Revisiting the Bizarre Season of Pandemic Baseball
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2024
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2020 will easily go down as the most unique season in MLB history, so a revisit to its quirks becomes a must the more time passes...
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The moment you realize the Covid season was 4 years ago…
Ngl felt like year before last ik its a diff of a year but it feels like 2020 and 21 was just blurry
2024 (for me) is the first year that doesn’t feel like an addendum to 2020.
@@nicholasaustin2717it feels like such a slow gradual change back to “normalcy” it’s weird to explain
Matt Damon ages
@@Unknown_unknown19you’re not the only one. Feels like those two years got mixed together in my memories somehow
you forgot to mention the SF Giants played a game with an eery dark Orange clouded sky cause of the California Wildfires that that smoked filled the entire state
And into Southern NV
Their fires were so wild ….
That it made Las Vegas sky’s orange & smoky
That was some wild fires
So that season was emotional to me. My uncle, who took me to my first ever baseball game, passed away that year. The last thing he EVER told me was “Do you wanna go to dodgers open day”. For the dodgers to win that season made me the happiest person in the world. RIP unc.
even though I'm a rays fan I'm happy for you! RIP unc.
This is why I get pissed when people call the Dodgers WS from 2020 “not a real ring”
So many things happened that people aren’t aware of. A friend of mine lost their grandfather the year after the Astros cheated the 2017 WS. We didn’t get a parade, or really celebrate the championship like a normal team would.
@@MrZachtheKingsfan2020 ** Covid Champs **
@@MrZachtheKingsfanNow you see how us Astros fans feel.
@@joelcrenwelge3889we didn’t cheat
You can't forget the Orioles scoreboard operator requesting a Pizza to be delivered to the ballpark during a ran delay.
Funniest part of the NLCS that year was that before Braves loss against the Dodgers, teams that were up 2-0 in the NLCS have peviously won their series 28-3
what about the astros being the second team to ever force a game 7 after being down 3-0, the other being the 2004 red sox
ATL is never living down that 28-3 curse
stas dont predict the future. analytics doesnt enhance sports. kirk gibsons walk off home run in 88 wasnt a variable analytics could have predicted. cant predict real life
Shhhh. We got em the next year though.
@@davidtran2026at this point, no we’re not. Not until the Falcons win the Super Bowl (ain’t happening soon).
Not the “Meet the Graham’s” beat for Braves vs. Dodgers…
Hi, Braves fan, that was cold and painful. Do not like thinking about 2020 😂
@@glaceo_o229 hey, at least we’ve got 2021 to look back on fondly
I hope drake was watching this having a good day until the 25th minute
it's kinda of a shame that no one hit .400 in 2020, probably the closest shot anyone would ever have to do it, just one really hot start from a contact first hitter, and we could be talking about an even weirder record, that one random player who in 60 games managed to do what Ted Williams was the last player to do. It would definitly be a unticlimatic fact for the future. Instead of "Ted Williams (the Legend, the HOF, the American War Hero) was the last player to ever hit .400 in a full season", we could've instead had something like" Donovan Solano or Raimel Tapia (I choose one of these two because they were the two least recognizable players to finish in the top 10 of batting average in 2020) was the last player to hit .400 in a full season", so much more interesting.
It is really interesting that nobody capitalized on it being the shortened season for breaking a multitude of records. A video researching & theorizing why nobody was able to would be interesting to see.
Fr I remember Charlie Blackmon was pretty close I think he bat .400 for a little while
The Dodgers did get the 6th best winning percentage all time, even higher than the 116 win mariners.
I grew up outside of DC and was a Nats fan since day 1. I moved to South Carolina in 2013, but swore that if my Nats ever won a WS I would drive up to DC the next year for Opening Day. I bought Opening Day tickets the day before the season got suspended. RIP
Hard to believe it's been four years already......never forget the stands full of cardboard cutouts
Wont be four years until July 1st of 2024.
It really is weird. I still remember my mom calling me after the very first state of emergency, and I was like, “Do I have to go to work tomorrow?” Lol time flies.
I want to forget everything between 2020 and 2022 or so
It's crazy that Randy Arozarena did all that in 2020 with the Rays and, even though he played a handful of games for the Cardinals in 2019 (even the postseason), he still qualified for ROY, and won, in 2021. Lol.
Good to know which side of the beef you guys picked 😂
There were 2 sides?
For some reason I want to start writing a letter to Adonis Graham starting at 25:31
2020 was the year MLB on Fox brought back its classic theme song from 1996
crazy to think how many past season playoff pictures would have been if they started in July rather than October
The AL and NL championship series went crazy that year 🔥
The next year was arguably even better! I think you need to make a video about the 2021 braves. They did choke in the playoffs in 2020, but in 2021 they could barely get above .500 for a majority of the season AND they lost Acuna for the season, but they were able to come back and get their revenge against the dodgers and win the World Series
That trade deadline will go down in history
Tbh only the braves fans enjoying 2021 then 2020 I feel like everyone has great memories of 2020 baseball like a “division rivals LDS IS CRAZY AWESOME”and I damn near forgot 2021 baseball also a 3-1 choke is a 3-1 choke you still a “2020 chocker” aka the season many “younger baseball fans” and some older ones like me have fond memories of
Baseball is so fluky. That Braves team was by far the worst of the last 7 years… and of course they’re the team that won a ring
@@gnielsen07that’s sports, man
I hate the discourse too with the 2020 season and how it didn't count and you said it perfectly. Every team and EVERY player agreed to the terms and played it like a real season. 2020 playoffs were also really fun and entertaining! I was really happy we at least got baseball that year.
I agree. Notice not a single person said it was Mickey Mouse BEFORE the season played out. People were just super salty it was the dodgers on top. To play the entire post season stretch without your home fans is crazy!
Also, if we’re putting World Series in a “Mickey Mouse” category, what about 2017 and 2018- two WS “winners” who were cheating? What about every WS winner pre-Jackie Robinson? What about all WS winners during the reserve clause era? What about the 1919 Reds since it was the white Sox who threw the series?
Point is- people love to say “Mickey mouse” when it’s convenient for them
Actually the MLBPA and Owners never agreed to a return-to-play deal. Rob Manfred imposed a 60 game season after owners voted unanimously to grant Manfred the power to implement a season. The players wanted more games while the owners wanted less since they weren't making money off ticket sales and didn't want to pay players for more games.
@@mascwalt Point still stands. Players played like every game mattered and at the end of the day could’ve opted-out. 🤷♂️ However, I do understand what you’re coming from.
Honestly I think a lot of the online discourse is just trolling from other fanbases who don't like or are rivals with the Dodgers. When I talk to most baseball fans individually in a normal setting, they agree with exactly what SRS said, almost to a person
What I loved was that once we got to playoff time we pretty much had every team involved at virtually full strength, injuries at a minimum. Every team had there best players out there at mid season form. I get that baseball is a game of who can outlast who now a days. But I rather see each team go out their playing as close to 100% with all of their players healthy and ready to fight to the death.
Heard that meet the Grahams addition at the end 😂
taking full advantage on the lift on copyright claims
The thing about the Mets in 2020: we know that they had terrible sequencing luck, such that their offense didn’t actually score as many runs as would have been expected. But Citi Field played really weird that season, in that it suddenly became a hitter’s haven-something it hadn’t been before and hasn’t been since. The fact that it briefly turned into a hitter’s park helped the offense, obviously, but it had a knock-on effect, which is that it turned their already questionable pitching staff into hot garbage. Syndergaard’s UCL went _asplode_ that spring before the pandemic started, then Stroman opted out after it started, leaving the Mets with Jake and…??? Rookie David Peterson mostly managed to stay on luck’s good side (and boy, was he lucky), but when you’re relying on guys like Rick Porcello, Michael Wacha before he rediscovered his changeup, and a hastily reconverted-to-starting Seth Lugo, in a park that suddenly hates pitchers, things are going to go sideways. (Jake-when healthy-would be brilliant in Coors with the wind blowing out, but he’s Jake. _Ghar waapas aaja, bhaiyya! Please, ghar waapas aaja!_ 😢)
I have a fond memory from that year of Kyle Lewis taking advantage of a smaller sample size to win the AL ROY. I was actually glad to see my Mariners miss the playoffs that year, because it would have felt a little cheap to me for that drought to end only because over half the league got in. I will always remember the "underdog" Rays taking down two juggernauts to reach the Series, like you pointed out. That season is one I will never forget, and one that I agree shouldn't be lessened (apart from possibly the records set in a smaller sample size). The Dodger's won a legitimate title because all the teams were, as you pointed out, put into the same situation in 2020.
Also the "as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a homerun" was born too lol
This was the year that ended up getting me in to baseball in the first place due to all of the nothing that was going on during the pandemic. I needed something to keep my mind occupied, then I saw the score notification for the Padres-Diamondbacks season opener on my phone. Decided to tune in during the 7th inning, and got hooked on the baseball I saw. 2020 was wild shit, and there was plenty I forgot about during this time that you (thankfully) brought back up. I had no idea that Dinelson Lamet was a shooting star that faded away as soon as he appeared-I just genuinely thought he was one of the best pitchers in all of MLB. Slam Diego was also probably the funniest baseball moment I had ever witnessed (wish I was there for Slamarena the following year, though). Definitely the most optimistic I've ever seen the fanbase, before the very next year immediately broke them. Still pretty sure we're broken given our reaction to literally any loss we take or cold streak the team/a player goes on. Regardless, fun baseball season that I never want to happen again.
Also, I think Dominic Smith might be one of my new favorite baseball players. Mad respect for him to speak out against injustice and police brutality, and use his platform for good in that time. Seems like a great dude.
Those 2020 Mets sure were elite, they just weren’t clutch. Somebody should make a video about them…
Why we even bothered amazes me. The persistence and dedication to making this shitshow happen was impressive, you must admit. Dodger fans are sure glad we did though.
Yeah the season was awful and pointless in hindsight. I was locked in during the season though because there was literally nothing else.
As a Dodger fan, the 2020 season is both memorable and sad. I agree that I don't want it to ever happen again, as in I do not want a pandemic like that to ever happen again. The biggest fear during that time, wasn't getting covid for me. The biggest fear was having no baseball for a whole year. I was ecstatic when I found out that baseball was returning. I remember exactly where I was when that moment happened. In a year, where no one was having fun, and the world was at a standstill. The only saving grace, was that baseball was returning.
I know the discourse around what other fans say about the 2020 season, I hate it as well. I cherish that championship because so many Dodgers are no longer on the team now. I couldn't imagine how terrible it would have been, seeing Joc Pederson, Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager win a World Series with another team. Even worse if I saw Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner, or Kenley Jansen not ever win a World Series. I am glad it happened when it did. I believe the main reason the Dodgers won, and came back from a 3-1 lead in the NLCS was because they were motivated. Not motivated in the traditional sense, but motivated by the Astros sign stealing scandal. The 2020 Dodgers had a ton of 2017 players still on the team. The players were pissed, and I saw how different they were on the field and even in interviews. The Dodgers - Astros regular season series was heated as well, with the infamous Joe Kelly and Carlos Correa beef. I could have only imagined, what that 2020 World Series would have been like. The Dodgers were motivated by the scandal to win in 2020, I truly believe that it wouldn't have mattered if the season was 162 or not. No one was beating the Dodgers in 2020. (Except the Rockies that won the only series against them that year) Braves blowing a 3-1 lead and that embarrassment motivated them in 2021, and the Astros were motivated in 2022 with their embarrassment of losing so much in the World Series. These aren't facts, but they show how much an embarrassment can affect a team the following season. I refuse to believe all of these are just coincidental, and not a factor in a team winning a title.
The 2020 Dodgers were one of the best teams, in the worst year possible. This year brings bad memories and happy memories too, i remember where i was when the Astros were caught cheating. I remember where I was when the season was suspended, I remember where I was when the season was brought back, I remember where I was when the Dodgers won the World Series. People may say that it was a easy season because it was 60 games, i beg to differ. The 2020 season was the most difficult season in baseball history. Not mentioning the covid precautions and restrictions in MLB, but there were no breaks. If your team slumped, it meant the end of the season and all postseason hopes. Those 60 games (including doubleheaders) were all a sludge. Everyday, needing to play your best and win as many as you can, because one loss meant as much as 15. If your team was one of the lucky 16, then you had a postseason which featured the first ever Wild Card Series. At the time, it was an extra 2-3 games in the postseason. If you happened to win, there was a LDS that had 5 straight games, and a LCS that had 7 straight games with NO days off. "You swept your opponent in the NLDS/ALDS, that's great." "Now, its just a 7 game series with no days off. Hopefully you sweep them too." "Oooooo both series went all 7 games." That was brutal and I don't think any other postseason series in history, will be more brutal than a 7 game LCS with no rest. That put every team to the test, only the best and team with the highest durability would pull through. The 16 team postseason was fun, but I do not ever want it expanded to that ever again. I would prefer to let it stay in the 2020 season. Keeping some of the things that stayed; like the ghost runner, universal DH, Wild Card Series, and other changes tried during that season. The 2020 season, will go down as the most difficult and unique season of baseball to ever be played. That is how it should be remembered, and how it should be never recreated. Leave it to the pages of history, since we all lived through what future generations will talk about. Whenever a "weird baseball video" gets created or watched in lets say the year 2046.
The A’s win their division this season was a 8/10
Ain’t no way meet the grahams in this lol
Meet the Grahams 😭
The Meet The Grahams beat is so horrifying and im Braves fan, im going to see that in my nightmare, thank you
I know many aren’t gonna agree with this cause it’s “cool” to hate Joe Buck but hearing clips of his calls during these playoffs makes me miss him calling baseball. Dodger lover Joe Davis just doesn’t do it for me
How fitting was it to put an instrumental version of last Christmas by Wham! knowing the fact that so many people tuned to Christmas movies and Christmas music to get away from the pandemic and every day news of everyone dying because of COVID-19
Here is a thought: many people say it was a Mickey Mouse season. I say it was not, and that it was basically one long playoff series. Teams had to be consistently good for the whole season. If a team went into a slump, each game was worth 2.5 games, so a 10 game slide is like 25 games in a regular season. If a player is in a slump, there is no time to work through it. If someone gets hurt, they will be out for pretty much all year. No time for rehab. No bringing up or sending players down because there are no minor league games.
It was a wild time, and I would say it was the most difficult season for more reasons than one would think.
That’s actually a really good way to think about it. Like one long, weird tournament.
Still Mickey mouse BD sorry 162 and the post season is no where close to what ever bull shit this was rather them not play at all tbh
@@robertkidnley93 agree to disagree.
@@robertkidnley93 It’s fine to think it was Mickey Mouse, but if you think they shouldn’t have played at all, I have to question whether you’re even a fan of the game.
@@robertkidnley93so why did teams flounder so hard in the playoffs especially the 3-1 braves? 😂 must’ve been hard
Gonna need that Meet The Grahams beat over more baseball compilations
I think one of my favorite parts from the 2020 season was not from the games being played, but from the MLB opening day at home where MLB streamed classic games on RUclips. Everyone commenting like it was happening in real time, it was a great experience that I’m not sure we’ll get again.
Not meet the grahams in the background towards the end. so funny how deep in the culture Kendrick's disstracks already are
I vaguely remember this season, where the Red Sox possibly had the worst starting rotation I’ve ever seen.
If the Braves had any other legit starting pitchers in the 2020 playoffs beyond Fried and Anderson, they would have wrapped that series up and won the World Series. They had to heavily rely on their bullpen because Cole Hamels basically disappeared after signing a contract, and Mike Soroka tore his Achilles at a point when he looked every bit of an ace as Fried.
As a Reds fan, I'll never forget waking up late for the first game of our Wild Card series against the Braves... and still getting to watch a full 9+ innings of some of the most atrocious baseball ever coming right off their eleventh hour comeback to make it into the postseason to begin with. Was just an awful series to watch
Looking back on it, I’m actually impressed with how this season worked. They could’ve just cancelled the season and I don’t think anyone really would’ve blamed them. Yes fans would’ve been pissed at first but over time they would’ve gotten over it but instead, the teams and players said screw it, we want to play ball and we’ll do whatever it takes. And for that, I’ll be thankful for them.
i hope dom smith knows he's a hero and has done more than his part just by existing
Biggest bummer was being a Nats fan. Was the lack of fans, the Nats were riding the high of the fans and truly making them apart of the World Series run…just for them to never even get to see the gold uniforms in person 😞
The one thing I remember the most from this season is the Cardinals having to make up all their games. There was nearly a game every day the last 30 days.
Okay gotta shoutout your great music choices here. I heard that lucky you beat and of course as Braves fan hearing meet Los Angeles.. ugh lol
What about Jose A from the W Sox, AL MVP? That was “bizarre” in context….. the 2020 season better have an even bigger asterisk than Sosa and A Rod next to it.
Definitely had a chance to mention the Mets hitting a walk off home run at Yankee Stadium… what a season
As a Cubs fan I hated it. After that year, it was clear the 2016 core was finished. I've never felt so hopeless watching baseball as I felt watching the Cubs in the playoffs that year. Sixto Sanchez wasn't even good, we just couldn't hit to save our lives. But as much as I love the Cubs, I love weird baseball and replacement level players even more. 2020 was obviously awesome in that sense. I even sorta liked the 60 game schedule. I wouldn't say I wish MLB would adopt that permanently, but the weird small sample size variance and the extreme importance of every single game was kinda cool. Definitely do not want to go thru COVID ever again tho
Jose Abreu's 2020 MVP was an oddity you didn't mention. He regressed hard after 2020.
Baseball felt so wounded and vulnerable that year. It was like watching a loved one battle an illness. When fans returned and you saw the looks on a kid's face again when they catch a foul ball, things began to feel okay again.
biggest postseason ever, that braves chokejob stil the most memorable postseason series of recent years.
The 60 game season was honestly alot of fun lol. Their could have been a chance of a team going 60-0 that season lol
Don't forget Cash pulling red-hot Snell in Game 6 of the World Series and effectively costing the Rays any remaining championship hopes in one of the biggest brainfarts in World Series history
nah, Snell had fallen apart his entire time with the Rays when he faced hitters for a third time in the order. I and every Rays fan had seen that play out so many times before. Did not work out but it was the right choice.
“Everyone was mad at the Astros”
Then they got the 2022 World Series title so everyone can shut up.
dinelson lametters stand up
Surprised you didnt mention Blake Snell and World Series Game 6
Using meet the grahams during Atlantas choke when Kendrick said Drake goes to Atlanta to steal culture is crazy 😂
Loved the Anthony fantano clip!
I’m glad the Mets couldn’t prevail even in a shortened season 😂 the way the Braves lost to the Dodgers in the NLCS made me start watching baseball again I was mad af we gave up a 3-1 series lead I couldn’t believe it
covid got me hard, not only as a fan pov, but in later years of the pandemic. Back in 2020, i wasn't really a baseball, hockey guy, like i am today, i was more into motorsports, like nascar and formula one. i read on the tv on tsn, that the australian gp of 2020 was being held a weekend in march. it was cancelled because of covid. up until last year, i never saw an australian grand prix in my life. Back in 2022, april, my family got covid, wasnt too bad but still, was home from school the entire week. yeah.
The 2020 MLB season was a fever dream.
Now, let's never speak of it again.
I like how you sampled the instrumentals from Meet the Grahams, lol much respect
I’ve been waiting years for this man
Even those of us who experienced the 1981 baseball season had to say, yeah, 2020 was pretty batshit.
Using "Last Christmas" as the backing track for the Mets vs Yankees exhibition game is hilarious
I just got seriously into baseball like two years ago so watching this video is like looking into an alternate dimension. Idk how yall did it😭
I did love being able to hear the game better cause of reduced noise from the “crowd” always fun when you can hear the players and umps and stuff yelling at each other
A short season at a time that watching sports is the only thing to do was truly special. I think I can remember every single horrible moment of that Mets season, yet I almost miss it somehow
I'm not even an MLB fan, you just make great vids mate.
appreciate the 2003 clone wars music
This was the only time it was ok for me to spend most of my days watching a jays offence before it got screwed up.
Drake: Ah... time to relax, forget about Kendrick, and just watch a baseball video...."
25:04
😳☠️
Meet The Grahams beat is even scarier when you aren't expecting it at all... thanks for the nightmares.
“Oakland A’s want cardboard fans in stands.”
That could have been from 2020 or 2024.
during the world series the dodgers had a drive in at the parking lot of dodger stadium where you could watch the game. i went to game 5 and it was pretty cool. just like going to a drive in movie. definitely a little strange to think about now. driving to the stadium just to see the tv broadcast from your car instead of at home, but it was weird times.
as a reds fan i'm all in for another season like this. a historically dominant pitcher destroying everyone AND a playoff spot?! heck yeah!
16:28 got me SO good lmfaooooo
the thing for me as a Nats fan was finally winning it all but not being able to properly celebrate it
Let’s go baseball time
Never forget with the Cubs. Alec Mills randomly getting a no-hitter just to fade off into nothing the next year.
The Fantano “meet the grahams” reaction kills me. Lol
Damn, you got that Fantano clip fast. XD
Love the yakuza footage at the end
Remember the post season legend Mike Brossaeu haven’t heard about him since
It was a wild season and the only thing that it confirmed to me was that the dodgers special when you look at the following season like the rays benefit from it when it came to the injury bug both of these teams pitching staffs are afflicted with
one part that i really liked during that season was how since there no fans in stands how it was WAY easier to make out what players and coaches were saying.
The Phillies fans outside the stadium with their air horns was the best.
I actually missed it in 2021.
The only thing I love about the 2020 season is that the Dodgers won, and no one cares.
That man was really crying about how it’s not fair and not getting opportunities when he’s a major league ball player….
As an Astros fan I was hoping this season got canceled. But was glad for the delay. Than I raged quit game 1 when Verlander and Alvarez got hurt
Game 4 was one of the wildest endings I’ve ever watched. I thought for sure Rays were gonna come back and win.
Baseball’s Not Dead provided interesting insight on how the 2020 season was negotiated.
I cant believe Im saying this, but I think MLB handled this as well as they could. Which is funny, cause I cant think of a single other thing that I think they've done well at lately. But with Covid, they made it work somehow, and nothing horrible happened, so they get credit for that.
Crazy to think the White Sox were a young & possibly up & coming team before they returned to being trash
Fantano meet the grahams reaction clip is insane
You are a sicko for using the meet the grahams beat
It made me wear my Dodger hat every day instead of wearing other hats. It's a thing I have continued to do ever since. I only wear Dodger hats regardless of time of year.
crazy music choice for braves/dodgers
Oh the year the Dodgers won. At least some happiness in the hardest times.
If I'm being honest. Players "leveraging" their platforms is the most annoying thing. Most of them are morons whether they agree with me or not I don't give a shit.
I watch sports to escape from the never ending onslaught of reality not get lectures on life from guys that play games for a living.
This goes for all the sports
2020 was a complete clusterfuck. That's all I do know..
Dodgers fans really think this ring counts lmao…