NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: Brickbats As Citi Field Strikes Out On Mets History
Bad enough the Mets are perennially overshadowed by that other NYC baseball team, fans have been complaining that the team’s new home at Citi Field pays homage to Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers while giving Tug McGraw and Mookie Wilson short shrift. So the Mets decided to highlight more of the team’s history by installing two-foot square granite markers celebrating “Amazin’ Moments” in Mets history within the thousands of commemorative bricks that line the Fan Walk. Unfortunately, one of those granite squares got the Mets into another jam with the fans, reports The New York Times:
[One] granite square describes perhaps the greatest moment in team history, the seventh game of the 1986 World Series, against Boston, when the Mets rallied from three runs down to win the championship.
But as the sleuths at the blog MetsPolice.com note, Sid Fernandez was incorrectly credited on the square with being the winning pitcher that night. As Mets fans of a certain vintage know, Fernandez pitched two and a third innings of sterling relief in Game 7, but he did not get the win. …
The Mets have removed the erroneous square ... [b]ut that hasn’t stopped Mets fans from venting. As one writer on MetsBlog.com put it: “Oh come on. Picky, picky. It’s not like Game 7 of the ’86 Series was an important moment in Mets history or anything.”
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