Game 6 at Shea as broadcast on WPLM AM-FM in 1986

TDFenway

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We all know Vin Scully's call by heart and also the Mets radio call on WHN New York but the call by Ken Coleman and Joe Castiglione heard only on WPLM AM-FM was believed to be lost but has finally surfaced.

MLB rules only allowed a team's flagship station to air a local broadcast of the World Series and this did not even air on WRKO as WEEI (590) had the national broadcast.

Here it is

View: https://youtu.be/tVwhyaCF37I?t=13895


Eddie Andleman stayed on the air for hours after that game.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u11Kvqo5Bec
 
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Ferm Sheller

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There's just no way that I'm going to listen to a second of either one of those. Thanks, but no thanks.
 
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Yeah this is amazing history. Please someone pin it so we never lose it but I might need another 37 years before I can listen to it.
 
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Great that they found it after all these years, now store it next to the Arc of the Covenant please.

Took me until 2003 to watch the 10th inning while sitting through a screening of the HBO documentary "The Curse of the Bambino" which triggered my PTSD so bad that I immediately crossed Tremont St and downed three shots of whiskey at the closest bar.

Still not ready to do it again. Talk to me in 2055.
 
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To this day I have never seen Aaron F'in Boone's 2003 homer land. I dropped my head when it was clear it was going to be gone, did not look up, and have looked away or closed my eyes every time since when I'm watching---and even after 2004 (and 2007, and 2013, and 2018) am not sure why I need to see the end of that play, much less the totality of this game or that one.

Also, F you Grady!!!!
 
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You guys are a bunch of wimps. 4 WS Championships have permanently vanquished the dread, horrow, sadness, depression, etc. that 11 to 29 year old me experienced with this stuff.

For those with the desire, the Mookie at bat starts aaround 4:07:00.

I was actually surprised at Coleman’s nonchalance at the whole at bat. Mind you, I only listened to Mookie’s at-bat — but he didn’t once mentio “one strike away” or “86 years” or anything. And the call on Buckner’s error was just basically “the Mets are still alive”. It was really low key all-around.
 
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RG33 said:
You guys are a bunch of wimps. 4 WS Championships have permanently vanquished the dread, horrow, sadness, depression, etc. that 11 to 29 year old me experienced with this stuff.

For those with the desire, the Mookie at bat starts aaround 4:07:00.

I was actually surprised at Coleman’s nonchalance at the whole at bat. Mind you, I only listened to Mookie’s at-bat — but he didn’t once mentio “one strike away” or “86 years” or anything. And the call on Buckner’s error was just basically “the Mets are still alive”. It was really low key all-around.
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For those of you just tuning in...
 
TDFenway

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RG33 said:
You guys are a bunch of wimps. 4 WS Championships have permanently vanquished the dread, horrow, sadness, depression, etc. that 11 to 29 year old me experienced with this stuff.

For those with the desire, the Mookie at bat starts aaround 4:07:00.

I was actually surprised at Coleman’s nonchalance at the whole at bat. Mind you, I only listened to Mookie’s at-bat — but he didn’t once mentio “one strike away” or “86 years” or anything. And the call on Buckner’s error was just basically “the Mets are still alive”. It was really low key all-around.
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I know it is painful to relive but having won 4 titles since has eased the pain.

What is historical about this is Ken and Joe were only heard on WPLM AM-FM which owned the radio rights and for the World Series they could NOT feed the Red Sox network which included WRKO.



Most fans in Boston had to listen to the CBS radio call by Jack Buck and Sparky Anderson on WEEI 590.

View: https://soundcloud.com/user-949030964/1986-world-series-game-6-bottom-10th-cbs-radio


WPLM-FM had a good signal south of Boston but in the city and north and west of downtown not so much.



WPLM got the rights in 1983 when WITS went broke and their first move was firing Jon Miller in favor of Castiglione to work with Ken Coleman. When WRKO got the rights in 1990 the first thing they did was to fire Coleman and hired Bob Starr.
 
TDFenway

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This is the fascinating clip

In 1986 in the pre-internet days talk radio was our only option to vent. I was stunned that my babbling phone call that night was preserved in this clip.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u11Kvqo5Bec


I attended both the Bucky Dent game and Game 6 at Shea - and also the Too Many Men game in Montreal in 1979.

After the Bucky Dent game, I got very drunk at the Elliot Lounge and missing the last bus back to Cambridge walked home, and threw my Sox hat into the Charles.

I had just started dating the night manager of the Mug & Muffin in Harvard Square who wasn't a sports fan but all that winter she heard me saying I swore off baseball. Come the following March she invited me to spend a few days in Florida at her aunt and uncle's home outside of Tampa. We had to 'behave' but it was cool.

One morning we are leaving Brandon, FL with the intention of going to Disney World and I am driving. Driving east on I-4 was uneventful until I saw this sign



My hands started to shake and Annie is watching me and then says 'They are playing Chicago at 1:30 and I have already bought the tickets". We went to Disney the following day.
 
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RG33 said:
You guys are a bunch of wimps. 4 WS Championships have permanently vanquished the dread, horrow, sadness, depression, etc. that 11 to 29 year old me experienced with this stuff.
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I don't mind watching the grisly execution of my youngest child -- my other three kids are thriving!
 
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RG33 said:
You guys are a bunch of wimps. 4 WS Championships have permanently vanquished the dread, horrow, sadness, depression, etc. that 11 to 29 year old me experienced with this stuff.

For those with the desire, the Mookie at bat starts aaround 4:07:00.

I was actually surprised at Coleman’s nonchalance at the whole at bat. Mind you, I only listened to Mookie’s at-bat — but he didn’t once mentio “one strike away” or “86 years” or anything. And the call on Buckner’s error was just basically “the Mets are still alive”. It was really low key all-around.
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If you want even lower key, watch/listen to the tail end of the broadcast from the 30 for 30 that ESPN had about the 1980 US Olympic Hockey win over the USSR, told from the Soviet point of view.
 
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TDFenway said:
Eddie Andleman stayed on the air for hours after that game.
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Had to drive a half hour home after that game, turned on Andelman. Only had to hear 2 or 3 of the callers to realize that my depressed state could be easily overcome and I'd be ok. The first callers, at least, were completely irrational, bringing up shit that had happened that had nothing to do with that particular catastrophe.

For some reason, 78 and 2003 in comparison hurt a lot more.
 
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