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Read: Baseball Villains
By Regis Courtemanche - May 8, 2008 12:30 pm

In an post for Maxim.com, Larry lists “Baseball’s All-Time Biggest Scumbags.”

Number four on the list is the 1986 New York Mets, of which he writes:

“It’s a rare group of non-felons that can inspire a book titled The Bad Guys Won!…Shea’s clubhouse served as breeding ground for scumbags-in-training like Kevin Mitchell and Lenny Dykstra.”

….hmm, larry eh…i know that’s you chipper…

…as for the label “scumbags”, i couldn’t have been more proud of a group of bad guys then i was of them…

32 Responses to “Read: Baseball Villains”

  1. ravi3 says:

    In all fairness, Dykstra became a scum-bag when he went to the Phillies

  2. K-Hern says:

    I love that book

    • giuseppe franco_procede says:

      Great book…Some producer should turn it into a movie! I’d pay to relive it again.

      • khmustache says:

        kevin mitchell: tracy morgan
        lenny dyskstra; scott caan
        doc: mehki phifer?

        anyone else have ideas?

  3. LenF says:

    If I wasn’t a fan of the Mets I would have despised the ‘86 team…. however I am a Mets’ fan and I loved that team :-).

    • slangon says:

      funny how that works. i wonder if other fans hate reyes for all his “showboating”. and i wonder if i wouldn’t hate jimmy rollins if he were a met.

      • irish_eagle says:

        I can say with absolute certainty that you would not hate Jimmy Rollins if he were a Met. He does a lot of good things on the baseball diamond.

        Now if you asked me about Chipper, well …

  4. Midtown says:

    That team was the coolest baseball team ever, to hell with everybody else.

  5. NY Cuban says:

    That should be madatory reading material for the 2008 Mets. Maybe they would get some kind of inspiration…this team needs more scumbags.

  6. Mr.Spock says:

    The 86 Mets are the best team EVER.

    • mex84 says:

      What a great year. As perfect a baseball season you can ask for from a team. Comeback wins, fights, personality they had it all!

  7. shea_guevara says:

    Kevin Mitchell a scumbag? Only if you believe that crazy “cutting off a cat’s head” story, which has been pretty much debunked, hasn’t it?

    As for Lenny Dykstra…yeah, he’s a scumbag.

    • Danny1986 says:

      Kevin Mitchell was an absolute brawler. When that fight broke out in CINN, he came right off the bench and went after the biggest guy on the field, Dave Parker. With 3 Reds on his back.

      Dykstra always was a scumbag, but was my favorite player ever. Mets made me cry three times in my lifetime (obviously when I was young)….Hatcher’s HR in the 14th of Jesse, after out #2 game 6, and when they traded Lenny Dykstra.

      The team was full of guys who may not have liked eachother much, but always had eachother’s back. You just don’t see that displayed on the sleeve of players nowadays. Especially the team we have now. This is just no longer a blue-collar game anymore.

  8. SheaVendor says:

    Loved that team. Fun to watch, even when they lost. The fights, the hard slides. The drinking. Getting arrested in Houston. Keith smoking in the dugout. Davey Johnson eating Rolaids like they were M&M’s. I think I watched every single game that season. You knew they were running away with the division when they swept the Cards in 4 straight in April. Great memories. What a team!!

  9. dykstraw says:

    and this organization to this day continues to be terrified of fielding a team like that again.

    • SheaVendor says:

      So, true. For the life of me, I can’t understand why. They traded Mitchell because he was a “bad influence” on Doc and Darryl. Funny how it turned out that he was the only clean one out of those three.

    • Danny1986 says:

      it a corporate game nowadays.

      Those days are over. It’s league-wide.

  10. grotesmask says:

    How come that Gaping A-Hole Clemens didn’t make the list? Ah, it’s alright as time marches on, more and more awful things will be revealed about that POS. Just as Rose denied betting, Clemens maintains the lie about ‘roids, etc. F-Wad!

  11. dougalanlee says:

    non-felons? what about Doc and Darryl?

  12. toomanyuniforms says:

    I guess Jeff Pearlman was the No. 1 scumbag?

  13. I_Need_More_Cowbell_Please says:

    if scumbags = championships then bring them on!!

  14. Danny1986 says:

    Best.

    Team.

    Ever.

  15. C Dubb says:

    I put the ‘86 Mets against any team in history. And I’m not just talking about baseball…they’ll kick the crap out of you if you don’t watch it.

    Ah, the good old days…

  16. MainStMets says:

    i was at a family picnic the day the mets announced the dykstra trade, it was only time my dad ever spoke badly about the franchise, i recall him mumbling something along the lines of ” they just traded the heart of this damn team and it will be a long time before they are good again”

    he was pretty accurate

  17. Burn_Philly_Down says:

    I’ve never read this before, but were philly fans number one???

  18. Slob says:

    Roger Clemens is a bigger scumbag than anyone on the ‘86 Mets and probably the whole team combined. And Pete Rose should be in the 4 slot.

  19. drtmuir says:

    I loved them. I still love them.