European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 1. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary expect no miracles from Mats win in new Yoke we knew the baseball game jul monday we important but we did t rat Lite Josl Haw big in was until mayor Edward 1. Koch was discovered in the men dugout near the end of came 7, trying desperately to avoid the television cameras. And just in Case a camera shot did find him. He wort a mels hat for disguise. What was he doing there was he offering himself up to Davey Johnson As a Pine a liter did he want a baseball is he just one of the Guys from the neigh boyhood who you see pop up in a crowd on Yelevi Sion hey look there s weird Lenny silting next to the president or was or. Mayor doing what politicians Are nurtured from birth 10 do that is. Tom Onlo winners regardless the mels became the baseball champions of North America of Canada and the United slates at any Rale and new York politicians an fans pulled. There arc three pipe problems 21-gun salutes and now 600-ton celebrations. In All 64s tons of shredded paper weighed to the last ounce by the department of sanitation were showered on the conquering baseball heroes tuesday after their 8-5 Victory in the seventh game of the world series Anda City was overjoyed. The mets were a delicious entertainment for much of this season and especially the last few weeks and Many stayed up very late thanks to the rapacity of the television networks. It s such a great game a Man was saying in triumphs despite the businessmen in on the second night after the mels won the championship a woman of our acquaintance who Only recently embraced the game said she had trouble falling asleep. I had to get up Early to go to work the next Day but i could i Slop thinking of the men she said and whether Strawberry could have caught that she referred to the Ball that dropped out of Darryl Strawberry s Glove and Over the Fence for a Home run in game 7. But i finally did drop off to sleep she said. How did she manage that i started thinking about football she said. Baseball will be missed this Winter but not the cant of some politicians and fans that went with in especially the talk of winners and the fact that a baseball team won baseball games is said by some to transform a City and make it a belter place to live. The mayor when he was finally Able to scramble out of the dugout and grab a Micro a Pluto mayor de Koch kissed by Darryl Strawberry. New yorkers now a family mayor says phone for dear life said the world series Triumph makes new yorkers a perhaps a transitory diversion such As provided bythe 1986 version of the new York National league baseball club of Flushing operated by Doubleday sports inc., this charming travelling show i fit make us Euve each other As never before turn theother Check and clasp our fellow Man to our bosom. And a baseball team thai wins a championship might make the City a belter place to live but i seems unlikely although it has surely made in a harder place to sleep. The essential concerns of City Liv ing arc unchanged is the police blotter still loaded Wai the garbage picked up Are the streets Safe to walk at night when will the d train show up any Way after the mels won the 1969 world series similar thoughts of togetherness were expressed and More. This was a team that had come into existence Only seven years before they were Casey Stengel s Mitsies and had finished 1 1. 10, 10, 10, 9, 10 and 9, ii was a least that could do virtually nothing right on the Field or off. But in 1969 u now the own went wild As the mels went from second place in August 10 overtake the cubs Beal the braves in the first regularly scheduled playoff series and then in the world series Lake four games out of five from the powerful orioles whose second baseman coincidentally was Davey Johnson now the mels manager. At one Point in 1969, the Young idealistic pitching Star of the mels. Tom Seavor was supposed to have suggested if the acts can win the world series we can get out of server s optimism might not have seemed so misplaced in Hindsight after All a Man had Only three months logo before he strode on the Moon. Yel the mels were in a second world series four years later and still the United states had soldiers dying in Vietnam. Political passions might have been even greater in 1969 than now. Flower children were strewn through the streets Kent stale was half a year away and Ninon and Agnew were defiling the two highest elected offices in the United states. The world was Little changed after the mets won the world series other than in those Sweet moments of pleasure and in dreamy memory. It can hardly be any different for the 1986 mets. But they have diverted attention perhaps even from some of the More important areas the econ omy race relations even gridlock and politicians understand and exploit this. In 1969, As Robert Lipsyte recalled in his splendid Hook sport world there was a bitter mayoral Campaign and that tense National league Pennant race and a sociologist stood on a Midtown new York Street Comer and questioned 1 so passers by. Who is going to win one Hundred and three answered the the following year the acts dropped to third place. Euphoria no More. Fans were disgruntled and spoke of the mets it s doubtful we were any More or less a family after the 1970 season than after the 1969 season or that we Are today. Dig new York Truta Maryland a edges Boycott of . Exhibition from Pagari round draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.Wade claimed Drissell would not re a Neil in Baltimore while Driesell complained Ihal Wade directed his Best Flay ers to Georgetown. Pete Pompey coach at Edmondson High school said Wade never prevented Nodl from recruiting at Dunbar. He said Wade also has a strict philosophy about his players academic performance and use of made a Coli Willment a Long time ago that his kid were going to get an education Pompey said and although Wade fed Len bus was an adult and he made a decision to take cocaine Pompey said Wade is committed lobbing Lough on drug use. _. The state prosecutor investigating Bias death charged that Driesell did too Little to discourage drug use and gave insufficient attention to the academic needs of his has agreed to a five year con tract with a salary comparable to Otte tint year Doc division 1 coaches Maryland official said a first year salary to the Atlantic coast conference can be w , but endorsement. Lev upon contracts summer Camp and other Ben of Sortai boost cow salary to More than $200,000. Clemens angered by mets1 fans Boston a Boston red so Pitcher Roger Clemens angry Aboul the behaviour of fam Security guards and the wives of new York mels players at Shea stadium said thursday he won t return to new York for an exhibition game next season. The red sox can Dock me one Day s pay Clemens said. They Ain t going to see me at the Meu and red sox who played an exhibition game in Boston in september plan another game for Shea stadium in Laie april or dirty May. Three Daft after the world series ended in new York on monday night with the mets winning the seventh game8-5, Clemens still was Seething Over the abuse he said the red sox endured in the games played in new new York fans 100 or to ruin it for the rest of them he said. People Are trying to hit me from 100 feet away with Beer personnel assigned to protect the red sox did t behave much better Accord ing to Clemens. The Security guards in Here trying to protect us were using. You re losers. You stink " he Laid guards and wives of Meti players also verbally abused the wives of , he added. If the Security guards do that what Are the fans going to do Clemens morning before the seventh game i had to Lake my wife to the Airport be cause it s too dangerous for her to sit there and watch the Ball game because people Are throwing firecracker. Evidently we re supposed logo for the exhibition game in new York he added. I m not Clemens who was 2
