Funny you set it up thr way you did, about choices like this. In 1990 I was visiting my brother in Texas and we went to Arlington for 2 days, one was for Six Flags, the other was going to be baseball. It's August and 100+ both days, and we could choose which day we did which. Problem was the Rangers game one day was a double header starting midday (no day/night stuff back then). Did we want to sit in CF on metal seats for 6+ hours? But, I'd never seen a pro game in my 20 years at that time so, we decided to do 6 Flags the next day. Didn't know G1 would be Ryan pitching, so, total surprise (my brother didn't have a newspaper sub, which is how you saw probables those days). G1, Ryan pitches 10 innings (diff era clearly) and in 10th inning, first pitch we could still hear it pop in the CF stands as it hit catcher's glove. 10 shutout innings of 3 hit ball, no walks, with 15ks, in a game that went 13 in a walk off win - Kenny Rogers got the win in relief. I'd argue that's among his best pitched games of his career. Ryan was Paul Bunyan and Walter Johnson combined and a nice guy too. I'd have missed that for the Splinter Ride if we made a diff choice. Oh, and for a bonus, in the night cap, saw Charlie Hough at age 42 throw 9 innings in a loss and give up a dinger to Carlton Fisk that broke the all-time HR record for catchers at the time. Best baseball day ever!!! Oh and the day at 6 Flags I got sunburned but also got to kiss a really cute girl on the log ride...so, best trip to Arlington in history?
"...because when it came to figuring out what position Don Money played for the Milwaukee Brewers, whoever put together the All-Star ballot wasn't exactly on the Money."
12:21 My reaction to Alec Martinez's 2OT goal vs. NY Rangers as NBC aired Games 1, 2 and 5 from LA and NBCSN aired Games 3 and 4 from NY. NBC made the biggest mistake, by not airing Game 4, and air Game 2 instead after their coverage of "Belmont Stakes." Along with missing a Tetris crash livestream from MylesTheGreat.
It would be good for JG to realize that he can just provide context without an extended announcement that he is going to provide context. One day it may happen.
Some decent pitchers just can't find success in New York: Doyle Alexander, Ed Whitson, and Steve Trout, who pitched back-to-back shutouts with the Cubs in 1987 before being traded to the Yankees and going 0-4 with a 6.60 ERA.
As a Tigers fan, F John Denver lol. Kidding. Silly shit happened between celebs and sports teams all the time. But John Denver was a good enough guy. He’s a fan of another team, let’s move on. Lol.
ESPN switched telecasts, due to a possibility of Nolan Ryan not playing that day. ESPN2 didn’t exist, back then. ESPN2 also aired extra NBA and NHL games.
Hello. Future baseball fan and Dodger watcher here. You thought this story was wild? Wait until you hear the one about Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter...
He was one pitcher i didnt want the yankees to go out & get i knew he would be a problem for the yankees instead of a plus 1982 was just not a good season for the yankees and he was not the solution he was bombed everytime he pitched one of the worst player the yankees ever had
True, they were 35-5, but then they came to play my city's Seattle Mariners at the Kingdome and the M's swept the 3-game series. I remember the (Sunday May 27, 1984) final game of the series, where many fans brought brooms.
That was me that missed the ball. If you want to know what happened it was that the ball split the top yellow seam of the padded wall and it hit the rail behind the pad and went back on the field. The reason I was stretching for the ball instead of going to it was that those were stairs going down to the tunnel. I had already fell down those stairs a week before getting a Dave Justice home run. So I didn’t feel like falling down those stairs a second time. I had three television sports news interviews that night a front page news article in Sun Sentinel the next morning and four radio interviews the next day including one with Hank Goldberg and Al Downing. I always thought I would play in the pros but got hurt. So I did get my 15 minutes of fame!!!
Yeah, I remember this. I was bummed. It tarnished my opinion of Denver a bit. Although, I thought I remembered Denver actually saying he didn't like the Tigers. I see I was wrong.
Never heard a word about this, Believe this in 1984 the Tigers were our sports obsession and I'm quite suprised . Denver made some great music, but I could see the Tigers finding a new tune considering the "rival" narrative at the time. But Tigers fans true rival was always the New York Yankees they were the standard you measured your team to then there was everyone else period.
The guy who asked for the autograph was named Gary Perone,he was from my hometown Staten Island,and according to NYT, didn't accept his apology,as he claimed it came from the organization and not Hayes. Mariano Duncan apologized for him during the altercation
martinez was right, offense is about the last thing you judge a catcher on and looking at the stats goff was much worse defensive catcher, so much so that the expos never played him at that position in the future.
The first eight minutes consists of saying the Tigers played the song during the fifth inning and that John Denver liked the Orioles. Get to the point!
The Mets were oversaturated on both ABC Monday Night games & NBC GOTW Saturdays in this era. I get it, huge market & The Mets were actually a very good team from 1984-90
