Star and co-creator Jerry Seinfeld, who is a lifelong die-hard Mets fan, held a press conference at Citi Field this week to announce the premiere of "Seinfeld" on the streaming service Netflix. 

Over the years, there have been many baseball plot lines on the show.

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  • NY1 caught up with the comedian at a press conference at Citi Field

Retired World Series-winning Mets player Keith Hernandez guest starred as himself in the first hour-long episode. And of course, Seinfeld’s friend George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander, famously worked for the Yankees. We asked Seinfeld which current major league baseball player he’d love to feature if the series were still going on today.

“We have a new guy on the Mets, Javy Baez, who I think is the coolest guy playing baseball," Seinfeld said. "There’s a lot of cool guys playing baseball but he’s one of the coolest. I like his look and his style. And I definitely would try to get him into an episode if I could. He slid into home plate, won a baseball game and one of his diamonds, I think, fell out of an earring. And they never found it! And it was really expensive diamond. That is a Seinfeld episode."

The well known sitcom is seen as a loving homage to New York City by many. That same city was something Seinfeld found himself fighting for at the beginning of the pandemic. 

"I feel pretty good about my standing up for New York when I did last summer when people were saying it was dead forever, and I said no way," Seinfeld said. "And now it definitely feels like it’s coming back. It’s not back all the way but it’s on the way back for sure. New York is the most fantastic experience of life, in between life. This is why I love New York city. In between your life, the things you have to do, New York gives you all this other stuff going on in the people you see in the stores, there’s like adventures, there’s always somebody sprinting at top speed in Manhattan wherever you are if you stop and look around you’ll find someone running. From something to something so what I love about the New York living is the life between your life."

You can catch all 180 episodes of Seinfeld, now on Netflix.