The issue here is that the Wilpons Mets dropped the ball on all this stuff. Gooden’s number shoudl have been retired, I dunno, in 2005 or so. And Keith, And Gary (still not done, because you can’t drive an event around a ghost), and the others. But hey they waited until Seaver died to put up a statue.
Steve has done the right thing playing catch-up, but baseball is dead now (even if the baseball mafia won’t admit it). Nobody cares. The people, like me, who grew up on this stuff have gray hair now and can’t be bothered to spend all that money and watch boring 21st century baseball. The younger folks are running polls asking if deGrom was better than Gooden, which is just absurd (even if someone who should know better as he was around in the 80s floated that a few years back). The younglings don’t know how exciting Gooden was, and they will never understand it. So they don’t want to attend this either.
So let’s take a look at social media and the ticket websites which makes me think they are heading for an underwhelming event.
UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that Gooden Day is Sunday not Saturday. Here are seat availabilities as of 3:12pm on 4/10
