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20 Years Ago This Week: 1986 Postseason Flashback

SteveJRogers Oct 10 2006 11:05 PM

NLCS Moves to Shea [url=http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=4012]10/11, The Len Dykstra game. Nails hits the game winner homer as the Mets win 6-5[/url] and take a 2-1 series lead. Ron Darling gives up 4 early runs, but the pen holds the Astros to only two more, giving the Mets the oppertunity to chip away and get the win. [url=http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=4013]10/12, The next night however belonged to Mike Scott who went all the way on a 3 hitter, and giving up one run as the Astros won 3-1 to even the series.[/url] Game 5 was rained out for the Monday the 13th and rescheduled on the 14th, which is where the 1986 Mets Postseason Flashbacks will pick up again.

soupcan Oct 10 2006 11:29 PM

Here's a question that I didn't see the answer to on the 'memories of the game' at UMDB - Anybody remember Dykstra's quote when asked if he ever hit a homerun that big/dramatic prior to that one?

SteveJRogers Oct 10 2006 11:51 PM

soupcan wrote: Here's a question that I didn't see the answer to on the 'memories of the game' at UMDB - Anybody remember Dykstra's quote when asked if he ever hit a homerun that big/dramatic prior to that one? Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother!

Willets Point Oct 10 2006 11:56 PM

Oct. 11th & 12th? Are you going away for a couple of days?

soupcan Oct 11 2006 09:16 AM

SteveJRogers wrote: Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother! Well you're correct but I was hoping that someone who actually remembered reading it in the paper the next day was going to answer it. How do you know that Steve? I'm assuming you were too young to have seen it in print at that time.

ScarletKnight41 Oct 11 2006 09:21 AM

soupcan wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother! Well you're correct but I was hoping that someone who actually remembered reading it in the paper the next day was going to answer it. I didn't remember reading it in the paper. But I remembered him saying it in the post-game interview.

soupcan Oct 11 2006 09:30 AM

I guess it was in both places but that was one thing I thought only us old farts would know.

Willets Point Oct 11 2006 10:35 AM

I guess Steve has gone away. Not like him to go so long without posting.

Yancy Street Gang Oct 11 2006 10:37 AM

He's probably hanging with his fellow Yankee fan friends. I suspect he's a double agent.

Willets Point Oct 11 2006 10:39 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: He's probably hanging with his fellow Yankee fan friends. I suspect he's a double agent. Ouch. I doubt that.

SteveJRogers Oct 11 2006 06:58 PM

soupcan wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]Playing Strat-o-matic with his brother! Well you're correct but I was hoping that someone who actually remembered reading it in the paper the next day was going to answer it. How do you know that Steve? I'm assuming you were too young to have seen it in print at that time. 29

soupcan Oct 11 2006 08:02 PM

="SteveJRogers"]29 29 what? Posts you make an hour? Oh! You were 29 years old at the time! I get it. Pretty good memory for an 9 year-old.

SteveJRogers Oct 11 2006 08:04 PM

Easy Soupy. I may know where to find you on Friday, and I may take some beers! =;)

A Boy Named Seo Oct 14 2006 12:39 AM

I got my '86 World Series DVD this week from Deep Discount DVD ($44 bucks shipped - practically free) and started disc 1 today, which is Game 6 of the NLCS. Some observations: -Tim McCarver is as annoying 20 years ago, but surprisingly (for one game anyway) a way better, more insightful color guy than he is today. Keith Jackson was the PBP guy. -I don't recall seeing a single appeal at first despite a good amount of check swings, each one called a ball. Today, every one of those would have been appealed at the catcher's request. -Lots of open references to Mike Scott and his love of sandpaper. -Man, those players are skinny and the uni's are tight, tight, tight. -The only thing uglier than the Astrodome with the still-visible yard lines for their roommates the Oilers, is the Astros uni's themselves. Blech. -Astro-turf. That's not baseball, man. -But lastly, and bestly, as ABC Sports heads to commercial break before the bottom of the 16th, there's a clear-as-day shot of Ron Darling standing in the Met dugout directly behind Davey Johnson taking a pull off a cigarette. If you haven't seen the end of the game, I won't spoil it, but the Mets won.