Cubs-Pirates, Aug. 2, 1993 (6th inning, brawls and HRs) 

I can relate!

And the games was two hours-thirty long at the most.

Now you have to have a special cable package to watch Cubs games. That’s definitely a disservice.

As a 2001 baby, I used to have Superstation WGN in Florida I did watch some Cubs and White Sox little by little. Sad that it's gone.

The commercials are better than the game.

Rocky Theme LOL😀

Nice.

@@warriormvp bro the organist definitely started trolling.

...it's just like when a brawl breaks out in a western movie; the piano player tries to break up the fight with music.

1. The biggest distraction in the whole game. 2. Gary Pressey is an asshole (and a big snob), 3. Let us enjoy the game without operatic, tremolo bullshit. I hate anything and anyone that likes or needs attention/shows off. I hate show offs. This is why I don't go to the games/watch with the mute button on. Pressey must have a handsome retirement (he retired a few years ago).

True, but the "Let their Be Peace on Earth" hymn afterwards is slightly better! A staple of Catholic mass!

pre diversity was epic

good summer for movies too, jurassic park !

Best times on West coast when wgn was free in TV. Cubs games in the morning after breakfast

I started 8th grade

I miss it to great times great weather and no weirdos.

And an ump getting hit

@J.E. Carlson He was with the Braves during the 1993 season.

@J.E. Carlson I wasn't trying to pick a fight or anything. I deeply apologize.

@J.E. Carlson Apology accepted! We all have bad days every once in a while! 😆

@J.E. Carlson I live and breathe football year round! I played some football in high school as well! I'm a 49ers fan living in northwest Louisiana (which is home to mostly Saints and Cowboys fans)! As for college, I'm a diehard Texas Longhorns fan! 🤘

I feel the same way I graduated high school in 1991 Baseball was my life....I really miss those years

Also graduated that year. Was just finishing basic training when this game was played. A lifetime ago

I was summer ‘95. Great time to grow up.

You have to pay to wathch now

You're OLD and you graduated in '93? I graduated in 1982, so I guess I'm ancient. I have to remind people that, when I was born Johnson was US president. That's LYNDON, not Andrew.

Bet it made you a fan for life, didn’t it?

Met a chick whose first game was that John Lester gem that ended in an extras walk-off grand slam. I was amazed and said your first game was the greatest game ever and she was just like Meh. Baseball has no chance. Yet here I am watching this after a long extra inning dart all game last night at dart all league. Aha

😂😂 I was there too, one of my college teammates had gotten called up a couple weeks before and a bunch of us were sitting down the first base line, hammered, I'll never forget that game 😂.

Except baseball.

@@joeversgrove7129 you married her?

I was thinking the same thing. The commercials are the hidden Gems of youtube!!!

Same here! 😀

Yes!

So true!!

I was 3 around this time lol 1993

They don’t do that nowadays during baseball fights, this whole comment section is just shitting on modern baseball for stuff that doesn’t happen

That’s Stoney for ya

@@unit-0123 amen. Couldn’t agree more. But this is the sad state of the RU-vid comments section: everyone has to project their insecurities and paranoias into every damn video here. The lines “ah the old days” and “what happened to America” are the most tired lines in the RU-vid comments sections. I remember the old days...when life expectancy was early 60s. Anyone longing for the old days is welcome to check out when they reach 62.

Gary Pressy, absolute legend. He's done every game since '87.

Lmao

Gary Pressy was a fine organist. However, Nancy Faust, on da Soudt Side at Comiskey was even better. She was the very first baseball organist that started getting organ “commentary” into the game. Ernie Hays in St. Louis gets an honorable mention in this regard, but Nancy was far more clever and prolific!

@@OldRustySteele Eddie Layton in Yankee Stadium was one of the greatest too. And he could work in some clever punchline bits too with song titles (Once after a brushback pitch he did "Don't Fence Me In")

@@epaddon Ah yes, I hadn’t thought about Layton. Much like Nancy Faust at Comiskey Park, he would weave musical puns or other musical references into the mix!

People really drank that swill??

I was going to college for my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon in '79 - '80, the year that the Pirates won the World Series, and then, a few months later, the Steelers won the Super Bowl. Both times the city erupted into a spontaneous, all-night party in the streets. It was really cool being there for both celebrations! Oh, and we all definitely drank Iron City beer at the time. Great memories!

@@thegoose0m1 Jesus is the way, the truth, the life.

@@thegoose0m1 I was born April of 80 right after Steelers won, still in moms belly 😂 though dad, her n family had fun.

unhitch the trailer!

@Mark Grace but a pitchout for even an average catcher nails Grace with any kind of decent throw.

Amen Jonah. Huge Grace fan and that shocked me. I do not remember this game from back in the day. XD

@Mark Grace That's what I was going to say. The pitcher was not paying any attention to him. I guess him stealing the base messed with his head and Steve Buechele hit one of his 15 home runs off him.

And with a very sloppy and hesitant slide at that!

There was a ton of fighting in baseball that year

Ventura got his ass kicked big time.

John Peters : yeah, I was at that game too. Also I was at the pine tar game, Yankee stadium. George Brett was one pissed off player.

Sir, how nice was your experience at Wrigley Field for the first time? I hope it was a very nice fling for you. And you got a like!

@@jeffreyjohn2037 I was at gehrig's last game and bobby thompson's shot.

​@@abitoutside1973 I was at the game when Billy Williams hit his 300th home run in 1971; I was 12 and it was my first MLB game. As I was watching it, I thought it was curving foul. That was also my first taste of ballpark food and my first Italian Beef sandwich. Priorities.

​@@jeffreyjohn2037 I've never seen a player as mad as Brett that day. Nitpick-y umpires. I also never saw Brett move that fast before. He wanted blood.

Ken Hemphill I hate that about today's telecasts.

I had forgotten what it was like to see the game:)

I like to know the score tho and what inning

What do you mean? You don't think we should know each batter's favorite 3rd Grade school subject, or how many times the home plate umpire has farted this month?

@@slyjokergLOL! You're not a Tim McCarver fan, are you?

Steve and Harry

It's a Shame he made those remarks On a Hot Mic it cost him Big-time Ended his Career

@@donarthiazi2443 Harry was great with the Cards and very good with the Sox. But he had become a slobbering caricature by the time he came to the Cubs.

What effects are used in televised baseball these days?

@@donarthiazi2443 when a players name comes up he is moving around that type of stuff

Try BS Pitch Clocks. Useless time consuming replays.......

​@@donarthiazi2443The 10-15 second ads the show picture-in-picture when there is a mound visit OR even just in between pitches.

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Steve Buechele reference for the win

I loved, the yellow, black, yellow and black,

Steroid change the player! Lot took to it for injury. But long run was a bad idea!

Sosa smoked that ball. Roids or not in 1993. Players also were wearing tight uniforms in the 90s. By the time Bonds was hitting 73, everyone was wearing big baggy pants. Guys were bigger and also wearing baggy uniforms.

Thery were also smoking cigs and drinking after the games.

Sosa before he started juicing.

He was, just on radio. He called the middle three on WGN radio while Thom, and before him Dewayne Staats and Milo Hamilton, came over to TV.

​@@buckeyeschmave I remember when Lou Boudreaux and Jack Brickhouse would make a similar swap.

Harry woulda been doing with Santo

This was back when the cubs always played their home games in the afternoon

I LOVE THEM. It lets us relive that previous area in a complete way. Celebs, advertising, graphic design, music... it's always fun.

Lol your Chicago is a disgrace to humanity. How many deaths a day due to gang violence? Delusional

I love my City 2

It's not Ryan it's Ryne 😆

He was my favorite player ever.

He was my favorite player/idol since 1983. I live in TX and went to Wrigley when they retired his number after he was inducted into the HOF. I wasn’t going to miss that day.

@@jasonhicks800 sounds good I wished I could of been there that really sounds awesome Sandberg to me is the best second baseman to play the game of baseball !!!

John Gowler Gehringer was the best.

The land of the free.lol

Hey, batter batter batter batter SWING batter!!!!

I thought about Ferris, and co., whilst watching this clip.

He also was a gold glover. He's my favorite all time Cubs 1st baseman.

Mark Grace’s cousin was my English teacher in high school. She was so chill and beautiful. Everybody had a crush on Ms. Grace.

​@@DavidRobinson-wy7lx uh.... ok bud

Me too my Phil’s were the best I was 13

Steve Stone is a hall of famer. Harry Caray would take the 4-6 innings off at this point in his career. They should have waited an inning.

"JUUUUUUUST a bit outside."

No one cares

@@wonkxete Yet you watched the video & decided to be weeny & comment on it. 🙄

​@@Hagfan789He means no one cares about you.

Shawn Gregory thx man, that made me laugh.

He's thin. Pre-roids.

Gee Em and 30/30 season that year 🤷🏻‍♂️🔥

Ahhhhh 30/30 son FOH lol he was also young as hell. 98 was about 5 years later . Cmon now ..... all MLB players were cheaters ... Ruth, DiMaggio, Koufax, etc were all on some roids imo

@@hushg2000 Ruth was on hot dogs

Yep. When I used to watch Pirates vs Cubs, I knew I could count on some sweet double plays courtesy of Rhino and Grace of the Cubs, and Bell, Garcia, and the first baseman of the Pirates.

*Sandberg

*Ryno

He sucked, that apology didn't get his job back; and nobody been knocking his door down since to hire his arrogant ass, little twit. Nepotism got him a broadcasting job in the first place; was glad when the Cubs got rid of him, they knew he was crap.

And there's a swing and a drive, home run for Nick Castellanos

I'm guessing that you love homophobes and racists

I was thrilled for Grace when he won the 2001 World Series with Arizona and against the Yankees no less!

Most hits in the 90's

Gracey was the best.

No batting gloves? Wow, that IS a pure hitter!

Not to mention a slump breaking strategy that’s awesome.

I noticed that lol well played organist....well played

Hahaha....genius.

And then as the fight breaks up, the organist plays "Let There Be Peace On Earth".

How to prolong a brawl!!

Gary Pressey is great

I couldn't wait to read the Sunday paper and see all the players stats. I knew ever player at every position.

Brawls aren't that cool. But his voice is silk

I loved those days. My Dad was a die hard Braves fan,and taught me to be one too lol, and despised the Dodgers...I have a pic when we went to the HOF of him flipping off a Dodgers display, and he was in LA and stopped by Dodger Stadium just to take a leak on it lol....he hated it when they re-did the divisions....he tried to hate the Mets with the same zeal, but it just wasn't the same😂

I thought the same

I thought I was the only one. Don't crowd the plate, you know?

If a pitcher can't control his pitches he should not be a pitcher. Thus these guys all have good control they ARE hitting batters on purpose no question. You can't be successful as a pitcher unless you have very good control no matter how hard you throw. Take it from me I am a pitcher walking people will get your team in trouble everytime.

@@robredeyedpumpkin4212 get off your fucking high horse. Everyone is just human. The ball can get away even from big league pitchers.

@@robredeyedpumpkin4212 dumbest comment ever,you dont know shit about basseball,Keep watching TVsoaps

lol Lonnie Smith, of Braves fame, and Randy Myers of the NAsty Boys fame, and Eric Yelding , the guy that I think Rob Dibble almost killed when he made the mistake of charging the mound on Dibble in the 90s.

@@peterf.229, I was at that game in Cincinnati when Yelding charged the mound. I was sitting behind home plate about 6 rows up and could see the radar gun. When the ball went by Yelding the gun flashed 101.

@@peterf.229 the fuck you talking about? Eric Yielding tore up Rob Dibble when he charged him. I remember watching that game live.

Why National League Ball Club, Inc. and not Chicago Cubs?

Travis Monk, I started reading your comment precisely at the same time when the announcer started saying it. It was freaky!

You took my comment away, I also have it in my memory. This is awesome.

And we're breaking all those rules listed by watching this on RU-vid

Ed Madrid yep I remember these days in the early 90’s

I remember when I lived in Canada I watched about 80 Cubs games a year on WGN. I was almost forced to cheer for them.

Cubs aren't on WGN anymore. It's an outrage. Ricketts bought his own station, Marquee Network. End of an era.

J Gunn you got to when you have no pitching

No, buechele never won a gold glove, Dawson's last year with the cubs was 1992. He was in Boston in 1993.

Epic comment lol

😂😂😂

I know right

jurgostuff lmao s-rods the best though

Ridiculously funny!

😆

I met Yodh Kawano in the 70s. Gave me a game used New Era cap. Boy, was it game used.

that's what winners from Harvard greatness and Beverly Hills millionaires who do play by play currently for the San Diego Padres and WON this very game as the pitcher of record look like in person who are 6'6" strong ! ") BOB SCANLAN #30 ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ God bless ♡ everyone ♡ ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Terance The Indomitable one of the reasons baseball has changed a lot since then its because of players going on strike they have their unions. But it blew up in their faces because us fans weren't going to the ball park and there were a lot of loses. So MLB decided to interleague which I don't like but the idea was that fans go out and see their team go against another league for instance in my case Mets vs Yankees its the ultimate match up. Anyway players have unions and don't want to be abused like any other job. But us fans are like whaaat they make millions of dollars. Baseball has changed because of the player having rights. Last time they went on strike I no longer wanted to watch my team, but little by little I came back. I think today's players are a bunch of sissies if iam not treated right iam going on strike.

"when baseball was great" You mean when it was full of juicers and cheaters?

FawkesMuldarr some are still getting juiced last year some were suspended it doesn't end. But loved your comment made me laugh. These players will do anything to be on top.

There was no YT back in 1993, but I'm sure someone back then thought this sucked in favor of 60's era baseball.

Yeah, then the next year they cancelled the last third of the season and all of the playoffs over money. Ruined the fuck outta baseball.

HaHa Robin Williams / Kurt Russell

Trey Warnock Leyland was a f---g drunk.Usually hammered at the games.

​@@timdansfield9177 A lot of managers were sauced, big deal.

The announcer even called him out. Lol

Lol BRO

I think Sosa would have creamed that pitcher. I think it had more to do with him suddenly realizing he wasn't surrounded with teammates and any acts of aggression were front and center on him not part of some chaotic melee.

@Douglas Seeley dude that happened in the Kingdome....meth is a hell of a drug smh

@@luvfreedom1470nah. He pussed out.

This lifelong Dodger fan from LA, always loved the great Vin Scully announcer saying in his dulcet tones..."And now, we have a DONNYBROOK on the field!" LMAO, lots of pushing and shoving, and cursing...but no Ali vs Frazier blows given...unless you count Nolan Ryan slamming White Sox Robin Ventura's head, when he played for the Rangers as an old man! he took Ventura to school, and Robin was much younger when he charged to the mound. Everything else is just a...Donnybrook...as Vinnie called it...pushing, shoving, name calling..

Hold me back! Hold me back! Ya'll get up here, you suppose to hold me back!

Jorge Johnson ...I wonder why Sosa, stopped running to the mound?

it's Thom and he sucks now but this was 25 years ago.

coylio33ify you read my mind. Him and his dad.

ronald black he realized there weren’t any roids there.

@@ronaldblack1902because he is a fake tough guy.

I have a video (VHS) of a documentary of the 1966 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles. Lefebvre was intense then as well.

Still wasn't as far as Kingman's Moonshot.