Gary Cohen All Alone in World, Ballpark

Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen (pictured above) is alone in the world because we are all alone in the world.

As the image below indicates, however — from today’s SNY broadcast of the Cardinals-Mets spring-training game in Port St. Lucie — Gary Cohen is also alone in the most literal sense.

“Ah Gary Cohen! Ah Humanity!” wrote Herman Melville for reasons that weren’t entirely clear ca. 150 years ago — but which now reveal both (a) his own prescience and (b) Gary Cohen’s existential isolation.