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…
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In all fairness, Dykstra became a scum-bag when he went to the Phillies
Philly does that to a person.
I love that book
Great book…Some producer should turn it into a movie! I’d pay to relive it again.
kevin mitchell: tracy morgan
lenny dyskstra; scott caan
doc: mehki phifer?
anyone else have ideas?
Keith Hernandez as himself!
Ha, Jim Carrey as Roger Mcdowell
I like the idea of having Keith Hernandez playing himself. LOL HA!
its a similar story to yankees in the 70s and from that came Bronx is Burning, and that ended getting produced instead
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 :-).
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.
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 …
That team was the coolest baseball team ever, to hell with everybody else.
That should be madatory reading material for the 2008 Mets. Maybe they would get some kind of inspiration…this team needs more scumbags.
The 86 Mets are the best team EVER.
What a great year. As perfect a baseball season you can ask for from a team. Comeback wins, fights, personality they had it all!
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.
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.
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!!
and this organization to this day continues to be terrified of fielding a team like that again.
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.
it a corporate game nowadays.
Those days are over. It’s league-wide.
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!
non-felons? what about Doc and Darryl?
I guess Jeff Pearlman was the No. 1 scumbag?
if scumbags = championships then bring them on!!
Best.
Team.
Ever.
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…
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
I’ve never read this before, but were philly fans number one???
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.
I loved them. I still love them.
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