Mets were cheaters

[Used 2 B Hu]

 

[Cyder]

If you're out partying until 3am and have a 1pm game cocaine is a performance enhancing drug. The 1986 team should have won a few titles but they were a bunch of bad guys who cared more about partying than winning. Except for Gary Carter, who didn't party and is the only one who died. Ain't no justice in this world

 

[HammerDown]

If you're out partying until 3am and have a 1pm game cocaine is a performance enhancing drug. The 1986 team should have won a few titles but they were a bunch of bad guys who cared more about partying than winning. Except for Gary Carter, who didn't party and is the only one who died. Ain't no justice in this world

RIP Gary Carter

 

[Cedrique]

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."

That sounds like so much more fun than sticking a needle in your ass and then going to the gym to work out and shit.

 

[Cedrique]

Also, what the fuck is he talking about? Does shotgunning a beer really "re-kick" amphetamines? That makes no sense at all.
Maybe if he wasn't so annoying his teammates would have let him in on what they were doing and we'd know the real story.

 

[Omar 382]

Yeah, I haven't read the book so I don't know the exact context he put his comments in, but he's just off on that one. Nicotine and stimulants are synergistic though, so that could have given them a better buzz