Mets engineer with Cal Ripken-like streak getting moment in sun

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Chris Majkowski is the WOR radio engineer for the Mets.The first road trip Chris Majkowski ever took with the Mets was to St. Louis. Coming off a 7:40 p.m. start time on getaway day, the plane landed between two and three in the morning. At the team hotel, Majkowski, then a newly minted engineer for WFAN, found himself in an elevator with manager Jeff Torborg. It was the first time the two had met.

“So,” Majkowski recalled Torborg asking, “what made you wanna join the circus?”

Majkowski isn’t sure how he answered. But 25 years later, it’s clear the circus was the right choice. In that time, he has missed one game.

Majkowski will throw out the first pitch before Wednesday’s game,…