Mets hero Benny Agbayani now works in Hawaii, coaches his youngsters

Benny Agbayani is up by 3:30. His shift at Daniel Okay. Inouye Worldwide Airport in Honolulu begins lengthy earlier than the solar wakes.

The 52-year-old ramp agent clocks in round 4:45 a.m., adorned with heavy-duty gloves and the kneepads wanted to crawl across the stomach of the dozen or so planes he masses and unloads every day, a lot of which is spent behind the wheel of a towing tractor, pushing and towing aircrafts.

“A typical day on the ramp is hard in that scorching solar,” the previous Mets outfielder stated. “However I take pleasure in it. It helps me out as a result of now I don’t need to go to the gymnasium. You’re shifting round. You get a great train doing that day by day. And I need to reside fairly lengthy.”

Agbayani has held the job with Hawaiian Airways for the previous decade, far longer than he spent as a Mets fan favourite throughout his transient time within the majors (1998-2002).