It turned out exactly the way I wanted. Being a Cardinals fan I was for the NL in the series but I wanted it to be close enough to scare the Mets. I was pretty happy with their lack of success afterwards too. Overrated in their own minds.
I was married on the same day as Game 1. Last night I was telling my wife that next week the glow of our 25th will be tarnished by then anniversary of game 6.
phhfttt!
Mark
It turned out exactly the way I wanted. Being a Cardinals fan I was for the NL in the series but I wanted it to be close enough to scare the Mets. I was pretty happy with their lack of success afterwards too. Overrated in their own minds.There are those who would have said the Cardinals of the same period were overrated in their own minds, too.
The 1986 Mets might have gotten a good scare in the NLCS and the World Series, but they didn't overreact to a no-questions-asked blown call in a Game Six with the World Series just about in their hip pockets and then implode so spectacularly in a Game Seven.
Say what you will about the '86 Mets but if they'd been victimised by a call blown that badly, they would have picked up, dusted off, told each other to kwitcherbitchin' (which is, by the way, just about what Ray Knight did bark at his teammates after the whining about Mike Scott's scuffballs), and played the game onward.