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Which team played the villain role best?


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It’s hard to think of the Mets as hated, considering they haven’t done much in decades, and have often been the butt of many jokes, but the 1986 team that ended up winning the World Series was reviled for their arrogance (they made the seldom-used Curtain Call into a regular event) and off-the-field personna. They even did an obnoxious music video called Let’s Go Mets Go!.Referred to as “a gang of drunks, pill-poppers, barroom brawlers, degenerate gamblers, womanizers, and arrogant blowhards,” the team was everything that baseball purists hated. On July 20 of that 1986, four players – a second baseman (Tim Teufel) and three PITCHERS (Ron Darling, Bob Ojeda, and Rick Aguilar) were arrested after being in a bar brawl involving police officers in Houston. Even the pitchers were nasty. The money quote from that article: As pitcher Bobby Ojeda told Deadspin contributor Jeff Pearlman in his book, The Bad Guys Won, “We were a bunch of vile fuckers.”

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