{"id":208086,"date":"2021-03-22T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/david-wright-remembers-mets-shannon-forde-five-years-after-passing\/"},"modified":"2021-03-22T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:16:09","slug":"david-wright-remembers-mets-shannon-forde-five-years-after-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-wright-remembers-mets-shannon-forde-five-years-after-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"#David Wright remembers Mets’ Shannon Forde five years after passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#David Wright remembers Mets’ Shannon Forde five years after passing<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Man, does time fly. Five years have passed since Shannon Forde, longtime media<\/a>-relations official for the Mets, died after a long battle with breast cancer in March 2016<\/p>\n

Maybe the time flies in this instance, because we haven\u2019t forgotten Shannon one iota.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me at least, it was her guidance,\u201d retired Mets captain David Wright told The Post in a telephone interview, and the former third baseman flashed back to his major-league callup in 2004: \u201cI was a young player. Most definitely, I was a little intimidated by New York as a 21-year-old kid. Being in the city for the second time in my life \u2014 the first time came when I was drafted (in 2001) and the Mets brought me in \u2014 I would say I was intimidated by the city. I was intimidated by the players in the clubhouse: Mike Piazza, John Franco, Al Leiter, Tom Glavine. I think she was kind of a calming influence on me early. She helped me with things that made me comfortable right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we celebrate National Women\u2019s History Month, with Opening Day app<\/a>roaching, it feels like a good time to remember and salute Shannon in writing, in addition to our standard conversation about her. She was, Wright said, \u201ca team mom-type figure\u201d who bolstered the Mets brand not only by putting the team\u2019s players at ease \u2014 and therefore improving their performances on the field, Wright agreed \u2014 but also enhanced the organization by the way she represented it to media folks like myself as well as the other clubs in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n

Wright said there was \u201ca nurturing aspect\u201d to Ford; he explained, \u201cFrom showing me around the stadium and the clubhouse, to pointers with the media, to \u2018Think about this restaurant,\u2019 and \u2018You could live in this area,\u2019 she went above and beyond in a way that made me feel more comfortable early on.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as Wright became a superstar and an all-time Met, \u201cShe treated me the exact same way, and I\u2019d like to think I treated her the exact same way,\u201d Wright said. \u201cShe always had a way of keeping me grounded. If i said something or did something that was \u2018big-league,\u2019 she\u2019d say, \u2018I remember you when you were a pimple-faced 21-year-old kid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

When Wright learned in 2015 that he had spinal stenosis, the condition that prematurely ended his playing career, Forde was nearly three years into her cancer diagnosis. \u201cShe\u2019d always be so worried about me,\u201d Wright said. \u201cI\u2019d ask her, \u2018How are you feeling?\u2019 and she wouldn\u2019t say much. Looking back on it, I can\u2019t believe how gracious she was at a time when she was probably feeling so terrible, when some other people might be in bed, feeling sorry for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was so strong and noble, and all who knew her miss her so much. Time may fly, but it stands still when we have an opportunity to honor Shannon, so strong are our memories of her.<\/p>\n

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Shannon Forde with David Wright in 2013.<\/figcaption>
Marc Levine<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Wright, by the way, said he has spoken to Mets team president Sandy Alderson about a \u201cpart-time\u201d advisory role with the Mets. The pandemic has slowed down the execution of such an agreement; with two young daughters in Southern California, he wasn\u2019t going to travel<\/a> to Port St. Lucie and follow baseball\u2019s quarantine protocols just to hang out at spring training for a few days. Wright helped the Mets a little the prior two seasons when he still was under contract as a player following his retirement.<\/p>\n
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