The 1986 New York Mets once caused $7,500 in damages on a chartered flight home after having beaten the Houston Astros in a tense, nerve-wracking 15-inning playoff game.
They snorted lines of cocaine in the plane’s bathroom. They harassed the flight attendants and had a cake fight in various stages of undress. They were a gang of drunks, pill-poppers, barroom brawlers, degenerate gamblers, womanizers, and arrogant blowhards that managed to win the hearts of New Yorkers, but were loathed by the rest of the baseball-loving world. And rightly so. Oh, and did I mention that they also won a World Series title?
The 1986 New York Mets won two of every three games they played (108-54). They averaged almost five runs a game and they beat up on the little guys in the league, going 78-30 against teams under .500, but were only six over against the other teams they played in the regular season.
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