If you paid close attention Wednesday night, in the aftermath of the final out of the NLCS, you heard the voice — for so long the soundtrack of one lost Mets summer after another — betray Howie Rose just a bit. There’s a little catch in his throat, a little crack.
And the Brooklyn-born, Queens-bred Rose makes no apologies.
“I can literally tell you, from the age of 12, I dreamt of saying those words the other night: ‘The Mets win the pennant,’ ’’ Rose said. “I know there’s a point … a little after the initial call, I can hear my voice just slip a little bit into some emotion.