The New York Mets should honor Tom Seaver by having their players wear 41 for their game today against the New York Yankees, the team Seaver beat for his 300th career win.

No, I’m not the first to suggest this, and I won’t be the last.

Seaver is the most important Mets player in team history. He’s far and away the best. He’s so great it’s next to impossible for any current or future Mets player to surpass him.

The Wilpons haven’t always been great when it comes to honoring Seaver. They didn’t do anything on that front until last year. Ten years after Citi Field was opened, they finally did something renaming the road in front of Citi Field 41 Seaver Way.

The statute they promised still hasn’t been erected, and they won’t be majority owners of the team when that statute is eventually erected. For them, this is the last opportunity they have to do the right thing here.

For MLB, they’ve allowed these previously. For example, just last year all of the Angels players wore 45 in honor of Tyler Skaggs, who had died tragically.

In the end, this is what baseball does to honor fallen players. Seaver has died. The best Mets player ever. The best right-handed pitcher since World War II. The starting pitcher with the highest percent of the vote in Hall of Fame history.

Every generation of Mets fans needs to honor and mourn the man as does all of baseball. The best way we know how is to listen to the emotional words we’ll hear from Gary Cohen and Howie Rose, and to see the players all wear 41.