Five Questions For An Average Mets Fan (Fan #80)

We’re heading toward the end of our “Five Questions” series (I think we’ve gotten everyone in), and with just two to go here’s Dan who writes some of the articles here on the Mets Police.

1)    I was at the NL East clinching game in September 1986.  The emotions were so high and the frustration had been building for so long.  I still remember as the last out settled into Hernandez’ glove people in the upper deck started hugging each other, some kissing one another. Bottles of champagne appeared from nowhere.  And yes, I did run down on the field.  I stood at where second base would have been and just took it all in
2)    July 20, 1985.  My younger brother and I were at Shea.  The Mets beat Atlanta 16 – 4, Straw hit 2 HRs and Doc got the win.  But what made that day special were 2 things.  After the game my brother and I snuck up into the press box area and wandered around the boxes – even picking up the press release on the Mets acquisition of Tom Paciorek.  After we left the stadium we saw Bud Harrelson leaving with his wife and kids.  Two other guys started to go towards him to get an autograph but stopped when they saw he had his kids. Bud got to his car, and after putting his kids in, called the 2 other guys over to sign for them.  I saw this and went to grab my brother.  By the time we started towards Bud he was already back in his car and had started it up.  He saw us and got out of the car to sign for us.  I’ll never forget that
3)    July 12, 2008 – We took my mom to what would be her last game at Shea.

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