to Queens for the 2026 season while Howie Rose said his final goodbyes to the airwaves. I suppose the rest doesn’t matter quite as much.
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With the final home games of the season complete, Howie Rose, voice of the New York Mets is now Howie Rose, retired voice of the New York Mets.
While his retirement remains on schedule and official, Howie Rose’s retirement ceremony will be taking
place during next season’s opening weekend, whenever that may be.
A retirement is not complete until there’s a GQ profile and Howie’s retirement is no exception.
With Carlos Beltran and Andy Green on the field this weekend, it was a gathering of former, current, and potentially future Mets managers.
Laura Albanese penned a farewell to Howie Rose as the voice of Mets fans and as a voice who stepped into his broadcast booth.
Around the National League East
The Atlanta Braves handed the Astros a sweep-securing 4-2 loss and, at the same time, clinched their first NL East title since 2024.
Doing what they’ve done best all season, the Washington Nationals bullpen blew a game late and resulted in another loss for the not-quite-last-place team.
Sandy Alcantara, fresh off of closing a game, extended his major league innings lead and that’s just about the end of the good news for the Marlins in their 7-2 loss to the Padres.
Around Major League Baseball
As the last out of the Braves’ clinching win went into the books, the Boston Red Sox secured a postseason spot of their own in one of the season’s most improbable comeback stories.
In the middle of Sunday’s Cubs game, Michael Busch fouled a ball towards the on-deck circle and hit Alex Bregman directly in the cheek, sending the third baseman out of the game and setting him up for a nasty selfie later.
Terrible news for the San Francisco Giants and baseball as a whole, Duane Kuiper announced a diagnosis of throat cancer that has kept him out for a few days, but won’t keep him away from Mike Krukow’s send-off this coming week.
A pair of kicks to the teeth to cap off a failed season, the Blue Jays announced Dylan Cease is getting and MRI and a skipped start while Vladimir Guerrero Jr. left Sunday’s game with back tightness.
Jacob Misiorowski made an abbreviated start and got just one step closer to the Cy Young Award as the Milwaukee Brewers set a new franchise record with their 98th win of the season.
The Steinbrenner family is selling 16% of the Yankees at a valuation of more than $12B to private equity firm Apollo.
Curtis Pride, Bob Costas, and Albert Pujols, among others, are at the forefront of a push to get Dummy Hoy, the first deaf major leaguer, a spot on the veteran’s committee ballot and, from there, Cooperstown.
A pair of post-clinch roster moves for the Dodgers included placing Tarik Skubal on the bereavement list and calling up Emmett Sheehan in his place.
This Date in Mets History
On this date 25 years ago, Mike Piazza’s home run had a chance.
