Mets 15 Years of Fun 1976
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A Reel I bought from someone years ago.A cool note here. About 10 years ago I met Skip Lockwood. I was a rep in the Mortgage Business and Skip worked for a local firm. Most of his co-workers did not remember his playing career as I live in Red Sox Country.Of course when I found out I paid a visit and let them know that when I played stickball, I used to bring him (me) in for relief.
. Skip informed me he had no footage to show his children. I dug this out and gave him a copy.As you can see is prominently featured here. Glad I could do it.
Nicest thing
I came to America in 1972 as an 8 year old. I started following the Mets in 1975. I have been a fan ever since. The 1976 season was fun. It was brutal from 1977 until 1983. LGM!
The Mets won 86 games because of Seaver, Koosman and Matlack. The hitting was expansion team awful.
1977....lol. The year they traded Tom Seaver to the Reds for a collection of junk.
The Mets lost me when they traded the Franchise in ‘77. Grant had his evil demon Dick Young plant stories in the paper that were pro management and anti Seaver in an effort to sway the public. Tom proceeded to throw a no-hitter the next year, win a division title in ‘79 and finish a very close 2nd in Cy Young to Fernandomania in ’81.
Heckler at Shea to Bruce Bosclair:
“Hit it with your hair dryer Bruce!”
1976 would be the Mets last competitive season until 1984. In fact, other than the strike year of 1981, they would lose 90+ games each year during this stretch
They were competitive through mid-August of 1980, at 56-57, before finishing 11-38 to go 67-95.
Grab a YOO-HOO! and pull up a chair, everyone!
Remember dairy Lea well they were located in woodside ny
That music has to go!
My first live Mets game was September, 1973 against San Diego. I cut out the milk coupons to get free tickets.
I remember dairylea used to have a huge plant in woodside ny
Hey Don Grant
-spend some money on a free agent, you bum.
Mazzilli never lived up to his potential!
He did for four weeks in 1980 (mid-July to mid-August), with 11-15 of his sixteen homers for the year. Then he turned back into Lee Mazzilli. He was also a major heartthrob who put groupies in the seats.
Just a couple of better bats and the Mets would have won it all. Their pitching staff was unreal.
Shea - "...well maintained ballpark...", ha ha ha ha!...
It was, for the time. Death trap on the high levels. Those escalators were scary. The Upper Deck back rows were like 500 feet off the ground.
Shea began falling apart in 1976 due to the neglect of the late 70s NYC financial crisis and the Mets ownership after Joan Payson died.
Shea was a death trap in the upper decks. The escalators were a ticking time bomb. It was almost fifty stories up with very little protection. Luckily they moved us to Mezz most nights to make the crowd look bigger for TV and to cut down on ushers.
The mezzanine at Shea was my first major league game in 1977, so it will always hold a special place.
John Stearns has a slight resemblance to Brian Wilson of the beach boys
GREAT story. Thanks for continuing to share with the rest of us!
76 with 86 wins was not bad but I remember them loosing last 5 games of season. An OMEN for bad things to come‼️
Especially 55-107 Expos beat them twice
I miss Shea Stadium.
Dump
It was a dump...but it was our amazin' dump.
As a big Mets fan, Citi Field is better
to quote Bud Harrelson March 1978 why do the Mets treat their veteran players so poorly
Because their TV contract was huge no matter what. Also they were preparing to sell the team to a group that rebuilt them almost from scratch. By 1984 it was clear what they were doing. These mid-70s teams were pretty fun but never quite good enough.
Pepe Mangual obtained in trade with Montreal for Wayne Garrett and Del Unser. Manager Frazier said, “we had to get the dead wood out of here”. Cold dismissive statement regarding Garrett who had served Mets well on 2 championship teams.
FRASIER A never managed again
Is Skip Lockwood wearing a plastic hair hat?
almost no reaction to Mazzilli's walkoff homer. Much different these days
Was thinking the same - it was a huge HR that essentially ruined the Pirates chances of winning the NL East.
Mets 86 wins obscured by Yankees success that season. Could’ve won more but Kingman foolishly dove for ball and broke his thumb.
Kingman stunk. .200 hitter with 40 HR and 100 RBI. His HRs were works of art though.
Had 32HRsin July could hit 50
Koosman wins 20 for the first time
The first baseball game I ever saw in person as a boy was in 1971in Fenway Park. Skip Lockwood pitched for the Brewers against the Red Sox. I always liked Lockwood and was excited when the Red Sox signed him in 1980
I went to Fenway for a game in 1982. Nice park. Went candle-pin bowling a few hours before that. Was visiting my cousin. Also first time I actually got high smoking weed.
to quote Tom Seaver the Mets have to learn what the Yankees learned a long time ago to take care of the guys that got you there
I remember this one so well, especially after making a cassette recording of it. They loved to run these things during rain delays. Look how optimistic it seems you had to be in 1977, yet '77 was the first of several dreadful Met years!
1980 was fun until the Phillies came to town in August.
77 was an awful year for the Mets traded Seaver and kingman on June 15 th of that year
Fantastic stuff...although Skip looks like a member of Devo
Agreed . His hair looks like it was painted on ....Probably more to do with the video of the time
The last ride with Seaver for awhile, 1976.
“Accessible well maintained ballpark”. Well not exactly as Mets and broke NYC severely neglected Shea Stadium.
Back row of the upper deck was 190 feet up and the escalators and ramps were scary AF.
Shea was a dump lol
There s a scene where Mazzilli hit a homer, which keeps the Pirates out of first place...Hey they do what they can. I think 76, was not bad, but what was to come? Ugh
TheReubenKincaid second highest win total of 86. Won only 82 in 73 pennant season. Penny pinching M.Donald Grant did them in following season.
They had to rebuild and they did it right, beginning in 1980 when they drafted Strawberry. They were just biding time. My favorite Met team was 1988. I took a sublet in Brooklyn in August that year and they were two in front when I moved in, tenin front when I moved out. Seaver was stellar in 1976.
“Accessible well maintained ballpark”. Well not for long. Took new ownership and a lot of $$ to keep Shea going.
Shea was a monstrosity.
The Mets pitching staff in 76 had a combined ERA of 2.94, which led the Major Leagues. The Dodgers were second at 3.02. It also conceded the fewest earned runs and hits and led the Majors with 1,025 strikeouts. The rotation had Seaver, Matlack, Koosman, Mickey Lolich, and Craig Swan. The bullpen had Skip and Bob Apodaca.
The team could not hit, however. It had a batting average of .246. Kingman led the club in RBIs but he only drove in 86. It also did not run; they only stole 66 bases, just Milwaukee had fewer.
It looked like the team just needed some hitting and a runner for 77 but we all know what came next...
They were good teams but never serious contenders like the Yankees. Theen in 1977 everything went to hell. 1980 was when they began turning it around by drafting Strawberry and the minor leaguers they left up in MLB performed much better than their ability would have indicated for a while.
Seaver had off year 14-11
@@aisaponzio4744 He was getting sick of NYC, particularly Dick Young.
@@aisaponzio4744 Mets didn’t score for Seaver that year could have easily won 20 games with a little run support
The Mets should bring back those pillbox hats.
Mickey Lolich only season with the Mets in ill advised Rusty Staub trade.
He was washed up
Fun fact: Brooke Shields won Rusty's annual rib-eating contest in 1981, with thirty.
I was only 9 yrs. old but the Mets were my favorites. If they only would've brought in a couple more bats to assist that remarkable trio at the top of the rotation...
No one would've wanted to see Seaver, Matlack, and Kooz in those short postseason series.
Too many players the likes of Roy Staiger, Pepe Mangual, and Bruce Boisclair.
A young Maz, Swan and Stearns however was a really exciting trio to root for at the time.
But the trading deadline of '77 put an end to any potential the mid-70s had to grow as contenders.
this video is rare it has video of dave kingman actually smiling and being cordial lol
THE BEST METS ERA EVER
BAR NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the Mets this was the first of seven straight losing seasons from '77-'83 where if you just throw out the strike-shortened split-season of 1981 in six of the seven years the Mets averaged 96 losses and never winning more than 68 games never finishing DEAD LAST or next to last as botttom feeders on the National League East during that seven year span.
The 1980 team was 56-57 at one point, and looked like they might contend through mid-August.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 Not really, the closest they got in August was 6 GB on August 2 they were toast by August 15, falling to 10 GB ..
It was brutal
Mangual
There were few "winners' at Shea in 1977
There were none. After Tom Seaver got traded, the team tried to market Steve Henderson as the man around which to build a franchise. It was a heavy burden.
Well the REDS sure won at Shea that year. Raided the whole team.
@@KSmall109CAB and lee mazzili was a stiff was supposed to be a star never happened !