Over the course of the seventeen seasons that preceded the current one, Mets fans have had the pleasure of listening to the best booth in baseball—Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling. The trio brings everything a viewer could possibly want to the table: passionate play-by-play calls, intelligent analysis, and an endless supply of humor.
Just two regular season games have been played thus far with Major League Baseball’s pitch clock in place, but it is clear at this early juncture that we will be hearing a lot less of GKR over the course of this season, a significant downgrade in the experience of being a Mets fan.