10/27

Edgy DC
Oct 27 2009 09:06 AM

Willets Point
Oct 27 2009 09:15 AM
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So Oct. 27th was the date of Game 7 (after a rain postponed a game) in 1986, the date of Game 4 in 2004 (when the Red Sox broke the curse) and now it's the day before Game 1 of the World Series?!?! Ridonculous!

soupcan
Oct 27 2009 09:17 AM
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Wonderful, but long ago and far away.

I was in my senior year at Syracuse. After the game we drove around campus honking and waving our Mets caps out the window.

It was a great season and a great post-season. I want some more of that before I die.

themetfairy
Oct 27 2009 09:23 AM
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We were living on the Upper West Side at the time. We took a bottle of champagne out and walked around after the game was over. Lots of horns honking and overall rejoicing - good times!

metsguyinmichigan
Oct 27 2009 09:48 AM
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Remember that day like it was yesterday.

I was in my final semester in Missouri, watching the game in our off-campus apartment on my roomie's small television.

It was the icing on a very eventful year -- got engaged, got my degree, got my first job. Only have t-shirts, posters and pennants for the Mets, though!

metirish
Oct 27 2009 09:53 AM
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I saw a guy Sunday walking in Pelham Bay wearing a 1986 WS Champions Mets jacket....head held high too.....

Kong76
Oct 27 2009 10:07 AM
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Today's Kiner's birthday too.

Edgy DC
Oct 27 2009 10:25 AM
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Tomorrow may belong to the Yankeee fan, but this day is ours, isn't it?

seawolf17
Oct 27 2009 01:23 PM
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It's the real reason they're not playing a WS game today.

G-Fafif
Oct 27 2009 03:13 PM
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[quote="seawolf17"]It's the real reason they're not playing a WS game today.

I appreciated the Angels stretching out the last game of the ALCS so it technically ended on October 26, thus not sullying the 23rd anniversary of Buckner Day any more than it had to be with a Yankee pennant. (Never mind that the game of October 25, 1986 actually ended in the first hour of October 26 -- it's not when you finish, it's when you start.)

Brief remembrance of the best October 27 here. Let's get us another one of those real soon.

Ashie62
Oct 27 2009 05:28 PM
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It was 23 years today, Seargeant Johnson taught the band to play
They were rolling in and out of bars
They were in first place by a mile
Doc & Straw rolled with style

So let me introduce to you!

Seargeant Johnsons Cocky Ass WS Winners

Edgy DC
Oct 27 2009 08:39 PM
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I was a sophomore who had his ID siezed for overzealous celebrating. Probably too overzealous an RA, but I've put that behind me.

My big moment was defending Jesse Orosco's bat --- of all things --- to a bunch of less believing fans than myself. And then he redeemed me with an RBI single. I wonder how many relief pitchers have gotten World Series hits since.

HahnSolo
Oct 28 2009 06:56 AM
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[quote="Edgy DC":8bxgcs9a]I was a sophomore who had his ID siezed for overzealous celebrating. Probably too overzealous an RA, but I've put that behind me.

My big moment was defending Jesse Orosco's bat --- of all things --- to a bunch of less believing fans then myself. And then he redeems me with an RBI single. I wonder how many relief pitchers have gotten World Series hits since.[/quote:8bxgcs9a]

Garagiola: "I'll bet my house that he's [Orosco] bunting here."

Scully: "Joe, you just lost your house."

Edgy DC
Oct 28 2009 07:03 AM
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I guess that makes today Parade Day.

Edgy DC
Oct 28 2009 07:42 AM
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Today is also the anniversary of the 1961 groundbreaking of "Municipal Stadium" in Flushing, New York.

Benjamin Grimm
Oct 28 2009 07:50 AM
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I was 23 years old, and while it may or may not have been the perfect age for a first World Championship, it was pretty darn close. I was old enough to know that it was a rare and special thing, but still young and naive enough for it to be overwhelmingly important to me.

If that championship had come when I was 10 (in 1973) I, knowing that there had been one only four years earlier, probably would have taken it as a matter of course. And if it had come when I was 43 (in 2006) I would have been delighted, and relieved to have been spared the fate of the Cubs fan, but I don't think I would have been as deliriously happy as I was in 1986.

I was there when Mookie hit that grounder to Buckner, and I knew, even then, that I had reached my apex as a live spectator, and that there would never be a game that I would regret not having attended, and that's proven true. And when the Mets won Game 7 two nights later I knew that anything additional that the Mets did for me in my lifetime would be icing (or gravy, choose your metaphor) and the missed championships that followed (1988, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008) were all disappointing, but not devastating.

October 27, 1986 gave me, baseball-wise, life-long peace of mind.

TransMonk
Oct 28 2009 08:11 AM
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I was 11 when the Mets won it all in '86. I can't think of a better age to be. Old enough to know it was special, but young enough for it to be magical and for me to start rooting for it every year. I know at the time I took it for granted a little. Losing to the Dodgers in 1988 and the debacle of 1991-1996 cured that for me.