Mets announcers forced to call game from different booth as possum ‘makes a home’ at A’s stadium

The New York Mets‘ tv announcers had a last-minute change to their broadcast in Oakland Saturday.

SNY’s Gary Cohen and Ron Darling known as the sport in opposition to the Oakland Athletics from a distinct sales space as a result of a possum “makes a house” within the guests’ broadcast sales space.

“So, after we got here right here final September, we had been informed the story of the ‘RingCentral Coliseum Possum,’ who apparently makes a house within the guests’ TV sales space,” Cohen mentioned within the prime of the second inning. 

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A recreation between the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics Aug. 28, 2022, at RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland, Calif.  (Brandon Sloter/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)

Cohen mentioned former Mets radio broadcaster Wayne Randazzo, now the TV voice for the Los Angeles Angels, informed the SNY crew that whereas he was calling an Angels’ collection in opposition to Oakland earlier this season, the possum “made an look in the course of the recreation of their sales space.”

“So that they set traps for this possum, however he is proved elusive,” Cohen mentioned.

It appeared just like the plan for Saturday was to have Cohen and Darlng, a former Mets pitcher, name the sport from the traditional guests’ sales space regardless of no one having “been in that sales space for a number of days.”

However when SNY employees entered the sales space Saturday morning, they had been compelled to make the change resulting from a foul odor.

Oakland Athletics gear on the grass earlier than a recreation in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards April 10, 2023, in Baltimore.  (Jess Rapfogel/Getty Photos)

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“They stroll within the sales space and instantly had been met with the stench of the possum having … accomplished his enterprise within the sales space,” Cohen defined. “Apparently, the sales space reeked so badly of possum leaving that an government choice was made to maneuver us to this sales space.”

“I got here right here and went to the sales space, and folks grabbed me, virtually tackled me, and pushed me into this sales space,” Darling added.

Cohen joked that there’s a pole in entrance of his view, saying he “selected pole” over possum, and mentioned his school basketball play-by-play abilities will come in useful.

Sportscaster Gary Cohen introduces the 1969 New York Mets, winners of the Willie, Mickey and the Duke award in the course of the 2019 Baseball Writers’ Affiliation of America awards dinner Jan. 26, 2019, on the New York Hilton Midtown Lodge in New York Metropolis.  (Alex Trautwig/MLB through Getty Photos)

“I can bob and weave like one of the best of them,” Cohen mentioned when discussing how he’ll name the sport with a restricted view.

The stadium opened in 1966, and the A’s have been a candidate to maneuver to a distinct metropolis if they can’t get a brand new stadium. A brand new stadium within the Oakland market seems unlikely.

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New York (9-6) gained the sport, 3-2, and Oakland fell to an MLB-worst 3-12.