Willie Randolph at the time was a Yankee, and didn't have much love for the 86 Mets. However he did have a few guys he rooted for over on the other side of town when the Yankees were the other team in New York, reports David Lennon in Newsday.

Randolph reeled off a few of the names — Mookie Wilson, Keith
Hernandez, Howard Johnson — and now that he's a member of the
organization, many of them are now his colleagues.

Randolph earned six World Series rings with the Yankees. But despite
his pinstriped past, he acknowledges there was something special about
the '86 Mets, and that year still touches the next generation of stars.

David Wright was too young to remember much about the 1986 team, but he's been a student and fan of the Mets from the minute he could pick up a baseball.


David Wright was only 3 years old when Jesse Orosco flung his
glove skyward at the end of Game 7, but his love for the Mets extends
back as far as he can remember, a byproduct of his childhood in
Chesapeake, Va. — a short drive from Triple-A Norfolk. Coming up
through the farm system, Wright has been tutored by some of the '86
alumni. That has brought the history lesson to life for him.

“You hear all of the stories,” Wright said. “Not only did they take
care of business on the field — obviously, they were a great team and
put up great numbers — it just seemed like they had such a close
relationship off the field. They were like a group of brothers. That's
what I admire about those guys.

“They won together, they lost together, they fought together. To
me, they seemed like the ultimate team. You had a lot of different
characters from a lot of different backgrounds, and for everybody to
come together like that and accomplish a single goal, that was the most
impressive thing. Just the way they had each other's back.”

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