July 11, 1986

[seawolf17]

http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2014/07/remembering-mets-history-1986-gary.html

My dad took me and two friends to this game. I remember it like it was yesterday; I can picture where we were sitting and everything. Carter hit a three-run HR in the first and a grand slam in the second, and then Dave Palmer drilled Straw and it was ON. (I remember there being some ejections, but apparently not, although Palmer was replaced after the slam.)

[Edgy MD]

Any idea who Bill Robinson is restraining?

[seawolf17]

My gut said Ken Griffey, but he wore 22 in 1986 and that's almost definitely a second-digit 6 or 8. Gerald Perry wore 28 that year; could be him, although he wasn't on the active roster at that point. (DL, maybe?) Omar Moreno wore 18, but was taller and skinnier than that. Billy Sample wore 6, so he's another possibility.

[Edgy MD]

It's interesting that everybody's looking past Virgil and Straw, as if somebody else is getting at Palmer.

[seawolf17]

And George Foster is all like "NO, TEAMMATES, THINK OF THE CHILDREN."

[dgwphotography]

Edgy MD wrote: Any idea who Bill Robinson is restraining?

I'm shocked that George Foster is even on the field

[Edgy MD]

Well, putting aside whether there's anything to the moral necessity for everyone to charge into battle, Foster has to be there, as he was on deck.

He was about three weeks away from his release here.

[seawolf17]

You wonder if this was the point -- standing on the field, just outside the fray -- that he thought to himself "I'm too old for this shit."

[Edgy MD]

I wouldn't portray Foster as Danny Glover.

[Guest themetfairy]

Mookie describes this in his book as the beginning of the end of George Foster's Mets career. His teammates interpreted his nonaction as Foster not having their backs.

[seawolf17]

I think specifically he refers to the Ray Knight/Eric Davis fight that year when Foster stayed on the bench, but that was only a week or so after this one.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yes the Eric Davis fight is the one in which Marty Noble described Wally Backman "motherfucked George Foster for an hour."

...Wally would say anything. Remember the fight with Eric Davis in �86? We came in to the clubhouse afterward and Wally was there and said, �Come here, write this down.� And he motherfucked George Foster for an hour! That motherfucker wouldn�t fight. Danny Heep was out there fighting in his underwear, and George is on the bench. Fuck him. Write it! And say I said it!' And I did.

http://www.mbtn.net/?p=855

[Edgy MD]

Just re-read that Marty Noble interview yesterday. You're finest hour... yet.

[Centerfield]

seawolf17 wrote: You wonder if this was the point -- standing on the field, just outside the fray -- that he thought to himself "I'm too old for this shit."

If by "shit" you mean "baseball", then yes. George Foster was too old for that shit.

[Edgy MD]

"Few stopped to ask why, in the middle of a game, Danny Heep would be dressed in only his underwear."

--- Page 81, The Gay Guys Won, St. Martin's Press, 2004

[dgwphotography]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yes the Eric Davis fight is the one in which Marty Noble described Wally Backman "motherfucked George Foster for an hour." ...Wally would say anything. Remember the fight with Eric Davis in �86? We came in to the clubhouse afterward and Wally was there and said, �Come here, write this down.� And he motherfucked George Foster for an hour! That motherfucker wouldn�t fight. Danny Heep was out there fighting in his underwear, and George is on the bench. Fuck him. Write it! And say I said it!' And I did. http://www.mbtn.net/?p=855

Loved rereading this just now(psst.. the links to part one and two are broken...)