It was cool to hear Stuart Scott again. This is so nostalgic with all the old school ESPN Sportscenter announcers back when everyone watched. I miss that.
I knew it was gross. But I miss the Kingdome. Those 90s teams owned that place and the ball carried like crazy in there. No one owned that place like Jr. Just lightning fast batspeed, perfectly uppercutted, such a beautiful swing.
I'm "the guy behind the plate" who's spoken of at the 30:20 mark. I have been searching for this footage for 23 years - thank you so much for posting!!!
@@patrickgoodman4576 Thanks!! It's crazy, I've been searching for any footage of that homer since the day after it happened, and had zero luck. I actually recorded this version on VHS (where the SportsCenter anchor referred to me - I think it was the 2am show!) , but we accidentally taped over it the very next day. And now I find it here, all these years later, and incredibly it''s the specific one I thought I'd never see again. Thank you @Detlef! I don't know how (or why) you were able to put together this incredible compilation, but man, I'm really appreciative that you did.
@@patrickgoodman4576 Ha! No, I'm the buffoon in the suite behind the plate who reacts in disbelief to Griffey's monster homer. I'd been yapping at him the whole game, stuff like "C'mon Junior, let's see what you got". The he showed me (and everyone else as well).
Holy Toledo Griffey was the best, in addition to the iconic calls. Stuart Scott, Dan Patrick, Kieth Oberman, Rich Eisen, Kenny Mane, and Chris Berman, the Mothership has not been the same without your energy. Love you, miss u.
im getting GOOSEBUMPS!!!!! sweetest SWING EVER.....KILLING IT!!!!! IM just glad Dave passed after all these amazing calls.....WE WERE SPOILED!!!!!RIP STUART!!!!
Stuart Scott miss you man. Booo ya!!! Miss your soundbites as they made the commentary so fun. Could seriously listen to his voice all day. And watch Ken Griffey Junior hit homers all day.
No one can understand this Baseball Home Run Hitter legend in Seattle Mariner History. Only history in time will tell. A total of more than 500 Home Runs. WOW!!!!!!!!!!! at least 800 Home Runs. People cannot be jealous of him!!!!!!!! He controls himself. Legend for his team!!!!!!!!!! Can no one top his home run hitter history of Home Runs! He will be MISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOME RUN PLAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can Anyone? How about other countries like India or Canada or Europe or Africa opening? Many pitchers try to strike him out!!!!!!!!!!! Wow. They couldn't Give him millions of dollars. I may be Non-American but I surely love his Home Run History. i used to play little league and major little league baseball. Everybody wanted his baseball!
Hey this is Bob in Connecticut and Junior is the best I ever saw and I am the biggest Yankee fan I have been a ticket holder for 30 years partial. And he did it without getting juiced. It’s hard to believe his big rookie card 1989 upper deck PSA 10 is only worth $2000. That is a disgrace it should be worth a small fortune😊😊😊
His bent back/left arm and straight front/right arm, (arm bar for those modern swing gurus who think it's a bad thing), is how body mass/power is transferred to the barrel. It's also how he makes it look almost effortless.
it will always bug me that he couldn't stay healthy in the 2000s... just always wonder how many HRs he would have finished with. He should be the all time HR king.
Detlef I caught jrs 354th home run 4/24/1999 Your video shows number 353, he hit 2 in that game The video then goes to the next game against Detroit Any chance you have access to that Hit? I had it recorded on vcr tape for years but it broke Thanks for anything you can do #detlef
really any post 1999 highlights would be cool. He was out of the lineup a lot from 2001 on, but i still want to see anything cool he's done. Some things are trickling through, but most of the videos on yt of griffey are 1989-2000 and 2008-2010
@detlef Huge favor if you can. I caught his 354th home run and the ball was stolen, on ESPN and the news you could see me catch it. In your video it shows 353&355 It was the first home run of 2 in the game against the rays and you show the second. Any chance you have the footage of the first one
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If it wasn’t for injuries ken Griffey would have hit 800 homers or more
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It feels great to hear Stuart Scott's voice
❤, I concur,
Sincerely your's,
Northeast Ohio.
Go Buck's!
It was cool to hear Stuart Scott again. This is so nostalgic with all the old school ESPN Sportscenter announcers back when everyone watched. I miss that.
Yeah I felt the nostalgia, as a kid I was glued to Baseball Tonight, Sportscenter, and Keith Olbermen on Fox Sports
Agreed. Sports seemed to matter more. It was different
Now Keith is a complete nut job.
I love how much Griffey tormented the Yankees 🤣🤣
The greatest swing in the history of the sport.
Babe Ruth had a good swing too.
Him and Barry Bonds
Ted Williams
Jesus fuckin chidtt
💯
Kenny manyes line “he is amused by the simplicity of this game” is real talk because KGJ once quoted as saying “why is this game so easy to me?” Lol
I get to say I was alive to see the greatest baseball player ever Griffey!!
Me too!!! I was a Cubs fan and would watch the Mariners play just to see what Junior and A-Rod were gonna do. And Randy Johnson was scary!!!
I knew it was gross. But I miss the Kingdome. Those 90s teams owned that place and the ball carried like crazy in there.
No one owned that place like Jr.
Just lightning fast batspeed, perfectly uppercutted, such a beautiful swing.
I'm "the guy behind the plate" who's spoken of at the 30:20 mark. I have been searching for this footage for 23 years - thank you so much for posting!!!
No way that is dope lol
@@patrickgoodman4576 Thanks!! It's crazy, I've been searching for any footage of that homer since the day after it happened, and had zero luck. I actually recorded this version on VHS (where the SportsCenter anchor referred to me - I think it was the 2am show!) , but we accidentally taped over it the very next day. And now I find it here, all these years later, and incredibly it''s the specific one I thought I'd never see again. Thank you @Detlef! I don't know how (or why) you were able to put together this incredible compilation, but man, I'm really appreciative that you did.
@@csilver522 wow so you’re the catcher in that game??? Hey what is your name I would love to look you up!
@@patrickgoodman4576 Ha! No, I'm the buffoon in the suite behind the plate who reacts in disbelief to Griffey's monster homer. I'd been yapping at him the whole game, stuff like "C'mon Junior, let's see what you got". The he showed me (and everyone else as well).
@@csilver522 😅😅😅 awwww man you was heckling him jeeeez
Holy Toledo Griffey was the best, in addition to the iconic calls.
Stuart Scott, Dan Patrick, Kieth Oberman, Rich Eisen, Kenny Mane, and Chris Berman, the Mothership has not been the same without your energy.
Love you, miss u.
im getting GOOSEBUMPS!!!!! sweetest SWING EVER.....KILLING IT!!!!! IM just glad Dave passed after all these amazing calls.....WE WERE SPOILED!!!!!RIP STUART!!!!
Stuart Scott miss you man. Booo ya!!! Miss your soundbites as they made the commentary so fun. Could seriously listen to his voice all day. And watch Ken Griffey Junior hit homers all day.
I agree jamie. I appreciate these highlights more than anyone could ever know. My all tie favorite player
Good luck finding a sweeter swing than Junior’s.
Best video on RUclips. Thanks for posting!
He just makes it look so effortless
Would you say he is amused by the simplicity of this game? Jeez, how many times did we hear that?
Not enough
GO PLAY HOCKEY@@ZachAdams926
I cant stop watching
I love how you can see the upper deck of the King Dome go from shut down, to sparsely filled, to max. Favorite memories as a kid, all in these clips.
Yea keep these coming my guy. My favorite baseball player ever! The Griffster‼️
It should be a law that the only player who should be used as an example for proper hitting mechanics for young players is Griffey.
The only difference between pitching a fastball or a breaking ball to Jnr was which deck of the stands it ended up in
The sweetest swing ever
Best player that ever stepped on a diamond!!!!!
this is great. thanks for posting
No one can understand this Baseball Home Run Hitter legend in Seattle Mariner History. Only history in time will tell. A total of more than 500 Home Runs. WOW!!!!!!!!!!! at least 800 Home Runs. People cannot be jealous of him!!!!!!!! He controls himself. Legend for his team!!!!!!!!!! Can no one top his home run hitter history of Home Runs! He will be MISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOME RUN PLAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can Anyone? How about other countries like India or Canada or Europe or Africa opening? Many pitchers try to strike him out!!!!!!!!!!! Wow. They couldn't Give him millions of dollars. I may be Non-American but I surely love his Home Run History. i used to play little league and major little league baseball. Everybody wanted his baseball!
249 home runs during that 5 year span...damn
0:45 you already knows it's over before it began when Ken Griffey Jr. is present during the ball game
Best all around player I’ve ever watched in person
If not for the "lost years" in Cincinnati (injured much of 2001-2004), he'd easily be another member of the 700 club. Sweetest swing.
800 Club alone.
Hey this is Bob in Connecticut and Junior is the best I ever saw and I am the biggest Yankee fan I have been a ticket holder for 30 years partial. And he did it without getting juiced. It’s hard to believe his big rookie card 1989 upper deck PSA 10 is only worth $2000. That is a disgrace it should be worth a small fortune😊😊😊
Absolutely the most beautiful swing in baseball history.
Ken Griffey Jr. is the greatest Seattle Mariner of all-time. That swing was so sweet.
He has an exaggerated hip and shoulder rotation. It creates bat lag and, speeds of the bat head through the hitting zone.
His bent back/left arm and straight front/right arm, (arm bar for those modern swing gurus who think it's a bad thing), is how body mass/power is transferred to the barrel. It's also how he makes it look almost effortless.
@@ThekiBoran I agree w/ what your saying. I agree w/ the idea of feet hips hands as, a way of learning to to hit the ball.
i am amused by the simplicity of this game
it will always bug me that he couldn't stay healthy in the 2000s... just always wonder how many HRs he would have finished with. He should be the all time HR king.
Griffey hit 630 career home runs. Had he stayed healthy the second half of his career he easily tops 800 career home runs
Where is Dave?
The true home run king of the era.
Phenomenal. All I got.
Looks like he’s catching the ball with his bat😮
16:34 that sound 🙌
my favorite scene 10:53
Detlef
I caught jrs 354th home run 4/24/1999
Your video shows number 353, he hit 2 in that game
The video then goes to the next game against Detroit
Any chance you have access to that Hit?
I had it recorded on vcr tape for years but it broke
Thanks for anything you can do #detlef
38:52-39:24 He looks so BADASS with HIGH SOCKS!!!🫡🫡🫡⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾
do you have any griffey from 2005? there's only a couple of the 35 he hit that year on yt
really any post 1999 highlights would be cool. He was out of the lineup a lot from 2001 on, but i still want to see anything cool he's done. Some things are trickling through, but most of the videos on yt of griffey are 1989-2000 and 2008-2010
El mejor jardinero de la historia si. Lugar a duda
@detlef
Huge favor if you can. I caught his 354th home run and the ball was stolen, on ESPN and the news you could see me catch it. In your video it shows 353&355
It was the first home run of 2 in the game against the rays and you show the second. Any chance you have the footage of the first one
Ay, not a whole lot of these home runs just climbed out ok.
90-95% of these were bombs!
💣 ⚾️ 👋
And Griffey...Got it!
just some really awesome homers from kg . great stuff ! keep it coming !
素敵ね🥰
17:56
People look like their putting more effort into taking naps.
Effortless home run swing.
It's a mechanically sound swing.
25:07 homeboy about died for a Junior HR ball. Yikes
@34:44 Reds? End of video.
what Jr did to the yankees should be a crime 🤣 Joe torres face says it all at 12:25 🤣🤣
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8:54 went 500ft minimum, IDGAF what they said.
Mr. Clean!
Soups on.
Such a beaty
5:56 Elephant car wash?
Seattle reference.
(Kenny Mayne is also from Seattle.)
He was hitting a baseball far as shit😂😂😂😂
Too bad we couldn't hear the Seattle announcer on those blast's! My O My!!! Great times in Seattle.
almost too funny
These homeruns does not matter Yankees won everything
Steal...
He made it look so easy but trust it’s not easy!!!
I am amused by the simplicity of this game