Hey Mets fans, you surged in your votes to get Jose Reyes onto the NL All Star team, lets do this for Mike Piazza.
In Piazza, the Mets not only got an elite hitter in his prime, but the sort of player who made the team nationally relevant after a decade of false hope (Todd Hundley’s 41-homer season) and unfulfilled potential.
Finally, the Mets had a superstar to call their own, a hitter so feared that only two National Leaguers were intentionally walked more than he was the year he came to the Mets — Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire.
Thirteen years and countless memories later, Piazza could be suiting up in the blue and orange one more time, and you could be the one forced to choose between giving him a free pass and pitching to the greatest position player in Mets history.
From now through Aug. 31, vote up to 25 times a day for your favorite living legends and help create the Pepsi MAX Field of Dreams Team (click the link to vote). All-time greats have been nominated at each position, from catcher to reliever. For each ballot cast, you will be entered to win the chance to take on the winning Pepsi MAX Field of Dreams Team with 10 of your friends on your home turf next spring, surrounded by family, fans and media.
Piazza is the only Mets representative on the ballot and will face stiff competition from fellow catchers Johnny Bench and Carlton Fisk. But as any Mets fan knows, Piazza is a more than deserving candidate.
Come on let’s get a METS player on that team. Full story here.
