European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 26, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary guarantee of mets Over sox in 5 hand me inc Gas pipe if the mils Don l win in world series. Thai s what s known As a no risk policy. I m insured inc mils will win in. Baseball has been thai predictable these last to months. The four divisions looked More like chases than races. Chasing the acts astros red sox and Angels in s so Boring that the closest Chase is in the Amer ican league West where Texas trails by the slim Mest margin in inc majors Highl games. The rang ers. In t that a hockey team remember when the royals were supposed to re peal the orioles to contend the cardinals to sprint alongside new York the dodgers to Breeze a for those Lazy Days of february. The four of them stand a combined 80 games out of first. Now Wake up. Here come the playoffs. And the series. And the postseason awards banquet. And inc firing squad. Easy pickings National league playoffs new York in four. The acts sleepwalk through the stretch lulls fans into forgetting now talented they arc. They re toads belter than their 1969 version when they romped through the postseason in eight games. The astros Are Ordi nary. Their Only special players Are Jose Cruz an Nolan Ryan. Watch Ryan Lake the dive like in the i9so playoffs. Watch Dairy Strawberry decide he great and hit four homers. American league playoffs Boston in five. 1 love thinking Reggie Jackson will relive september 78 and Jack around the red sox the team 1 loathe. And thinking California manager Gene Mauch will Bury september 64 by finally reaching the series. They face a couple or problems. 1. The red sox Wear neater uniforms. 2. One of Boston s Pischera. Oil can Boyd has the Best nickname in the game. Not to mention inc sox arc the belter team and represent a division Hal stands 12-5 against the West in playoffs. World series new York in five. I m trying a figure what game the acts will lose. Probably when Bob Ojida pitches at Fenway and thinks he s still with the red sox. Or when Tim Teufel whose Nam Means Devil in German commits the sin of fanning four times after cookie Wilson triples. Or when lbs radio color Man Sparky Anderson Mattes helmets 10 sick they forfeit game 4. National league most valuable  should win Gary Carter. Every met fan Worth his 22 seasons of suffering said before the season that inc one met who absolutely had to stay healthy was Carter. If his knee went so would Themel. Carter stayed in the lineup and might finish with 25 homers and 100 rats at the harsh position of Catcher. Who will win Mike Schmidt. American league most valuable player who should win Roger Clemens. Forget the garbage that pitchers should t win because they have their by Young. Boston was going nowhere before Clem ens sizzled. He s valuable As Willie Hernandez with the 84 Tiger. Who will win Jim Rice. No by Young who should win Mike soon. A17-10 record Era around 2.30 and 285 strikeouts. Leading Pitcher on a Houston team thai nobody of maybe a couple of texans picked to win the West. Sensational season. Who will win Fernando Valenzuela. Al by Young Clemens. No debate. No Rookie of the year Todd Worrell. A league leading Era of just Over 2 and 34 saves. He and Vince Coleman arc the Only cardinals who forgot the st. Louis collapse at Kansas City. Al Rookie of the year Jose Canseco. This in t a team award As much As Wally Joyner wished it were. No manager of the year who should win Dave Johnson now that his mils have ravaged the Easl it s common to say they were a cinch to Romp before the season. Go Back and read How Many actually predicted that. Not Many. Johnson lifted inc acts beyond champions. They re a learn fans will com pare with the great who will win Haj Lanier. Al manager of the year who should win Mauch. 1 hear fans say the aging Angels belter win this year or they never will. Funny hut they said that last year. Mauch marched the old Guys to Victory anyway. Who will win John Mcnamara. The no managerial a will land on Mon Treal s Buck Rodgers st. Louis Whitey Hertog los Angeles Tom Lasorda san Diego s Steve Boros an Atlanta s Chuck Tanner. The Al managerial a will land on new York s Lou Piniola and Milwaukee s George  has already dumped Earl Weaver and Minnesota will lire whoever holding the fort after Ray Miller s ejection. New no managers in 1987 Frank Robinson in Montreal Joe Torre in st. Louis Herzog in los an Geles the Chicken in san Diego and chief Noc a homa in Atlanta. New Al manager in i9s7 Cal Ripken in Talli More. Billy Martin in Minnesota Yogi Borra in Mil Waukee and Yogi Bear in new York Idle Boggs drops to second in batting race yanks tip o s As Mattingly nabs Lead from press dec pitches Baltimore Don haltingly locked in a Cornel race for he american league batting title says he in t losing any sleep Over the nightly news on bos ton s Wade Boggs. I just have to keep gelling Hils mat singly said wednesday night after going2 for 4 to reclaim the Lead As he led the new York Yankees to a 4-1 Victory Over the Baltimore orioles. Mattingly the 1984 batting Champion started the game in a tie with Boggs at .150, and finished at .351. He singled in the first inning to extend his Hilling Streak inning before giving Way to Dan Quisenberry 3 7, who used two double plays to hold of the twins. Mariners 5, rangers 4 Seattle Ken Phelps drove in two runs and Pete Ladd stopped a Texas rally in the eighth inning leading the Man ners to Victor Ladd pitched 1w innings for his sixth save. Mike Moore 11-12, pitched into the seventh inning to pick up the Victory. Jose Guzman 9-15, look the loss. Mcaa from Page 21 Given greater Freedom. He said that suppliers of drugs were taking advantage of that permissive Alti tude and Hal most of the Sellers came from off Campus and found it easy to Deal in the College atmosphere. Drug abuse cannot be stopped by Al tacking poppy Fields abroad or sealing Borders or having the president and his wife address the nation on television. Dyers said bul a Alicr by reducing con sumption. This program is a major Factor in curbing the use of drugs he said. Similar mandatory drug testing pro Grams have been contested. The Union representing players in the National football league for example has forced the league to postpone pending arbitration 1mb a plan on the grounds that it represents a substantial change in the collective bargaining agreement and can not be introduced unilaterally. In addition when the Federal govern ment and some private companies have tried to Institute them they have been resisted by employees unions and civil liberties groups. When byen was asked about possible violations of constitutional rights of Pri Vacy he answered that there did Noi appear to be a constitutional right to participate in intercollegiate sports Ana that therefore the Mcaa could require a per son to consent to drug testing Ai a Condi Tion to participate Alan Adler. Legislative counsel of the american civil liberties Union too another View. He said that the sports association bad assumed so Many governmental roles that it had come under the Nix fourth amendment constraints against govern ment in assuring individual privacy. Just As government cannot condition a government Job on a surrender of constitutional rights the Mcaa cannot re quire a person to surrender right of Pri Vacy in order to participate in sports Adler said. The other interesting question it this is this a National criterion Are we going 10 lest people who score a lot of Points who play a lot of minutes Are we going to assume that these people use drugs