Today is a sad day indeed for Mets fans everywhere.

Voice of the Mets passes away

NEW YORK -- The Voice of Summer in New York, calm and confident, steady and reliable for so many years was lost on Tuesday afternoon when it was learned that Mets longtime broadcaster Bob Murphy had passed away in Florida after a brief battle with lung cancer. He was 79.

Murphy had a style and ease behind the microphone that made baseball on the radio enjoyable for generations of fans. He sat in the broadcast booth for a half century, beginning his career in 1954, describing the exploits of Ted Williams to the Red Sox Nation, and ended it after last season, having spent more than four decades calling games for the Mets, providing all those happy recaps for fans as they drove home from the park.

He was as much a part of Mets baseball as any of the players who have worn the blue and orange since 1962. Murphy was a friend on air, calling games in a simple yet classic manner that earned him a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown in 1994 as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting contributions to the game.

The link above brings you to a page which also has an audio file of his last call wrapping up a game in his usual upbeat style. He always left you wanting more, win or lose.