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Out of the bathtub, into the can, and onto the shelves of your favorite store. Discover it for yourself. Page 14/The Battalion/Friday, October 17, 1986 New York, Boston get short vacation before Series start NEW YORK (AP) — It was a very short “pardon” for New York Mets Manager Davey Johnson. The Bos ton Red Sox, meanwhile, are back to playing with their own money. The Mets and Red Sox, survivors of the National League and Ameri can League playoffs, are back at ground zero again as they prepare to open the World Series Saturday night at Shea Stadium. The Mets earned their third World Series berth by beating the Houston Astros in a dramatic 16-in- ning game Wednesday, taking the best-of-seven NL series in six games. The Red Sox completed their dra matic comeback from a 3 to 1 deficit in games with two easy victories over the shell-shocked Angels hack in Boston’s friendly Lenway Park. “We were down to our last pitch,” said Boston second baseman Marty Barrett, who was named the Most Valuable Player in the AL playoffs. “They had already uncorked the champagne Sunday and when we came back, we felt like we had noth ing to lose.” Now, the pressure begins again in this “shuttle” series. “The Red Sox are kind of close to us because (General Manager) Lou Gorman, who used to work for us, is up there, and we see them down here on our television sets,” Mets General Manager Lrank Cashen said. “It’s going to be kind of a little neighborhood battle and that’s going to be fun.” Both Johnson and Boston Man ager John McNamara were forced to spend their best pitchers in winning the playoffs. That means New York’s Dwight Gooden and Boston's Roger Clemens, the aces of their re spective staffs, won’t be available for the Series opener. McNamara, managing in the Se ries for the first time in his 14-year managerial career, is expected to go with left-hander Bruce Hurst, 13-8 during the regular season and 1-0 with a 2.40 earned run average in two playoff starts. Johnson will counter with right hander Ron Darling, 15-6 during the regular season but with no deci sion and a 7.20 ERA in five innings of playoff work. Darling will be pitching with mixed emotions against his boyhood heroes. “If I had worked out a scenario in my own mind, this would be it — Boston and us,” said Darling, who was born in Hawaii but grew up in Millbury, Mass. “I didn’t pitch badly in the playoffs. I’m glad to be getting another chance.” Lor the first time, the World Se ries will use the designated hitter when the game is played in the American League park, hut not when the games are played in the NL park. That means Darling and the rest of the Mets’ staff probably will avoid Boston slugger Don Bay lor until the Series moves to Fenway Park on Tuesday night for the scheduled third, fourth and fifth games. “I’m glad I’m pitching against the Red Sox at Shea,” Darling said. “Who wants to face Baylor?” Baylor, who was traded to the Red Sox by the New York Yankees in the spring, batted .238 with a team-high 31 home runs during the 1986 sea son. He hit .346 in the playoffs and was the only Boston player to hit in all seven games. Oddsmakers make Mets 12-5 favorites LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Odds makers have made the pitching-rich New York Mets prohibitive 12-5 fa vorites to beat the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, the most lopsided opening odds since the 1950 baseball championships. Legal sports book operators in this gaming city say the odds even could go higher as a betting public, enamored with the Mets, lines up to place money on their favorite team. “Everything is Mets, Mets, Mets,” Mel Exber, owner of the Las Vegas Club, said. “It’s like an election, it’s a landslide.” The odds so favor the Mets that a bettor would have to bet $24 on the Mets winning the World Series to win $10. Bettors who favor the Red Sox can put up $10 to win $20 if the Red Sox take the series. Exber, who has been running sports books since the mid-1940s, said the opening line is the biggest since 1950 when the New York Yan kees were 3-1 favorites over the Phil adelphia Phillies. The Yankees won that Series in four games. “The Mets are obviously the supe rior team, there’s almost no compa rison,” Exbur said. “The starting pitchers for the Red Sox can’t com pare to the Mets’ starters, and the Red Sox haven’t seen pitching like this in the American League.” Russ Culver, who sets odds at Bally’s sports book, said the Mets shouldn’t actually be such huge fa vorites. If it were not for the public’s fascination with the National League team — a fascination that causes them to bet heavily on the Mets — Culver said the team would be only about an 8-5 favorite. “They’re a counterfeit, or bogus, favorite simply because we have so much money on the Mets,” Culver said. “We’ve got so much on the Mets that we have to make it (the spread) artificially high.” By making it a 12-5 spread, Cul ver said enough money will be bet on the Red Sox so that sports hooks can come close to balancing the action on both sides. Books make their money by pocketing the difference between paying $24 for a $10 bet and paying $20 for the same bet if the other team wins, assuming the money is di vided equally. Bookmakers were hoping for the Mets to make it to the World Series because of the interest the team gen erates among bettors. And, although the pennant was just clinched Wednesday, the action so far has been heavy. “With the Mets in the Series and the playoff games having been so ex citing, it’s really going to carry over into the betting," Reizner said. “We should have one of our best series ever.” 'Today's car caubf 'Tcmcfrent's C/assk, OCTOBER SPECIAL $100 OFF The MAACO SUPREME Paint Service REG. $349. 95 NOW $249. 95 Clean and dewax entire car • Thorough machine sanding of surface • Feather-edge most chips and scratches • Apply full coat of primer sealer • Refinish with durablity plus catalyzed enamel (same color) and bake to durability plus finish in our temperature-controlled oven. 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