Mets are unbelievably dumb when it comes to, well, just about everything.
Dwight Gooden used signed his name w/ a black marker onto a wall in the exclusive Ebbetts Club near the first base line. Turns out the Mets are not too happy with this and they decided to erase Gooden's autograph, treating it as graffiti.
"It's a brand-new building," said Jay Horwitz, the Mets' VP of media relations. "No one is supposed to write on the wall. It's going to be erased."
Lou DiBella, a Manhattan-based boxing promoter and devoted Met fan, was in the Ebbets Club on Opening Day when Gooden signed the wall, and he was there yesterday as the Mets lost 4-2 to the Brewers in the final game of a three-game series.
He's among a number of fans angry Gooden's signature likely will be gone when the team returns from a short trip to St. Louis.
"That's the same spirit that caused them to build a new ballpark that doesn't have any semblance of Mets history," DiBella said. "They charge $240 a ticket, and when your greatest pitcher tries to do something to reach out to the fans, the Mets make it seem like he did something wrong. It's so stupid."
[George Willis, NY Post]
[Flickr picture by Michael G. Baron]
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