I'm a red Sox fan and this was one year I wouldn't have minded the Yankees taking the title... After all that city went through that year. Heck rivalry is out the window once tragedy strikes. Those three games in NY were amazing though and the people there deserved those three classics. To this day, this stands out as the greatest WS I ever witnessed. Yankees were outslugged, out hit, and out pitched and still pushed it to 7 games and came within three outs of pulling it off. Hats off to both teams that year.
Man the intro and especially jesse mcguire doin the national anthem the way he did, still gives me goosebumps, still chokes me up a bit. That was beautiful, fitting for such a great series.
Yeah, I've heard the same guy once or twice before (or after?) seeing some Phoenix Suns games inside the America West Arena or U.S. Airways Center (back when the Talking Stick Resort Arena was named one of those names), and he always does great things with the trumpet there!
All loyal d-backs fans will and never should forget this season. In order to be a diehard though, you must also remember 2004 just as fondly as this season. Go D-backs! Even as I watch you lose 90 games again this year.
This is my favorite World Series ever. I think it's the only World Series where baseball went back to there old school roots. That was probably because of 9/11. Fox use to make the post season and World Series feel like it was the biggest game. I don't know why they changed after 2008 I think it was. Does anybody else notice the MLB post season and World Series coverage is not the same now as it was in 2001?
Honestly I just searched World Series game 7 and this was the first result from 2001 out of like 50 results.. wayyyyy underrated World Series and definitely the best of all time. Couldn’t script a better series! The Cubs/Indians wasn’t nearly as good
This was, in my opinion, an absolutely perfect world series. Each team won all of their home games. A new young team vs the baseball dominant Yankees.. And it comes down to the bottom of the ninth with one last chance, how can you ever ask for a better world series then this? I was only 11 when it happened but I still remember it like yesterday, and I went to one of the Dbacks earlier home games in this series, like game 2 or something, and it was intense.
I Saw Dr Jessie in New Jersey this Summer at the 2014 USA Games Closing it was an unforgettable National Anthem one of the Best I ever heard in my Life Tears in my Eyes Flowed down my Face Because I Was Told In High School No I Couldn't Compete and No I couldn't have a Chance.. and I turned All Doubters in to Believers it Was one of the Greatest Weeks of My life and Dr Jessie Caped it off and I couldn't be More Blessed :)
steve finley lead the start off at bat. got a hit then jay bell got the winning run. This was probably the most epic WS win in history considering that it was against the Yankees, Mariano Rivera was a closing machine, and we were trailing by 2 runs. That's what made this World Series so special.
Bein a Die Hard Yankees fan This one Really Hurt But I never forgot the Tragic events that where unfolded in new york on September 11,2001 the Diamond Backs and My favorite Baseball Player Craig Counsell deserved to win that night but I think this world series for me will always be a heart break but if i had to loose to anyone I rather lose to Craig counsell and his team but looking back on game 7 it was just a great series between two great teams...
best world series of all time. too bad i was too drunk to really understand the greatness of game 7 at the time. but i was in phx and watched with fans in a packed bar, which was awesome. we yelled in the streets and people honked their horns. with the whole 9/11 vibe at the time just made it something that will never happen again. the feeling of defeating the yankees that year and fucking curt and randy at their prime in a WS game 7 that was won in the 9th inning by the man gonzo. never again.
Of course the country wanted the yankees to win, but if they would have won, the series would have been considered "stolen." In the series the Dbacks outscored the yankees 37-14, blew two save opportunities (both of which were 2 run leads), and held the yankees to a .183 series batting average (a 7 game series record). The yankees took the series to seven games in unbelievable fashion, but statistically were outplayed. Certainly would have been fitting for the yanks to win, but AZ earned it.
This was the greatest series I've ever seen. The Diamondbacks were huge favorites going into the series, and they dominated the Yankees in the first two games. But Games 3-5 were come from behind, emotional victories in New York after the 9/11 attacks. I was there for Game 5. There was a mom and his son crying in front of me after the Yankees won Game 5. Their father died on 9/11, a huge Yankees fan. The way Game 7 ended, against all odds, against Mo, was so fitting.
No such thing as a huge favorite in baseball, compared to other sorts anyway, that said, yanks were favorites going in, not only as 3 time defending champs but just handily beat a much better than dbacks Mariners team
@vorsdec Gonzo didn't ruin it for us. Tony Womack was the one who turned that whole series around with his double down the line to tie the game. I would argue that was the biggest, most significant hit in the past decade of baseball and nobody remembers it. That was the play that absolutely stunned me and crushed my spirit. Up until that point I thought we were going to win. After that I knew we wouldn't.
Even though my team the Yankees lost this is the greatest World Series ever played the emotion the drama the comebacks and the game 7 ending hit both teams played pretty good
The best World Series ever. before Boston created, 'Make history or We're History' that was the Yankees in this World Series but they failed with a 0-3 deficit and 3 years later with a 3-0 lead. It's not good to be the Yankees in game 7 situations
Despite the way this game ended (& despite my Yankee fandom), I don't look at this as a series that they let slip away. (My 11-year-old self certainly thought that they let it slip away, however.) The D'Backs were the better team throughout the series, & they should've won it in 5 games, anyway.
*****: I felt the same way when Soriano hit the home run (as far as who would win). Unfortunately, I was wrong. Since my parents didn't let me stay up to watch the end of the game, I didn't cry until I woke up the next morning & saw what happened.
*****: He was better against lefty batters, though (because of how his cutter would just completely tie them up). It just didn't work out in this game (which happens to everyone at some point)
Braves and Diamondbacks 2001 NLCS was a great game (Braves Fan) but the Diamondbacks deserved the world series cause they took the Yankees to a fight not a game but a Game 7 fight a true World Series. Curt took Clemens to a fight in the end but overall Great World Series my second favorite behind the 1995 series
@vorsdec The Yanks had already won 3 straight WS before 2001, so they had a good enough run. Granted, they came awfully close to winning 4 straight WS, but it was meant to be the Diamondbacks' turn in the end... :-)
@FOOSAG Hate to break it to you man, but Jay Bell actually scored the winning run for the D-backs. That's Craig Counsell next to Gonzo But, Counsell did score the winner for the Marlins in '97.
Basically if they cant make money off it they dont want it posted Yeah this brings back alot of memories, I live in Phoenix and cleary remember this game, and it was so cool to see this on RU-vid and I thank you. And It was cool to see the Jesse McGuire National Anthem on here after it got taken off here
probably the last great world series weve had in the last 10 15 years the type of clutch hitting and pitching...i still remember randy johnson pitching the ninth inning in game 7 24 hours after starting game 6
@Saboteur117 Agreed; it took us a long time to heal from 9-11, & we're still trying to do it 10 years later. But for those few weeks in October that year, we got to see some great postseason baseball, capped off with a fantastic World Series. It was a nice break from the horror & tragedy of 9-11....
The 1991 World Series (Twins-Braves) was in my estimation, the best World Series ever (or at least in my lifetime). It doesn't get the credit that it deserves I feel, because it didn't involve Boston, New York, Chicago or LA.
This world series probably had to be the highest tv rating of all time like a superbowl tv rating because it was a month after 9/11 and all the emotion frm the people weather you were a yankee fan or a dbacks fan or just a person wanting to get a way from the drama of 9/11 was into this world series. Those games at yankee stadium was amazing I remember watching those games in my mind I was like how do the yankees keep winning.
@naDarkHaze Agreed; but let's not forget, although the Diamondbacks franchise was only 4 years in existence at the time, they had a ton of veteran players as well( Randy Johnson, Schilling, Matt Williams, etc. )that knew all about postseason play. Plus, most of those guys hadn't won a championship before & were hungry to taste their 1st championship. But yeah, what a Series it turned out to be:-)
Even if the yankees didn't come out on top, still my favorite and the best world series of all time. Screw the big red machine/carlton fisk world series.
I also miss this pregame show of fox during the early 2000s. It had more energy and excitement. And with that music for MLB back then that was bad ass. you knew its was a big game. Now even last year game 7 with the rangers and cardinals it didnt get that same feel like in this video. Its like fox is lazy now they decide to go to the NFL theme music and pre game shows that feels like it lasts only for 5 seconds They need to go back to this.
@PeoplesWar That's what happens you go from an ownership who will open up the bank account as much as possible (Jerry Colengelo) to a guy who is scared to pay anybody a penny (Kendrick).
