Former Mets broadcaster Ed Coleman, 72, isn't getting any younger, so he knew it was time to move on from WFAN, where he served as a reporter while also calling games on sister station WCBS.
Talking to Seth Everett on the podcast Sports with Friends, Coleman said he had been considering retiring prior to the COVID-shortened 2020 season and a 2021 season that had them calling games exclusively from the booth at Citi Field.
"This was not something that came upon me suddenly," Coleman said. "It hadn't been a lot of fun. We had done most of the games from Citi Field, home and away, sitting there watching."
Coleman added that walking away and not covering the team this season, which has New York looking primed to make the playoffs, was difficult to consider.
"The team is obviously very good this year, and that was a hard part for me to step away at a time when I knew that this team was going to be very good," he said.
But it was really the last two seasons that helped really make the decision for Coleman.
"I think we made a total of 10 (road) games during those two years," he said. "I had seen enough of (Citi Field) by the time we got the (2020) season over with, and the next year it was more of the same. All of that factored into it."
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