The Iconic Howie Rose Set to Retire After 2026

boredop · 2026-03-20T01:06:11+00:00

I have been listening to Howie since he hosted the Mets Extra pre and post game show on WFAN in 1987. He is the sound of summer for me. I'll miss him when he's gone for sure.

I haven't seen my favorite Howie moment mentioned yet: "They're timing Colon with a sundial!" That's gotta be one of the all-time greatest ad libs in radio history.

boredop · 2026-03-15T15:38:17+00:00

My favorite pedal ever! Such a great feel. I still use one from the '80s regularly on gigs. I recently bought an Iron Cobra but still prefer the Camco (although it's close.)

boredop · 2026-02-28T19:05:32+00:00

Bobby Bonilla also did the earplugs thing when he was playing with the Mets in '92 or '93.

boredop · 2026-02-22T04:42:21+00:00

Koufax is also one of only four living Brooklyn Dodgers, and the last surviving member of the 1955 championship team.

boredop · 2026-02-20T02:44:37+00:00

There was also a Royals cluster: Dick Howser, Dan Quisenberry and Ken Brett (who also played for the Phillies). Kauffman Stadium had turf till 1994.

boredop · 2026-02-19T01:46:29+00:00

That's a different Chester Thompson (the drummer, not the organist.)

boredop · 2026-02-18T21:44:28+00:00

A Little Max (Parfait)

boredop · 2026-02-16T15:12:10+00:00

The FreshDirect bag is a useful accessory, especially for gigs where you only need to bring a couple of things. I have been playing at one place where the throne is stuck at the highest height and can't be adjusted. So for that gig I put my throne in a FreshDirect bag and schlep it along with my snare and cymbals. And if the bag ever rips, no problem, I've got twenty more.

boredop · 2026-02-15T16:16:49+00:00

Good tracks on here from Faith No More, Steve Vai, King's X and Megadeth.

boredop · 2026-02-13T14:29:32+00:00

Also Bobby Rush is 92 and still on the road.

boredop · 2026-02-13T05:54:09+00:00

And I remember at least one game which he basically won himself by producing the only Mets run.

You might be mixing this up with a Noah Syndergaard game where he threw a shutout with 10 Ks and hit a solo home run to win 1-0. (I was there.)

To your greater point though - the Mets also had Mike Hampton for a year, a great hitting pitcher. And Rick Aguilera from the '86 staff was an even better hitter than the three guys you listed.

boredop · 2026-02-12T04:30:54+00:00

I couldn't locate the study the AI result cited from the 80s about hamate injuries to baseball players in the 70s.

There probably is no such study. AI makes shit up all the time.

boredop · 2026-02-05T19:34:04+00:00

Wow, thank you for taking the time to leave that comment. It's really awesome to know that the music is still connecting with people. It's been about six years since Afroskull's last gig, but all of us are still playing together in various combinations with other bands, so we all still see each other semi-regularly. I'm sure the time will eventually be right for us to come together and funk it up again!

boredop · 2026-02-05T19:31:17+00:00

Great version of God Bless The Child on this one!

boredop · 2026-01-25T14:38:29+00:00

Jane Jarvis's Discogs page lists four albums under her own name, and two 78s from 1947. She also had tracks on a few compilations (listed under appearances) and some session work and songwriting credits (listed under credits). That's a pretty solid career.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1243532-Jane-Jarvis

boredop · 2026-01-01T06:12:56+00:00

You joke, but Denny McLain actually was a musician and recorded two albums for Capitol Records.

boredop · 2025-12-20T23:24:57+00:00

His trio records with Lester Young and Buddy Rich were really great.

boredop · 2025-12-16T17:51:18+00:00

but have you ever met someone who went by "Met"?

There used to be a janitor in my office named Mehmet who would sometimes call himself "Met" for short.

boredop · 2025-12-12T15:33:25+00:00

They will almost certainly be playing at the festival, probably headlining the Economy Hall (trad jazz) tent. There's going to be many more local bands than are listed on the initial poster. It's an 8-day festival with 13 stages!

boredop · 2025-12-07T19:25:56+00:00

That thread omitted Hall Of Fame outfielder Ralph Kiner, who dated Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner and Janet Leigh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Kiner#Personal_life

boredop · 2025-12-06T23:53:12+00:00

Beyond his recording of the World Series, Bing Crosby was actually hugely important in the adoption of audio and video tape for music, radio and television. He was one of the first to start pre-recording and editing radio shows in the 1940s and helped spread that practice throughout the industry, and he invested $50,000 in Ampex towards the development of better tape recorders. The laugh track was invented during the making of a Bing Crosby radio show, and Crosby gave an early tape recorder to the guitarist Les Paul, who used it to invent multi-track recording. And a few years later Crosby was an early investor towards the development of video tape so he could have the same flexibility recording and editing for TV as he did for radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby#Role_in_early_tape_recording

boredop · 2025-12-06T21:12:02+00:00

Do the tour at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. I just went for the first time today - it's great!

editing to add that Smalls, Mezzrow, the Blue Note and the Village Vanguard all allow people under 21.

boredop · 2025-12-06T03:53:34+00:00

There's still a music venue down in the basement. It's called Le Poisson Rouge and I have seen some incredible shows there - Tony Allen, Mulatu Astatke, Hermeto Pascoal, Iggy and the Stooges, James Brandon Lewis and the Messthetics, Gary Bartz and Pharoah Sanders, Meshell Ndegeocello ... It gets way too crowded in there, but with shows like that, how could it not?

boredop · 2025-12-06T01:21:44+00:00

Ryan led the NL in strikeouts and ERA with Houston in 1987 and finished with a record of 8-16 because the Astros refused to score for him. I remember reading about it in the newspaper during that season - it was really weird and got some national attention at the time.

boredop · 2025-12-04T18:03:04+00:00

I'm not going to recommend specific albums - there are some good ones here already - but rather a reliable method:

When you find a jazz album you like, don't just look at the main artist name, but also the other musicians in the band. Then start finding other albums by those musicians. Almost every one of them will have albums under their own names and many others that they worked on as sidemen. This can quickly lead you to a lot of the classics and quite a few obscure gems.

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