Met-lovin' Mets

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Paul LoDuca was evidently spinning tales of boyhood Metfandom on the radio yesterday.

Unlike the MFYs, who require their acquirees to bloodlessly recite the Clipper's "lucky to be Yankee" BS, I give guys xtra cool points if they truly are Met fans. Can you name some?

LoDuca
Leiter
Randolph
Wright (says it, but I'm not sure I believe him yet)

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Mazzilli? Franco? Viola?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Vaughn was, so I hear.

[metirish]

Omar was a fan growing up in Queens....

[Willets Point]

George Foster really wanted us to Get Metsmerized.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I thought Shawon Dunston was. Bonilla, too, maybe?

[G-Fafif]

Bobby M. Jones, Roberto Hernandez spring to mind for sure. The former idolized Doc, the latter said last year it had been a dream to be on Kiner's Korner.

Ed Glynn of Flushing worked at Shea. My brother-in-law also lived in Flushing and also worked at Shea and hated baseball as a result, but I'm thinking Glynn didn't.

Ken Singleton? Either him or Mike Jorgensen? At least one of them I kind of remember copping to fandom.

John Pacella? When his hat fell off as a youngster in Suffolk County, was it a Mets hat?

Matt Lawton because of his brother? If so, the affection wore off quickly.

Piazza was a Phillies fan but allowed that he caught Mets broadcasts growing up and loved Murph and Ralph. One point for that.

Among MFYs who weren't Mets, Ricky Ledee and A-Rod lay claim. Ledee watched Channel 9 on satellite in Puerto Rico. A-Rod sticks to his story about adoring Keith Hernandez. They get no points for that.

[G-Fafif]

Preston Wilson grew up in the home clubhouse.

[Frayed Knot]

]A-Rod sticks to his story about adoring Keith Hernandez

At least he does whenever he wasn't trying to sell his story about growing up a Braves fan and adoring Dale Murphy. It was the origin of the #3 don't you know.
I suppose it all depends on who he's trying to finagle a contract out of at that particular moment.