Amazin’ Conversations with Jay Horwitz
Sep 8, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Twenty-five years after September 11, Bobby Valentine joins Jay Horwitz to remember how the 2001 Mets helped New York begin to heal. Valentine reflects on Shea Stadium becoming a relief center…
Bobby ValentineGuest
Jay HorwitzHost
Probably because a lot of teams, are remembered for championships, for rings, for rallies.
And with guys like you and Leiter and Franco and Ventura and Zeal, what we keep doing, the motto of this team is never forget.
jay you know the commander-in-chief at the time said we shall never forget and it's because of you that everyone kept working no that you kept us alive you kept us going you kept the the victims in the situation in front of us that uh you You wouldn't let us forget, and I think that's a great thing because our hearts and souls were into that situation, into the people of New York and around the country, but especially the people of New York, the people who are Met fans, those people who came on Tuesdays with their kids, those people who came to the restaurant.
Remember all the restaurant activities? I opened up a restaurant across the street.
Thanksgiving party, the Christmas parties, the, you know, everything imaginable, try to turn some of those frowns upside down.
You know, I remember most, Bobby, if we were in Pittsburgh when it happened and we'd come back maybe a couple of days, I forgot the woman's name who took us down to ground zero.
I never thought in all my years I would ever see anything like that in American soil.
The first night I went down the first time with all the beacon lights on and the, remember the ash on the top of the cars that were all parked along the street and not moved for weeks and the streets and the smell and the first responders, the people, the volunteers who were coming off of that rubble with, the fire hoses going to try to keep the fires out and the smoke going up and all the volunteers trying to get the rubble out of the way to get someone, rescue someone to no avail.
Probably because a lot of teams, are remembered for championships, for rings, for rallies.
And with guys like you and Leiter and Franco and Ventura and Zeal, what we keep doing, the motto of this team is never forget.
jay you know the commander-in-chief at the time said we shall never forget and it's because of you that everyone kept working no that you kept us alive you kept us going you kept the the victims in the situation in front of us that uh you You wouldn't let us forget, and I think that's a great thing because our hearts and souls were into that situation, into the people of New York and around the country, but especially the people of New York, the people who are Met fans, those people who came on Tuesdays with their kids, those people who came to the restaurant.
Remember all the restaurant activities? I opened up a restaurant across the street.
Thanksgiving party, the Christmas parties, the, you know, everything imaginable, try to turn some of those frowns upside down.
You know, I remember most, Bobby, if we were in Pittsburgh when it happened and we'd come back maybe a couple of days, I forgot the woman's name who took us down to ground zero.
I never thought in all my years I would ever see anything like that in American soil.
The first night I went down the first time with all the beacon lights on and the, remember the ash on the top of the cars that were all parked along the street and not moved for weeks and the streets and the smell and the first responders, the people, the volunteers who were coming off of that rubble with, the fire hoses going to try to keep the fires out and the smoke going up and all the volunteers trying to get the rubble out of the way to get someone, rescue someone to no avail.
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