After a (slightly) strike-shortened 1995 season, the World Series returned with a match-up of the miserable: Cleveland embodied baseball irrelevance for over 40 years, while Atlanta’s awful and empty decades of pro baseball had the honor of a national broadcast. Then the 90s hit, and Cleveland built baseball’s best offense, while Atlanta’s starting pitching dominated the sport. One franchise had a chance to end decades of misery. The other one? Well, maybe that city would win a Super Bowl? (lol)
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I'm a lifelong TV metro-Clevelander (suburbs) and I already had the pro championship I wanted. The 1994 Cleveland Crunch.
As the creator and host of the Nordonia Open, I was probably the loudest pro-Crunch media voice outside the radio station that carried Crunch games (1420 WHK) I was talking about them in 93, their first year in the NPSL after a few year revival MISL revival.
The Crunch was the Cleveland team of the 90s, and how did they get rewarded, 2 sudden death sessions away from 1st to out of business. That,'s worse that the Chicago Bull's First to Worst.
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Day 14 : Can you pls do The 2005 CL final deserves a deep rewind and you should also do one on Troy Deeney's last minute goal against Leicester in the semi-finals of the Championship Play-offs in 201
No mention of Joe Brinkman's 10ft x 10ft strikezone in game 6.
I can say my dad has told me story’s he was at that game and he said it’s was the Braves 2021 tittle ment to me the end of suffering I was never able to say my team had won a tittle in my life and now being an all Georgia sports fan does not suck as much I have Georgia winning national titles the hawks make the playoffs every year it feels likes and the falcons are improving and the Braves are the best team in baseball
Justice loved Cleveland so much that he went there next in 97 lol.
Im not sure you'll ever see a staring pitching rotation like that ever again. 3 HOFs pitching back to back to back? Im actually impressed Cleveland was able to take it to 6 games.
I was really little when this World Series happened so it didn't hurt that much when we lost however 97 and 2016 hurt a lot
Im a braves fan but i respect the indians not the guardians the indians
It is incredible to see how the current group of Braves have a chance to go on another absurd run of success. They honestly were a few lucky plays and injuries from already having at least 2 titles and 3 NLCS appearances in the current run(no reason we should've blown that '19 NLDS, and we win the 2020 NLCS and possibly WS with a healthy Soroka in the rotation).
You should do an episode on the 96 Olympics women's gymnastics team finals.
A collapse video on the late 90s-00s Braves would be Pretty Good
That 95 Indian lineup was scary!
Secret Base should do a video on the 2021 Braves ending their two decade title drought. Below .500. Lost multiple stars due to injury but turned it around at the trade deadline by adding Rosario, Pederson, Duvall, and Soler. That 2021 Braves postseason was a magical run nobody saw coming!
Another day hoping they do a rewidnd on the 2021 WS.
Little 12 year old me was there game 6 with my old man, who grew up in Cleveland. One of my favorite memories.
Viewer, it does not
Bookmarking this and the call of the cubs winning the WS of joe buck in the both for after Cleveland finally hopefully wins one. Eh who am I kidding?
Strike zone for Atlanta pitchers this games was… generous
I was 14 when this happened and I remember kicking and screaming on the living room floor because they finally did it
What's crazy, is that as good as the 1995 Indians' lineup was, the 1999 edition may have been even better. Unfortunately, that didn't didn't make it out of the ALDS thanks to Pedro Martinez getting any pitch that was within a foot of the plate getting called a strike when he threw out of the bullpen in Game 5.
Just hope the Cleveland baseball club can get it done once in my lifetime.
Also a seminal moment in baseball history as that was the final game done by the god awful baseball network.
I know it’s only a few months old but I’d love to see an Ohtani v Trout WBC rewinder someday
They could easily do this same video, but for the 2016 World Series.
If I remember correctly Clevelands bullpen blew 1 or 2 games in the ninth inning. I think i cried after they lost lol
Ron gant was underrated
Ok, I have the perfect topic for a deep rewind – chess! The double bongcloud-then-draw after 4 moves game between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura deserves a deep rewind! The whole history of the bongcloud and how it came to be and how it was adopted by one of the world's best players. The fallout from the draw, inspiring new tournament rules to disallow obvious draws. And the internet chess boom in general.
One day, we may have a deep rewind of Montreal-Vegas Game 6 of the 2021.
Maybe.
That Indians lineup was so stacked that Manny Ramirez was batting 7th in the order (he batted 6th in Game 6 because they had no DH in an NL stadium).
Thank y’all so much for using the skip Carey radio audio at the end
I was really pulling for Cleveland against the stupid cubbies in 16, I think I was the only guy in the bar not happy for the chicago scrubs. Hang in there Cleve your day will come.
Underrated World Series.
I don't know if the secret base folks know what the nickname is for the Cleveland baseball team.
We let our 7 year old son stay up to watch the games as they played late into the night. I’ll never forget him facing the TV, standing with his back toward my wife and me on the sofa, sobbing deeply after that last game. Then, to lose the 1997 series in the seventh game was unbearable. Painful memories for a young boy, indeed.
Wow, the pandemonium in the dugout after the catch is insane 😂
Ah yes, the War of the Tribes