Veteran Mets play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen has never held in his opinion or punches.
The Mets die hard supporter is often negative to the team in his personal capacity and professional capacity in an unblinkered fashion of journalists of old.
An ex-Mets third baseman Todd Frazier, a broadcaster for Little League World Series and a frequent contributor to Foul Territory and an analyst for YES Network spoke about an incident with Cohen, and said he confronted the 65-year-old.
“People kept telling me back home, this guy is cutting you up, he’s cutting the Mets up,” said Frazier, a Toms River, New Jersey native. “I’m like, ‘Ah, that’s what they do, you know?’ I start looking into it. Players are like, ‘He’s always done this. We can’t stand it. And I went up to him one time and said, ‘Gary, I gotta talk to you man.’ I said, ‘What the heck is going on? I thought you’re a Mets fan. He’s like, ‘I am,’ and he got pissed off at me. I said, ‘Well, start rooting for us.”
They had a real go at each other but in the end, it was all sorted out.
“We had our conversations back and forth,” Frazier added. “It was a good five-minute conversation. It was actually in front of some players, too. We got a newfound respect for what he does and what I do. It was fine after that. We’re both men; if we have a problem, we go straight to the source, and that’s how I’ve been raised. I felt better about it, and I hope he did too.”
