More than three decades later, Keith Hernandez is still cashing that \u201cMagic Loogie\u201d money.<\/p>\n
The Mets broadcaster and legendary first baseman told SI Media\u2019s Jimmy Traina that he still gets residual checks from his infamous appearances on the hit sitcom, \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d for which he guest starred for two episodes titled \u201cThe Boyfriend\u201d parts one and two, which aired Feb. 12, 1992.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt varies, but I can tell you that on an annual basis I\u2019m getting close to $5,000 still. It\u2019s the gift that keeps giving,\u201d Hernandez said while laughing on the \u201cSI Media Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember one thing: I was the guest star.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keith Hernandez guest-starred in the 1992 Seinfeld two-part episode \u201cThe Boyfriend.\u201d NBC<\/p>\n
Hernandez played a fictionalized version of himself in the two-part episode in which he was in a strange love triangle with Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Benes (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus).<\/p>\n
The episodes were centered around Seinfeld and Benes fighting for Hernandez\u2019s attention, while also adding a John F. Kennedy-style conspiracy in which Cosmo Kramer (played by Michael Richards) and Newman (played by Wayne Knight) claim Hernandez hawked a \u201cloogie\u201d at him after a fictional June 14, 1987, game against the Phillies.<\/p>\n
It was eventually determined that ex-Mets reliever and 14-year MLB veteran Roger McDowell was the real culprit of the magic loogie \u2014 not Hernandez.<\/p>\n
Hernandez exited the show as he moves out of his Brownstone, and Benes ended her relationship with him when he lit up a cigarette on a date, which she detested.<\/p>\n
Keith Hernandez guest-starred in the 1992 \u201cSeinfeld\u201d two-part episode \u201cThe Boyfriend.\u201d NBC<\/p>\n
Keith Hernandez dates Elaine Benes in the hit Seinfeld episode titled \u201cThe Boyfriend.\u201d NBC<\/p>\n
While Hernandez only had dialogue in the two-episode arc, he did appear in the series finale in 1998, though he does not speak and is barely featured.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Boyfriend\u201d episodes were a massive hit across the TV world, and writers Larry David and Larry Levin were nominated for Best Episodic Comedy by the Writers Guild of America Awards for them.<\/p>\n
Hernandez, now a New York Emmy-winning broadcaster with SNY, began calling Mets games in 1998 alongside Gary Cohen and Ron Darling. <\/p>\n