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[Edgy MD]

And the Mets 1986 batboys, but I couldn't find a good picture of them, though I tried. Backman doesn't count, though I suppose I shoulda specified "players" in the question. Jeez are youse picky. Picky, picky picky.

Fuck and yes.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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Baseball Reference does uniform numbers by season, thankfully. It's buried down at the bottom among their random links.

[HahnSolo]

https://a.espncdn.com/photo/2008/0929/page2_g_1986mets_600.jpg>



The 86 Bat boys. Always thought it was weird they were so front and center in the celebration. Hard not to get caught in the moment I guess.

[LWFS]

I mean... without Paul, Carter's up there in the bottom of the 10th trying to fist a 2-1 pitch into left with, y'know, air.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I felt like the first names on the backs of the jerseys humanized the 86 batboys and made them a part of the club. Nobody knows the first name of the batboys anymore.



Mets used to issue numberless jerseys to the batboys. I always felt it was better than some clubs who'd dress them in "BB". I think that Yankees did that for a while.



I'm not even sure what the Met bbs wear anymore

[Edgy MD]

I think they've been wearing BB in recent seasons. Wearing the last two digits of the season has been problematic since 2010, so they went to blanks, I think, followed by BBs.



It was easier to spot when the Mets had batboys as big as Lucas Duda.

[Willets Point]

Who was the enormously large bat boy?

[kcmets]

Funny, I was thinking of monsterously huge guy before but was on my phone and didn't

post. I'm sure I've spelled monsterously wrong but my browser recommendations for a

replacement look even worse?

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: Who was the enormously large bat boy?

Jim

[Willets Point]

Thanks!

[Edgy MD]

Jim was a special guest star in Benny Agbayani's career highlight.



[YOUTUBE]mUzjF0J-yPI[/YOUTUBE]

[Willets Point]

Are we sure that Jim wasn't a BatAdult?

[Edgy MD]

I think he worked a year or two after that, and his frame filled out even more.

[Guest 41Forever]

Strawberry was talking about the 1986 team on the Baseball Tonight podcast. Olney was declaring the 1998 MFYs as the greatest team in the history of baseball -- that's not hyperbole -- and Straw said the 1986 Mets were better. He said the competition was tougher in 1986, with even Olney fessing that the Yankees beat up on the expansion Devil Rays. Straw had interesting things to say about Gary Carter, calling him one of his mentors. He said he admired Carter's abilities and his happiness.



It's a good episode, aside from Olney's MFY fanboyness and his not mentioning the batboys.