Jerry Seinfeld will join SNY’s Emmy-winning Mets coverage on Tuesday. Beginning with SNY’s pregame show at 6 p.m., Seinfeld will team with lead studio analyst Bob Ojeda and host Chris Carlin on “Mets First Pitch.”
Following the show, Seinfeld will head up to the SNY broadcast booth to join Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen to handle the play-by-play for the Mets-Giants game.
“Four guys who love to talk, sharing one broadcast booth sounds like a bad idea on its face. I don’t even know if the chairs will fit,” said Seinfeld, creator and host of the Emmy-nominated web show “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.” “But to spend an evening with Keith, Ron and Gary, I will stand if I have to. Those guys, and the incredible Bobby Ojeda, are the all-star team of baseball broadcasting.”
“Jerry might be the world’s greatest Mets fan. He is certainly the funniest,” Gary Cohen said. “As before, we will be humbled by his presence.”
“Jerry is a big Mets fan and we really enjoyed having him in the booth a few years back. It was a lot of fun, and he did a great job,” said Keith Hernandez, the accused “second-spitter” in a classic episode of “Seinfeld.” “I’m looking forward to hearing his thoughts on this Mets season.”
This will mark the second time that Seinfeld has called a Mets game. On June 23, 2010, he received rave reviews for his play-by-play work with Hernandez and Cohen in the SNY booth.
Knicks fans find Garden of love
Freddie Klein – the Knicks fabled, longtime season-ticket holder, has a story to tell about the Garden, love and its romantic possibilities.
Twenty four years ago, Freddie was to take his wife, Terry, to a Knicks exhibition game, but she canceled at the last minute. Desperate to use the ticket, Terry had her girlfriend and business partner, Lee Pearlman, go with Freddie instead.
While they sat and watched the game, Phil Jackson, fresh off his stint as a CBA coach in Albany, came by to visit them at their seats with his friend Lenny Braunstein, a basketball buddy from the 92nd Street YMHA. Lenny started flirting with Lee. They exchanged business cards, soon began dating and were married in 1989.
Lenny and Lee had a baby named Josh. Twenty-two years after Josh’s birth, he attended the Knicks-Pistons game during the 2011-12 season with Freddie, who was his godfather and forever indebted to him. Josh never would have been born had Freddie not taken his mother to the Garden that night.
During that game in 2011-12, Josh bumped into an old childhood acquaintance, Lauren Gelbard, after Josh’s and Freddie’s faces were put up on the Garden screen during a timeout. Lauren sought out her old acquaintance. They exchanged numbers, started dating and went to Italy this summer. Freddie Klein thinks they will get married one day, too.
“These are the deals the Knicks made that nobody hears about,” Freddie told The Rumble.
O’s help Bronx clubhouse worker in cancer battle
As a visiting clubhouse employee at Yankee Stadium, Jake Ryan is a long-time employee of the Yankees, might be the only guy who bleeds pinstripes while trying to make the visiting team comfortable.
The nature of the job is that players get to know the clubhouse workers and forge relationships with them. Recently, the Orioles tried to make Ryan comfortable.
When Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts saw Ryan in July, he noticed Ryan had lost a lot of weight and wondered about his health.
“I didn’t think something was right. You want to be concerned but you don’t want to pry,” Roberts said. “You want them to know you are concerned, but …”
When the Orioles pulled into Yankee Stadium in late August, Ryan was in the hospital beginning a battle with colon cancer, he is confident of winning.
“It was very different with him not there. He has always been there since I have been there,” Roberts said. “I always enjoyed my relationship with him. He always had a smile on his face and always did his job and did it very well. There were a lot of guys who said it was different without Jake.”
To make Ryan’s stay in the hospital more comfortable, the Orioles sent him a gift box to keep him entertained and a card signed by the team.