Howie Rose almost put his Mets career in the books 15 years ago.
The longtime Mets radio voice says he almost quit as a Mets broadcaster in 2004 when he left their TV booth and joined Gary Cohen on the radio.
The prospect of doing a full radio schedule was “daunting,” Rose told SNY’s “Rain Delay Theater” podcast, but at the time he was worried about the noise of an NHL lockout taking away his Islanders television gig for a season. So he took it, and he joined the Mets out on the West Coast shortly after the Islanders were knocked out of the 2003-04 playoffs.