@C Harris Also, the best team to never make the World Series. The 1906 Chicago Cubs also had 116 wins and made the World Series before losing to their cross-town rivals, the White Sox.
@@gretzkyan Born in '95. As I was getting into baseball as a kid, I watched the "My Oh My" 1995 VHS. Every. Day. I still have it sitting around somewhere.
Born in ‘96. Played ball in my front yard all summer with my brothers and the other neighborhood kids to the sound of Dave echoing out of the garage. This team were made of my childhood heroes.
I’m a British Mariners fan and I came over to a couple of games in 2000 and again in 2002 and sandwiched between my trips was the greatest season ever. I own this video on DVD and watch it every now and then and still get goosebumps.
Get ready to fly right over again because this season is sounding like 2001. Got the bullpen, got some hitters, speedy dee. We can take a lead and keep it which is what is so exciting.
C Harris lol I made this comment in a different time. Now the bullpen is a lot weaker, and the bats are colder. Other than that nothing has really changed so we have that 1st half of 2018 in us.
Watched this over and over and over again as a kid. Wore out the VHS until I found a DVD of this. This is real fun to revisit it the midst of the M's current run (13-2 at present). Oh, and I miss you so dearly, Dave. Wish you were here. My Oh My!
this was such an amazing season and story after the heartbreak of how the griffey/johnson/a-rod era ended, and then this team completely broke my heart in the playoffs. i was never a baseball fan like i was this season again.
Woah, this is on RU-vid?? I remember watching this over and over with my brother as a kid on VHS. Ichiro coming to Seattle was the spark this team needed, so sad that the club never put together a squad like this again. Happy birthday Ichiro, forever my favorite baseball player!
I like how Japan had a big influence on the Puget Sound Mariners seeing as the Northwest does a good amount of business with Japan. Teamwork between countries is very gratifying
Seeing safeco with playoff baseball just makes me hope that the current rebuild will work this time. Mariners fans deserve to root for a good team again. And I think we are on the right track to do that
I'm a diehard Red Sox fan living in Seattle. I was there for the 2001 Seattle Mariners. What a team! One of my most loved baseball teams in my life time. On top of all that, Dave Niehaus was a greatest baseball announcer ever! No one comes close! Their playoff exit was heartbreaking.
Add to the fact they never recovered from this Four games away from going to the World Series to missing the playoffs for 20 years and counting Talk about a fall from grace
i felt so bad in the late 90’s when i seen a lot of former Mariners wearing yankee jerseys. then the 2001 season happened and my opinion of catering a team around one superstar changed forever. A Team Wins Games, and a superstar will only sell a few more tickets at the home game. We need to win games, always. 🥰
Wasn't even born when this happened, hopefully after this offseason we can put together a team that can do anything near this special. * (16:14) Patrick Mahomes dad pitching for the Rangers
That's amazing! I was 21 that year and here I am at 42 with the M's poised to make the playoffs again. At that point I just assumed we would be in the playoffs for years to come. So don't take it for granted! Enjoy this team, go out and see em. I got to see junior, Edgar, randy and company back in the day. We've got a new crop of stars. Go out and see then because you never know.
@@weirdbeard1980 The M’s would prove to be a pretty good team over the next two years, probably on par with the teams you can expect to see in the fifth or sixth seed now but wouldn’t make it in 02 or 03. Side note: The AL in 02 had six teams with 93 wins or more. That’s a lot at the top. Then the Mariners showed their age in 04 and bottomed out, and would proceed to have probably the worst ten year stretch they’ve had since their expansion years over 2004-2013. After improving a bit in the mid 2010’s, and missing the playoffs by a few games or less twice, the M’s did a full rebuild in 2019, and have now had back to back 90 win seasons, and another playoff appearance. Say what you want about how good they’ve been, or what you expect of the Mariners going forward, but it was cool to see them in the playoffs again, and 2022 was a wild ride.
I was at that game when halama gave up 6 runs in the first couple innings against Texas. I'll never forget that game. Ryan Franklin came in with the bases loaded and no one out, shut down the rangers in that inning without giving up another run and then Booney went off!!! Our pitching staff didn't give up another run and every time Boone came up he smashed the ball and knocked in runs. I was there that day and it was one of the best mariners games I've ever seen in person.
the worst part about this team was not losing to the Yankees it was that ken Griffey jr and randy Johnson were not part of this great team they kept them they probably would have beaten the Yankees and won the world series
If 9/11 hadn't happened I firmly believe this team would of won the world series. It made baseball seem insignificant and the M's looked like a different team when they came back. I still love this team though. Been a fan since 84' and I've stuck by em through all these years. Through all the disfunction, the 100 loss seasons, the "almost made it to the playoffs"...still love my mariners.
@Lighthouse in the Storm sports is scripted eh? You clearly never played high level competitive sports. You can't script professional level sports. I was a competitive level athlete for 15 years. But please, explain how a baseball game can be scripted.
Feel like I'm about to start watching this daily like I did when I was 8 🤣 Dave Niehaus' narration is making me tear up though. 😓 RIP Dave. I'm sorry we haven't won a World Series for you yet.
Guess what, baseball fans. For the 1st time since 2001, this year, the Mariners made it to the playoffs, but almost. They're in the wild card spot. This the 2nd time they have a wild card berth this year while the 1st year was back in 2000.
As an A's fan, of course, I hate the Mariners. Rivalry requires that lol. But 116 wins is fucking ridiculous. That was an amazing baseball team. I mean, the A's won 102 games and finished 14 games out of first place! We went 94-42 after May 1st and never got within 8 games of first place. So after we got our hearts pulled out in that 2001 LDS, I was REALLLLLLLLLLLLLY hoping this juggernaut Mariners team could get it done. But having watched the struggle they had with Cleveland, I kinda had a bad feeling. Losing those two games at Safeco told me the show was over...but you can't just be relegated to another team when you win 116 games. Just incredible. Eventually, you'll get back to the playoffs and make noise.
Oh man this brings me back, i was a kid and in love with baseball. I went to safeco field on my birthday and spent the entire summer obsessing about the mariners. To bad they have sucked for the last 20 years.
THE WORST part of their current playoff drought is that in 2003-2004 they went 93-69 each season . This marks the ONLY time in the wild card era 1995-present a team won 90+ in consecutive seasons and still missed the playoffs. Under the current two wild card format 2012-present they wild have made the playoffs each season. In 2014 on THE FINAL day of season they needed a win at home and a Oakland loss at Texas to force a play in game for the second wild card. The Oakland/Texas game started an hour earlier then their game and so they found in the middle of their that Oakland won 4-0 at Texas, bringing even more heartbreak to the team because they were in total control of their game. In 2018 they blew a ten game lead for the second wild card to Oakland beginning in mid june. Lost the second wild card to Oakland by eight games.
With a 116 game win total going into the playoffs,I figured the Mariners were a lock to win it all that season.Goes to show that anything can happen once the playoffs begin.
Agreed Winning records is great, but in the end you have to win the games that count the most Add to the fact that they had no answer after losing to the Yankees
Of course the only year Seattle was a real contender was in 2001, when they had to go against a post 9/11 New York team. Take a look at the Yankee pitchers strike zone vs. the Seattle Mariners strike zone. The whole world wanted New York to come on top, regardless whatever sport. And they did. Then people got bored and were ok with the Arizona win. Seattle would have destroyed whatever team the National team would have put forward.
@Lighthouse in the Storm Cleary I'm still sore about it lol, but I do have to say we were all in New York's corner then, and I cheered them on as much as anyone. It's just Seattle's dumb luck that it happened the one year they were unstoppable. And probably, they choked.
Mariners destroy the Yankees during the regular season but fall short to them in the ALCS....To win 116 and not make it to the world series must have been devastating to this team
Stupidest video ever. If Seattle had lost the ALCS to any other team they would've shown those highlights as well. They didn't show the ALCS highlights because they got whooped by the Yankees.
I’m an Astros fan, but this was the biggest postseason disaster in MLB history. 116 wins, and lost to the Yankees. After that, they didn’t reach the playoffs until 2022.
Shame they lost that game 162 at home to the Rangers, that prevented them from getting 117 wins, which would have been the most wins ever in an MLB season.
"116 wins for the Mariners! Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause they're not going to make the playoffs again for another 20+ years!" Imagine saying that in 2001. Who would believe you?
@Christopher Martucci yup people don't seem to understand the influence 9/11 had on that team. They had a whole city behind them and a urge to counter the damage done that day. They played for a city played possessed and as a mariner fan I accept and respect that
if you are in the mood for another documentary I found this looking at the wiki for the 01 world series. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l9aCMuwybRI.html
It's funny that Mariner fans are still dwelling about this.... They should be remembered for choking the playoffs then doing well in a silly regular season when a quarter of that team was on steroids
I love how they left out Clemens striking out 15 Mariners in Game 4 of the ALCS. I am not a Yankees or Clemens fan, but why leave out one of the best postseason starts of all time?
Wow, what's 2001 Mariner most remembered for is their failure. Winning 116 games in regular season and not winning world series, yet alone the American League championship series
@@mattbauder2725 this is kind of why i hate the playoff cause its just for dumb ass causally fan to watched like 12 games a season and think they know who is good.
The fact that this team didn’t win it all is the greatest tragedy in Seattle sports. We let the opportunity go. Fuck the Yankees! Remember 2001! Remember this when we finish rebuilding.......
Had it not been for 9/11, the Mariners would have easily beat the Yankees in the ALCS & DBacks in the WS. But this team had to push the Yankees in the WS as the city of NY was still hurting (it was just over 1 month post 9/11), & can you blame them for not being the team that ruined the hopes & dreams of NY''ers at the time? And none of the Yankees wanted any part of winning the WS when George Steinbrenner doubled down about having a parade going down the Canyon of Heroes, which was in the backdrop of Ground Zero. The optics would have been so horrible & for this I strongly believe is why the M's gave the Yankees the pennant, and gave AZ that WS crown. The M's are the real champs of 2001.
In 2022, the Mets will surpass the 1906 Cubs and the 2001 Mariners for the most regular season wins in MLB history with 117, win their 1st World Series title since 1986 and surpass the 1998 Yankees for the most regular season wins by a team that won the World Series for a total of 128, Pete Alonso will shatter Barry Bonds’ single-season home run record with 76, Jacob deGrom will shatter Nolan Ryan’s single-season strikeout record with 384 and Edwin Diaz will shatter Francisco Rodriguez’s single-season save record with 63.
Yeah and you forgot to mention that somehow the Mets will also manage to win 26 world championships in only 1 season surpassing the Yankees in total World Series won. Please try to let us know when the drugs wear off so we can welcome you back to the planet Earth.
