BOB & RALPH IN TV ENCORE
As part of a nostalgic final week as a full-time Met broadcaster, the retiring Bob Murphy will be reunited with Ralph Kiner on TV for the Mets-Expos Sept. 19 game.
“It is something we are really looking forward to,” Murphy said.
Not only will Murphy and Kiner – who along with Lindsey Nelson formed the Mets’ original broadcast team in 1962 – be together, but Fox Sports Net will produce the game like a 1973 telecast.
The most noticeable difference will be the lack of a center-field camera. Fox Sports Net will also use camera angles and graphics from 1973.
A week after Murphy and Kiner are reunited, Sept. 25 at Shea will be “Bob Murphy Night.” To accommodate the pre-game festivities honoring Murphy, the first pitch with the Pirates that night will be pushed back a half-hour to 7:30.
While the 78-year-old Murphy is retiring, the 80-year-old Kiner has no plans to quit.
“I think they are going to keep me around until I get it right,” said Kiner, who added his health is good.
On Sept. 19, Murphy and Kiner, two Hall of Famers, will come together again in what should be a memorable, and perhaps emotional, broadcast.
“It will be a special night for us to be able to tip our cap to these gentlemen,” said Mike McCarthy, executive vice president of MSG Networks, which oversees Fox Sports Net here.
“I am sure I am not the only one who will relive childhood memories of listening to this broadcast team.”

