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u/Dirt_McGirt_ · 20 pointsr/sports

Check out the book The Bad Guys Won about the 86 Mets. Lenny Dykstra was the leader of a clique called "The Scum Bunch" that bet huge amounts of money on ridiculous shit.

u/Metsican · 9 pointsr/baseball

How is he not being consistent? I root for the laundry. And we're Mets fans. The last time we won a World Series, the best book written about it was literally titled, "The Bad Guys Won".

If given the choice, then yeah, I'd rather have a successful team of nice guys than a successful team of assholes, but I'd rather have a successful team of assholes than a bunch of nice, friendly losers.

u/aaronwe · 8 pointsr/NewYorkMets

Read [Amazin] (https://www.amazon.com/Amazin-Miraculous-History-Beloved-Baseball/dp/0312309929) and [The bad guys won] (https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Won-Championship-Uniform/dp/0062097636/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+bad+guys+won&qid=1554604792&s=books&sr=1-1) for all the history you need to knw,

We've retired 4 numbers:

37: Casey Stengel- first Manager and sweetheart of the Mets (if theres a saying about baseball that doesnt make sense It's either Casey or Yogi berra that said it)

14: Gil Hodges - Manager of the 69 Miracle Mets.

41: Tom Seaver - "The Franchise" The greatest pitcher to play for the mets up until deGrom. Used to hold the record for highest percentage of votes in the HoF till Griffey broke it.

31: Mike Piazza - The greatest home run hitting catcher of all time. Lead the team to the 99 playoffs and world series in 2000.

Hopefully theyll also retire 5 for David Wright. "The Captain" Led the team from 2004 to 2018. Leads the team in basically every offensive category, and was the face of the franchise for the last decade and a half.

Also know "Ya gotta Believe".

Welcome to the lifetime of suffering that is rooting for the New York Mets.

u/tomg025 · 8 pointsr/NewYorkMets

Founded in 1962 to fill the void left by the Brooklyn Dodgers. The inaugural team was one of the worst ever (finished with 40 wins and 120 losses, 60.5 wins behind the NL champion).

Won a World Series in 1969 against Baltimore. That team had pretty great pitching. Tom Seaver was the star of team and is still considered the best player in the team's history. He's the only player whose number has been retired (#41) and was nearly voted into the Hall of Fame unanimously (no one has ever been voted in unanimously).

Lost the 1973 World Series to the Oakland Athletics. The Mets had a pretty strong surge in the last month or so of the season to make the playoffs.

Then for a long time nothing happened.

In 1983, they got first baseman Keith Hernandez in a trade and things started to turn around. Young players Doc Gooden and Daryl Strawberry came up, and they acquired Gary Carter from Montreal in a trade. The 1986 team won the World Series in 7 games. They won game 6 in part thanks to an error by Bill Buckner. The team was made up of a bunch of maniacs. There's a pretty good book about the season.

Then for a long time nothing happened again.

In 1998 they traded for catcher Mike Piazza, which helped turn things around again. In 1999, they lost the National League Championship Series to the Braves, and in 2000, they lost the World Series to the Yankees.

In 2005, they brought in Carlos Beltran via free agency. David Wright and Jose Reyes also came up around this time. The team dominated in 2006, but lost the NLCS to the St. Louis Cardinals. Endy Chavez made one of the greatest catches of all-time in Game 7.

In 2007, they blew a 7 game lead with 17 games to go in September to Philadelphia. It came down to the last game of the season, but the Marlins killed us in the first inning and that was it. In 2008, it came down to the final day of the season again, but we lost again.

Things have been lousy since then. R.A. Dickey won a Cy Young Award in 2012. As you mentioned, there's lots of potential right now. Let's hope 2015 is the start of something good.

u/Cheeseb332 · 6 pointsr/mets

The Bad Guys Won!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bad-Guys-Won-Uniform/dp/0062097636

Must read for Met fans.

u/phuckduck · 3 pointsr/Dodgers

Woke up to a temp of 33 degrees and windchill of 19. Glad to feel the brisk chill of winter, and can't wait to see my co-workers who were all bundled up when the temps were in the low 60's.

About to start reading [The Bad Guys Won] (http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Won-Championship-Uniform--/dp/0062097636/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416320417&sr=8-1&keywords=the+bad+guys+won) to get my baseball fix

u/RossSeventeen · 1 pointr/NewYorkMets

> Tottenham

So did Tottenham like go from last place to Winning it all? Or did they have a team that Partied hard, and won it all?

Check this Book out too: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Won-Championship-Uniform--/dp/0062097636/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413799170&sr=1-1&keywords=the+bad+guys+won

u/three_dee · 1 pointr/NewYorkMets

>It's always been the humble team that can never win being the Mets

You must really be under 25.

The Mets were one of the most non-humble, hated, arrogant teams in baseball for years and years and years. And it was great.

>who constantly win and always showboat with the likes of A-Rod, Clemens, etc.

The Yankees play a scratchy 1954 recording of God Bless America every 7th inning, and don't allow facial hair. They have never been "the fun team". Even when good, let alone now. It's just not what they're about. They are the anti-fun. Any fun their fanbase has comes from winning, and from shitting on the other teams' fans that win less.

You really got your team cultures mixed up if you think the Yankees are "showboat central". The Yankees are your Korean War vet great uncle who complains about kids today on their iPhones, and listens to cassettes of Perry Como in his car.

>Well the Mets are finally looking good after years and years and years of no hope, let's not cross into Yankee territory. That's how I look at things.

The only Yankee territory we are crossing into, is the media fawning over the Mets, which is extremely new territory, not seen on this side of the rivalry since roughly 1990.

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