One month after it was unveiled, a minor error has been detected on the Tom Seaver statue sitting outside Citi Field.
The No. 4 on the back of Seaver’s jersey isn’t the correct font, though it is historically accurate on the front, and now that one person caught it, many people can’t unsee it.
Now, Craig is making sure no Mets fan forgets it.
“It is not a historical representation of a jersey that man ever wore as a member of the New York Mets,” Craig teased Evan to open up Tuesday’s show. “The Yankees don’t get those kinds of things wrong.”
Craig also wants to know how all of these supposed Mets fans didn’t catch this mistake in the first place, until a month later after thousands of fans crowded around it when it was first unveiled.
“How did you guy all miss it?” Craig said. “All of you die-hard Mets fans? ‘Oh, the statue is great, it’s finally a representation of our greatest player.’ You got the jersey wrong! How did you make that mistake?!”
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It’s hard to pour any cold water on the Mets season right now, given how well they’re playing following a promising offseason. But Craig is convinced if this happened two years earlier, there would be chaos in Queens.
“If this was a Wilpon mistake, you guys would never let him live it down,” Craig said. “You would want the statue taken down and the number fixed.”
That said, even in a new era of ownership, Craig joked that the statue should be taken down and done over again to fix the error.
“I feel terrible for the guy that did the sculpture. Innocent mistake,” Craig said.
“I think you kind of have to take the statue down now...I think you gotta scrap the whole thing. Scrap it and rebuild it.”
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