Darryl Strawberry has no doubts that the 1986 Mets would beat the 1998 Yankees. Strawberry would know, having played on both championship teams. "There's no question. You cannot beat the '86 Mets," Strawberry said while appearing on ESPN New York 1050's "The Michael Kay Show." "The Yankees teams I played on were great teams with great personalities, but they were good guys. The '86 Mets would've been drilling those guys; I just know how our pitching staff was: hit this guy, hit that guy. And those were the kind of guys we were. We were mad, we wanted them to get outside themselves. That's the kind of group we had that year, so the '86 Mets were a very difficult team to play against." The '98 Yankees, though, are widely considered one of the greatest teams ever assembled in baseball history. They went 114-48 (.704) in the regular season. They went 11-2 in the postseason. While Strawberry played right field for the '86 Mets, Paul O'Neill was in right for the '98 Yankees. O'Neill said that season's Yankees would have beaten those Mets. "The '98 Yankees, to me, were as close to perfection as I've ever been part of, as far as sports. Everybody had good years, and everything went right," O'Neill said. "I don't see that happening."