1986 Post-Season

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Darryl Strawberry extending his arms against Nolan Ryan is a whole lot of power, and in this case resulted an a long homer down the rightfield line. I remember that HR for how atypical a Strawberry swat it was; instead of the high almost punt-like paths to CF/LCF that were his usual fare, this one was a line-drive down the RF line that didn't get much higher than the top of the fence and got there so quickly that it could easily have wound up a single until it just snuck over the wall before ricocheting back-and-forth four or five times between the shell of the stadium where the old 341' mark had been and the back of the then "new" wall.

Was that off Nolan Ryan in a daygame?

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Darryl Strawberry extending his arms against Nolan Ryan is a whole lot of power, and in this case resulted an a long homer down the rightfield line. I remember that HR for how atypical a Strawberry swat it was; instead of the high almost punt-like paths to CF/LCF that were his usual fare, this one was a line-drive down the RF line that didn't get much higher than the top of the fence and got there so quickly that it could easily have wound up a single until it just snuck over the wall before ricocheting back-and-forth four or five times between the shell of the stadium where the old 341' mark had been and the back of the then "new" wall.

You're right. I was duped by a bad description. It was a liner, not a parabola.

[G-Fafif]

FYI: In observance of Buckner Day, we're giving away five copies of an excellent DVD over at FAFIF today. It's Game Six telecast which offers synced-to-video audio of Murph & Thorne in addition to the television call of Scully & Garagiola.

Win by taking our quiz, which asks you to correctly identify those former Mets pitchers who have won or lost World Series games as former Mets (that is, they used to be Mets, they went to a team that made the World Series, and they got a W or an L or maybe each along the way). Two of the answers are in the headline already.

[Edgy MD]

Boy did I drop this thread.

YOU ALL DIDN'T HELP!

[G-Fafif]

Yeah...anyway, go take the quiz and maybe win yourself a DVD.

[HahnSolo]

Great quiz. I got a few on first reading, but whoever wins the DVD definitely earns his Mets fan card.

[G-Fafif]

Happy anniversary, World Championship!

[Benjamin Grimm]

And happy birthday to Jon Niese and Pedro Beato!

(And Ruben Tejada! And Ralph Kiner! And... Pumpsie Green! And Gil Flores!)

[G-Fafif]

Or as Ralph might put it, happy birthday to all you world champions out there.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The 1986 World Championship season is now so long ago that it has slipped into the first half of Mets history.

When I first became a Mets fan, the second half started in 1967!