This has been a weird week. Usually when I’m on the road I can sneak in some late night posts, but I haven’t been “live” on the site since Monday. It’s been all Media Goon..anything with my name on it was worked on a few weeks back. Hey, planning!
Anyway, last night I felt guilty for making the Goon work so hard so I stayed up to clean the inbox.
25 years ago was one of those games seemingly every Nets fan I know watched live.
In 1986 4 of the boroughs didn’t have cable, half the games were on Sportschannel which you couldn’t even pay for since you didn’t have cable yet, thus with a. Great team coming off the 1984 and 1985 seasons you savored every game on 9.
Mark Simon wrote about the game on ESPN New York
Manager Davey Johnson had a clever solution. He alternated two pitchers — lefty Jesse Orosco and righty Roger McDowell — with one on the mound and one in the outfield. Orosco ended up catching a fly ball from future Hall of Famer Tony Perez. The Mets finally won in the 14th on a Howard Johnson three-run homer.
Not to mention Gary Carter at third base. You either remember the game well or need to learn about it. Read Marks article.