Ron Swoboda reflects on the life and legacy of former Met Ed Kranepool | SNY

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Let's welcome in Ron swoboda right now, who was teammates, with Ed kranepool, for six years, including the 69 Miracle, season Ron. Thanks for joining us. During what I'm sure has to be a difficult time for you. Yeah, this one hurts a lot, you know, I met Eddie back in 1964, my first year with the medicine course, we stayed friends until I got the news just today and Eddie had passed. So that's 60 years, do the math, this one stings, a little and you know where are all in the 80s. You know, range that seems like seems like a tough time for former major league players. If you look back at the last couple of years, all the Hall of Famers, we've lost all the guys, we've lost we played with and against, oh, it's a rough time, but, but I think you need to celebrate the fact that Eddie was was such a New Yorker. He was Mr. Met to me, you know, nobody represented all those errors of men history. Eddie kranepool. And besides all of that, we were great friends. I just talked to him last week. I thought everything was fine. How important Ron you thought about what he meant to the Mets and the City of New York? How important was it to Ed to be a lifelong Met? Look, I think Eddie was he wasn't proud of anything more than the 18 years. He spent with that team and that's remarkable when you think about the Changes in administration, the changes in managers and whatnot that Eddie went through with the Mets and the ups and downs of that whole 18 years, to stay with the same franchise meant you were useful, you made yourself useful as a player, he was a smart hard-nosed. New York guy playing for the New York Mets, that's for sure. Do you have a favorite memory? Ron of Ed, whether it be with your playing days with him as a teammate or just even after baseball, Well, I mean, I have so many memories. You don't have enough time, but I'll tell you what in the 1969 World Series. The first pitch from Tom Seaver, went over the right field fence in Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, we're down one. Nothing on a ball that I thought I should have caught and I came into the Dugout right after that and I'm yapping about, you know, I should have caught it. I got her number. I should have caught it, that was a catch to me with that, you know? New York demeanor and went just shut up and get the next one. And that's what I did. That is tremendous. He was he was a tough guy, you know, we just, we had so many things together on and off the field, you know, over the years. And that's, that's really what, you know, this one gets this one, get speak to me. I hated it when Tug McGraw past but we knew what the brain to him. This thing was going to end pretty quickly. But with Eddie, I thought that he was kind of cruising along after the, after the new kidney, which gave him a quality of life. He wasn't going to have without it. How do you think Ron that edge should be remembered by Mets fans? You know, as a New York kid? You know, you walk out of James Madison and next thing, you know, you got a met uniform on your walking up to home plate in a major league ball game at. 19 years old, they got a little, he got a knock before they send him out but you know the fact of his longevity and the fact that you know, anybody that's you know, up there in a couple of years knows that Eddie was a New Yorker through and through and you know, he showed up at every little league dinner and Jewish breakfast, you know, Jewish men's club breakfast every every event and all the autograph signings all the years. Eddie was a guy that He just did it all and and and and he was it was a through and through tough guy, New Yorker and and and nothing made that point stronger, to me than the way he engineered finding a kidney that he needed to live, and he did that and, and, and the life. He lived the last couple of years with a difficult, diabetes was all because of that. That boy, Ron, I could listen to you tell stories all day long. About Ed kranepool, and those 69 Mets. I know this is a difficult time. We really appreciate you coming on with us, our condolences to you, and the rest of the Mets, family. We appreciate your time. Thank you, Ron. Hey, you got it. Thank you. And, and think about that, and just know that he was a good guy and did it all.

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