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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom
I read that book and fucking loved it. I still laugh when I think about Dykstra blasting people with farts on the golf course. I don't know if MLB will ever see a team like the '86 Mets again, damn near every player was a larger than life personality. It's a fucking shame that so many of them fell apart, and even the one player that had his shit together, Gary Carter, just passed away the other day from brain cancer. I was also a Wally Backman fan and he was supposed to manage the Arizona Diamondbacks until they uncovered his mess of a financial and personal life, if I'm not mistaken they even announced his hiring and had to rescind it a day later when the stories started coming out. I'll always love baseball, but I'll never be a fan again like I was in '86...
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These days the athletes are so guarded because of endorsements and marketing that they all sound the same. The personalities seem to have dried up in baseball. You have a few guys here and there that are colorful, but most of them sound like they all attended the same class on how to speak to the public and that is all they say.
The 86 Mets were a glorious mess of misfits that were fun to watch. It is too bad so many of them crashed and burned. Like you, I have a feeling we will never see another team like that again.
I think Backman would have been a good manager. At least it would have put some life and energy into a team that nobody talks about even when they are winning.