As a Braves' fan this is one of the moments that lives on forever. Never get tired of reliving this. My two boys had gone to bed, fallen asleep, when Bream scored I hit my head on the ceiling, screaming my lungs out. My wife says, quiet, you'll wake the boys. I replied, no chit Sherlock, and I ran down the hall to their room screaming as loud as I could, Braves win! Braves win! Braves win!
My son was 10 in 1992. He had fallen asleep around the top of the 8th. I woke him and the start of the bottom of the ninth. I told him, son we have 3 outs to score three runs. What then unfolded was a memory that has bonded us like welded steel since that night. Braves win indeed.
As a Mets fan much respect to Skip. I never did find him annoying but fun to listen to. He may have been a "homer" when calling games BUT there's nothing wrong with that. He brought passion to his broadcasts and that's all that mattered. I still wonder what he sounded like when Piazza got that HR in 1999 game 6 to tie it after Braves had that big 1st inning against Leiter AND what he sounded like when Piazza got the HR to put Mets up in that 10 run 8th inning at Shea
I was there when Sid Slid. Greatest sporting event I've ever seen live. It was crazy inside and outside the stadium. I've never hugged so many strangers in my entire life.
We'll never see the likes of another Skip Caray. Only hot looking people devoid of a personality and intellect can achieve. People we will never remember but will be replaced with another clone. Skip Caray's represent a world of bygone times. I miss him terribly. He was the personification of "great" R.I.P. Skip.
Andy Van Slyke sitting in center field was classic. After losing three NLCS in a row had to be tough. I believe that the Pirates knew that this was their last chance.
I'm not sure if this has been told here or somewhere else, but apparently, many years later Van Slyke was interviewed about this. Van Slyke said that just before Cabrera got the game-winning hit, he signaled to Bonds to move a step or two towards him, because he thought Cabrera would hit it there. Bonds responded with the "international peace hand gesture," If you get my drift, so Van Slyke said to himself, "Fine, stay there." Cabrera then proceeds to hit the ball almost right to the spot where Van Slyke thought he would hit it, and the rest is history. If Bonds had not been the egotistical a--hole that he is, it is unlikely Bream scores on that hit. The game would still have been tied, but Pittsburgh maybe gets out of the inning and who knows what happens... But you will need to check that out for yourself, as I could have the details wrong.
@@BrianSchaffer If the throw is still offline, probably not. But if he has an extra half second or so to situate himself for the throw, maybe it isn't offline? I don't know.
I still remember Skip Carey's predicted call of the 6-4-3 double play game-ending DP. Unbelieveable! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iJv51w7DBFw.html
@@FlappyBelly Joe Simpson (who's not featured in this particular clip) is the only one of the Braves' main broadcasters from that era who's still alive. HOFer Pete Van Wieren, should be HOFer Skip Carey, HOF pitcher turned broadcaster Don Sutton, and Braves HOFer Ernie Johnson have all died.
Fun fact- the previous year in game 7 of the NLCS at Pittsburgh, Skip was unable to call the Braves' pennant win as he was calling a TNT Thursday Night Football game between the Bears and Packers
🤣 at 9 minutes and 40 seconds is Skip summed up in one word, he wasn't just an outstanding voice and play by play Man he was naturally a funny individual
This is the first time I've heard this tribute and my memories of Skip are personal. In 1974, I was an 18-year old, part-time radio producer at WRNG in Atlanta hoping for a career in broadcasting. Skip and Jiggs McDonald, the voice of the NHL Atlanta Flames, co-hosted a Saturday morning call-in show for which I was the producer. In the fall, I was given the opportunity to host a brand-new Saturday afternoon College football scoreboard show. I was as nervous as I've ever been prior to my first show in early September, but somehow got through it. When my first show ended, I left the booth and went to the employee break room to grab a cup of coffee. Sitting in the break room was one Skip Caray whose show had ended hours earlier. He had a cup of something (which wasn't coffee) and a yellow legal pad with notes scribbled on it. He congratulated me and asked if he could share some thoughts on what I did well and what I could do to improve. He had hung around for hours on a beautiful Saturday afternoon to help guide a "rookie" along the way. Nobody asked him to do that. It's something I've never forgotten and never will.
That was also the only 7-game seires in which one pitcher lost 3 games. I forget which 2 previous games he lost, but Doug Drabek lost game 7. I remember that night like it was last night. I was watching it on TV. My dad was listening to the game in bed, and when Jose Lind booted the ball, he predicted the Pirates would lose. Not being smart-aleck, I asked "You think?" , feeling that Pittsburgh would somehow hang on, but it was not to be. BTW, the Bucs' 20 straight losing seasons (1993-2012) are a record for all of the North American professional sports leagues, namely Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the national Hockey League.
Here's another one. I don't know if there's any audio from the Mariners' network, but in Game 5 of the 1995 NLDS, the Mariners were in a similar situation. That was a winner-take-all game, with both teams tied at 2 games apiece. The Mariners went from losing to winning on the last pitch of the game, but there were a couple of differences. First off, whoever won that series would've gone to the ALCS (as opposed to the World Series), and had the mariner who drove in the winning run made an out, the series would not necessarily have been over. In the Braves-Pirates series, had Cabrera made an out, it would've ended it.
I have no doubt in "The Great Beyond" Harry celebrated when the Cubbies won it all in '16 and Skip celebrated a few weeks ago when the Braves won it all in Houston. God bless them both for making baseball so much fun. Go Cubbies and Go Braves. ⚾️ 🧢
