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Why this fan is flying 2,400 miles to watch David Wright’s last game

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Chris Sobel with his late son Sean at a Mets game in 2006.

Chris Sobel flew 2,400 miles to say goodbye to The Captain.

“Being able to watch David Wright take the field one last time is something I would not want to miss for the world,” an emotional Sobel, 49, told The Post hours before getting on a plane in Arizona.

It wasn’t Wright’s on-field heroics – 7-time All-Star; 2-time Gold Glover; 242 home runs – that inspired Sobel to score a golden ticket to the Met’s last game.