Wow, that's super!!! [note that I rarely use the three exclamation points] I don't think he'd like lunch with me, though. ;-) I'm a big mets fan, and I remember Scott all too well from the NL Championship in '86.
If you'd had more pitchers like Scott, that series would have been quite different. Of course, Mets fans were always suspicious of Scott, but then again, I suppose Astro fans didn't share that suspicion.
It was a tremendously exciting series. I've never seen anything like it in baseball. It seemed that the Astros and Mets fought doggedly for every single pitch. Hoo boy, game one featured Scott against Dwight Gooden, and Scott was able to shut down Darryl Strawberry and Mr. Consistent, Keith Hernandez. That was a tough loss. Gooden was usually an automatic win.
I seem to remember one superhuman snatch of a ball that was clearly headed over the wall for a much needed Asto home run. Man, oh man, it was a nail biter all the way through, and some have called it one of the best baseball league championship series ever. The World Series against the Red Sox was special, but it wasn't as exciting as the NL series.
I'd appreciate it if you would absolutely congratulate him on his pitching from a diehard Mets fan.
We feared him in a big, big way. He was stellar, always.
