Those were the DAYS! I miss the late 70's and 80's! The Phillies were one of my National League teams. I am a die-hard Brewers fan, and 1978-1982 was a BANNER time for me as a kid! I collected Baseball cards and Mike Schmidt was a LEGENDARY HITTER! The Phillies had some great players. Steve Carlton was one of my favorites. I'm a lefthanded thrower, who wanted to pitch, but didn't have it. Mike Caldwell was my favorite player during his time in Milwaukee. At the end of the 1978 season he gave me his game worn home cap. The Brewers had separate Home and Away caps back then. The MB logo was the same on both but the home cap was all blue, and the away cap had a yellow front V above the visor. That day was the most EPIC and AMAZING day of my life. It was a week before my 11th birthday. What a present! Anytime I see games from the MLB from these time periods I watch and give my viewing support. I subbed as well, so any Baseball you have I'll be watching! THANK YOU! And major RESPECT AND LOVE to all your pro teams. Philly has a great tradition. 👍
@@Brooklyn3955 no analytics,no launch angles,no exit velo,no bullshit nonsense stats,no pitch counts,just good old fashioned announcing, baseball,..then u have today's slop announcers who are politically correct, spitting out meaningless stats non stop,sreamin on every play,hype hype,like guys like Michael Kay as an example of the Yankees n the ESPN discusting crew
Keith Hernandez in a Cardinals uniform. He'd be a Met before they stopped using this opening. Also the then-brand new annouce team of Ralph Kiner, Tim McCarver and Steve Zabriskie. This was McCarver's first Mets broadcast.
Really enjoyable to game to watch. Great pitching matchup between two veteran Hall of Famers. Being a Reds fan from way back in the 70's it was good to all of those ex-Reds with the Phils and Mets.
As a Mets fan, this game stands out in my memory from that time period, because of the excitement around Seaver's return. Thanks for uploading it! I hope to see more from Joe B's collection!
@MAN UTD i still like baseball more.....to tell you the truth soccer is boring to watch baseball too....but when it gets to the post season it's awesome
@M Soccer? Okay if you say so... 😃😀😄😁🤣😂😃😀😄😁🤣😂 Reality? It's BORRRRRING! Like watching cars rust! Or grass grow! Or smelling a fart. You don't realize how bad it really is, then💥BAM!💥 YOU REALIZE IT STINKS.....BAD! Kick...run.....kick.....run more.....kick......💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 GOALLLLLLLLL! Wakes up? Huh? What? 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 LMFAO!
Matt F. You are so right!!! Can’t stand baseball today for that reason. The fucking announcers today start giving you their pitch count midway through the first inning. Today’s game is a joke
He was great on the Met's games!! The 86 season was really fun and great to watch. What a team. And I remember listening to Tim on all of those games on the great WWOR channel 9!
Born in '64 I became a fan in '69. This means the Mets were terrible for pretty much my entire childhood. This team here made me really stoked about the Mets again, mostly because we got back 3 of my favorite Mets...Dave Kingman Tom Seaver and Rusty Staub. We didn't do great, but by the end of the season you could feel this team starting to turn a corner.
After watching this wonderous memory when i was 21 yrs and going to alot of games with my younger brother 14yrs that year 1983 we got to know Bill Monbouquette and Frank Howard whom gave me the opportunity of having all the METS sign two paintings i did, one with the field of Big Shea and the other with the words "We Want A METS Penant" Plus a letter i wrote to him Mr. Frank Howard in mid-July of a line-up that Mr.Howard Had done earlier in telling him that Mookie Wilson needed to bat at the ball not swing at it. Well with that line-up the METS played better and with the message i know the METS enjoyed us fans communicating with them. Of course Mr. Frank Howard had become the Manager after the removing of that Bambi - great move. At the ending of that memorable season 1983, we my brother and i waited to say "THANK YOU enjoy the winter "to Mr Frank Howard and Mr Bill Monbouquette. Mr Frank Howard looked at me and with his huge hand shook my hand and said to us my younger brother and i " THANK YOU very much you guys have a wonderful winter, get home safe." I'm now 59 yrs old and A METS FAN FOREVER SINCE 1971..... TWO GREAT GENTLEMAN VERY CLASSIC BASEBALL MEN, BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUERS WITHOUT A DOUBT...
Mike Howard would not appear in another game in the big leagues. How many times has that happened where a player starts on opening day never to be heard from again?
I remember this team well, they played my Orioles in the '83 Fall Classic and lost in five. I remember game 1 very well at Memorial Stadium when Joe Morgan cracked a dinger and the Phillies won.
Tim McCarver started a great run as Mets announcer and later became announcer for the NY Yankees and became great friends with Bobby Murcer doing the games together. When I think not the Great Mets teams of the 80’s it is described by McCarver as well as the NYY of 99 through the early 21st Century. RIP Tim and Ralph.
Was there for Tom Seaver's return to Shea. Great atmosphere as Seaver struck out Rose to start the game. Sisk got the win. Some mf's threw peanuts at my back.
@@danielamourose6361 Dont know if you're joking or serious, but I wear a turban as a Sikh and during that time there was alot of anti Muslim sentiment after the Iran hostage affair. Im not even Muslim but some people just wanna hate. Tarnished my memory of that day. No im not seeking therapy for that tho, lol.
@@ardie77 , I was just joking. You seemed really upset about the peanut throwing. I figured you just encountered run-of-the-mill assholes. I didn't know the back story about the turban. It sucks that you were targeted and it ruined your day. But as Mets fans of that time, weren't we used to ruined days? Lol
@@danielamourose6361 Thanks I appreciate that. Yes those were tough years to be a Met fan. The worst part is no one stood up for me! Ofc now u have cameras and more security etc. Still it was a rueful memory.
I liked when they had Bob Murphy,Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner,great combo of voices,as are Tim McCarver and Steve Zabriskie.Gary Thorne is also an outstanding announcer too.Now,when the Mets play at Citi Field,its Gary Cohen,Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling.Thorne and Steve Phillip's are the voice team when I played MLB 2K 10 and 11.
I remember, as a kid, thinking this is the worst intro ever. A met player gets thrown out at first at 00:14, lol. Of course, the irony is I believe that's Keith Hernandez at first, who later in 1983 would become a met.
Steve Zabriskie and Tim Mccarver were great announcers for the Mets. Fred Wilpon made a foolish decision by letting go of Steve Zabriskie after the 1989 season.
Is that what happened? I just assumed that Steve went on to bigger things. He was hired by ESPN for the 1990 season as one of their lead broadcasters for their delve into baseball.
I lost my old P baby blue hat still miss it, ya it's an official alternate uni. MN Twins will don them but now they have 9 versions of current unis. I think these with zips were specially made for cold weather.
If you notice that the time between pitches is around 10 seconds, no more than 15 seconds on average. Today’s game averages around 20 seconds between pitches, sometimes 25 seconds. THAT’S the problem with the modern game is you have more dead time (almost double) compared to 20-30 years ago. That is why these games on average are 3+ hours compared to 2 hours 30 minutes when this game was played.
Yeah but the average time adjusting your cup in the batters box was 1.5 seconds back then. Today, it's 1.6, but I attribute that to the live " balls" era.
So the Mets opening montage for the team included their own player making an out at 0:12 and diving and NOT making the catch at 0:39. Maybe I'm wrong, but I always assumed your videos should show your team actually doing something right.
I had given up my season ticket in 1982 but still went to several Met games in 1983, including this one. On the way back with a hardcore "Section One" (of the upper deck) fan, he said "The Tidewater team would clobber this team," and he was right. Still, they had Seaver back, George Foster, and Dave Kingman, so it was fun to watch. They did stink though. Went to a few games in 1984, one in 1985 (where they went down 2-0 in the first and scored three in the sixth to win 3-2), then never went back.
@@jimwerther The Mets loaded the bases with nobody out in the ninth,trailing by a run.Carman then got Rick Schu to make a diving stop at third,get to his feet,then throw to Ozzie Virgil for the force at home.Then Keith Hernandez hit into a bang bang DP with Tom Foley gunning out Hernandez by a whisker while being flipped by Backman at second.
@@rentslave One more question for the Philly fan... They never once mentioned here why Gary Maddox wasn't in CF. They didn't even mention his name. Don't tell me Bob Dernier was the starting centerfielder over Gary Maddox?
Can anyone tell me if I'm right or wrong on a statement?When the Mets had all their home games at Shea Stadium ,the p.a. voice was Alex Anthony.Maybe a different voice after.I loved when they had the magic hat with the apple coming out everytime a Met player hit a homer,be it a solo,two-run,three-run or a grand slam.I also remember the bullpen cars all teams had to bring the pitchers to the field.Did they get rid of them?
Is about the era where Cablecom of Fargo carried this channel as well as WTBS and WGN. Channel was dropped due to Turner but local affiliate picked up KMSP coverage for the Twins which was great. Timmy Mac was actually pretty good when paired with strict announcers i.e. Jack Buck, and I wonder later in the 91 WS when it was the worst kept secret that Rose was selling blow out of the dugout if his contribution to the CBS sponsored "Born Losers" where drastically jacked up company liability by associating nurses shooting up if Tim was referring to me personally regarding "just walk away", which I did and unfortunately due to later attorney misconduct resulted in the wrongful death of a former girlfriend who used to work as a baby icu nurse. And around the same time the State of MN also directed licensed attorneys to attempt to have me work in a heroin ring among other things. Great post and I hope the doc that took a leave following being required to engage in malpractice is also a baseball fan MN #66CV191699 et al.
Shame on the Mets for trading Seaver once. Shame on them for losing him twice. Mets might have won the division with Seaver in 84 and especially 85. I was just as angry when he was left unprotected in 1984.
2:12:22 ok I'll bite, and this may be on purpose an Easter Egg if you will, Sisk got a SAVE and may be missed on purpose by crew (Kiner likely was on radio). And argument that the black portion of the plate is not a strike, it's part of the plate and at least in softball if black part is hit it is ALWAYS a ball and I'm sure managers even back then could look and if no part of black was showing, it would give skippers ammo on not keeping plate clean. Even years later McCarver would bring that subject up out of the blue - crazy! Never made it to the bigs but I am sure somewhere Charlie Hustle after being called out looking at a pitch he thought was either inside or outside would lay the bat down in the box on where ball crossed plate and have the bat boy pick it up😊😊. The few folks I talked to who played town ball that is about the only way to get ejected without saying a word😅😅😅
LATER THAT SEASON DARRYL STRAWBERRY MADE HIS MLB DEBUT ONE MONTH LATER AND KEITH HERNANDEZ COMING OVER FROM THE CARDINALS FOR PITCHER NEIL ALLEN, THE FUTURE YANKEE.
...Turned this off after 1st inning ..!!!!That called strike 3 on Mookie Wilson was 5 inches off plate ...Then Kingman gets called out on a pitch 8 inches off Plate 23:54
I love Ralph too but, so far, I have caught two more miscues that can be added to his RUclips 'blooper reel" - referring to one sponsor as "US Today" (USA Today) and saying Seaver is one of a handful of pitchers who has "struck out 100 or more batters over" (was it?) "ten consecutive years" or "ten Years." He had to have meant "200 batters," unless I heard it wrong.
Howard Johnson is a good hitter,Ron Hodges is a good catcher.You don't have to be a perfect athlete , they try very hard,just like any other player.I believe the Mets PA voice is Alex Anthony.
@@seanmontgomery801 No, that wasn't Howard Johnson. Howard Johson wasn't on the 83 Mets team. That was Mike Howard i was talking about. Mike Howard was not a good hitter.
@@rafaelramirez1507 Of course it could be a bad slide even if he was safe. Why not? Hubie pulled his legs in. Anyway, without any clear replays neither of us knows for sure.
Best player in the late ‘70s, bar none. Back to back MVPs attest to that. 😎 [When I had posted the above, I was unaware about his passing. RIP, Joe. 😥]
Can you imagine going to a game and the starting pitchers are Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton? 640 wins between them. Today's starting pitchers are weak and not nearly as strong, well conditioned, and durable as pitchers in the days of Carlton and Seaver, and years before.
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Thank you RUclips. Legends like Tom Seaver never die because they're preserved here :)
They may be gone but they never will be forgotten!
Seaver, Carlton, Rose, Morgan, Schmidt and more. Such a different time back then. Legends.
I'm here after reading Bill Madden's book on Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life.
Those were the DAYS! I miss the late 70's and 80's! The Phillies were one of my National League teams. I am a die-hard Brewers fan, and 1978-1982 was a BANNER time for me as a kid! I collected Baseball cards and Mike Schmidt was a LEGENDARY HITTER! The Phillies had some great players. Steve Carlton was one of my favorites. I'm a lefthanded thrower, who wanted to pitch, but didn't have it. Mike Caldwell was my favorite player during his time in Milwaukee. At the end of the 1978 season he gave me his game worn home cap. The Brewers had separate Home and Away caps back then. The MB logo was the same on both but the home cap was all blue, and the away cap had a yellow front V above the visor. That day was the most EPIC and AMAZING day of my life. It was a week before my 11th birthday. What a present! Anytime I see games from the MLB from these time periods I watch and give my viewing support. I subbed as well, so any Baseball you have I'll be watching! THANK YOU! And major RESPECT AND LOVE to all your pro teams. Philly has a great tradition. 👍
What a pleasure listening to these announcers.
Yeah, it was all about baseball - no BS or other antics about their own lives or random nonsense.
@@Brooklyn3955 exactly. Sadly, we lost another one in this group yesterday.
@@Brooklyn3955 no analytics,no launch angles,no exit velo,no bullshit nonsense stats,no pitch counts,just good old fashioned announcing, baseball,..then u have today's slop announcers who are politically correct, spitting out meaningless stats non stop,sreamin on every play,hype hype,like guys like Michael Kay as an example of the Yankees n the ESPN discusting crew
Keith Hernandez in a Cardinals uniform. He'd be a Met before they stopped using this opening. Also the then-brand new annouce team of Ralph Kiner, Tim McCarver and Steve Zabriskie. This was McCarver's first Mets broadcast.
Really enjoyable to game to watch. Great pitching matchup between two veteran Hall of Famers. Being a Reds fan from way back in the 70's it was good to all of those ex-Reds with the Phils and Mets.
Wow RIP to Tom Seaver. Shocked and saddened as he was my favorite Met of all time going back to 1972.
My first game ever. Thanks for upload
So many of these guys played together in Cincinnati...Tom Seaver, George Foster, Tony Perez, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, anyone else I'm missing?
I was ecstatic to be there! I just came here from a video of the 1973 NLCS with...Seaver pitching to Rose.
Just saw that too. Rose’s mad dash around the bases on a Home Run.
As a Mets fan, this game stands out in my memory from that time period, because of the excitement around Seaver's return. Thanks for uploading it! I hope to see more from Joe B's collection!
Thank you for so much please keep on downloading more videos
First game with the Mets' new 'racing stripe' home uniforms. :) They were introduced to their road suits the previous season. I love that look.
I miss those uniforms.....the Mets have one of best logos in the MLB
@MAN UTD i still like baseball more.....to tell you the truth soccer is boring to watch baseball too....but when it gets to the post season it's awesome
@M Soccer? Okay if you say so... 😃😀😄😁🤣😂😃😀😄😁🤣😂
Reality? It's BORRRRRING! Like watching cars rust! Or grass grow! Or smelling a fart. You don't realize how bad it really is, then💥BAM!💥 YOU REALIZE IT STINKS.....BAD!
Kick...run.....kick.....run more.....kick......💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤
GOALLLLLLLLL! Wakes up? Huh? What? 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤 😴 💤
LMFAO!
RIP, "The Franchise". Best Met of all time.
I watched this game on WOR out of New York. Seaver vs Carlton. This game had a ton of HOF’ers...Seaver, Carlton, Rose, Schmidt, Perez....
tubularbill Pete Rose is Not Eligible For The Baseball Hall of Fame Because He Bet on Baseball While Managing His His Team That Play For The Reds.
EX Reds, Rose Morgan Perez and Foster from the 75-76 Championship team...
...and Tony Pérez
I saw this game! Thanks so much for posting!
This is such a great find! Classic baseball w/ such iconic players.
WOW i remember this. I was 13 years old in 1983 and rooting for the Mets
83 Mets were still a bad team but you could see the start of what was to come. The trade for Keith Hernandez, Strawberry's callup in May.
Exactly
@Canaan Kason Nobody Cares, stop posting this all over every video
The last hurrah for the good late '70s Phillies and the green shoots of the good Mets teams of 1984-90. LOL at Governor "Coomo"
Great listening to this and not one mention of pitch count back in those days
God the f'n pitch count! When that became the norm, I completely stopped watching modern baseball.
Matt F. You are so right!!! Can’t stand baseball today for that reason. The fucking announcers today start giving you their pitch count midway through the first inning. Today’s game is a joke
A LOT of Reds on the field for both teams that day.
I was at this game- Was also Tim McCarver's debut as a Mets analyst
He was great on the Met's games!! The 86 season was really fun and great to watch. What a team. And I remember listening to Tim on all of those games on the great WWOR channel 9!
thelatebrianjones mccarvers one of the best broadcasters ever. Love him
McCarver did Mets games from 1983-98, usually on national games Tim only did color commentary but on Mets broadcasts he also did play by play.
Kingman had an iron glove lol
Born in '64 I became a fan in '69. This means the Mets were terrible for pretty much my entire childhood. This team here made me really stoked about the Mets again, mostly because we got back 3 of my favorite Mets...Dave Kingman Tom Seaver and Rusty Staub.
We didn't do great, but by the end of the season you could feel this team starting to turn a corner.
After watching this wonderous memory when i was 21 yrs and going to alot of games with my younger brother 14yrs that year 1983 we got to know Bill Monbouquette and Frank Howard whom gave me the opportunity of having all the METS sign two paintings i did,
one with the field of Big Shea and the other with the words
"We Want A METS Penant"
Plus a letter i wrote to him Mr. Frank Howard in mid-July of a line-up that Mr.Howard
Had done earlier in telling him that Mookie Wilson needed to bat at the ball not swing at it. Well with that line-up the METS played better and with the message i know the METS enjoyed us fans communicating with them.
Of course Mr. Frank Howard had become the Manager after the removing of that
Bambi - great move. At the ending of that memorable season 1983, we my brother and i waited to say "THANK YOU enjoy the winter "to Mr Frank Howard and Mr Bill Monbouquette. Mr Frank Howard looked at me and with his huge hand shook my hand and said to us my younger brother and i " THANK YOU very much you guys have a wonderful winter, get home safe."
I'm now 59 yrs old and A METS FAN FOREVER SINCE 1971.....
TWO GREAT GENTLEMAN VERY CLASSIC BASEBALL MEN, BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUERS WITHOUT A DOUBT...
Thank you for this!!!
Interesting.. Mike Howard, who got the game winning RBI for the Mets, never played another Major League game after this.
Really? Wow. He was the only Met player in this broadcast whose name did not ring a bell for me.
His GWRBI is at 1:38:20
A lot of hall of famers in this game
Isn't it just wonderful listening to this broadcast and not hearing the phrase DOT COM every few seconds.
Mike Howard would not appear in another game in the big leagues. How many times has that happened where a player starts on opening day never to be heard from again?
At least twice
This Mets team would be a dynasty if they had some of these players 8 years before '83
Side note: Charlie Hustle needs to be in the HOF, period.
@M go away
@M soccer sucks .
I remember this team well, they played my Orioles in the '83 Fall Classic and lost in five. I remember game 1 very well at Memorial Stadium when Joe Morgan cracked a dinger and the Phillies won.
Seaver's return. I was lucky enough to be there. Seaver vs. Carlton on Opening Day. It doesn't get any better than that.
I didn't know Bob Dernier was a switch hitter at one point. B-R has him strictly as a RH hitter.
Damn, 83 Phillies had Pete Rose, Morgan & Schmidt all in 1 infield. 2 out of 3 were past their prime but still solid pros
Rusty Kuntz went on to lose the WS against Balt
Pete Rose played in right field in that game and Tony Pérez started at first base.
I WENT TO THAT GAME. GOT TO MEET TOM, PETE ROSE, MIKE SCHMIDT, JESSE OROSCO. IT WAS A MEMBER ABLE DAY
Tim McCarver started a great run as Mets announcer and later became announcer for the NY Yankees and became great friends with Bobby Murcer doing the games together. When I think not the Great Mets teams of the 80’s it is described by McCarver as well as the NYY of 99 through the early 21st Century. RIP Tim and Ralph.
George Foster was also an ex - Reds player they didn't mention that
Was there for Tom Seaver's return to Shea. Great atmosphere as Seaver struck out Rose to start the game. Sisk got the win.
Some mf's threw peanuts at my back.
Have you worked out that problem with the peanut throwing assailants in therapy?
@@danielamourose6361 Dont know if you're joking or serious, but I wear a turban as a Sikh and during that time there was alot of anti Muslim sentiment after the Iran hostage affair. Im not even Muslim but some people just wanna hate. Tarnished my memory of that day. No im not seeking therapy for that tho, lol.
@@ardie77 , I was just joking. You seemed really upset about the peanut throwing. I figured you just encountered run-of-the-mill assholes. I didn't know the back story about the turban. It sucks that you were targeted and it ruined your day. But as Mets fans of that time, weren't we used to ruined days? Lol
@@danielamourose6361 Thanks I appreciate that. Yes those were tough years to be a Met fan. The worst part is no one stood up for me! Ofc now u have cameras and more security etc. Still it was a rueful memory.
@Les Moore I don't have a store but i get your point.
These were the days before Doug Sisk became the most mercilessly booed pitcher in Mets history.
more than ollie p
?
Oh man. I loved Ralph Kiner. Really did and do. But did he say,"there is Mayor Cock and Governor Cumoo"??! At about the 4:47 mark. Lol
Anthony Brancale lol
Kiner was King for botching names and scores. There’s a video on here with like an hours worth of his mess ups.
I liked when they had Bob Murphy,Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner,great combo of voices,as are Tim McCarver and Steve Zabriskie.Gary Thorne is also an outstanding announcer too.Now,when the Mets play at Citi Field,its Gary Cohen,Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling.Thorne and Steve Phillip's are the voice team when I played MLB 2K 10 and 11.
@@MrJsfingers Kiner and Padres long time voice Jerry Coleman were both masters of the malaprop.
Ralph Kiner was a stud. He dated Hollywood starlets like Elizabeth Taylor!
I was there!
I remember, as a kid, thinking this is the worst intro ever. A met player gets thrown out at first at 00:14, lol. Of course, the irony is I believe that's Keith Hernandez at first, who later in 1983 would become a met.
Lord Beasley Darryl Strawberry Will Come One Month Later That Season and Won The NL Rookie of The Year.
Steve Zabriskie; always the wing man.
courtesy of WOR-TV, New York
MY DAD TOOK ME TO THE MY FIRST GAME AND FIRST TRIP TO SHEA BETWEEN THE METS-PHILLIES ONE YEAR LATER 1984.
Rest in peace Tom Seaver.
Steve Zabriskie and Tim Mccarver were great announcers for the Mets.
Fred Wilpon made a foolish decision by letting go of Steve Zabriskie after the 1989 season.
Is that what happened? I just assumed that Steve went on to bigger things. He was hired by ESPN for the 1990 season as one of their lead broadcasters for their delve into baseball.
@@8644mec Zabriskie lied about his cridentials. Management found out and that was that.
Zabriskie was underrated, but after blowing the NL East call in '86 it was hard to care that he eventually left .
Blowing the 86 call? You mean when they won the division?
You mean Steve Zabriskie was fired for falsifying his creds?
I love the powder blue road jerseys that the Phils wore. They should go back to those. They are pretty solid
I think they wear those for midweek home day games.
@@mikedemenchuk7717 I think you are right. I have seen them wear them recently
I lost my old P baby blue hat still miss it, ya it's an official alternate uni. MN Twins will don them but now they have 9 versions of current unis. I think these with zips were specially made for cold weather.
I was at that game
Mike howard started opening day. Had a rbi and never played again in majors. One game for season and he was done
Unbelievable
the eventual national league champions playing there against the mets there
Rusty Staub in the dug out when they have such little hitting in this line up ?
If you notice that the time between pitches is around 10 seconds, no more than 15 seconds on average. Today’s game averages around 20 seconds between pitches, sometimes 25 seconds.
THAT’S the problem with the modern game is you have more dead time (almost double) compared to 20-30 years ago. That is why these games on average are 3+ hours compared to 2 hours 30 minutes when this game was played.
Yeah but the average time adjusting your cup in the batters box was 1.5 seconds back then. Today, it's 1.6, but I attribute that to the live " balls" era.
@@meadowlaguira9997
Lol😂
And soon will come the Straw..
So the Mets opening montage for the team included their own player making an out at 0:12 and diving and NOT making the catch at 0:39.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I always assumed your videos should show your team actually doing something right.
Doug Sisk w/ the W.
Also, if anybody deserves a statute outside CitiField,
it's Ron Hodges.
You are a true Mets fan for that HILARIOUS comment! He’s OUR 42!
Do not forget the unforgettable George Theodore.
He deserves a statue for just making the lineup.
@@harveycast What about Butch Huskey?
I had given up my season ticket in 1982 but still went to several Met games in 1983, including this one. On the way back with a hardcore "Section One" (of the upper deck) fan, he said "The Tidewater team would clobber this team," and he was right. Still, they had Seaver back, George Foster, and Dave Kingman, so it was fun to watch. They did stink though. Went to a few games in 1984, one in 1985 (where they went down 2-0 in the first and scored three in the sixth to win 3-2), then never went back.
Nothing happened in 86, lol. But as a lifelong Mets fan, I respect the urge to "opt out".
You missed a championship
Rip Seaver
RIP, SHEA STADIUM (APRIL 17, 1964-SEPTEMBER 28, 2008) DEMOLISHED COMPLETELY ON FEBRUARY 18, 2009 AND NOW BECOMES THE PARKING LOT TO ADJUST CITI FIELD.
Teury Potter thats a cool storyn bur did you have to yell? My eyes hurt now.
The Marlboro billboard.
League wide mandate. Either that or Winston. Later ca 1993 ESPN would put a plant lighting up a heater right behind Fay Vincent..Classic.
RIP to the franchise. #LGM
The game to get is the one of Aug.14,1985,a game in which Don Carman pulled a high wire act.
Explain?
@@jimwerther The Mets loaded the bases with nobody out in the ninth,trailing by a run.Carman then got Rick Schu to make a diving stop at third,get to his feet,then throw to Ozzie Virgil for the force at home.Then Keith Hernandez hit into a bang bang DP with Tom Foley gunning out Hernandez by a whisker while being flipped by Backman at second.
@@rentslave
Wow. I guess you're a Philly fan - not as memorable for me. I remember the lefthander Carman. Wasn't he a starter? Did he go all 9?
@@rentslave
One more question for the Philly fan... They never once mentioned here why Gary Maddox wasn't in CF. They didn't even mention his name. Don't tell me Bob Dernier was the starting centerfielder over Gary Maddox?
@@jimwerther Maddox went downhill fast.Perhaps it was the Agent Orange he encountered during the Vietnam proxy war against Red China.
The crowd shot at 24:56....is that Joey Buttafuoco?
Baseball was baseball sweetie of a game
Can anyone tell me if I'm right or wrong on a statement?When the Mets had all their home games at Shea Stadium ,the p.a. voice was Alex Anthony.Maybe a different voice after.I loved when they had the magic hat with the apple coming out everytime a Met player hit a homer,be it a solo,two-run,three-run or a grand slam.I also remember the bullpen cars all teams had to bring the pitchers to the field.Did they get rid of them?
Is about the era where Cablecom of Fargo carried this channel as well as WTBS and WGN. Channel was dropped due to Turner but local affiliate picked up KMSP coverage for the Twins which was great. Timmy Mac was actually pretty good when paired with strict announcers i.e. Jack Buck, and I wonder later in the 91 WS when it was the worst kept secret that Rose was selling blow out of the dugout if his contribution to the CBS sponsored "Born Losers" where drastically jacked up company liability by associating nurses shooting up if Tim was referring to me personally regarding "just walk away", which I did and unfortunately due to later attorney misconduct resulted in the wrongful death of a former girlfriend who used to work as a baby icu nurse. And around the same time the State of MN also directed licensed attorneys to attempt to have me work in a heroin ring among other things. Great post and I hope the doc that took a leave following being required to engage in malpractice is also a baseball fan MN #66CV191699 et al.
Did the Phillies shirts have zippers???
Bobby V sighting in the dugout.
Where's his moustache? The umps are gonna recognize him.
Space Ghost, you are correct. Charlie Hustle does belong in the Hall of Fame.
Shame on the Mets for trading Seaver once. Shame on them for losing him twice. Mets might have won the division with Seaver in 84 and especially 85. I was just as angry when he was left unprotected in 1984.
how does Ralph manage to botch the names of the Governor AND Mayor of the city?! 4:50 🤔😀
I'm trying to figure out why Gary Maddox wasn't in CF for the Phillies. Anyone here know?
I forget how many reds wound up in Philadelphia.
Mets George Foster and Tom Seaver were with the Reds as well.
No we're free-thinking republicans in Philadelphia.
2:12:22 ok I'll bite, and this may be on purpose an Easter Egg if you will, Sisk got a SAVE and may be missed on purpose by crew (Kiner likely was on radio). And argument that the black portion of the plate is not a strike, it's part of the plate and at least in softball if black part is hit it is ALWAYS a ball and I'm sure managers even back then could look and if no part of black was showing, it would give skippers ammo on not keeping plate clean. Even years later McCarver would bring that subject up out of the blue - crazy! Never made it to the bigs but I am sure somewhere Charlie Hustle after being called out looking at a pitch he thought was either inside or outside would lay the bat down in the box on where ball crossed plate and have the bat boy pick it up😊😊. The few folks I talked to who played town ball that is about the only way to get ejected without saying a word😅😅😅
stayed home sick or pretended I was sick from school stay home watch game
Total of 4 pitchers used todays baseball 10
Pete in right field.
The Mets had Carlton's number.
LATER THAT SEASON DARRYL STRAWBERRY MADE HIS MLB DEBUT ONE MONTH LATER AND KEITH HERNANDEZ COMING OVER FROM THE CARDINALS FOR PITCHER NEIL ALLEN, THE FUTURE YANKEE.
...Turned this off after 1st inning ..!!!!That called strike 3 on Mookie Wilson was 5 inches off plate ...Then Kingman gets called out on a pitch 8 inches off Plate 23:54
Ah, the Wheeze Kids
Kiner,was great ,so was Lindsey,Nelson and Bob Murphy.Whatever happened to them?
Kiner was likely either working for WWOR or hopping over to do radio, pretty common back then.
How many Hall if famers in this game.
I love Ralph too but, so far, I have caught two more miscues that can be added to his RUclips 'blooper reel" - referring to one sponsor as "US Today" (USA Today) and saying Seaver is one of a handful of pitchers who has "struck out 100 or more batters over" (was it?) "ten consecutive years" or "ten Years." He had to have meant "200 batters," unless I heard it wrong.
RF Mike Howard. Interesting stuff www.espn.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/18034/remember-when-we-met-mike-howard
Thank you for that link! Very interesting.
Adults dressed like adults back then. Now we all dress like kids
Are we counting White Sox team 78-81 #Veeckeech!
Awful opening music, should’ve kept the “Meet The Mets” theme for tradition.
Scott Donigian they ended up bringing that song back the following year with a new twist to it. I prefer the updated ‘84 version.
1:08
Seaver was the best
How could he NOT BE IN THE HALL OF FAME WITH OVER 4,100 HITS WHAT A FUCKING SHAME.
Look at the Mets starting lineup. Howard in Right who couldn't hit. Ron Hodges was a terrible catcher.
Howard Johnson is a good hitter,Ron Hodges is a good catcher.You don't have to be a perfect athlete , they try very hard,just like any other player.I believe the Mets PA voice is Alex Anthony.
@@seanmontgomery801 No, that wasn't Howard Johnson. Howard Johson wasn't on the 83 Mets team. That was Mike Howard i was talking about. Mike Howard was not a good hitter.
Hubie Brooks was safe at the plate
Hard to tell
It was a lousy slide
@@jimwerther it seems that way but he was in
@@jimwerther how could it be a lousy slide when he was safe, Jim it was a bad call by the umpire
@@rafaelramirez1507
Of course it could be a bad slide even if he was safe. Why not? Hubie pulled his legs in. Anyway, without any clear replays neither of us knows for sure.
Joe Morgan easy to dislike then and now
Best player in the late ‘70s, bar none. Back to back MVPs attest to that. 😎
[When I had posted the above, I was unaware about his passing. RIP, Joe. 😥]
Can you imagine going to a game and the starting pitchers are Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton? 640 wins between them. Today's starting pitchers are weak and not nearly as strong, well conditioned, and durable as pitchers in the days of Carlton and Seaver, and years before.