Sad night for me last night. The last game for the legendary Bob Murphy, the voice of the Mets. My wife couldn't believe that I was teary-eyed watching the pre-game ceremony honoring Murph.

I think you reach an age where suddenly you start looking back instead of just living your life day to day. You dwell on the good times and try to hold onto them for as long as possible. It's as if holding on to the past will somehow keep the future at bay.

Hearing Bob Murphy's voice will always mean spring to me. The first time you heard him on the radio announcing a Spring Training game in March was magical and a much better indicator of an early spring than Groundhog day. Who else could describe "some harmless cumulus clouds" and provide a perfect vision of beautiful day for baseball. You could just the see the batter in you mind's eye "cat-tailing the bat around" waiting for the pitch. You knew that pitcher was in trouble when he faced "nine miles of bad road".

Hearing his voice instantly transports you back to the '86 World Series and you can experience the excitement and disbelief over and over again. There was his most famous call of Mookie's grounder going through Buckner's legs "ground ball...trickling...gets by Buckner...rounding third is Knight...the Mets will win the ballgame...the Mets win!".And " struck him out, he struck him out. The Mets have won the World Series. The dream has come true". Unfortunately the dream is over and we must finally wake to the reality that Bob Murphy and the Mets championships are now part of our past.