Newsday: Best: SNY’s Cohen gets to call Mets game from upper deck

Well it’s about time somebody called the g-d Met game!...I sat in the freezing rain with Belth and Lederer the other night for over an hour and a....ohh, announcing.

It was two hours before Thursday’s Nationals- Mets game, and SNY’s play-by-play man was sitting a few rows from the top of Shea Stadium, surveying the vast, red stretches of the upper deck.

Soon Cohen would be fulfilling a decade-long aspiration, calling a game from the cheap seats he used to occupy as a fan, just in time before they tear down the dump. It was a nod to his past, but more so to the others who grew up as fans far from the field, including the 18,000 or so children in the house Thursday for “Weather Education Day.”

“Everybody comes to this job differently,” Cohen said, listing the varied backgrounds of announcers who are former players, or who arrived from other cities as veteran broadcasters. “But Howie and I grew up as fans, in this ballpark, and somehow found our way back here to be play-by-play voices for the team,” he said.

“Ultimately, all of us want to go back to our roots; to me, these are my roots. This is how I got where I am.”