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Originally Posted by jk3521
I remember in 1973, a co-worker kept taunting me about the Mets being losers as they were in last place in July "How 'bout those Mets " he laughed every morning. Yogi and the gang turned things around and took Oakland all the way to the seventh game of the WS. "Ya gotta believe" yelled the great Tug McGraw !
I'm wouldn't call myself a "fan" any longer, but I had given up on them two weeks before the All-Star game this year.
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I think the Mets won the NL East that year with 82 or 83 wins. That's when East/West were made up of 6 teams each. They, Cards, Pirates and maybe even Cubs went into the last weekend, not only trying to stay above .500, but to win the division. That was the 2nd of 3 in a row for the A's, and Dick Williams left after the end of the season and Alvin Dark managed the '74 team. Williams had had a lifetime of Charley O. by then. Couldn't take anymore.
