I recently went salmon fishing with Ed Hearn of the '86 World Champion Mets. Pretty funny guy. He had some interesting insight about that team and that particular game. He said it was the worse group of guys he's ever been around in his life..."The Bad Guys Won" great book. A lot of the information in that book comes from him.
Wow. Too bad you didn't post any pics of that trip. It would have made the level with which none of us care that much more poignant.