And it was all over for the Red Sox, whose championship drought would stretch from 1918 to 2004: 86 years. The Mets made sure they wouldn’t be champions in 1986. Led by manager Davey Johnson, ...

You didn’t like us? Oh well.” On the surface, these two iterations of Mets couldn’t be more dissimilar. But The Bad Guys — that’s what the ’86 team was called — hardly think that way ...

But he also wrote, “The Yankees also are interested in Sean Manaea, who will turn down the $21.05M qualifying offer from the Mets ... Manaea getting an $86 million deal over four years.

The last bright season for a while, Frazier wasn’t a highly regarded skipper in his time or subsequently, but the 86-76 was the Mets’ second-best record of all time and would stay that way ...

It was the last time the Dodgers won the World Series in a full season. The Mets haven’t won it since ’86. So, when the Dodgers knocked off the San Diego Padres in the NLDS to face the Mets ...