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but that actually was Rosey Rosewells's original happiness.

In which case I sit corrected. That one's my second favourite home run call. Ralph Kiner, long with the Mets, had my favourite: Going, gone, forget it, goodbye, which he eventually modified to Going, going, going, it is gonnnnnne, goodbye!

And even then, he once modified it when Darryl Strawberry hit a monstrous shot that even Stevie Wonder would know was going to go: This one's gone---goodbye!, practically at the minute the bat hit the ball.

Then, there was Steve Zabriskie, calling Strawberry's once-famous shot off the Busch Stadium digital clock on the upper deck rim: Oh, baby, that one is way out of here!

And, Vin Scully, calling Strawberry's leadoff bomb in the eighth against Boston's Al Nipper, Game Seven, 1986 Series, when the Mets were up a mere 6-5 and needed a little insurance (which is why I could never understand everyone calling this blast "meaningless"): High fly into deep right center field, Evans to the track, at the wallllll----gone!

Scully, of course, topped himself a few hitters later, when Met reliever Jesse Orosco was in the rare position of batting, with Ray Knight on second, Joe Garagiola saying, "I'd bet the house---he's got to bunt," and the Red Sox putting the rotation play on and off to guard against the bunt. Finally, the Red Sox put the play on . . . and Orosco, showing bunt, pulled his bat back and gave it just enough swing to make contact. Here was Scully's call as Wade Boggs and Bill Buckner came charging down the lines, shortstop Ed Romero (spelling Spike Owen) broke toward third, and second baseman Marty Barrett broke toward first, leaving the middle as wide as an airplane hangar as Orosco pulled back his bat to begin his swing:

Swinging! and a ground ball into left center field . . . in comes Knight, it is 8 to 5, Mets, and Joe, you just lost your house!

They should have passed a law that Vin Scully would call the World Series until he retired or died---whichever one came first.