HOWIE ROSE

To this point his signature call is the “Matteau….Matteau” riff he delivered when the Rangers eliminated New Jersey during the 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs. Yet Rose, the radio voice of the Mets, may have actually topped that moment by working the Yiddish word “Meshugas” (it means nonsense or crazy) into his Cubs-Mets descriptions last week. Rose referred to Yoenis Cespedes’ body armor as “All the MESHUGAS Cespedes has going.” With this linguistic feat now accomplished, perhaps Rose will voice his disapproval of a managerial move by calling said skipper a “mashugana.”