It was interesting to hear Dempsey’s take on Murray’s cutoff of Singleton’s throw to home in Game Two, which resulted in Ott scoring the winning run. I remember watching this game at the time and the resulting controversy but over time my memory become confused and I thought it happened in 1983. I just remembered that Eddie shouldn’t have cut off the throw. It’s great to see it again in its proper context. Thanks a lot for posting this great series!
A MUCH better game then, & before "Commissioner" Manfuck & the complicit owners began enabling & catering to the Attention Deficit fan base the past several years... Say hello to Major League Softball... 😡
This was the last game with the Pirates home white pinstripes. They wore all yellow in game 4 and black shirt, yellow pants in game 5. In 1980 they ditched the pinstripes and went with a plain white uniform that the team wore at home through 1990. The mix and match uniforms stuck around through 1984, which were their road uniforms. In 1985 they got a road grey jersey.
By far the best baseball broadcast team I’ve ever heard. The athletes today or not as good, that is for sure but the game back was much much much better.
I remember the rain delay and for rain delay programming ABC aired at least one episode of Barney Miller(Like what ABC did with Rosanne during the 1989 earthquake)
ABC changed play by play men for the weekend. Keith Jackson had done games one and two. Al Michales did games three four and five. Jackson did games six and seven. This way Keith Jackson could continue to do college football on the weekends.
I never liked the alternating year rule for the DH. Why not play AL rules in AL parks and NL rules in NL parks? That way guys like Lee May don't get benched the entire series.
Remember for the first three world.aweiws(1973-75) when the American League uses the DH the world series didn't use the DH at all.Using the DH in 1976 was a concession to the AL.
I think Earl's biggest failure as a manager was not adapting to National League ball. Playing for the big inning works in the DH dominated AL, but in a pitching dominated NL, you have to manufacture runs from time to time.
@@Bob31415 To be fair, nobody was going to beat the Mets in '69. The '71 series could have went either way. The '71 team was a good team that was getting old fast. The '79 series will burn Orioles fans forever. Lost in the conversation is the fact that after the fourth inning of the fifth game the Orioles simply stopped hitting. Murray and Singleton kept trying to crush the ball and either struck out or popped out more times than they'd care to count, while the Bucs played smart baseball, made very few mental errors, and executed when the game was on the line. If only the Orioles had Kent Tukulve on their roster that year.
@@zephead843 What you say is true. I'm not sure why Baltimore was heavily favored in '69 against the Mets. Earl Weaver did get a ring in 1970 (I own a replica and it is the most beautiful of that era in my opinion) but they choked in '71 and '79. Now many will disagree with what I am about to say but I think there was an intangible factor working against the Orioles in the two World Series against the Pirates and that was Earl Weaver's personality. He was too uptight and that uptightness filtered down to the players. The Pirates and their fans were as loose as a bowl of spaghetti when they were down 3 games to 1 because Chuck Tanner had a laid back personality. I have seen first hand how a leader's personality affects those under them for better or worse.
It's so stupid saying the no designated hitter devastates Baltimore because Lee May isn't playing. Well Easler or Milner would be playing for the Pirates if they were so, so what?
