No sports with covid-19. No sports to watch. So I’m really into the 1980 Phillies. What a team!! Great playoffs... I was only 8 so I don’t really remember that team too much. Hello wonderful Philadelphia from Redmond Oregon!
The 70's and 80's were an absolutely amazing time to be a baseball fan! Some of the best players have come out of those years. Carl Yaztremski(AL), Nolan Ryan(AL & NL), Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Gaylord Perry, the Niekro brothers, Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Steve Carlton, Steve Garvey, Ron Cey, Fernando Valenzuela, Ken Griffey Sr., Dave Concepcion, Dwight Gooden (until he crashed and burned!), Darryl Strawberry(another talent wasted!), Keith Hernandez, and so many more, and this is just the National League. The American League had just as many superstars like my favorite team the Brewers! Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglive, Moose Haas, Cecil Cooper, Pete Vuckovich, Rollie Fingers, Jim Gantner, Charlie Moore, and MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE Mike Caldwell! Then of course there's the rest of the teams and players like Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, Kirby Puckett, Reggie Jackson(ugh!), Eddie Murray, Craig Nettles, Thurman Munson(lost far too soon!), Kent Hrbek, and later Ken Griffey Jr. as well as many many many more. I spent most of the late 70's summers at Milwaukee County 🏟Stadium🏟 watching my Brewers play. The late 70's 78, 79, 80, 81, 82 were the most incredible times for me watching ANY SPORTS! The Packers Super Bowl wins are tied though! I got to see the Packers play at County Stadium as well. Those days were awesome! Those are the best childhood memories and experiences I had.
I was at this game back in 1980 when I was 16. Interesting to think now that I got to see Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Gary Carter and Andre Dawson play live. Also note that Steve Rogers pitched a complete game for the victory and it was he 14 complete game of the 1980 season. Different era in pitching.
A treat to acknowledge at 58:05, in the ad break for the middle of the 3rd inning is an Inside Sports Magazine ad featuring Muhammad Ali, who's wearing a moustache at this time. Ali, as this ad was aired was days away from taking a beating in Las Vegas from Larry Holmes, the penultimate bout of his career. Inside Sports had been publishing for less than 2 years, and didn't make it out of the 20th century, being absorbed by Sport Magazine in 1998.
The Expos finished one game back of the Phillies in the Eastern Division in 1980 choking in the final 3 game series. It shouldn't have been that close but this Expos team went 1-11 against the Dodgers that year! How the hell does a team go 1-11 against any particular team? Especially a team that one 89 games against all other opponents? It's really mind boggling.
The '83 Phils went 1-11 against the LA Dodgers in 1983 regular season then took them out in a 4 in the NLCS. Legend has it that Lasorda used this event but changed the names, people, places, and gave the story a happy ending to instill confidence in his '88 Dodgers against the Mets in the NLCS, at team it went 1-10 against in the regular season. It may have helped. The Dodgers won in 7.
Liking the copy Keith Jackson reads at 1:46 "Chevrolet, and your Chevy dealer, with Chevette, Monza, Citation and the new Monte Carlo. Chevy's up ahead for 1981." The Monza only sold for a few more months, as the "J" car or Cavalier was ready to come out in early '81. The Citation limped along until 1985, and the Chevette went on till 1987. Only the Monte Carlo nameplate persisted into the 21st century, and the car was on its fourth generation at the time of this broadcast. Then you get Keith in a beard, a rarity in my recollection of ABC Sports broadcasts.
Some of us had part-time jobs in our youth filling the gas tanks of those old rides, and enjoy the memory enough to mention our recollections. Others restore versions of these cars from this period and tour them around their region, or the nation. Thankfully, it's a smaller subset that snipe comments they could easily ignore, not being appreciative of the wifi connection they possess, which is functional, even though their owners live under bridges.
Love the old commercials like the one with Cosell and a mustached Muhammad Ali,..pizazz at 152:00! And the broadcaster says George Brett is not in the lineup today in KC. He needs to be rested. His average is down to .384.
if the phillies game was the national game, ot would not be shown on te local phillies affiliate with kalas ans ashburn. i grew up in south jersey. 76-83 was a great era in phillies baseball.
I absolutely despise the Red Sox and everything they stand for, but I always thought it was unfair that they lost that division title by a 1/2 game when they played one less game than Detroit. The schedule was messed up that year because there was a brief work stoppage right as the season started, and around 5 or 6 games were wiped out, depending on the team. It's a moot point, the A's would have mopped the floor with them in the playoffs, but it's still worth a mention. That would never happen today, those idiot fans would probably storm the MLB offices with pitchforks and torches.
Why is Steve Rogers the starting pitcher in almost every Expos game on RU-vid? I mean it's uncanny, there were other good expos pitchers at the time Rogers pitched but I never get to see them.
I am born and bred in South Jersey and Channel 17, The Great Entertainer, broadcasted Phillies games for years (WTAF 29 hosted the games in the early 1980s, then 17 took over again in the early 90s). Harry Calas was the best announcer in baseball.
WOW. WEZF before it became WVNY. The Expos and Phillies were tied going into the final series in Montreal the following weekend. The Phils won on Friday night and a Mike Schmidt homerun in extra innings won on Saturday to clinch the east. They would go on to beat the Astros in the NLCS and won the World Series (their first in franchise history) over the Royals.
This series was the lead story in the October 6, 1980 issue of Sports Illustrated which featured Gary Carter on the cover. www.si.com/vault/issue/70908/0 Another example of the legend of the SI cover jinx.
The SI cover jinx is a myth. How many times has Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Wayne Gretzky, Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Brett Favre, and Walter Payton been on the SI cover? As I recall they all had great careers.
Another example that the SI cover jinx is a myth was when Brooks and Frank Robinson (and Hank Bauer when the inside part of the cover was unfolded) were featured in 1966. By the cover date (October 10, 1966), the Orioles had become World Series Champions for the first time ever and Frank Robinson was the series MVP.
@daboys 1215: I remember the Saturday game. With long rain delays and extra innings, it lasted about 7 hours. My most vivid (and agonizing) memory is Bob Boone and his .220-something batting average tying the game with a 2-out single in the 9th. We were THAT close to a winner-take-all finale on the Sunday.
This date shown here of Sept. 28th, can't be correct, if the standings they flashed on the screen were any indication. All six teams shown had either played a 154 or 155 games, and if this is in fact a Sunday, as it says, and the date is correct, they'd have another week of regular season remaining, which including the games on this day shown here (Sunday), would be everyone's 155th and 156th games, which would leave a whole week left. I just assumed that regular season would end on this date shown here (Sept. 28th), which after the next day (Monday) off before starting the best of five Championship Series for each league, that the World series would start the week after that. But, there must be a week left here in the regular season, which would leave the six teams shown in this division playing six or seven games for the last week of the regular season.
The 1980 season went until Oct. 5 (see Baseball Reference). With only 2 rounds of playoffs -- lasting about 2-and-a-half weeks, instead of the current 4-and-a-half -- there was not the same urgency as now to wrap up the regular schedule by Oct. 1.
How does Carter not know who Don Drysdale is? Calls him "John". He grew up in LA lol. Expos lost in the last days in 79 and in 80. Rough. I still remember that Mike Schmidt home run on the last day of the season. Could have been Montreal winning those World Series and in 81 also. Ah well..
If I was at that game, I would have worn burgundy, head to toe. Then before getting to the game, I would be snarfing down some hoagies from Wawa! And then...during the game, would totally mack on a cheesesteak from Chickie and Pete's. You know the one. Near the right field stands. Yeah! And then, at the end of the game, I would have driven my burgundy 1980 Chevy Chevette over to get some Tasty Kakes. Would have scarfed those puppies down. Somewheres along the Blue Route. If you wanted some, but I already ate it, too bad for you. Woulda washed it all down with lots and lots of wooder. That's right, SpellChek! Wooder! Not "wonder." What are you? From Boston? Gotta have lots of wooder. After all, gotta stay healthy!
