When you wear a David Wright jersey and David Wright finds you
They say never meet your heroes?
Someone forgot to tell this to a San Francisco bartender. With the Mets in town for a four-game series against the Giants, the bartender took the opportunity to show her fandom by rocking a David Wright jersey to work. What she didn¡¯t expect is that one of the customers she served would be Wright himself, as shown in a heartwarming video captured by the Mets¡¯ Twitter account.
With some NSFW language, the bartender expressed her extreme surprise and elation at being able to meet her hero before the two embrace and share some pleasantries.
A seven-time All-Star, Wright was drafted by the Mets in 2001 and played all 14 of his MLB seasons with New York. He finished as the franchise¡¯s all-time leader in a plethora of stats including but not limited to hits, runs and RBIs, and he is one of only four players in Mets history to be named a team captain.
Now 40 years old, Wright last played in an MLB game in 2018 because of lingering injuries that led to the end of his career. And though he¡¯s several years removed from stepping on an MLB diamond, he still managed to find a way to add another top moment to a lifetime already stacked with them.