AFTER HIS PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY. GUYS? >> THANK YOU, MARCIA. >>> NOW TO BREAKING NEWS. THE METS LEGEND, ED KRANEPOOL, HAS DIED. THE METS HALL OF FAMER AND 1969 WORLD SERIES CHAMPION SPENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER IN QUEENS. >> IT WAS A CAREER THAT BEGAN WHEN HE WAS JUST A TEENAGER. STEVE OVERMYER JOINS US ON SET HERE TO LOOK BACK AT HIS CAREER. STEVE? >> YES, CERTAINLY A SAD DAY. THE METS FRANCHISE AND ALL THOSE WHO KNEW ED KRANEPOOL. A NAME THAT IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE NEW YORK METS. IT'S NOT JUST THE STATISTIC FRANCHISE. HE WAS A BELOVED FIGURE WHO TO YEARS. 1969, HE HIT A HOME RUN IN THE WORLD SERIES. THEY WENT ON TO SHOCK THE WORLD BY WINNING IT ALL. HE GREW UP IN THE BRONX AND SIGNED WITH THE METS WHEN HE WAS JUST 17 YEARS OLD AND BECAME NOT JUST A PLAYER, BUT THE SOUL OF THE TEAM. HE IS THE LONGEST TENURE MET IN HISTORY, PLAYING MORE THAN 1,800 GAMES. A FRIEND OF THE FANS WHO ALWAYS TOOK TIME TO SHARE STORIES AND CONNECT WITH THOSE WHO IDOLIZED HIM. SMALL GESTURES THAT CREATED CHERISHED MEMORIES. THE LAST FEW YEARS, HE'S BEEN BATTLING THROUGH FAILING KIDNEYS. FIVE YEARS AGO, A LIVING DONOR CAME THROUGH TO EXTEND HIS LIFE, BUT KRANEPOOL ULTIMATELY PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 79 BECAUSE OF A CARDIAC ARREST. BUT HE WAS SOMETHING HE WAS ALWAYS KNOWN FOR. HIS PASSING REMINDS US OF THE BIGGER THAN LIFE MOMENTUM. IT'S BEEN A TOUGH YEAR FOR THE FRANCHISE. KRANEPOOL IS THE FOURTH MEMBER OF THE 69 AMAZINGS TO PASS AWAY THIS YEAR. HE ALWAYS HAD A SMILE ON HIS FACE. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHO CAME UP AND SHOOK HIS HAND, HE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT YOU, AND HE WAS JUST ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, VERY APPLICABLE. >> AND CROSSED SO WELL, RIGHT? >> AND GOOD THINGS ABOUT HIM. THAT'S ALL YOU HEARD EVER HEARD. >> THERE IS A REASON WHY HE'