Miss the years of the real ABC Sports with anchors Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell, Jim McCay, Frank Gifford, Al Michaels, and Chris Schenkel. Only Al Michaels is still alive today and now on NBC Sports since 2006.
@@johnmanier7968 No doubt you right. Seaver was traded the previous summer and the '78 Mets can be argued other than the '62 Mets was maybe among the worst in team history. That why I am surprised they got a prime time game at all that year.
I barely remember much about Monday Night Baseball...I remember a Twins/Yankees game in 1988? from the Metrodome the one and only Monday Night Baseball games I truly remember...but Saturday afternoon baseball was an absolute must watch every week
Actually Aaron I Think a prime time weekly MLB game especially from Memorial Day weekend-Labor Day was a great idea by the late 70s . However it should been say either on Friday or Sunday Night. Biggest issue is that back then, Monday(which still is true in 2018) during much of the season was the only day off for most MLB teams. Thus why ABC often got stuck with not the best match ups compared to Monday Night Football in the Fall. As most of you are aware, unlike MLB, the NFL went out of it's way to show the best games of the week on Monday Night circa 1978. Now it's Sunday Night for the NFL game of the week on NBC. ABC during their run sharing the MLB TV package with NBC between 1976-'89 really only carried the Monday Night and later Thursday Night games by the mid 80's from say early May-Mid September so they can show either the LCS playoffs (pre wild card)or world series every year which other than the super bowl back then was the biggest event on American sports calendar. Thus the lack of many sexy matcups of the late 70's i,e Reds-Dodgers, Phillies-Pirates Angels-Royals and of course Yanks-Red Sox on the Monday Night broadcast that usually instead went to NBC Saturday window., made ABC for most of this period feel 2nd class. Not to mention having a College Football Announcer Keith Jackson (he was very good in baseball but not a great one like college football)being the lead MLB announcer for the late 70's also made the ABC broadcasts not as good as NBC. Thus hopefully this brief history lesson Aaron explains the MLB on ABC period, especially the late 70's era.
