mr. mcdonald sprinkles the ashes .
mcdonald , 58 , has dropped some of the cremated remains of his friend in 16 major league baseball parks to date — and he ’s got one more pilgrimage to go before his strange journey ends .
 
noah syndergaard tweets statement about injury , love for mets when riegel , his best friend since childhood died april 8 , 2008 , mcdonald was at the last home opener at shea stadium .
mcdonald ’s mother called him at the game to say that riegel , 48 , had passed away .
the two baseball fans were childhood friends in queens , not far from — wait for it — flushing meadows , where the mets play .
riegel also was a music fan : in cleveland , mcdonald flushed ashes at both progressive field and the rock & roll hall of fame .
he smudged them proudly onto a marker on lower broadway commemorating the city ’s ticker - tape parade for the mets after their 1969 world series victory .
queens native thomas mcdonald has decided to pay tribute to his mets - loving buddy and master plumber roy riegel with a novel burial : flushing his ashes down baseball stadium toilets .