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1986 Mets

zenlaw007zenlaw007 Posts: 29
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Am I the only one who holds this team as a quintesential part of my childhood?

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  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    Yes, in 1986 I was a 10-year old Phillies Phan and I was taught to hate the Mets and Yankees.

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  • kadokakidkadokakid Posts: 426 ✭✭
    Zen:

    I'm with you, I remember watching the games on WOR, McCarver and Kiner, it was a magical season.


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  • zenlaw007zenlaw007 Posts: 29
    I bought the DVDs of the series a while ago. Man, I LOVE watching Game 6.
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    I get "goose bumps" thinking of that season and post season. I was a kid and when the Mets were down to their last out in game six I had my head under the bed praying. Whatever I said worked and the ball found a nice hole between Billy Buckners legs image

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  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    i have 2 full rc cola cans of soda that commemerate the '86 champs.

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  • Webhead1968Webhead1968 Posts: 187
    I lived 10 minutes from Shea when that happened. It was a very exciting time here in NY.
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  • ChrisCChrisC Posts: 435
    Probably a top 3 all time greatest sports memory for me! I was 13!
  • VintageJeffVintageJeff Posts: 1,282 ✭
    Is that the year Keith Hernandez spit on Kramer and Newman lol.
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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is that the year Keith Hernandez spit on Kramer and Newman lol. >>

    That was too funny! image

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  • daveryan2001daveryan2001 Posts: 43
    As a Cardinal fan, I hated that Mets team, but we got you back in 87.

    And if Whitey Herzog hadn't hated Keith Hernandez, you might never have won in 86
  • pomobileclkpomobileclk Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    Thank goodness the Mets won Game 6 against the Astros because if they went to Game 7, they would have had to face Mike Scott, who was unhittable. I remember the Mets were all psyched out over Mike Scott allegedly scuffing the ball.
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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Thank goodness the Mets won Game 6 against the Astros because if they went to Game 7, they would have had to face Mike Scott, who was unhittable. I remember the Mets were all psyched out over Mike Scott allegedly scuffing the ball. >>

    I remember that too!
    One of the local radio announcers at the time said the Mets escaped Houston "Scott free" image

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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Am I the only one who holds this team as a quintesential part of my childhood? >>



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  • pomobileclkpomobileclk Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    I remember they had a TV camera on the Mets dugout in game 4, which was won by Mike Scott, and they showed the Mets flipping baseballs among themselves looking to see how he was scuffing the balls. I'm a Met fan, but I was really scared of Mike Scott in 1986.
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  • KOBEcollectorKOBEcollector Posts: 3,873 ✭✭
    Am I the only one who holds this team as a quintesential part of my childhood?

    Was at Gm 6 of the W.S with my brother and i will never ever ever forget it !

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  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was at UMass where riots broke out after game 6. Was in Newsweek the following week as race riots, but it was really just Mets fans vs. Sox fans. Kooky.

    If any of you Mets fans are interested, I have a press pass from the 86 WS - real fresh and a neat piece. Looking for $20 delivered. PM me for a scan.
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  • smallstockssmallstocks Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭✭
    Mike, please send me a scan. miklotz@aol.com

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  • smallstockssmallstocks Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭✭
    I was 21 and I can recall every minute of every game.

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  • NewJerseyMeatHookNewJerseyMeatHook Posts: 1,441
    Yeah, that was swell, BUT . . .

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  • RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭
    The '86 Met team was probably the last team with any kind of discernable personality. (Old time baseball, if you will.) Today's teams are too image conscious.

    Has anyone read the book "The Bad Guys Won"? It's a pretty open and honest account of that team's character and season.
  • NewJerseyMeatHookNewJerseyMeatHook Posts: 1,441
    STEM is Mets spelled backwards.
  • BillyMadisonBillyMadison Posts: 24


    << <i>"The Bad Guys Won" >>



    That was a fun read.
  • Munson15Munson15 Posts: 189
    I lived in Flushing at the time. Right off Frannie Lou Blvd and would bike to Shea every chance I got. My neighbor worked at the stadium and my friends and I would skip school (when MLB used to play day games) and sit in the nose blleds for free!!!!!!!!

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  • Webhead1968Webhead1968 Posts: 187


    << <i>I lived in Flushing at the time. Right off Frannie Lou Blvd and would bike to Shea every chance I got. >>



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  • cardpoolcardpool Posts: 199
    Phenomenal season. Magical.

    I won a video from Gatorade in the late 80s that showed highlights of that WS. That game 6 still gives me goosebumps.

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  • tkd7tkd7 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭
    Sorry, the magic for me was the 1986 Football Giants winning the Super Bowl.

    I remember Game 6 of the WS. My friend and I were in Atlantic City and we were watching the game at a bar (mind you I was 20 at the time so I had to sneak in everywhere). We missed our bus back to Philadelphia and I saw the end of the game on a B&W Watchman TV set that the bus dispatcher was watching.

    I kicked my roommate out of my dorm room for WS game 7 as I wanted to watch the Giants play Monday night football. It was my TV so he found another place to watch the game.

    Yes, 1986 was a magical time.
  • gosteelersgosteelers Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭
    Getting back to Mike Scott, I don't think he was ever the same after the '86 season, so maybe there was merit to him scuffing baseballs. I thought Game 6 of the 'Stros-Mets series was phenomenal that year...
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