I don't think 2006 comes close to 1986. The '86 team was a surprise team that was not expected to contend. They went on tremendous run and came within 1 strike of winning a championship. That was heartbreak. The 2006 team was overrated from the beginning. It was a poorly constructed team with a terrible bullpen and a very thin starting rotation. The in-season personnel moves were terrible. You could see that team falling apart months before the season ended. When they sent Jason (the Ultimate Loser) Johnson to the hill to start the first game of a 5 game series against the Yankees in the beginning of August, I thought we'd be lucky to win 1 game. That was not heartbreak. I thought the FO did a piss poor job that year, and they took accountability and made the changes that they needed to make for 2007. In the end, IMO 2006 was a valuable lesson, because it showed them that they couldn't rest on their laurels in a so-called re-tooling year. Fans who pay the highest ticket prices in baseball did not want to watch garbage, and they rolled out some garbage that season--Jason Johnson, Kyle Snyder, Rudy Seanez, Craig Hansen, Lenny DiNardo, Willie Harris, Dustin Mohr and Adam Stern among others.