European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday october 24, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 23 Mefs ready to give Boston fhe Boot is this world series still on is Boston stil in this thing is Jim Rice still grounding out with men on is John Mcnamara still letting Bill Buckner Hob ble out to first base do red soil fans still think they have a championship team spare me i swear every time Wade Boggs Steps up in his suburban bleached uniform i wonder How Boston avoided the basement of he Nasty american league fast the red sox. A perfect name Tor that Bunch. The could easily use variations. Red lights Why their offence stops in clutch situations. Red faces How they la look when the met finish them off at Shea stadium this weekend. The mils famed arrogance of i9s6 rubs off on their tans. I pump my fist like Ray Knight s reaction to Moosic Wilson s Slick throw that nailed Rich Etnan in game 4.1 Smirk like Darryl Strawberry after his meaningless Gaffe of failing to steal second. Sneer at the red sox i know the team that sold babe Ruth traded Sparky Lyle choked in 74 and 78 and wonder Why anyone would be surprised at their sandlot execution of that rundown play ingate 3. A life u a acts fan. It s a Good life especially after the dreg years of Joe Torre seasons when the Only met highlights came from my Miracle mets were lonely limes rooting for Neil Allen and John steams. Then again these can be lonely times nearly everyone i know wants to Back the underdog red so and Slick it to the Stuffy new yorkers. How refreshing then to find support in a21-year-old German named Frank Schurmann. A Berliner who could twist Juk s famous line with Ich bin in mets fan i called Schurmann this week to make sure he would watch the games on an i have nobody to watch with he Laid. In new Yort by they redoing crazy. Here in Berlin you say new York mels and people say who is this they live no i Call him a mets fan i should t be so tame. This bom and bred Berliner having grown up wit soccer caught met Smania when no one in new York even cared. The 69 Meti were Long gone. So were the 73 men. By the time Schurman discovered them it was the mid-70s the Start of the drought seasons. Schurmann visited his new York relatives Ever couple of Yean and fell deeper in love with these perennial bit place finishers. He bought the year Book the cards. He went to games when Shea could t draw a million. He read everything he could on the mets. He listened to that Miracle mets up every Day. He quil playing soccer. Germans think baseball i slow an Boring he says. But when a team leads 3-0 in soccer it s Over 90 percent of the time. Then you have the mets Down 3-0 in the ninth against Houston in the playoffs and they came Back and won. It possible in baseball by 1983, Schurmann was convinced his Tea would win soon. Everyone laughed at the mets. I said in two years watch them come Back. And in two years they got to second place. I had read about their farm system about All the Guys coming Guys Tike Strawberry and Dwight Gooden. By the time those Stan Rose Schurmann was calling the surs and stripes sports office daily for mets kind of became a name around Here. I believe in the team says Schumann. I have waited so Long to win the National league Champi he won t have to wait Long for a world series is Boston we re playing in t it turnabout series Down to Best-of-3 old Stria rib Fca def Gary Carter Mads be Ric me 4 or a to Day. By Ben Walker Boston a one team is getting d Patching timely hitting and Lucky ounces. The other is making excuses. That s How the first two games of he world series went. That s now the last two have mets go cold ii Shea stadium and Boston wins the red sox go cold a Fenway and new York wins. The acts hip their bad Luck and there sox Flop. It s just another sign that baseball makes no sense said Ron Darling who pitched seven shutout inning while Gary Carter hit two Home runs As the my won game 4, 6-2, wednesday night evening the Senei at two All. The red sox seemed to fed pretty comfortable in our part they won two in our place and we won two in their place Darling said. By the time Carter s second Home cleared the left Field screen and landed on Landsdowne Street after Lenny Dykstra s second Homer in two Days for the Mett both team were looking to Ward thursday s Pivotal fifth game. The mets seem determined to fulfil what they see As their destiny winning the world championship. The red sox seem determined to castoffs what has been their destiny losing the world s a Best of thaw now and obviously tomorrow is the key game mets fus baseman Keith Hernandez nid. A key figure in that key game might beware Boggs who led the majors with a .357 average but who is 3-for-17 in thes cries. O-for-5 wednesday. I m a Mcadoff hitter. I m supposed Roget things going Boggs said. I Haven t done , meanwhile drove in three runs for the second straight would be interesting to see what it would be like playing one year in Fen Way said Carter 5-for-9 for the two games in , he s 7-for-l7 and leading the series with seven think we All got our second breath and wind after the playoff series with the astros. I Don t mean to Barp on it but i think in was said Carter re addressing wet had sounded like in excuse for the mets i nil two red sox perhaps feeling the pres sure of collapses by Boston teams in the past countered with their own excuse. We be got to Check that kid s Bat Evans Taid meaning by Kalra. We be got to Check a few other Ball. I m dead serious. We re going to Check some bats tomorrow Dyki Lra. The lil lest Mel at s-foot-8, homered for the second straight game and made the sure banded Evans look bad in doing i with the score 3-0 awl two out in the seventh Dykstra laced Crawford with runner on second. Dyki Lra lifted a Long Fly to right Evans was off balance As he jumped at the Fence and the Ball glanced off the tip of his Mitt and fell for a Home run. Evans Bung his head Over the rat Lingin dejection while mels relievers scooped up the Home run Ball. Reds pm wants Rose to Start 87 in the dugout Cincinnati a if Cincinnat general manager Bill Bergesch has a Way red player manager Pete Rosewill be solely a manager at least at in a tort of the 1987 season. Bergesch wednesday said he d like Louk Rote s roster spot to protect a younger player leaving Rose u manage and perhaps be reinstated As a player if Aneed develops daring the season i would prefer that Pete would be of the Rosier Bergesch said in � Tele Poole interview from Boston where he was at tending the world series. If he were to work out in the Spring be ohm i Coumbe reactivated As a player. I d Hie to have space to protect a Young player Rose 45, is coming off i least productive season and hat one year left on his contract As a player. Rote said wednesday from tampa.fla., that Bergisch i comments were news to s the find i be heard of Al be said. He Hunt talked to rat Benach said he s leaving the decision up to Rose who a said be might like to be a Pinch hitter Oral year. Pete right new a a ,1bergesch Taid. If he decides to mile tit name of the lineup card that s of him "
