David Wright, Carlos Beltran and Johan Santana: Yes, Wright forgot how to hit home runs, and the other two guys missed a big chunk of 2009, but we still have a nice core of all-stars.  Some teams don’t.

The 1986 Season: Watching that run to a championship was one of the greatest periods in my life.  I remember going to Game 3 of the NLCS and feeling like the stadium was going to collapse after Lenny Dykstra hit that home run off Dave Smith.  I also remember the World Series Game 6 tenth inning…. easily one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, and thankfully we were on the winning end.  Imagine what the other side of that must have felt like.

More memories:  I was too young to appreciate 1969, but I do remember watching Tom Seaver pitch, and I remember going to see Dwight Gooden pitch at Shea.  In fact, I think I went to every home game he pitched in 1984 and 1985, when he would positively blow hitter away and those guys would hang K’s in left field.  We also had one of the great catchers in history in Mike Piazza.  And how about Darryl Strawberry’s sweet home run stroke?

Opening Day: Every year we start out with hope, and 2010 will be no different.  That is, until we get to June and we’re 10 games behind the Phillies, who are going to be strong for a few more years.  But there is always the wild card, right?

The clip is from 1986 when the Mets were getting prepared to take on the Red Sox in the World Series, and features MTV’s Martha Quinn interviewing two very boyish looking Mets in Roger McDowell and Lenny Dykstra (we all know too well now how sad Dykstra’s life has become).  I love it when Quinn asks Dykstra what band he’d like to be in and who he likes, and he says with his trademark lisp, “Huey Lewis” and “The Rolling Stones” before then telling Quinn he likes her better.  Smooth, Lenny, way smooth. McDowell, for the record, likes Level 42 and Mike & The Mechanics.  Man, how ’80′s are those bands?

Then they show the video for “Let’s Go Mets,” that song I remember all too well…I remember feeling so pumped up hearing that song even as the Mets had just lost to Roger Clemens in Game 5 and were down 3-2 in the Series.

Anyway, enjoy the video…..because us Mets fans sure could use a laugh these days….