Of all the fans who paid top dollar to attend Monday’s official Citi Field opener, perhaps no one beat the father and son, left, in section 11, row 8, seats 5 and 6. Those were the Bernard Madoff seats — the spots auctioned off in the liquidation of the disgraced investor’s assets. The man who paid $7,500 for the two tickets to the New York Mets’ game against San Diego would not give his last name. Is it any wonder? Who in their right mind would shell out such an exorbitant sum to watch the Mets? Then again, maybe there were other titillating things to behold. “I thought the dirt was beautiful. I’m not being facetious. They had a tough time at Shea with the drainage,” Mets Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver said. The Associated Press/AP photo
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