NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — We all miss baseball, but NO ONE misses it more than legendary Mets Radio voice Howie Rose.
He’s hunkered down in Florida waiting for the season to hopefully get underway.
WCBS’s Morning Sports Anchor Brad Heller caught up with Howie on a Zoom video call and talked about all kinds of things, including the biggest Howie news of the year – He has joined Twitter!
After years of making fun of it, he took the dive and now has been tweeting like crazy.
“The experience has been incredibly positive, and I didn’t expect that,” said Rose. He knows it will change because as he says, “Twitter does what Twitter does.”
Why take the dive now after rejecting it for years?
“I just felt so empty when March 26th came along and we didn’t have baseball,” Rose said.
The Mets were scheduled to open the 2020 season at home that day but like everything under this umbrella of the COVID-19 pandemic, it all came to a halt.
“I felt this disconnect between the fan base and myself," Rose said.
So he took the dive and as of May 5th had over 25,000 followers in just his first month.
Rose has tweeted about anything and everything baseball. He’s commented on things like old Mets games to Bat Flips and the Korean baseball league.
Rose also feels that the next month will be important to see when and how Baseball will return. But will we see what’s happening in the Korean leagues with empty stadiums?
“In my opinion there is no way that we’ll have 40,000 fans at Citi Field this year, regardless of the circumstances," Rose said.
There have been many proposals to bring back baseball from playing in a “bubble” scenario in Arizona with no fans, playing at just the spring training sites while realigining the league abandoning the NL/AL split or even playing at neutral sites.
Which one of the plans would Howie prefer?
“I’d like anything that brings baseball back this year," he said.
Needless to say we all agree with that one.