When the rankings for baseball‘s broadcast teams are released every year, one group that is normally mentioned as being one of the best is the Mets’ trio of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez. However, one of the three does not have a contract to continue after this current season.
Hernandez, who won a World Series with the Mets in 1986, told Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman of the New York Post that his current deal with the club expires after this season, but that he is looking to return to the booth.
“We haven’t begun negotiations, but we will,” Hernandez said. “I’m not ready to retire. If I do another three years, they’ve always been three-year deals, and then the three-year deal will take me to 75. I just turned 72 and I’m ready to do another three.”
Mets TV Trio Has Worked Together For Two Decades
Hernandez, Cohen, and Darling have been in the SNY booth together since the network’s inception in 2006. However, SNY is still owned by the Wilpon family, who maintained ownership of the cable network when they sold the franchise to Steve Cohen in 2020.
Hernandez has been complimentary of the Wilpon family in the past, remarking how Fred Wilpon has told him in the past to keep it a fair broadcast for the fans.
The trio is known for having fun at each others’ expense during the broadcast. Hernandez once joked with Cohen during a Spring Training game about their love of ice cream.
During a game where he was broadcasting from the front row behind home plate, he yucked it up with Reds first baseman Joey Votto, who was on deck/
And of course, there was the time that Keith accidentally “broke the camera” in the booth that looked in on the guys, and remarked how it “wasn’t coming out of my paycheck.”
