Remembering Mets History: (1986) The Mets Go Mets Go Music Video

Sunday August 17th 1986: A large crowd of 44,843 came out for this Sunday afternoon Shea doubleheader as the first place New York Mets (76-41) hosted Whitey Herzog's third place St. Louis Cardinals (59-58).

The Mets lost the first game as Cards pitcher;  John Tudor & relievers Ray Soff & Pat Perry beat the Mets 2-1. Rick Aguilera & Rick Anderon gave up a run each in the loss.

In between games, the Mets filmed the music video for their 1986 rally theme song; "Lets Go Mets Go". The tune was written & produced by Shelly Palmer & sung by Tom Bernfeld.

Doc Gooden, Gary Carter & Kevin Mitchell

The song was an idea from Jerry Della Femina & two of his executives. The Coney Island born Della Femina & his ad agency were famous for classic ads like the Meow Mix theme,  Joe Izuzu, Blue Nun wine featuring Jerry Stiller & Ann Meara, as well as Chemical Bank, Becks Beer & Pan Am airlines classics.

In the early eighties his firm became the first to win a contract with an MLB team, that club being  the New York Mets. Della Femina came up with the idea for the Mets 1980's slogan"the Magic Is Back".

That day centerfieldmaz & friends were in the Shea crowd doing the chant as directed by a video team. Shots of the fans singing, cheering & doing the wave were filmed as well as the players doing their parts on the playing field. It was geeky but all in fun & back in the 80's it was awesome. Here is the classic video:

After the festivities, I remember there being a real party atmosphere going on. Back in the eighties, us Mets fans were proud, cocky & just salivating for the playoffs to start. It was a great time to  be a Mets fan.

In the second game of that double header Randy Nieman went up against the Cards Danny Cox.


Starting Lineups

	St. Louis Cardinals				New York Mets
1	Vince Coleman	CF		1	Lenny Dykstra	CF
2	Terry Pendleton	3B		2	Wally Backman	2B
3	Tom Herr	2B		3	Keith Hernandez	1B
4	Alan Knicely	1B		4	Darryl Strawberry	RF
5	Tito Landrum	LF		5	Danny Heep	LF
6	Steve Lake	C		6	Howard Johnson	3B
7	John Morris	RF		7	John Gibbons	C
8	Jose Oquendo	SS		8	Rafael Santana	SS
9	Danny Cox	P		9	Randy Niemann	P

The Mets got to Cox in the 3rd inning as John Gibbons walked, Rafael Santana singled & Wally Backman doubled to make it 1-0. In the 4th Danny Heep hit a two run HR making it 3-0. Heep added an RBI double in the 5th, after the Mets had scored another run on Cardinal errors. Tim Teufel added a solo HR & in the 8th Lenny Dykstra belted a three run HR topping off the 9-2 Mets win.

Niemann pitched six innings allowing both runs on five hits. Roger McDowell notched his 12th save with three scoreless innings, striking out two with just one hit.