SAN DIEGO — Leave it to the fan who caught the Bartolo Colon home-run ball to put it all in perspective.
“Bartolo is a true athlete,” Jimmy Zurn, 35, told The Post on Saturday night at Petco Park during the Mets’ 6-3 win over the Padres. “Anyone who can crush a plate of nachos and crush a baseball like that has to be an athlete.”
Zurn knows athletes. He is the baseball coach at La Mirada High School in Southern California, and best of all for Colon and the Mets, he is a Mets fan.
When a trade was offered for the baseball, he told officials: “The only thing I want is for the Mets to win a world championship.