Baseball on Television
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I didn't remember how painful the early innings of game 2 alcs were. Tigers up 5-0 in the sixth against Buchholz, and had already won Game One. Sox being no-hit by Scherzer.Things should change soon.
Workman in, finally, walks a guy. This would be painful to watch for the first time. I must have blanked it out.
Workman in, finally, walks a guy. This would be painful to watch for the first time. I must have blanked it out.
Up 1-0 in the series, up 5-0 in Game 2, with Verlander lined up for Game 3. The Tigers really blew that series.
4-0 lead after 4 with Pedro on the mound. How did we lose this one? I hope next year ends better.
MLBN played it over and over. It's on right now. Then later in the day, they feature 1986 in program after program. Theory: they are trying to cheer up New Yorkers, who could really use cheering up right now.
It's weird watching him in his early career fastball-curve form. I generally only remember him in his latter half where he still had a good fastball but also one of the best splitters ever.
I wonder which broadcast they'll use, assuming there's even a Seattle tape to use. I don't think ESPN even showed MLB games at that point so I doubt they have their own recording. I've seen the NESN one with Martin and Monty on the call so many times, it would be interesting to watch and hear different announcers call the game.
I'm watching game 5 of the same series tonight via the Pedro server on p&g. Where are you finding old playoff games on mlb.tv? I'm hoping to watch the 2004 playoffs after, starting with the ALDS but I'm struggling to find it online.
Yesterday was brutal. They were running Game 7 of ‘03 on one channel and Stanley Cup Game 7 on the other at the same time.
It’s 20K games all day today on ESPN. After Clemens, it’s Kerry Wood at 2:00, Randy Johnson at 4:00 and Max Scherzer at 6:00.
Attendance 13,414. Much different times indeed.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS198604290.shtml
I guess I didn’t realize that pitchers didn’t have to come set before delivering the pitch back in ‘86. Was a bit confusing to watch Roger continually balking from the stretch.
And that was the era in which Rickey Henderson stole like eight billion bases. Remarkable.
Forgot that Clemens got helped out by Baylor not being able to catch. Maybe he needed to get the 20ks and the occasional fly ball, since he was afraid of Baylor catching ground ball outs.
If you're bummed about some Sox losses being aired, let me present you with a nice youtube find...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPwYfPwl7qs
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPwYfPwl7qs
Baylor liked to say he dropped that ball on purpose so Clemens could get the K instead.
One minor criticism I have with NESN replays of the 2013 playoffs is that NESN uses the national feed either TBS or Fox. Is there any reason why they couldn't use the Red Sox radio feed? I saw when they replay old games on MLB that the local feed is used if possible. Just a minor quibble but still a quibble.
Johnson's 20 K game is one of my favorite re-watchable sports moments on YouTube. The Reds' swings are laughably bad; they couldn't hit Johnson's best pitches if he was throwing a beach ball (yeah they scored one run off of him, but whatever). Look at some of these cuts:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5v4LRPh9UU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5v4LRPh9UU
“This copyrighted telecast is presented by authority of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball. It may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form, and the accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without express written consent.”
In his Athletic series on his top 100 baseball players, Joe Posnanski writes about that Reagan- as-Alexander movie, "The Winning Team."
https://theathletic.com/1638552/2020/03/01/the-baseball-100-no-26-grover-cleveland-alexander/
Reading that actually makes me want to record this movie and try watching it just to see if it's actually as bad as he says.
This is fantastic. Also ... Grich while rounding the bases on a 6th inning HR was a bit much.
Game six of the 2013 alcs just started. Earlier, NESN played a 2007 game v. SF. Pedroia 5 for 5, Bonds couldn't hit Tavarez.
Sox @ NYY, now on NESN. Apparently Pedey is going to do something special in this 2008 game. Some nice defensive plays by both sides so far.
I Was in Pompano Beach Fla. on vacation watching that game at an outdoor bar. Mostly Yankee fans around me. Great comeback. And it wasn't Papelbon who closed the game but Okajima who closed it out. Good move by Tito. That was kind of the beginning of the run of 07 and if they weren't in first place then, they were within a few days and never lost it. I didn't rub it in bad to them i just said......."I think we're better then you this year" One guy said.."We'll see".
I have his bullpen jacket I got at an auction for like $30. I don’t think it ever has left the closet in the 8 or so years I have owned it.
OK, so I'm combing through YouTube for classic games and decide to settle in for the 1986 ALCS pennant clinching game 7. I've re-watched Game 5 of this series a few times, but never this one. At the time this game aired I was a lonely 15-year-old, a rare Red Sox fan growing up half a world away in Iowa. A curious kid to be sure, but ignorant and naive about the world at large. Anyway, just as I pop open my first beer and prepare to wax nostalgic about one of my first tastes of Red Sox glory, the national anthem gets underway and I see this:
What in the mother of god....?
What in the mother of god....?
I think Leyland totally blew it not bringing in a lefty to face Ortiz. But our team did beat Verlander in Game 3.
I think Papelbon's ERA in 2006 was like 0.91. I know he didn't start closing full time till mid May or early June but still. Wow! Correction: He had 35 saves vs. 37 in 07 and just as many appearances as 07. And had more innings pitched 68.1 vs. 58.1 in 07 and only 9 less K's 75 in 06 vs. 84 in 07. Pretty good......pretty, pretty good.
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I had heard she was a singer also but obviously nothing great. I moved out of the Boston area in August of 1971 so I hadn't heard of her until 1995 when she was working for the Stankees. I think she's from Newton so was she known in Boston media in sports or music, lol??? Just curious. Did she ever work for a Boston team or paper?
Papelbon was the closer pretty much from the start in 2006. Foulke looked shaky closing out a five run lead (that became four run lead) on Opening Day. Papelbon got the first actual save opportunity (third game of the season) and never looked back. He was 10/10 in save opportunities in April (13 total appearances).
I knew her nephew, we went to the same high school. He was my brother's year.
Yes I did look it up and correct myself on the post. He was the closer basically all year. For some reason I thought they were using Craig Hansen in the beginning but he was up and down from the minors. That 06 team was a different and fun Red Sox team till the collapse in late August and Lester out with cancer. I think they didn't commit an error until June???? That's crazy! And that infield of Alex Gonzales and Mark Loretta were fantastic defensively. Better then Lugo and Pedey(Not that I regret getting rid of Loretta to start Pedey lol.) Just saying defensively. And Lowell and Youk. They would win games with Crisp, Loretta and A-Gon bunting, stealing and sac flies. A lot of people were saying..."These are the Red Sox?" Hindsight is 20/20 but 2 people they should have kept at short were Cabrera and they let him go for Rent a -Wreck. Then after Edgar they sign Alex Gonzales. They should have kept A-Gon. I'd take him over Lugo any day. I never understood why they didn't keep him instead of Lugo.
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23-22. Schmidt had at least 2 home runs maybe 3. I was beginning summer session at Temple U and was off that day and listened on radio toward the end. LIved in Philly area since 71 but still a Boston sports fan to the end. Radio is so much more intense.
I'm almost positive it's called The Monty Stratton story. Very underrated sports movie.
23-22 Phillies. I had just started summer session at Temple u when that game was on. I think Schmidt had at least 2 home runs maybe 3. I've been in Philly since 71 but still am a die hard Boston Sports fan. I was listening on radio in my car to the end of the game. Baseball on radio is so much better described and more intense.
She was a legit Broadway singing actress and came from Newton. She recorded a song written by Ken Coleman (who fancied himself quite the poet) for benefit the Jimmy Fund sung to the tune of Take Me Out To The Ballgame called Take Me Out To Old Fenway. I've seen longtime Red Sox fans break down in tears listening to it.
Somewhere around here I have a scratchy copy of it but can't find it here or anywhere on the interwebs. Maybe someone with better Google-fu than me can locate it an link it.
It mentions Yaz and Ted and Doerr and others. Here is a line from it I located:
IIRC, that verse is sung in the same tune as And I don't care if I never get back... With a few more syllables obviously.