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because the Mets have the Cardinals right where they want them; headed back to Shea down three games to two. You remember what happened the LAST time the Mets went back to Shea down three games to two; you don't, ok, let me remind you.
It was game six (yeh, THAT game six) of the 1986 World Series. The Mets were picked by almost everyone to not only win the series that year, but sweep the Red Sox. MY Red Sox. Well, things didn't go as planned. The Mets gagged away the first two games at home, went to Fenway and somehow pulled out two of three to head back to Shea down three games to two (sounding familiar yet?).
The game went into extra innings and Dave Henderson cracked a go ahead home run to put the sox up by one. Had that lead held up, a statue of Dave would have been built outside of Fenway. Boggs knocked in an insurance run and the Sox were up by two, only three outs to go.
The first two Mets batters went down, the scoreboard flashed "Congratulations Boston Red Sox, 1986 World Series Champions", the champagne was wheeled into the Red Sox clubhouse, then disaster struck, base hit, base hit, base hit, run scores, wild pitch, run scores to tie the game, then, "a little roller along the bag, and it gets by Buckner, Ray Knight scores, AND THE METS WIN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The next night, the Sox go up by three runs, but lose the game, pull defeat from the jaws of victory and the Mets stole the World Series that year.
2004 changed all of that as your cross town rivals pulled the biggest choke job in the history of sports, the Sox went on to beat the Cardinals and helped ease the pain of the 1986 collapse.
Get ready to see the ball go through Buckners legs about five thousand times tomorrow on your six o'clock news, it will be the lead story on the pregame show, and hundreds of Mets fans will have some sort of homemade sign saying stuff like "We'se did it in 1986 and you'se can do'se it this year", "1986 revisited", "The curse lives" (oh yeah, that curse is now dead).
Take a wild guess who I will be pulling for the rest of the series...............
It was game six (yeh, THAT game six) of the 1986 World Series. The Mets were picked by almost everyone to not only win the series that year, but sweep the Red Sox. MY Red Sox. Well, things didn't go as planned. The Mets gagged away the first two games at home, went to Fenway and somehow pulled out two of three to head back to Shea down three games to two (sounding familiar yet?).
The game went into extra innings and Dave Henderson cracked a go ahead home run to put the sox up by one. Had that lead held up, a statue of Dave would have been built outside of Fenway. Boggs knocked in an insurance run and the Sox were up by two, only three outs to go.
The first two Mets batters went down, the scoreboard flashed "Congratulations Boston Red Sox, 1986 World Series Champions", the champagne was wheeled into the Red Sox clubhouse, then disaster struck, base hit, base hit, base hit, run scores, wild pitch, run scores to tie the game, then, "a little roller along the bag, and it gets by Buckner, Ray Knight scores, AND THE METS WIN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The next night, the Sox go up by three runs, but lose the game, pull defeat from the jaws of victory and the Mets stole the World Series that year.
2004 changed all of that as your cross town rivals pulled the biggest choke job in the history of sports, the Sox went on to beat the Cardinals and helped ease the pain of the 1986 collapse.
Get ready to see the ball go through Buckners legs about five thousand times tomorrow on your six o'clock news, it will be the lead story on the pregame show, and hundreds of Mets fans will have some sort of homemade sign saying stuff like "We'se did it in 1986 and you'se can do'se it this year", "1986 revisited", "The curse lives" (oh yeah, that curse is now dead).
Take a wild guess who I will be pulling for the rest of the series...............
