Sunday, August 20, 2006

1986: blast from the past

Truth: I have this detached fascination with the 1986 Mets - but no more than that. As part of my learning last summer I read Amazin’, and I tried to slog through The Bad Guys Won (good stories, terrible writing). I wasn’t a baseball fan then - quite the opposite - and I have some vague memories of people standing outside bars during the playoffs, but that’s about it.  I absolutely salute the history, and what it means to the team, and what it means to other fans, but - well, I care about the 2006 Mets.  I’m sure you’ll all lambast me now for - well, whatever - but I don’t care. I think it would be worse for me to come in as some kind of pretender and feign deep abiding emotion for 1986.  It’s not like I’m completely uninterested - I certainly wanted to watch the introductions tonight (probably more than TBF, even), and obviously the emotion on the field and in the stands was undeniable.

Speaking of which…

METS GRRL 1986 DVD GIVEAWAY CONTEST

For some reason, people seem to think that enough of you read this blog that they’re willing to give me merchandise to give away. So, courtesy A&E Home Video/MLB Productions and with the collaboration of TBF, I have one box set to give away to the first reader who emails metsgrrl at gmail dot com with the answers to the following three trivia questions:

1. Who sang the National Anthem at the first game of the 1986 World Series?
2. Name one celebrity - who isn’t Joe Piscopo or Ed Koch - that appears in the “Let’s Go Mets Go” video.
3. Who were the only player(s) on the World Series roster who did not play in any World Series games?

I will post the name and answers tomorrow evening post-game.

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