Jerry Seinfeld Spends ‘All Day’ Thinking About Baseball
The television portrayal of Jerry Seinfeld as a rabid Mets fan and overall baseball enthusiast isn’t far off from reality. In fact, it probably doesn’t go far enough.
Seinfeld spends “all day’’ thinking about the sport, according to an interview with ESPN New York. Seinfeld, who attended the infamous Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, says he still lives and dies by every pitch.
“Baseball is a two-day sport. You have the day of the game and the day after. Each game is big. If you win, you’re happy that day and the next day. If you lose, you’re bumming for two days.
I have one of those fancy boxes now, which I don’t like that much because people want to socialize, and I don’t really like to socialize at a baseball game. I just want to sit there quietly and watch every pitch.’’
Unlike the pilot episode in which Seinfeld gets mad at someone for revealing the score of the Mets game before he’s watched it, Seinfeld says he now gets text alerts every time the Mets score a run. He says there’s “no such thing as too many stats.’’ When he retires, he said he’d like to go to a baseball game every day.
Seinfeld also discussed his baseball crush on the show, Keith Hernandez, and whether or not he could make an argument for Hernandez to be in the Hall of Fame.
“Maybe. I don’t think the Hall of Fame is that big on intangibles. You talk about a guy who reinvented his position, you would definitely say he did. That should be a criteria. That would be my argument. If you can reinvent the way a position is played, that’s noteworthy, and you’re a part of baseball history.’’
Below is my favorite clip, from the Season 3 episode ‘The Boyfriend’’, in which Jerry tries not to get too serious in his friendship with the ballplayer he idolized.
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