David Lennon
David Lennon is an award-winning columnist and author who has been a staff writer at Newsday since 1991.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Sorry, Shannon. At the risk of betraying our off-the-record conversations, there’s something people should know about your time here as mother, sister, daughter, friend, confidante, pioneer, shoulder-to-cry-on, fence-mender, mess-fixer, problem-solver and all-around, multi-tasking whirlwind for the Mets.
You really hated the Yankees.
Oh, not the people. Shannon Forde wasn’t like that. Heck, some of her favorites played in the Bronx: Todd Zeile, Robin Ventura, Al Leiter, just to name a few.