Yeah, I've just watched the trailer for the fifth time, and I know it won't be the last time today.
It could be 60 hours and that wouldn't be long enough.Watching that trailer just made my day. If the program is as well put together it should be an amazing 60 minutes (or longer I hope).
It would take a writer of Updike's quality to perfectly capture in writing what it was like to be in Boston during that comeback. Something to the level of his piece on Ted Williams.There's been so much written about that 2004 team and yet I still feel like the story has never been told in a way that really captures what it was like to be in Boston and New York that week. This looks like it might finally be the thing that does it.
Hell, remember when Mark Bellhorn hit homeruns in 3 consecutive playoff games? Or did I just pull an Andy Pettitte and misremember?God, remember when David Ortiz was in fact, superhuman?
I honestly wish the World Series trophy had just been awarded right there at Yankee Stadium.Like a lot of you, I just watched the trailer at my desk. Unfortunately, I now have a severe case of goosebumps complicated by smile cramps.
Damn, it's hard to capture the feeling of those 4 games in words.
It's not hyperbolic. That is the god's honest truth. I can't wait for this program to air.I know it's a bit hyperbolic but you could almost pinpoint the moment when the Yankees' bats went quiet. When Pedro's pitch almost found Matsui's enormous head.
IT'S KETCHUP!Trailer up
It premieres Oct. 5th at 8PM.
EDIT - Jesus, Schilling's ankle looks positively gangrenous.
Being in NYC wasn't so bad, either (experience of attending game 1 aside). Although I would ask Hunter S. Thompson to convey that experience.It would take a writer of Updike's quality to perfectly capture in writing what it was like to be in Boston during that comeback. Something to the level of his piece on Ted Williams.
Is this one hour-long program repeated four times or five hours? I ask because we don't get ESPN Classic.It could be 60 hours and that wouldn't be long enough.
Ride or die indeed.
Whenever I put in my ALCS highlights DVD or hear Millar say "Don't let us win this game... tonight" I get tears in my eyes. Every time.I teared up watching that trailer.
Ditto.Watching that trailer gave me chills.
Come on. You're not this stupid and ignorant. I mean, you can't be.I feel emotional...but really? Crying? As in real tears at hearing Millar?
I remember being on Lansdown, for game four. (A friends birthday, and of course I didn't have tickets!) 4 or 5 Yankee fans asked me to take a photo of them, & right then I remembered my friend, who was a bartender @ Shay's in Harvard Sq. being asked the same from some annoying customers. He snapped the shot, but from neck down. I thought to do the same. Wanted to do the same, but then I felt that the Karma from that would be just wrong. Really F*%k us.Whatever, man. That is some inspiring shit.
The clock struck 12 during Millar's at-bat, guy.
Struck 12 midnight.
That still gives me goosebumps.
I'm sure I'm in the minority here but I'm not really looking forward to this and I generally dig Ken Burns. I probably wont even go out of my way to watch this.Don't forget that Ken Burns Tenth Inning will premiere on PBS a few days before this, and it will focus a lot on the '04 and '07 teams.
and thenYou either ride or you die. ... You ain't got no choice ...
I think this is what you're thinking of. That is probably my single favorite article in any publication ever, and I still have that issue at my right-hand side. That is why people tear up when they see this trailer.Come on. You're not this stupid and ignorant. I mean, you can't be.
That moment meant vastly different things to different people, and still does. Is it really so difficult to comprehend that the trailer could conjure up images, memories and feelings strong enough to produce genuine tears?
Please don't tell us you're moronic enough to underestimate or dismiss altogether the emotive power of what happened six years ago. Because for any true fan of this team who lived through it, there will never EVER be another sports-related experience that even comes close to meeting it, let alone exceeding it. Anyone who makes any pathetic attempts to counter that point is either completely full of shit, or they've snowed themselves into believing they're actually a true fan.
For a good many folks, that power was coupled with some serious real-life shit at the time. The birth of a child. A now-deceased family member's joy in finally witnessing it. A loved one who departed too soon to share it. Frankly I'd question the humanity of anyone who went through any of the above and didn't cry upon watching that clip.
This is a great, great post Dog.Come on. You're not this stupid and ignorant. I mean, you can't be.
That moment meant vastly different things to different people, and still does. Is it really so difficult to comprehend that the trailer could conjure up images, memories and feelings strong enough to produce genuine tears?
Please don't tell us you're moronic enough to underestimate or dismiss altogether the emotive power of what happened six years ago. Because for any true fan of this team who lived through it, there will never EVER be another sports-related experience that even comes close to meeting it, let alone exceeding it. Anyone who makes any pathetic attempts to counter that point is either completely full of shit, or they've snowed themselves into believing they're actually a true fan.
For a good many folks, that power was coupled with some serious real-life shit at the time. The birth of a child. A now-deceased family member's joy in finally witnessing it. A loved one who departed too soon to share it. Frankly I'd question the humanity of anyone who went through any of the above and didn't cry upon watching that clip.
Oh, and I'd kill for an animated GIF of the exasperated, exhaling, wide-eyed Yankee fan toward the end.
That is absolutely awesome. I feel like I'm in one of those "Like a good neighbor State Farm is there" ads, getting instant gratification for my every whim. Thanks a ton for that.
I flew home from Colorado the day before the parade.
Jet Blue red eye, packed with Sox fans. Stewardess said flight time to Boston home of World Champion Boston Red Sox. I started crying rest of plane ran around high fiving landed
This is not at the same level--just fun.
A friend was in the airport in Minneapolis the day after we won 2007. Waiting for flight to NEW YORK. When they announced they were starting to board the flight attendant said "Fans of the 2007 World Champion Red Sox may board first."
Really? I think there was a lot of emotion, particularly concerning things like segregation and fixing and the Red Sox (the whole bit about the 1986 World Series was filled with pain). Heck, have you ever heard the guy speak about baseball? It's absurd to say he is dispassionate and I think it comes through in his filmmaking.I'm sure I'm in the minority here but I'm not really looking forward to this and I generally dig Ken Burns. I probably wont even go out of my way to watch this.
He's pretty clinical. Don't get me wrong, he's a hell of a filmmaker but his stuff tends to be kind of dispassionate, at least to me. I'm skeptical that his Tenth Inning is going to have the heart that the 2004 story requires. I actually trust MLBP/ESPN to capture the emotion more accurately.
I have seen very little Ken Burns, but there's room for both approaches, although I agree in a sense because I will probably DVR the Ken Burns thing and wait to watch it after the 30 for 30.I'm sure I'm in the minority here but I'm not really looking forward to this and I generally dig Ken Burns. I probably wont even go out of my way to watch this.
He's pretty clinical. Don't get me wrong, he's a hell of a filmmaker but his stuff tends to be kind of dispassionate, at least to me. I'm skeptical that his Tenth Inning is going to have the heart that the 2004 story requires. I actually trust MLBP/ESPN to capture the emotion more accurately.
Of course. I forgot what site I was on for a second.That was indeed a great article, but what I was really thinking of was this.
I never, ever, EVER, get sick of the Win It For thread. Never.mabrowndog, on 19 September 2010 - 01:16 AM, said:
"That was indeed a great article, but what I was really thinking of was this."
I agree 100%. I was watching this and thinking "if I was a Yankee fan this would infuriate me". It lead me to believe, among other things, that a great deal of the Yankee experience was sitting at that stupid old ballpark to watch those games. They tried to make the connect that the new ballpark, and new regime, was going to deviate from what made the franchise great under Steingrabber, (I actually liked Hal) but it fell short because I kept saying to myself....."wait, didn't they just win ANOTHER world title last season in that new park?".Saw The House of Steinbrenner tonight. I'd be interested to know what Yankees fans thought bc I went in hoping to see a bio on The Boss and got 45 minutes of fans weeping about them tearing down the Toilet and 15 of awkward Hal.
If Simmons' secret agenda was to make Yankee tradition seem empty and dull, Barbara Kopple fulfilled his wishes. Very disappointing.
This is what I thought as well. Instead of telling us what the Yankee Tradition is and why it's special, they just assumed everyone felt the same way and overloaded the audience with nostalgia for a park that virtually everyone agreed was a piece of crap (and, ironically, had lost whatever was good about it b/c of Steinbrenner's mid-70s renovations!). After about 3 minutes of that, my wife got up and went to bed.Worst of the lot. It could have been SO much more.