Bob Murphy and Gary Cohen: Mets Announcer Tournament Co-Champions

by James Kannengieser on Mar 28, 2009 6:00 PM EDT

Championship results: Bob Murphy (50%) tied Gary Cohen (50%). More people voted in the championship than any other round, and I think it's only fitting that it ended this way. Murphy and Cohen are co-champions of the Amazin' Avenue Mets Announcer Tournament. I assure everyone that the results are legitimate. As a tribute to each of these fine announcers, here are some of their memorable calls:

"The crowd is chanting, 'We're number one!' The Mets made up 15 1/2 games since the 13th of August. Lou Brock is on second, and Vic Davalillo, the runner on first, with one man out ... ninth inning, 6-0, New York. Gentry pitching, working hard here against Joe Torre. Now in the set position, here's the pitch ... ground ball hit to shortstop ... Harrelson to Weis, there's one, first base ... Double play ... The Mets win! It's all over! Ohhhh, the roar going up from this crowd! An unbelievable scene on the field ... fans are pouring out on the field." - September 24, 1969, Mets 6 - Cardinals 0

"Lenny Dykstra, the man they call Nails on the Mets ballclub is waiting ... Now the pitch, and it's a high fly ball hit to right field ... It's fairly deep ... It's way back, by the wall ... A home run! A home run! The Mets win the ballgame ... Dykstra wins it ... Len Dykstra hit a home run ... This ballgame is over ... Lenny Dykstra is being mobbed by his teammates!" - October 11, 1986, NLCS Game 3, Mets 6 - Astros 5

"Mookie Wilson still hopes to win it for New York ... 3-2 the count ... And the pitch by Stanley ... And a ground ball trickling ... It's a fair ball. It gets by Buckner! Rounding third is Knight ... The Mets will win the ballgame ... They win! They win!" - October 25, 1986, World Series Game 6, Mets 6 - Red Sox 5

"Now the pitch on the way ... He struck him out! ... Struck him out! The Mets have won the World Series! The dream has come true. The Mets have won the World Series, coming from behind to win the seventh game." - October 27, 1986, World Series Game 7, Mets 8 - Red Sox 5

"A line drive caught. The game is over. The Mets win it. A line drive to Mario Diaz. And the Mets win the ballgame! They win the damn thing by a score of 10 to 9!" - July 25, 1990, Mets 10 - Phillies 9

"Here's the pitch on the way to Bonds ... Fly ball to center ... Can he run it down? ... On the run, Payton ... Makes the catch ... It's all over ... The Mets win it!!! Jay Payton makes the catch ... A one-hit shutout by Bobby Jones ... And they're all racing to the mound and mobbing Bobby Jones ... What a magnificent game ... The Mets have never had a better game pitched in their 39-year history than this game pitched by Bobby Jones." - October 8, 2000, NLDS Game 4, Mets 4 - Giants 0

"Swing and a drive, deep down the left field line towards the corner it's outta here! Outta here! Mike Piazza with a line-drive 3-run homer!" - June 30, 2000, Mets 11 - Braves 8

"High fly ball, deep left field, back goes Bonds, looking up at the wall, that ball is, outta here! Outta here! The Mets win the ball game!" - October 7, 2000, NLDS Game 3, Mets 3 - Giants 2

"Perez deals, fastball hit in the air to left field that's deep, back goes Chavez, back near the wall, leaping and... he made the catch! He took a home run away from Rolen! Trying to get back to first Edmonds, he's doubled off! And the inning is over! Endy Chavez saved the day!" - October 19, 2006, NLCS Game 7, Cardinals 3 - Mets 1

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Endy saved my life...

Yadier Molina took it away.

Who's world is it? It's yours.

by BlackOps on Mar 28, 2009 6:22 PM EDT reply actions

Bob Murphy

I can live with these results. It seems just about right. But I give Bob Murphy the edge because I have a sound byte of him saying “A sold-out crowd at Shea Stadium. The ol’ ballpark still looks awwwfully good when it’s full of people.”

http://rememberingshea.blogspot.com/2009/03/little-reminder-of-shea.html

by dyhrdmet on Mar 28, 2009 6:28 PM EDT reply actions

Wow!

that is awesome, the perfect result. Maybe the best tie in the hstory of sports!!!

by Endys Game on Mar 28, 2009 7:37 PM EDT reply actions

Good result.

I couldn’t see it any other way.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Mar 28, 2009 11:23 PM EDT reply actions

I didn't vote

cus I was out of town this weekend and my mother’s computer sucks. I would have hated to be the deciding vote.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Mar 29, 2009 12:41 AM EDT reply actions

Perfect

Especially since so many of us wished we could split our vote. Call it one champion for the present world, and one for the world to come. Gary is to Jay-Z as Murph is to Biggie.

phliadelphoe ite domum!

by Doc Manhattan on Mar 29, 2009 11:36 AM EDT reply actions

+1

A perfect analogy.

"One of the nice things about baseball is that there are no rules you can't break." - Jim Bouton

by Prince on Mar 29, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Was Biggie really that good?

I’m not a big rap fan, but I can recognize that Jay-Z is pretty awesome and has a ton of good songs. Can’t say the same about Notorious B.I.G. Not to trample on his grave, but I think the fact that he was killed artificially enhanced his reputation.

by James Kannengieser on Mar 29, 2009 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Without getting into a larger discussion

Yes, Biggie was really that good.

Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me
I’d never amount to nothin’, to all the people that lived above the
buildings that I was hustlin’ in front of that called the police on
me when I was just tryin’ to make some money to feed my daughters…
We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us
No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us
Birthdays was the worst days
Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay
Uh, damn right I like the life I live
‘Cause I went from negative to positive
And it’s all good.

He was 22 when this song came out.

by Sokojoe on Mar 29, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Fair enough

I just never thought his songs were very clever, original, or interesting. And his lyrics were excessively rude to women. Then again I haven’t exactly listened to the entire BIG catalogue so who knows. I’ll say Murphy is Dr. Dre and Cohen is Jay-Z (ignoring any west-coast/east-coast nonsense and just going on awesomeness)

by James Kannengieser on Mar 29, 2009 7:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Short answer

“Best ever” is debatable because of his prematurely-shortened career, but Big’s name comes up in the discussion every time.

The early demos and freestyles floating around on the internet will let you know how much raw talent he had; combined with great production, Biggie cut some tracks for the ages.

phliadelphoe ite domum!

by Doc Manhattan on Mar 30, 2009 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Jay-Z sucks

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on Mar 31, 2009 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions

Murph

I’ll have to admit, I used my wife’s computer to vote Murph a second time. Glad it worked to perfection.

by whynot on Mar 29, 2009 12:50 PM EDT reply actions

Recount

by Sokojoe on Mar 29, 2009 5:12 PM EDT reply actions

Is it to late to vote?

I would like to add my vote for Mr, Murphy. Growing up before the days of ballgames being on for all 162 on TV. Listening to Bob describe a game on radio was like being their. Yea this is old school but watching a game and have someone tell you what happen is just great and Mr Cohn does a great job, the whole team does. But Bob did it best on radio tell us the happening as you first learn it. Can’t fault the results just wish I could have been thier for the vote.

by mel.bennett1956 on Mar 29, 2009 8:37 PM EDT reply actions