As Pearlman wrote, it was “alcohol consumption” and their mission was “to corrupt as many Mets as possible.”Said pitcher Bob Ojeda: “We were a bunch of vile f—ers.”No better story exemplifies that than the Mets’ plane ride home following their National League Championship Series win over the Houston Astros.What started out as a normal celebratory party thousands of feet in the air turned into an all-out grade school food fight.
Because they were a bunch of vile you-know-whats.“For the first hour the all-out partying was little more than drinking and yelling.
It was the epic carnivore free-for-all. This was stuff usually seen in movies, yet here were a bunch of professional baseball players acting like hooligans.Gooden and Strawberry received the bulk of the negative attention.
This weekend, the Mets are holding a 30-year anniversary celebration.
Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden share a coconut ice pop at Shea Stadium: But it wasn’t just Doc and Darryl that indulged in powdered and liquid temptations.
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They walked off the plane incurring $7,500 worth of damages.“The Best Last Best Plane Ride Ever" as told by the 1986 Mets Earlier that season, five Mets hit the town for a night at a bar named Cooter’s, where athletes drank free and apparently piss off local bar patrons. One night in July, five Mets were celebrating in Houston at a honkytonk joint called After a night pissing off most of the locals, they stayed long after last call, and the staff was forced to call the cops. Some of the worst offenders—pitchers Doug Sisk, Jesse Orosco, and outfielder Danny Heep—were affectionately known as “The Scum Bunch.” As Pearlman wrote, “the ‘Scummers’ took pride in antics that made But they were hardly alone. Their shared passion wasn’t playing video games, spitting seeds or whatever it is ballplayers do. Joel Auerbach/Getty Images ‘I couldn’t believe the things I saw going on.’”That included players hoovering fat rails of cocaine in the bathroom, harassing the flight attendants, and racking up $7,500 in damages to the plane.
Darling, a former pitcher for the Mets… “Soon steaks were flying like Frisbees.
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The Mets’ starter that night was Ron Darling, and as he recounts in his forthcoming book, “Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life” (St. Martin’s Press), the three runs he allowed have tormented him ever since. Other reserves included backup catchers Ed Hearn and Barry Lyons, rookie infielder Kevin Elster, 1979 all-star Lee Mazzilli (who came up with the Mets and spent time with Texas, Pittsburgh and the Yankees before returning in 1986), George Foster (1977 NL MVP with Cincinnati and was claimed off waivers by the White Sox midseason but still received a World Series ring), Dave Magadan (who went on to have a solid 16-year career) and Tim Corcoran (notched just seven at-bats that season and didn’t receive a ring).After trouncing the Astros in the NLCS, the Mets faced a Red Sox team consisting of multiple Hall-of-Famers like Tom Seaver, Jim Rice and Wade Boggs.The Sox got off to a 2-0 lead in the series after Bruce Hurst and Roger Clemens beat Darling and Gooden.
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Former Mets pitcher Ron Darling details in his new book the day-to-day amphetamine use of some of his New York teammates during their 1986 World Series season. They stayed well into the early morning, and the night ended in police tackling infielder Tim Teufel and throwing Ron Darling through a glass sign.
“Ruffino [a team batboy] remembers sitting in his seat and biting into his piece when— Whoooosh!
1986 New York Mets Statistics.