Mets were cheaters

[black francis]

In an excerpt that appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Darling explains that players would take amphetamines before games and sometimes resort to alcohol to re-trigger the effects of the amphetamines.

"You'd see guys toward the end of a game, maybe getting ready for their final at-bat, double-back into the locker room to chug a beer to 're-kick the bean' so they could step to the plate completely wired and focused and dialed in," Darling wrote. "They had it down to a science, with precision timing. They'd do that thing where you poke a hole in the can so the beer would flow shotgun-style. They'd time it so that they were due to hit third or fourth that inning, and in their minds that rush of beer would kind of jump-start the amphetamines and get back to how they were feeling early on in the game -- pumped, jacked, good to go."

 

[bksballer89]

Are you really shock by this?

 

[black francis]

Are you really shock by this?

Not at all, and I am not bothered by it either

I love hearing about this stuff.

It reinforces the fact that "PEDs" have always been a part of the game, and did not start with McGwire, Bonds, Sosa.

I'm sure the book will create some controversy with former teammates denying it.

 

[Omar 382]

If anything, alcohol would inhibit the effects of amphetamines. What a bunch of assholes

 

[Omar 382]

Wow I just looked it up? 5 MG of Dexedrine??? That wouldn't affect you unless you're an 8 year old girl. Mets' players are pussies- shocker

 

[HammerDown]

Has Ron Darling ever stopped talking?

 

[Erie Warrior]

So, being drunk allows you to hit a fast ball? Now I know why I didn't make it to the majors.

 

[Omar 382]

Seriously, I know it was 1986, but was the pharmacology and effects of drugs back then so bad that people thought alcohol potentiated Dexedrine? Wow.

Also, the amphetamine use in the last inning was purely psychological. Amphetamine/methylphenidate use can allow a player to have more energy and focus, which makes it good for weight lifting or 5 hour practices where someone needs sustained energy and may not have enough adrenaline and need a bump in their DAT and NET. I highly doubt that those players weren't focused or were lethargic during at-bats in the 9th inning.

 

[cerealboi]

red sox = 1986 world champs

 

[Omar 382]

red sox = 1986 world champs

Yeah, no

 

[Mondo Jay]

Did they run out of speed after '86?

 

[moxie]

So, being drunk allows you to hit a fast ball? Now I know why I didn't make it to the majors.

Now I wonder why I didn't.





I mean, aside from the fact that I didn't play baseball & stuff.

 

[OutlawImmortal]

Now I wonder why I didn't.





I mean, aside from the fact that I didn't play baseball & stuff.

I don't think you need amphetamines to hit a softball, Mox.

 

[Omar 382]

I don't think you need amphetamines to hit a softball, Mox.

I don't know man. That fox on Sunday Night Baseball makes playing softball sound a lot like Navy Seal training

 

[Rex Racer]

Wow I just looked it up? 5 MG of Dexedrine??? That wouldn't affect you unless you're an 8 year old girl. Mets' players are pussies- shocker

They were already jacked up on blow, the speed was just a little booster.

 

[Omar 382]

They were already jacked up on blow, the speed was just a little booster.

Why not just do more coke? I just laughed at the 5 MG part. I could probably blow 30 MG of Dex and feel no effects

Fucking lightweights

 

[Rex Racer]

So, being drunk allows you to hit a fast ball? Now I know why I didn't make it to the majors.

If that was the case I would be in the HOF.

 

[Rex Racer]

Why not just do more coke? I just laughed at the 5 MG part. I could probably blow 30 MG of Dex and feel no effects

Fucking lightweights

Darryl Strawberry was a hog and he had usually snorted it all up by then?

 

[tducey]

Nothing new about the 1986 Mets. When I clicked on the thread I thought it was last year's Mets that where being talked about.

 

[OutlawImmortal]

Nothing new about the 1986 Mets. When I clicked on the thread I thought it was last year's Mets that where being talked about.

Me too, I thought Daniel Murphy's bat speed last year was about to make sense.