NEW YORK — I sat across from Ron Darling in the media dining room not long after the ceremony at Citi Field honoring the 1986 Mets on Saturday. Just about the whole crew was there, although I needed to check the names on the jerseys to recognize a couple of them.
It's been 40 years. Everyone is older and softer now. No matter. The nostalgia brought me right back to a more innocent time in Flushing, even if Citi Field was barely half full.
That's what saddened me.
It wasn't so much seeing Ray Knight in a wheelchair pushed by Howard Johnson. Or that Bobby Ojeda appeared to be limping. Or that Davey Johnson, Gary Carter and Buddy Harrelson, all deceased, had to be represented by family members.
It's that a reunion like this should've been a sell-out.
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It's been 40 years. Everyone is older and softer now. No matter. The nostalgia brought me right back to a more innocent time in Flushing, even if Citi Field was barely half full.
That's what saddened me.
It wasn't so much seeing Ray Knight in a wheelchair pushed by Howard Johnson. Or that Bobby Ojeda appeared to be limping. Or that Davey Johnson, Gary Carter and Buddy Harrelson, all deceased, had to be represented by family members.
It's that a reunion like this should've been a sell-out.
#METS
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