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According to Jim Baumbach at Newsday, Mike Piazza will be in attendance for a special ceremony during the final weekend of the regular season to honor Shea.
Baumbach quotes a person familiar with the situation as saying, “The invitation went out and he accepted. He’ll be there”
…it would be great to see mike again, and he deserves to be part of the celebration…but i can’t imagine anything being better than his last game as a Met…grown men were crying like babies…
…added to by Mike Nichols…
…terrific job by the Mets and mike…i was hoping the Mets would have done more to honor their former players this season during each home game when they unveil the number the of games remaining at shea, but they seemed to hand those duties off to sponsors and others involved in the franchise…
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Great to see Mike back… but I’d love to see Doc make an appearance, even tho he said he wouldn’t.
NEWSDAY: As for his ties with the Mets, he said he still talks with media relations director Jay Horwitz and clubhouse manager Charlie Samuels. He last spoke to Darryl Strawberry “four or five months ago.” He hasn’t been back to Shea Stadium in years, he said, and he doesn’t plan to return before it’s torn down.
The organization really turned its back on Gooden after his 2nd suspension in 94-95…ignoring his literal pleas to come back after he’d resumed his career.
Not saying they were wrong, but this is clearly a situation where the rough feelings could probably be easily smooted over by reaching out to him. I can’t imagine them not inviting him, and hopefully he accepts. Clearly he would have been there in 2006 if he were not in jail.
A great guy great hitter, My favorite Met of all time
I hope he has a great rest of his life
aka our next GM
I am with you, my favorite MET of all time!
You had me until the next GM part…personally a part-time gig on SNY would suit me, and possibly Mike, very well. Nothing about him strikes me as the kind of guy who would ever want the headache and commitment of running a team.
Do they retire Mikey’s number during the cermony?
Piazza’s 31 should be retired at Shea, no question, in my mind.
If not shea, I am sure they will do it in CITI
They can’t upstage every other guest by honoring Piazza that day. The point is to honor Shea, and the franchise. Piazza will get his due next year I am sure – I don’t think it’s important to retire it at Shea…it’s important to retire it wherever the franchise is playing.
I guess they wait a couple of years before they retire the jersey
I wonder ifthey’re waiting to see if he goes to the hall as a Met or not.
What difference would that make?
Seaver’s number was retired in 1988, the year after he formally retired. He went into the HOF in 1992. Since only one player has been retired, that’s your only precedent.
Are you implying that if the HOF decides Piazza should go in wearing a Dodger hat, that would make the Mets decide against retiring his number?
I know the “hat” debate can be fun – but it’s really stupid. Every player in the Hall belongs to all of the teams he played for, not just the one on the hat. To say someone “went in as ___” is pretty silly IMO.
They should retire his number, but like everything else recently, this organization will bungle it. I’m so disappointed in this front office recently.
I won’t even mention the ticket prices at Citi Field.
Go check out the prices at the new Yankee Stadium, and it’ll put Citifield in perspective.
That’s good, because if you did you’d probably sound like an idiot.
Well, he’s only been officially retired 2-3 months, so it’d be a thrown together type of thing anyway. I imagine the Mets probably have a couple of surprises in store for us taht final weekend (I mean off the field surprises, hopefully not “What? I’m a pitcher?” type surprises), but I don’t really think Piazza’s retired number would be it. I’m actually wondering of the Mets are waiting to see if he’ll go to teh Hall as a Met first.
He HAS to be a Met. He did more as a Met (despite better hitting #s as a Dodger) and he was a Met for more games. People remember his HR in that game against the Braves and the homer he hit in the 2000 WS to win it all…. wait
Which prices? The over 30% of tickets that are priced under $25? the value games with tickets as low as $10-$12?
Or do you want to just read NY Post headlines and focus on the 6% of tickets priced above $200?
Honestly sounds like the Mets have done a nice job on pricing and CitiField will be a realtively affordable experience, unlike that joke in the Bronx with the Hard Rock Cafe and $2,500 seats to watch Darrell Rasner pitch against Kansas City.
The Mets have really done a bad job of honoring their past so far this year. I hope they make up for it with some great blowout that last weekend of the year.
Hopefully, they honor players from 62, 69, 73, 86, and 99/00, and stop using the Shea countdown to honor insurance reps and car salesmen from Forest Hills.
Awesome. The closing ceremonies should be great.
Bernie Williams refused to go to the most recent oldtimers game at Yankee Stadium. I hope we don’t see such sour grapes from any ex-Met and that most of them who are invited show up for the finale.
He refused because the Yankees basically dumped him. Yogi didn’t go for YEARS.
Like Al Leiter and his little grudge against the Mets, it’s a shame these guys have no self-awareness, even after the fact.
Baby Bernie should get over it and realize they kept him around 2 years too long as it was.
Just like Leiter, who is still mad the Mets did not give him a 2-year deal, only to see him go to Florida, get bombed and released, and finish with the Yankees as a situational lefty. Does he really look in the mirror and still think the Mets should have given him a TWO year deal???!!!!
it ticks me off what the mets are doing in this last year at shea i mean come on have a oldtimers day where u bring back players from all the teams wheather is duke snider or craig swan we deserve to see our old guys (good or bad) to help close this stadium which has been my home for the last 36 years
I still remember people being blown away by his 7 year $91m contract. He’d get $150m today.
The Mets inexplicably shut sown their Hall of Fame years ago – I think Agee was the last guy inducted in around 2002.
Guys not in the Mets HOF: Gooden, Strawberry, Orosco, HoJo, Darling, Cone, Franco, Alfonzo, Piazza, Leiter, Davey Johnson….total joke.
I really hope they revive it, update it, and proudly display its members someplace besides the High-School trophy case sitting in the current Diamond Club now….
The Mets should retire Mike’s number