It was a good run for the good guys.

It's freezing cold again in the DC area.

Wanted to send out some Mets love to get people thru this cold day.

There is A LOT to like about this video, from the various music montages highlighted by Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" (Dyksra and Backman) to Roger McDowell and Howard Johnson breaking down how to light their teammates shoes on fire, aka the "Hot Foot", to various brawls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffn7-scsO9I

It's going to be tough not to cheer for the Mets to flounder in 2025 after their Juan Soto signing left such a bad taste in my mouth. I wish Soto had stayed with the Yankees so I'd have yet another reason to continue hating the Yankees.

:(

There's no shortage of reasons to dislike the Yankees.

good watch, thanks for sharing

+1 This is a great video. One of the things I love about that team is that they only had one future Hall of Famer, Gary Carter, but they still managed to win. They worked together in a way that few teams have since.

I'd say the 1997 Indians (even though they didn't win) and the Big Papi-era Red Sox are the only ones that even come close.

And speaking of the Hall of Fame, I can live with Wally Backman not being in the Hall (colorable argument that he didn't have the counting stats), but the fact that Keith Hernandez isn't in the Hall keeps me up at night.

Wally Backman in the Hall of Fame? From one diehard Mets fan to another, you must be kidding. A career 13 war player. He missed the Hall by a fair amount.

As I said, he didn't have the counting stats :)

A couple of cards:

The best first baseman in the history of baseball plus Mark Bavaro. Why Mark Bavaro? Because Mark Bavaro is awesome.

Great cards!

So the Mets released “Get Metsmerized” one day into the ‘86 season, but were cocky enough to guarantee a World Series win (well at least George Foster who ended up being released later in the season, and HoJo did during their segments).

I feel like Dykstra and “Rook” Kevin Mitchell were the strongest MCs….

https://youtu.be/hpvufrpAhls?si=ulXYrPbU_GXDH_SR

Here is an article about the failed rap song (sorry about the paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/247...f-the-86-mets/

Thanks for sharing this! I had not seen this before, and as awesome as it is, I kind of understand why. (I thought George Foster was pretty good as the leadoff man.)

Yeah, not a great song. But kind of funny.

Alonso coming back to the Mets: 2 years 54 Million
https://www.mlb.com/news/pete-alonso...agent-contract

And the Polar Bear lives!!!