---
title: "Let’s Go Mets (preferably, in This Land Yacht)"
description: "The Amazins are advancing. This thing should come along."
date: "2015-10-16"
modified: "2015-10-16"
authors:
  - name: "Max Goldberg"
    job_title: "Associate Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-goldberg"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/524/lets-go-mets-preferably-in-this-land-yacht"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Let’s Go Mets (preferably, in This Land Yacht)

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Will this picture of the 1986 World Series champions ticker-taping on Broadway recreate itself soon—give or take a prize piece of Detroit pig iron?

In 1986, the New York Mets beat the Boston Red Sox in Game Seven of the World Series, capping a stellar 108-54 regular season. Now, 29 years later, the Mets have out-dueled the L.A. Dodgers and are on their way to tango with the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series.

One question remains, and Lenny Dykstra is too busy [being nails](<https://www.si.com/vault/2012/03/12/106170117/how-lenny-dykstra-got-nailed>) to call for confirmation: Where is that land yacht now?

## Author
Before working at *The Drive*, Max Goldberg raced the streets of Westchester in an ambulance as a licensed Emergency Medical Technician. He has boundless enthusiasm.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/maxems>)