Originally Posted by kane

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.