PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — One former Newsday writer once dubbed it “Port St. Lonesome.”
This year, the spring training home of the Mets is anything but. Mets fans have jammed the ballpark, hotels and area restaurants in a way that has the town of more than 170,000 residents bursting at the seams.
If you’ve watched a spring game on SNY, you’ve no doubt heard Keith Hernandez talk about how hard it is to get his car out of the parking lot after a game.
More than once.
“We’re filling it up,” Hernandez sighed the other day.