It was more magical than Roger McDowell’s loogie, and Jerry Seinfeld missed it.
As Johan Santana was no-hitting the Cardinals on Friday night, the long-time Mets fan was on a plane back from South Bend, Indiana. Seinfeld said his driver told him the news before he even got in his car.
“And I just dropped my bags right there at the curb and went, ‘No!’,” Seinfeld or “Jerry from Queens” said in an interview with WFAN on Monday night.
Though he missed it live, Seinfeld had seen parts of it and had planned on watching the full replay on SNY later that night.
“The great thing about this world is that I have experienced it so many times by now,” he said.
Seinfeld marveled at the historic evening, which was the first no-hitter in the Mets’ 50-year history.
“This is the Yankee curse,” said, whose friend and fellow comedian Bill Maher recently bought a stake of the Mets.
“When you’re a Yankee fan, you can’t have a thrill like this. It takes 50 years to make a thrill like this. If the Mets had three no-hitters, just think of what we would me missing, what we would have missed out on. That’s what we call ‘Mets Magic.’ They have this thing where they can thrill you in the most unexpected ways, and I really do think there’s something special about this organization. It’s why I love ‘em.”
Despite Monday’s loss, the Mets head to Washington on Tuesday night a ½ game behind the first-place Nationals and Marlins in the NL East.
“Forget about ‘October’ or ‘serious,’ now we have a summer!” said Seinfeld, whose sitcom featured a disagreement between Kramer and Newman with Keith Hernandez because they thought the first baseman had spit on them after a game. During a cameo, Hernandez pointed the finger at McDowell.
“They just gave us an entire summer of interest and enthusiasm and ups and downs, which is what we love about baseball.”