John Franco poses for a photo with me at a Brooklyn Cyclones event in 2009.
Tonight, the New York Mets will honor their all-time saves leader John Franco by inducting him into the team’s Hall of Fame. Franco appeared in more games (695) than any other Mets pitcher and is one of only three Mets players to be formally named team captain.
I’ll admit that he often made me want to reach for the antacids when he came in from the bullpen, but I hope there’s a nice crowd at Citi Field tonight to see him honored… with the game getting picked up to ESPN, I don’t know how much of the ceremony will be televised to fans at home.
Can SNY televise the ceremony and then cut out once the game starts?
Franco’s trade from the Reds could not have come at a worse time for him- the Reds won the 1990 World Series the year after he left.
One can only wonder if he were the other nasty boy instead of Myers.
As a baseball fan- congrats to John Franco!
They probably could, but they’re scheduled to run a couple of episodes of “Beer Money” from 7-8 tonight. Maybe it will make it onto the SNY postgame show or next week’s episode of “Mets Weekly”