NY Mag: Q&A with Mike Piazza on Mets, Citi Field
Jada Yuan of New York Magazine caught up with Mike Piazza at a local charity event earlier this week.
Piazza, on whether the Mets are the unluckiest team in baseball, told Yuan:
“No. I don’t believe in luck. No. Look, we had a lot of frustrations when I was there. That’s just the unfortunate thing of playing for the Mets. The highs are extremely high, and the lows are really low. It’s really like a roller coaster. There’s really not a lot of middle ground with them…. The Mets have won two World Series. There’s no question. Things will get better.”
…i miss mike… The Piazza Era feels like so, so long ago, doesn’t it… i guess that’s because it was… i always figured he would make for a perfect, once-in-a-while, on-air personality for SNY, sort of like Darryl Strawberry and John Franco do for them… i recall him being very good on television when he would slot in to help broadcast post-season games for ESPN…
…i suppose he is happy with his wife and kid in California, and why work when you don’t have to, but it seemed, for him, like it would also be a good way to keep his memory alive and a way to connect with his biggest fans…
…or, the Mets could just get it over with already and retire his number, which seems inevitable since they are always putting him in the same spotlight as Tom Seaver… i wonder if the team is waiting to see which team MLB makes him enter the Hall of Fame with, the Mets or Dodgers… if it’s the Mets, i hope they retire his number the following season…
To hear more from Piazza, on whether or not he keeps in touch with people in the Mets front office, his thoughts on their season, Citi Field, and whether he is available to catch next season, read Yuan’s post, here.
