'86 Mets--Scum of Baseball

[BDawk]

ESPN 2 Article

I'm not sure if I hate them more after reading this or like them more.
I'm leaning towards hate--but some stuff is kind of funny.

[sucka free]

Brown icing was all over the carpet. Brown icing on the ceiling. Soon it was a free-for-all. Bottles of champagne rolled down the aisle. Peas were smooshed up and used as shampoo. "Tore up that plane like 'Bay Bay's Kid's," says Kevin Mitchell.

This was an awesome read.  Thanks bdawk.

[sucka free]

In his autobiography, "Heat," Gooden recalls his most vivid image of the flight. "At one point the partying was so out of control, the lavatory door accidentally flew open and there was one of my teammates, his face in front of lines of cocaine," he writes. "I wasn't shocked that he was using. I was shocked that he was so high, he didn't even realize the door was open."

I didn't know doc wrote a book...

[fknmclane]

Sisk, Orosco, and Heep. They were the Three Musketeers of the Mets, only this trio was as dashing as a scrum of street rats. Their collective nickname was the "Scum Bunch," and it fit perfectly. The "Scummers" took pride in antics that made "Porky's" look like a documentary on convent life. By day they were mild-mannered baseball players. But by night, watch out. The Scum Bunch ran the back of the plane on team flights, holding drink-a-thons and sometimes, as a result, puke-a-thons. And now the wives were here, equally indulgent but unfamiliar with the effects of getting wasted thirty-five thousand feet above ground.

-glad to see two of the three musketeers are RBIers.  Hilarious article.  Good stuff.

[Wilfong]

BDAWK - great article, I love the '86 Mets, probably my all-time favorite team. I read a Keith Hernandez book where he talked about pulling pranks, especially when women were in the lockerroom. So one day, with a female reporter around, he decided to do naked cartwheels past her a few times. The early 90s Mets had a few problems as well - I've heard a few things about David Cone that could rival things in this article.

[Mets_bs]

You mean when Coney was caught shaking hands with the bishop in the bullpen? That's a great story. But my favorite is when Kevin Elster saw a girl in the stands and had security bring her back to the lockerroom between innings so he could nail her. I'm usre we've never heard some of the really bad stuff.

[Wilfong]

I've never heard the Elster story, that's really good. I've heard that Cone story and wasn't he arrested for "shaking hands" (aka #3ing, in these parts) on a hotel room bed as two girls (I'm not sure if they were of legal age or not) watched?

[Mets_bs]

David's exploits in Spring Training with his groupies are legendary. That along with the "whacking" incident in the pen, the time he exposed himself to two women while he was warming up (perhaps the story you're thinking of), and allegedly raping a woman in Philly are basically the reason the Mets dropped him. Too bad, he was a great pitcher.

[Gantry]

Cone should have been an RBI'er, along with Eddie Murray, Rob Deer, Dave Winfield and RUben Sierra...

[capt_taco]

Rob Deer! He would've been awesome. I mean, who doesn't love a guy that can hit something like .196 with power?

On that note, they might as well have put Dave Kingman in. That guy had something like 450 home runs while hitting .236 for his career. I'm pretty sure he was still playing in '86 or '87. One of my all-time favorite hacks, along with Deer and Pete Incaviglia. Who it's also a shame is not anywhere in the game.

[fknmclane]

Rob Deer! He would've been awesome. I mean, who doesn't love a guy that can hit something like .196 with power?

On that note, they might as well have put Dave Kingman in. That guy had something like 450 home runs while hitting .236 for his career. I'm pretty sure he was still playing in '86 or '87. One of my all-time favorite hacks, along with Deer and Pete Incaviglia. Who it's also a shame is not anywhere in the game.

ARCADE - Cubs