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Shared memories ! :-)

I loved the old Mets, which is WHY you missed on fantastic show, last night. They had fans select an " AMAZIN' " team. Rusty Staub ( so fat, as to be almost unrecognizable ), Hodges' wife, Staw's boys and a film clip, from him , Kooz, Tom Terrific, and on and on. The film clips were wonderful. I'm SO sorry you missed it. I had wrongly assumed that cable was carrying it. :-(

There is almost NOTHING, like the memories of the Miracle Mets winning ; except, perhaps, when the Giants won. LOL

"So fat as to be unrecognisable?" Ah, then Trusty Rusty (as my paternal grandmother called him - she was a huge Rusty Staub fan) must still look as he did the year he retired, 1985. I remember Rusty Staub Day at Shea Stadium - the Mets themselves gave him a goofy tribute (said to have been Darryl Strawberry and Roger McDowell's idea) by stepping up from the dugout to home plate wearing outrageous rooster-cut orange wigs.

I'd have to pick my all-time Mets roster thus:

1B - Keith Hernandez, Donn Clendenon
2B - Edgardo Alfonzo, Ken Boswell
3B - Howard Johnson, Ray Knight
SS - Bud Harrelson, Rey Ordonez (classic no-hit, great field shortstops)
OF - Darryl Strawberry, Mookie Wilson, Len Dykstra, Tommie Agee, Cleon Jones
C - Mike Piazza, Jerry Grote
SP - Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Dwight Gooden, Ron Darling, Al Jackson, Al Leiter
RP - Tug McGraw, Ron Taylor, Roger McDowell, Jesse Orosco, Randy Myers

Starting Lineup:
1. Dykstra, CF
2. Wilson, LF
3. Hernandez, 1B
4. Strawberry, RF
5. Piazza, C
6. Johnson, 3B
7. Alfonzo, 2B
8. Harrelson, SS
9. Seaver, P

You guessed it. Of all the Mets' pitchers, of any era, the one I want out there for the game I must win like yesterday can only be The Franchise...

And, if I could add to my bench, I'd put in Trusty Rusty and the man who was a first-class pinch hitter over his final four major league seasons plus the only man ever to wear a Mets uniform who spent his entire career (eighteen major league seasons, which just so happened to be the first eighteen seasons of the Mets) with the Mets: Ed Kranepool.