The 88 Mets Sure Did Rock (Split from 9/24 IGT)

[stevejrogers]

I wonder, and seriously as the '73 team gets honored at the same time markers as the '69ners do, if the 1988 team will get, to a lesser extent obviously, some sort of tribute next year?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Prolly not. But for the most part, the 88s get honored with the 86ers, seeing as they were for the most part the same group. I consider them all part of the same era where the Mets were the undisputed kings of rock no matter how the results came out.


The 73ers were not loved till late, when they got healthy and played well enough to win. Earlier that year the papers were calling for Berra's head.

[Willets Point]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Prolly not. But for the most part, the 88s get honored with the 86ers, seeing as they were for the most part the same group. I consider them all part of the same era where the Mets were the undisputed kings of rock no matter how the results came out.

Alas for poor Kevin McReynolds and David Cone.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And Mackey Sasser!

[Guest Edgy DC]

In an act of quesitonable judgement, the MVP in 1988 went to Kirk Gibson. I submit the real most valuable player in 1988 for the National League and for the Dodgers was Orel Hershiser.

I further submit that the next three most valuable players were all Mets --- David Cone, Darryl Strawberry, and Kevin McReynolds.

If HoJo wasn't suffering from his even-year disease, that team would have been a legend.

Postscript: We can talk all we want about Gooden and Scoscia, but our heralded starting pitchers really spit the bit several times against a feeble Dodger attack: Cone in Game Two (Ha! Carter gave up a stolen base to Gibson); Fernandez in Game Five; Darlin' in Game Seven (two hits to Franklin Stubbs!).

[HahnSolo]

My big regret of that series was not the Scioscia HR, it was the fact that we won the first 2 games started by Hershiser and still couldn't polish them off.

We beat the bullpen in those games, yes, but I thought that winning games 1 & 3 when he started the game would be a big psychological advantage. I was wrong, apparently.