Typical Mets Fan Honors His Dead Friend By Flushing His Ashes Down The Toilet At The Ballpark

NYT – The New York Mets were leading the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1, after two innings when Tom McDonald stood up from his upper-deck seat at Citi Field. Nature was calling, and so was his obligation to his childhood friend and fellow Mets fan Roy Riegel, whose death nine years ago left Mr. McDonald, 56, vowing to honor their baseball bonds in an unconventional way: by disposing of Mr. Riegel’s ashes in ballparks across the country. Even more unusual was his chosen method: flushing them down public restroom toilets in the ballparks between innings. “The game has to be in progress — that’s a rule of mine,” Mr. McDonald said one recent weeknight before entering a Citi Field bathroom, holding a little plastic bottle containing a scoopful of Mr. Riegel’s cremains. He stepped into a bathroom stall and sprinkled the ashes into the toilet with as much decorum as the setting allowed. A couple of flushes later and Mr. Riegel’s remains were presumably on a journey through Citi Field’s plumbing. “I took care of Roy, and I had to use the facilities myself,” Mr. McDonald said, emerging from the stall with the empty container. “So I figure, you know, kill two birds.”

Classic Mets scum. Nothing says respecting a dead friend’s wishes of having his ashes spread around MLB ballparks than dumping down in the shitter then literally pissing on his ashes. A public stadium toilet, too. Quite possibly the most disgusting, repulsive, and sickening restrooms on Earth outside Nate’s bathroom where you don’t know what could be dissolving in the bathtub any given day. Like, come on, man. Gotta get those ashes to the field someway, somehow. Just wait to tour the fields and disperse them how Andy Dufrene would spread his wall around the prison courtyard – Drop the charred remains one handful at a time. An Eagles fan got pinched a few years back for charging the field on gameday and spreading around his dead mom’s ashes. And THAT’S how you honor a deceased fan. I fully plan on doing that for my father when the Eagles finally kill him and I’m forced to put Jeffrey Lurie as the cause of death on his death certificate. Why? Because it’s about respect. You don’t flush a person down the public toilet and/or trough (RIP Veteran’s Stadium) at the ballpark.

This is almost as disrespectful as how they did Donnie. On second thought, this guy DEFINITELY keeps his friend’s ashes in a coffee can, or worse. Thinking maybe an empty beer bottle or free Jets koozie. Goodnight, sweet prince.