Same! And now my son hears the music for the current version of that video start up and he stops everything he's doing to look for the screen to watch the video. Baseball is a beautiful thing man.
9:52 is a great clip. It's Tony Womack (a guy whose OPS+ was 64 that year) hitting a grand slam on Father's Day. His father passed away a few weeks prior.
A fun fact about Kim; he revealed in an interview about what was going on in his head when he blew those 2 saves. He said the only thing he could think of at the moment was Mark Grace. Apparently Grace was like a father figure to Kim in the clubhouse and took care for him, a 22yr old boy from across the Pacific in a club filled with more 30+yr old veterans than rookies. Kim's impressive stats that year shows for himself and while it's tragic he blew those two saves at the very last moments of that season, it's a relief Arizona and Johnson managed to pull it off.
one of the greatest game 7s ever.. i wish it was in the yankees benefit but everything happens for a reason. soriano homer made me cry... randy johnson on no days rest to come in relief was ridiculous.. here's a story jolly. Mariano learned to not regret this blown save.. if Mariano gets this save and the Yankees win .. the parade was scheduled and enrique wilson would have been on flight 587 on nov 12.. 265 ppl died on that flight and wilson would have been one of them. since the yankees lost wilson left earlier to DR. mariano said " im glad we lost the world series because it means that i still have my friend"
That crash was scary as hell at the time. A jet airliner crashing into Queens two months after 9/11? Buildings were evacuated and the whole nation paused for a moment wondering if it was happening again.
I was born on the day this team won the World Series. I was there when Rocktober in 2007, Nyjer Morgan in 2011, & LA embarrassing us on multiple occasions broke my heart. I experienced the nightmare 2021 season. And, I will cheer them on in this World Series & beyond! I might be a world away from Arizona, but I will forever be a chaotic snake. As a D-Backs fan, all I have to say is this: #EmbraceTheChaos. OUR CHAOS INCARNATE! And, I still have the Black, Purple, & Green Randy Johnson jersey.
I was 9 years old and actively avoiding Halloween so that I could be home watching the Diamondbacks and that bastard Jeter hit the home run at midnight. I'm Florida born and raised, but my heart will always belong to the Arizona baseball Diamondbacks 😍
Man LET ME TELL YOU! I was 10 years old super Anti-Yankees (Mets fan here so I was a little over devastated about the 2000 WS 😢) while LIVING 3 blocks away from Yankee stadium in the Bronx. And studying each and every game at this point I had forgiven Kim, I was hoping for Luis González to save the game and he did!!! I was probably the happiest I’ve ever been 😅 at that point…
@@darkchocolate3390 It was exciting and nerve-wracking, especially as we moved into the 7th inning and after. Then that amazing ninth inning. Oh, the joy. Everyone screaming, jumping up and down, and hugging strangers next to you. What a high when we won!
This World series and this AZ dbacks team is the reason I fell in love with baseball. I remember watching every game with my dad. Even though my dad was a diehard Yankees fan he loved watching Johnson pitch. And those uniforms are some of the best looking ones out there.
Only WS in MLB history with a game 7 bottom of the ninth walk off. There is only way it can be better is if it's a great g1-g6 and G7 bottom 9th walk off grand slam 😂
I loved this World Series. It also meant a lot because it was right after 9/11. Even though the Yankees did not win it, I felt they showed a lot of class. I loved all the patriotic numbers before the games and at the 7th inning. Thanks for rekindling these great memories.
12 year old Arizona boy sitting on the couch with my dad watching the Dbacks playoff run in 01 and then the Gonzo walk off WS win is a core childhood memory. Those 3 games at Yankees stadium were gut wrenching to watch, something magical happened in NY. There was no way the Yankees were gonna lose at home it felt like. Greatest WS I’ve ever seen.
great game. we, in downtown phoenix, got to see the stealth bomber cruise about our metro before the game. i saw randy johnson at our local walmart, with security. he was friendly and imposing, taller than i realized.
Those Dbacks teams were stacked back then. Lots of vets and playoff experience. Even their first few years they were always winning the NL West and in playoffs. Expansion team.
Post 9/11 was the only time I ever wanted the Yankees and the Patriots to win their respective championships. People are still shocked when I point out that the Yankees lost that series to AZ
One the greatest series I ever watched!! Only the Red Sox vs Yankees in 03 & 04 are up with this 1 for me personally the drama ,the baseball,the 9/11 backstory,Yankees going for 4 in a row ,Johnson & shilling vs Clemens & mo Rivera in game 7, seeing mo blow the save when you thought for sure Soriano won it with that hr off shilling,seeing Joe torre fist pump after Soriano hr,seeing zimmer crying in the dugout after the game ,seeing Paul O’Neil realizing his career was over,seeing jeter sitting in shock in the dugout,man I can keep going it had everything.. Look up 9 innings from ground zero ,it’s an hbo doc from back in the day that I’ve watched a few times since it aired back then just to relive that time period every so often
I was a baby in 2001 and it’s been awesome watching this series as an adult with my dad and having him tell me about watching the 01 series while holding me♥️ GO DBACKS
Oh God you brought back some deeply buried nostalgia i completely forgot about with that 3D Diamondbacks intro in the inaugural season. I remember my dad being super excited about us getting a team and we even took trips out to 7th street to periodically take a picture every two weeks to monitor the construction progress. Eventually we kinda gave up on that project but he had season tickets for the first couple years. I'm glad he got to see us win in 2001, he later passed new years eve in 2006. Thanks for getting me into baseball pops. AZ native of 37 years, never have lived in another state
The DBacks and I were born on the same year. I’m not a sports fan, but I love history and storytelling, and this year made me wanna revisit the DBacks again. Hope this time around, the team continues to be successful after this weird playoff run. Wish that purple and teal would come back again.
21:20 - THANK YOU!!!! Man I live in Phoenix, and the Gonzo walk-off is replayed ALL the time around here... and I always, ALWAYS say Womack's 2B was infinitely more important! Single most important hit in franchise history
I cana remember all world series since 97. However, even as a Marlins fans. I have to admit that 2001 World Series has been the BEST WS in the past 25 years.
I think what fascinates me most is who they beat. That 2001 Yankees team was fully loaded with guys like Clemens, Mussina, Rivera, Posada, Jeter, Soriano, Justice, and more looking to make it four straight.
Man, I needed. This. Home Run Kim (yes, thats what we called him) was never the same after this. As far as I know, he never really did anything else in baseball.
I'll never forget that Womack single. I was a young baseball fan and I watche the Yankees for most of it. I wanted them to win so bad and that hit broke my heary for the first time. Damn. Why did I even watch this? Thanks.
That dbacks team was a lot of fun, and so is this one! I love all the motion on the bases, the speed, the contact. I really hope they win the WS cause they exemplify what baseball really is about to me more than Philly.
Ran into your channel by accident looking for baseball history, stats and review. You are doing a great job my friend and I really enjoy your content. I remember this series well. I was born and raised in L.A. but I lived and worked in NY from ‘99 to ‘06. I am Dodgers fan and dislike the Yankees in a friendly and not mean spirited way. Still because I’m a baseball junkie I went to a lot of Yankees games in the Bronx during this period and those Yankee teams during the late 90’s / early 00s with Jeter and Rivera as anchors were unbelievably great teams. I figured the post Sept 11 2001 Yankees would steamroll everyone. I must admit - given that I was surrounded at work by Yankees fans and the fact that the pain of Sept 11 was still raw I did want the Yankees to bring it home if only to provide my work colleagues and friends with some solace. Alas the DBacks had other plans and I can’t hate them for spoiling the narrative. It hurt my colleagues and friends a lot and being a Dodgers fan I tried my best to point out it could be worse - you could be a Dodgers fan. It didn’t work but I tried. The fact that the series happened at all was in of itself a miracle after the horror of what all of us witnessed in person on that horrible day. I may not like the Yankees but I respect those players who represented a city in mourning providing much needed bright light during a dark period in NYCs history.
🎉that was a great game 7 as well. Exciting WS. A lil right after 9/11. Sports across nation had temporary suspension while nation was still in shock, grieving, high alert ect. Airports suspended a lil bit and then had increase security once resumed.
The best pitching Duo Schilling-Johnson, the Hero and most underrated player Tommy Womack, and the golden hit of Luis González. One of the Best World Series.
I still will never understand how the Dbacks won a World Series in one of the best and most unique color schemes in sports . . . . only to change it 5 years later for a more "modern look" (not to say the color scheme now isnt good or not unique but the other uniform just hits different).
This season as little kid kept me believing for 22 that we could make it back to the World Series. I was 10 years old, and we are ready for another title.
When you look at this, makes me wonder how Arizona didn't sweep them? That 2001 magic was real. If this series got played again. It would be prolly be a sweep or maybe a 5 game series.
Man LET ME TELL YOU! I was 10 years old super Anti-Yankees (Mets fan here so I was a little over devastated about the 2000 WS 😢) while LIVING 3 blocks away from Yankee stadium in the Bronx. And studying each and every game at this point I had forgiven Kim, I was hoping for Luis González to save the game and he did!!! And i got to see it LIVE. I was probably the happiest I’ve ever been 😅 at that point…
From a lifelong Yankees fan, the 2001 World Series was way more heartbreaking than the 2004 ALCS. Not saying an epic meltdown against your most hated rival is easy to get over, but nothing compares to the pain of losing that final game of the season in 2001.
You couldn’t have written a better story about a World Series. So many dramatic highs and lows - all taking place in the shadow of 9/11. My favorite series ever. Though, I am from Arizona and a fan who regularly watches games all season, so maybe I’m biased.
My favorite thing about the similarities of these two seasons, is the sacrificial bird. Oh course, back in 01 we had baseballs version of Dale Earnhardt on the mound, but still! Lol we all joked about it when it happened. OMG! This means we're going to win the world series!! Lol none of us took it seriously. Maybe we should have. Of course right now the Snakes are down 3-0 sooooo
Learned a lot of this from Twitter on Thursday: 2001 season (including Spring Training): D-Backs ace hit a bird with a pitch, but not during a regular season game All Star Game in Seattle World Series games were scheduled between October 27th and November 4th George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at a World Series game D-Backs made the World Series and won it 2023 season: D-Backs ace hit a bird with a pitch, but not during a regular season game All Star Game in Seattle World Series games were scheduled between October 27th and November 4th George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at a World Series game D-Backs made the World Series and might win it
Baxter was not the original mascot. The original was Drew Heybatter played by Brady Bogan, the longtime sidekick on AZ’s most popular radio show, Holmberg’s Morning Sickness. He’s a jolly little fat man with the voice of a child who has brought happiness to AZ for over 20yrs.
My Uncle moved to Phoenix in 1999 and I went to visit him that summer, we saw every single home game in June 1999. So I get nostalgic when I think of the D-Backs. I cheered for them in 01 because I like them and I hate the Yankees. Unfortunately, I can't cheer for them this year because my #1 team is the Texas Rangers, but this has been a great series so far.
This was a really good video. Thank you for making it. I remember so much about that season: First, everyone in Phoenix F-ed with the Diamondbacks then. I was in middle school and we loved the new team, how they'd gone to the playoffs in the 2nd year, the cool retractable roof stadium, the pool, their sweetass uniforms, and the fact that games were so cheap, everyone went to a couple during the year. The 2001 series really felt like it was now or never for the aging Dbacks. The 99 playoff loss to the Mets was a gut punch. Another commenter said the Mets were favored, but we didn't think so. Dbacks took 7 of 9 in the season series against the Mets. The team we wanted to avoid was the Reds, against whom the Mets were fighting for the wild card spot. The Reds beat us like 8 of 9 times during the year. AZ felt like Steve Finley after he missed catching Todd Pratt's homer, being like 'wut?' Phoenix had endured a ton of heartbreak in the 90s, with the Suns losing to the Bulls in 93, then the Rockets in 94 and 95, each time being sooo close and then messing it up. ASU almost won the national title in 1996. So in 2001 when we made the playoffs, we were LUCKY to beat the Cardinals. They were stacked and had killed us in 2000 after they got Jim Edmonds. I went to Game 1 with Schilling v Morris and feeling so lucky to win with just 1 run, couldn't count on a CGS every time. I went to Game 5 too, and during the 9th inning, before Womack's hit, they tried some suicide squeeze play with 1 out that failed miserably lol. I felt like we were gonna lose again in the 1st round like in 1999. I couldn't believe it when Womack got the hit, and there was a pretty close play at the plate, or it felt like it at the time. Everyone loved Womack too. Solid short stop and we loved seeing him steal bases. I was stunned when the DBacks went up 3-1 and knocked out Maddux in game 4 of NLCS. I couldn't believe we were actually going to the World Series. The Braves series felt EASY. Game 1 of World Series, tough to explain how TOUGH the Yankees were. Just talking baseball, they felt invincible in 98, 99 and 2000. In Game 1, they got a run in the 1st and I thought uh oh, we're done, but then sooooo unexpectedly, Counsell blasted the tying homer. Then we piled on 9 runs in like 3 or 4 innings, it was amazing. Game 2 I got roped into a double date to watch stupid movie K-Pax. Afterwards I dragged everyone to some ice cream place which had TVs so I could watch the game. When Matt Williams blasted the home run I was so pumped and thought OMG we're gonna win the series, this is so easy. The Yankees didn't look tough AT ALL. Game 3 was a tight one, the breaks didn't go the Dbacks' way, they had like 2 or 3 extra base hits get caught just barely, and I felt that we had almost one with Brian Anderson going up against Roger Clemens on the road, so whatever, no big deal. Game 4 was Halloween and I went out trick or treating lol. We came back to the friends' house where everyone was watching, just in time to see them score 2 runs to go up 3-1. A mom kept yelling "oh yeah! 3 to 1! 3 to 1! 3 to 1!" she meant the score, not the games. Anyway, Kim made the Yankees look like fools in the 8th and we were all soooo pumped. Couldn't believe it when Martinez hit the home run, and felt like dead team walking when Kim went back out and Jeter hit the home run off him (Mr November is a stupid nickname too btw). Either way, not huge deal, we're just tied and had outplayed Yankees just about every game, they'd barely won. Felt pretty confident in Game 5 and could not believe when Kim gave up another home run to Brosius, who has a weird looking face amirite? After we lost I really felt like we could lose that series. Hard to describe how deflated and. PISSED OFF everyone was that Friday between game 5 and 6. Kim was a popular player, we knew he was good, so we complained about him, but just the whole situation was like wtf, is this actually happening? Game 6 I was soooo nervous for, and idk if just me, but doesn't Chase Field look so much nicer and friendlier than Yankee Stadium. I mean that respectfully because Yankee Stadium was a nightmare place, but it looks so much darker, dirtier and just a mob of pulsing screaming humans compared to Dbacks' field. That's how I felt at the time and it felt good to be home. Anyway, I was still a little nervous when the Yankees scored 2 runs to make it 15-2 lol, but it was good. It was at some family party. Game 7 in Phoenix was the tensest 3 or 4 hours I remember. EVERYONE was watching. We left another party to head home and I remember my dad hurrying everyone into the car and to say goodbyes fast during the commercial break so we wouldn't miss any part on the radio during the drive lol, and then everyone running into the house to turn on the TV. When Soriano blasted the HR I couldn't believe it was happening, and after Rivera killed our 4-5-6 hitters effortlessly, it felt over. Grace was a champion getting the lead off single and it felt so strange seeing Rivera make the shitty throw to 2nd. Jay Bell made the worst bunt of all time and made everyone groan. As others have said, the real champion hit was Womack (clutch playoff champion)'s double on Rivera. He laced that sucker HARD into right, and then it felt like the weight of the world was off our shoulders. Like, we had survived and even if tied, it was bullpen v bullpen and Rivera was out, there was still a chance. The excitement built as Counsell got hit (they looked at replays for like 5 minutes to see if it hit his hand), and then Gonzalez had a kind of lame little hit to get the win, and Bell did the goofy overhead double clap running home lol, but still we were all sooooo elated. It was the best series ever, hard to describe the week long roller coaster of emotions. Thanks for reading
There's a certain irony to this world series matchup, the Dbacks were accused of spending big to "buy" the 01 World Series (which their GM admitted was part of the plan, because he wanted the team to be successful and convince Arizona that they would be legit ASAP)...and now a young Snakes squad of many home grown talents and a modest 21st-in-the-league payroll is going against a Rangers team accused of trying to buy their world series.
I was 8 years old in 1998. My family had season tickets for the first 10 years and looking back I have some great memories watching Randy and curt pitch every five days
As a Yankee fan, this is still my all time favorite world series to watch. The crazy comebacks from both sides, especially the ones the Yankees pulled off in game 4 and game 5, I mean it's like it was written for a movie. Just a beautifully chaotic world series.
Game 7 of the 2001 WS was what you call a true epic. People dont remember most fans in 2001 HATED the Yankees, they were the bad guys of pro sports before the Patriots took over. Even after 9/11 a lot of people groaned at the NYY going back to the WS. Then you saw a true clash up to game 7 and that bottom of the 9th was the peak of postseason greatness. Randy Johnson cemented himself as the greatest lefty of all time, and Luis Gonzalez became a hero for being the one to stop the juggernaut that was the yanks.
You can’t tell me this is not the greatest WS of all time. Sure 1991 had a closer box score. And 2016 was an incredible series. But look at the legends on both sides: Randy Johnson, curt schilling, Derek jeter, Roger Clemens, Mariano Rivera. The best pitching duel EVER. Look at the setting: right after 9/11, and the country was finally rooting for the Yankees. The Yankees are the biggest MLB franchise. Baseball was a way to express patriotism and took on a whole new degree of importance. Look at the challenge: the Yankees were the 90s Chicago bulls, winning 4 of the last 5. Look at games 3-5, 1 run games in which games 4/5 ended in extra innings after bottom of the 9th, game tying 2 run home runs. Look at game 7, it didn’t end in a throw to first base or a fly ball. It ended in hits to tie then to win off the GREATEST closer of all time, bottom of the 9th inning, bases loaded. Rivera had not had a post season blown save for FOUR years. Sorry it’s the greatest WS ever
Need someone to make a video of how old Reggie Sanders always ended up on World Series teams in the early 2000s (01 Diamondbacks, 02 Giants, 04 Cardinals)
Not taking away from the other players but.. Johnson Schilling Gonzo This is it. This was the team right here. If these guys didnt do their jobs in that season, we wouldn’t be talking about them today. I heard Grace say that the 02 was better than the 01 team. I have to say he was right. If they repeated in 02, they could’ve had the chance to become a dynasty. Unfortunately, Gonzos production fell the next year (yes it could’ve been the steroids, but he is and still my idol). Johnson and Schilling were still the best 1-2 punch in the MLB. If Gonzo repeated his production, they could’ve made it back to the World Series. It was fate and bad timing for the Dbacks after getting swept out of the first round by the Cardinals. I think the franchise knew that they weren’t the same team anymore and it showed after that.
I never forgot Hanley has and always will be one of my favorite players. I am a die hard Dodgers fan and I always cheered for Hanley so when he joined as a kid I was the happiest ever. His linedrive home runs were crazy
To comment on the bobcat, it seems that since the University of Arizona’s mascot is the Wildcat, many of the mascots for many high school teams in Arizona were some kind of wildcat, like tigers, cougars, panthers, etc. It just seemed the bobcat was following the same path.
As a cubs fan, I have bias toward 2016, but I will admit, diamondbacks have my vote for second favorite team and second favorite World Series of all time. What. A. Team.
Imagine if Craig Counsell, now manager of the brewers and someone who struggled in 2001, walked off game 7 off the World Series. Sadly he got „hit“ by the pitch (I don’t think he did)
I'd argue Gonzo wasn't that unexpected of a one year wonder. Like Brady Anderson before him, he always had a ton of contact potential and the ability to build a power frame through a quick swing. Whether steroids were what pushed his reaction time and strength over the edge, he went from houston to miami to detroit- all a lot more pitcher friendly parks in their time- to arizona, in a division with very good parks for a lefty swing. It sucks that it was a shorter stretch, but that season was legendary.
Soon as baseball youtubers made all these D-Backs videos, the Rangers end up beating them quite convincingly lol. Rangers up 3-1 and probably winning tonight. You jinxed em Jolly!
Seeing that Dbacks graphic with the Snake and the ball rolling to home takes me back as a kid watching that on the big board at the stadium. 😭
Same!
Same! And now my son hears the music for the current version of that video start up and he stops everything he's doing to look for the screen to watch the video. Baseball is a beautiful thing man.
Yup- Iconic
And then the hype video with “Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends- Ladies And Gentlemen”
Same. brings me back to a much simpler time. Very nostalgic
9:52 is a great clip. It's Tony Womack (a guy whose OPS+ was 64 that year) hitting a grand slam on Father's Day. His father passed away a few weeks prior.
A fun fact about Kim; he revealed in an interview about what was going on in his head when he blew those 2 saves. He said the only thing he could think of at the moment was Mark Grace. Apparently Grace was like a father figure to Kim in the clubhouse and took care for him, a 22yr old boy from across the Pacific in a club filled with more 30+yr old veterans than rookies. Kim's impressive stats that year shows for himself and while it's tragic he blew those two saves at the very last moments of that season, it's a relief Arizona and Johnson managed to pull it off.
25 minutes!?? Need to order food real quick 🤝
one of the greatest game 7s ever.. i wish it was in the yankees benefit but everything happens for a reason. soriano homer made me cry... randy johnson on no days rest to come in relief was ridiculous.. here's a story jolly. Mariano learned to not regret this blown save.. if Mariano gets this save and the Yankees win .. the parade was scheduled and enrique wilson would have been on flight 587 on nov 12.. 265 ppl died on that flight and wilson would have been one of them. since the yankees lost wilson left earlier to DR. mariano said " im glad we lost the world series because it means that i still have my friend"
this comment means a lot from you buddy, rooting for all you do with JM even though you love the Damn Yankees :)
That crash was scary as hell at the time. A jet airliner crashing into Queens two months after 9/11? Buildings were evacuated and the whole nation paused for a moment wondering if it was happening again.
I was born on the day this team won the World Series. I was there when Rocktober in 2007, Nyjer Morgan in 2011, & LA embarrassing us on multiple occasions broke my heart. I experienced the nightmare 2021 season. And, I will cheer them on in this World Series & beyond! I might be a world away from Arizona, but I will forever be a chaotic snake. As a D-Backs fan, all I have to say is this: #EmbraceTheChaos. OUR CHAOS INCARNATE!
And, I still have the Black, Purple, & Green Randy Johnson jersey.
I was 9 years old and actively avoiding Halloween so that I could be home watching the Diamondbacks and that bastard Jeter hit the home run at midnight. I'm Florida born and raised, but my heart will always belong to the Arizona baseball Diamondbacks 😍
The day I was born my team had just won 116 games in the regular season
@@bigfloridapimp D-Back fan from Houston.
Man LET ME TELL YOU!
I was 10 years old super Anti-Yankees (Mets fan here so I was a little over devastated about the 2000 WS 😢) while LIVING 3 blocks away from Yankee stadium in the Bronx. And studying each and every game at this point I had forgiven Kim, I was hoping for Luis González to save the game and he did!!! I was probably the happiest I’ve ever been 😅 at that point…
Attending game 7 of that series is one of the top 5 highlights of my life.
What was the environment like?
@@darkchocolate3390 It was exciting and nerve-wracking, especially as we moved into the 7th inning and after. Then that amazing ninth inning. Oh, the joy. Everyone screaming, jumping up and down, and hugging strangers next to you. What a high when we won!
This World series and this AZ dbacks team is the reason I fell in love with baseball. I remember watching every game with my dad. Even though my dad was a diehard Yankees fan he loved watching Johnson pitch. And those uniforms are some of the best looking ones out there.
Those and the powdered blue expos jersey are easily my top 2 in baseball history.
2001 is arguably the most epic WS ever with so many narrow games and gut-wrenching twists.
Only WS in MLB history with a game 7 bottom of the ninth walk off. There is only way it can be better is if it's a great g1-g6 and G7 bottom 9th walk off grand slam 😂
I loved this World Series. It also meant a lot because it was right after 9/11. Even though the Yankees did not win it, I felt they showed a lot of class. I loved all the patriotic numbers before the games and at the 7th inning. Thanks for rekindling these great memories.
12 year old Arizona boy sitting on the couch with my dad watching the Dbacks playoff run in 01 and then the Gonzo walk off WS win is a core childhood memory. Those 3 games at Yankees stadium were gut wrenching to watch, something magical happened in NY. There was no way the Yankees were gonna lose at home it felt like. Greatest WS I’ve ever seen.
For all of his reputation as being a grump, Randy Johnson sure has starred in lots of legendary commercials.
I’ll never forget this squad. ❤
great game. we, in downtown phoenix, got to see the stealth bomber cruise about our metro before the game. i saw randy johnson at our local walmart, with security. he was friendly and imposing, taller than i realized.
Those Dbacks teams were stacked back then. Lots of vets and playoff experience. Even their first few years they were always winning the NL West and in playoffs. Expansion team.
Just incredible how little emotion guys used to show. After Womack’s double he looks just a little excited
Post 9/11 was the only time I ever wanted the Yankees and the Patriots to win their respective championships. People are still shocked when I point out that the Yankees lost that series to AZ
Most people forget the Yankees also won the world series 3 years straight prior to that. It was a nice change honestly.
Ignoring my Monday responsibilities with a Jolly vid, life is good
One the greatest series I ever watched!! Only the Red Sox vs Yankees in 03 & 04 are up with this 1 for me personally the drama ,the baseball,the 9/11 backstory,Yankees going for 4 in a row ,Johnson & shilling vs Clemens & mo Rivera in game 7, seeing mo blow the save when you thought for sure Soriano won it with that hr off shilling,seeing Joe torre fist pump after Soriano hr,seeing zimmer crying in the dugout after the game ,seeing Paul O’Neil realizing his career was over,seeing jeter sitting in shock in the dugout,man I can keep going it had everything..
Look up 9 innings from ground zero ,it’s an hbo doc from back in the day that I’ve watched a few times since it aired back then just to relive that time period every so often
Baseball fan in Australia.. what a banger video. So well narrated and researched. Liked and subscribed
I've seen it a number of times approaching infinity, but Gonzo's game 7, bottom-of-the-ninth at-bat gives me chills every time.
I was a baby in 2001 and it’s been awesome watching this series as an adult with my dad and having him tell me about watching the 01 series while holding me♥️ GO DBACKS
Me too man, i was 2 months old and never watched the series but man do i hear about it now that i live in az
This brought back a lot of memories and emotions. Thanks, Jolly, another banger!
Counsel was such a solid player. And clutch. He was key for the Marlins in 97 and key for the DBacks. Two band new teans
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Game 7 of the 2001 WS is the greatest game I ever watched
Thanks for such a great tribute to this team. Feels incredible to hear people connecting the 01 squad to this year's.
Oh God you brought back some deeply buried nostalgia i completely forgot about with that 3D Diamondbacks intro in the inaugural season. I remember my dad being super excited about us getting a team and we even took trips out to 7th street to periodically take a picture every two weeks to monitor the construction progress. Eventually we kinda gave up on that project but he had season tickets for the first couple years. I'm glad he got to see us win in 2001, he later passed new years eve in 2006. Thanks for getting me into baseball pops. AZ native of 37 years, never have lived in another state
These videos are so well put together, the throwback commercials are definitely my favorite part of the videos
The DBacks and I were born on the same year. I’m not a sports fan, but I love history and storytelling, and this year made me wanna revisit the DBacks again.
Hope this time around, the team continues to be successful after this weird playoff run. Wish that purple and teal would come back again.
Awesome video as always! Only thing I was waiting to see was a mention of “The Chicken runs at Midnight” lol
21:20 - THANK YOU!!!! Man I live in Phoenix, and the Gonzo walk-off is replayed ALL the time around here... and I always, ALWAYS say Womack's 2B was infinitely more important!
Single most important hit in franchise history
I cana remember all world series since 97. However, even as a Marlins fans. I have to admit that 2001 World Series has been the BEST WS in the past 25 years.
It’s definitely a top 5 all time
Yeah as Marlins fan, Dbacks run was just pure amazing stuff
I think what fascinates me most is who they beat. That 2001 Yankees team was fully loaded with guys like Clemens, Mussina, Rivera, Posada, Jeter, Soriano, Justice, and more looking to make it four straight.
Man, I needed. This. Home Run Kim (yes, thats what we called him) was never the same after this. As far as I know, he never really did anything else in baseball.
The bloody sock before the bloody sock and the end of the yabkees dynasty. As a Sox fan this was awesome.
I'll never forget that Womack single. I was a young baseball fan and I watche the Yankees for most of it. I wanted them to win so bad and that hit broke my heary for the first time. Damn.
Why did I even watch this? Thanks.
That dbacks team was a lot of fun, and so is this one! I love all the motion on the bases, the speed, the contact. I really hope they win the WS cause they exemplify what baseball really is about to me more than Philly.
Ran into your channel by accident looking for baseball history, stats and review. You are doing a great job my friend and I really enjoy your content. I remember this series well. I was born and raised in L.A. but I lived and worked in NY from ‘99 to ‘06. I am Dodgers fan and dislike the Yankees in a friendly and not mean spirited way. Still because I’m a baseball junkie I went to a lot of Yankees games in the Bronx during this period and those Yankee teams during the late 90’s / early 00s with Jeter and Rivera as anchors were unbelievably great teams. I figured the post Sept 11 2001 Yankees would steamroll everyone. I must admit - given that I was surrounded at work by Yankees fans and the fact that the pain of Sept 11 was still raw I did want the Yankees to bring it home if only to provide my work colleagues and friends with some solace. Alas the DBacks had other plans and I can’t hate them for spoiling the narrative. It hurt my colleagues and friends a lot and being a Dodgers fan I tried my best to point out it could be worse - you could be a Dodgers fan. It didn’t work but I tried. The fact that the series happened at all was in of itself a miracle after the horror of what all of us witnessed in person on that horrible day. I may not like the Yankees but I respect those players who represented a city in mourning providing much needed bright light during a dark period in NYCs history.
🎉that was a great game 7 as well. Exciting WS. A lil right after 9/11. Sports across nation had temporary suspension while nation was still in shock, grieving, high alert ect. Airports suspended a lil bit and then had increase security once resumed.
The best pitching Duo Schilling-Johnson, the Hero and most underrated player Tommy Womack, and the golden hit of Luis González. One of the Best World Series.
I still will never understand how the Dbacks won a World Series in one of the best and most unique color schemes in sports . . . . only to change it 5 years later for a more "modern look" (not to say the color scheme now isnt good or not unique but the other uniform just hits different).
This season as little kid kept me believing for 22 that we could make it back to the World Series. I was 10 years old, and we are ready for another title.
We deserve something in this state! Since the cards and suns could not get it done in that same time span
Great video jolly! I always get very nostalgic seeing anything related to the 01 snakes. Go Dbacks!
When you look at this, makes me wonder how Arizona didn't sweep them? That 2001 magic was real. If this series got played again. It would be prolly be a sweep or maybe a 5 game series.
Man LET ME TELL YOU!
I was 10 years old super Anti-Yankees (Mets fan here so I was a little over devastated about the 2000 WS 😢) while LIVING 3 blocks away from Yankee stadium in the Bronx. And studying each and every game at this point I had forgiven Kim, I was hoping for Luis González to save the game and he did!!! And i got to see it LIVE. I was probably the happiest I’ve ever been 😅 at that point…
There was only one out in bottom of the 9th when Gonzo went up, but other than that this is perfection. My fav team, go Snakes! ❤🐍
Should have been two though. Brosius had a double play throwing to first after the force out at third
@@ahogg5960 they would’ve just Intentionally Walked Gonzo
From a lifelong Yankees fan, the 2001 World Series was way more heartbreaking than the 2004 ALCS.
Not saying an epic meltdown against your most hated rival is easy to get over, but nothing compares to the pain of losing that final game of the season in 2001.
Loving the Power Pros Success Mode song in the beginning!
Best series of all time
You couldn’t have written a better story about a World Series. So many dramatic highs and lows - all taking place in the shadow of 9/11. My favorite series ever. Though, I am from Arizona and a fan who regularly watches games all season, so maybe I’m biased.
My favorite thing about the similarities of these two seasons, is the sacrificial bird. Oh course, back in 01 we had baseballs version of Dale Earnhardt on the mound, but still! Lol we all joked about it when it happened. OMG! This means we're going to win the world series!! Lol none of us took it seriously. Maybe we should have. Of course right now the Snakes are down 3-0 sooooo
Learned a lot of this from Twitter on Thursday:
2001 season (including Spring Training):
D-Backs ace hit a bird with a pitch, but not during a regular season game
All Star Game in Seattle
World Series games were scheduled between October 27th and November 4th
George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at a World Series game
D-Backs made the World Series and won it
2023 season:
D-Backs ace hit a bird with a pitch, but not during a regular season game
All Star Game in Seattle
World Series games were scheduled between October 27th and November 4th
George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at a World Series game
D-Backs made the World Series and might win it
I’ve thought about the mascot quite a bit and come to the conclusion that it would look weird to have a snake with legs
6:36 man 2017 Gio Gonzalez was something special as a nats fan..
Baxter was not the original mascot. The original was Drew Heybatter played by Brady Bogan, the longtime sidekick on AZ’s most popular radio show, Holmberg’s Morning Sickness. He’s a jolly little fat man with the voice of a child who has brought happiness to AZ for over 20yrs.
My Uncle moved to Phoenix in 1999 and I went to visit him that summer, we saw every single home game in June 1999. So I get nostalgic when I think of the D-Backs. I cheered for them in 01 because I like them and I hate the Yankees. Unfortunately, I can't cheer for them this year because my #1 team is the Texas Rangers, but this has been a great series so far.
This was a really good video. Thank you for making it. I remember so much about that season:
First, everyone in Phoenix F-ed with the Diamondbacks then. I was in middle school and we loved the new team, how they'd gone to the playoffs in the 2nd year, the cool retractable roof stadium, the pool, their sweetass uniforms, and the fact that games were so cheap, everyone went to a couple during the year.
The 2001 series really felt like it was now or never for the aging Dbacks. The 99 playoff loss to the Mets was a gut punch. Another commenter said the Mets were favored, but we didn't think so. Dbacks took 7 of 9 in the season series against the Mets. The team we wanted to avoid was the Reds, against whom the Mets were fighting for the wild card spot. The Reds beat us like 8 of 9 times during the year. AZ felt like Steve Finley after he missed catching Todd Pratt's homer, being like 'wut?'
Phoenix had endured a ton of heartbreak in the 90s, with the Suns losing to the Bulls in 93, then the Rockets in 94 and 95, each time being sooo close and then messing it up. ASU almost won the national title in 1996.
So in 2001 when we made the playoffs, we were LUCKY to beat the Cardinals. They were stacked and had killed us in 2000 after they got Jim Edmonds. I went to Game 1 with Schilling v Morris and feeling so lucky to win with just 1 run, couldn't count on a CGS every time. I went to Game 5 too, and during the 9th inning, before Womack's hit, they tried some suicide squeeze play with 1 out that failed miserably lol. I felt like we were gonna lose again in the 1st round like in 1999. I couldn't believe it when Womack got the hit, and there was a pretty close play at the plate, or it felt like it at the time. Everyone loved Womack too. Solid short stop and we loved seeing him steal bases.
I was stunned when the DBacks went up 3-1 and knocked out Maddux in game 4 of NLCS. I couldn't believe we were actually going to the World Series. The Braves series felt EASY.
Game 1 of World Series, tough to explain how TOUGH the Yankees were. Just talking baseball, they felt invincible in 98, 99 and 2000. In Game 1, they got a run in the 1st and I thought uh oh, we're done, but then sooooo unexpectedly, Counsell blasted the tying homer. Then we piled on 9 runs in like 3 or 4 innings, it was amazing.
Game 2 I got roped into a double date to watch stupid movie K-Pax. Afterwards I dragged everyone to some ice cream place which had TVs so I could watch the game. When Matt Williams blasted the home run I was so pumped and thought OMG we're gonna win the series, this is so easy. The Yankees didn't look tough AT ALL.
Game 3 was a tight one, the breaks didn't go the Dbacks' way, they had like 2 or 3 extra base hits get caught just barely, and I felt that we had almost one with Brian Anderson going up against Roger Clemens on the road, so whatever, no big deal.
Game 4 was Halloween and I went out trick or treating lol. We came back to the friends' house where everyone was watching, just in time to see them score 2 runs to go up 3-1. A mom kept yelling "oh yeah! 3 to 1! 3 to 1! 3 to 1!" she meant the score, not the games. Anyway, Kim made the Yankees look like fools in the 8th and we were all soooo pumped. Couldn't believe it when Martinez hit the home run, and felt like dead team walking when Kim went back out and Jeter hit the home run off him (Mr November is a stupid nickname too btw).
Either way, not huge deal, we're just tied and had outplayed Yankees just about every game, they'd barely won. Felt pretty confident in Game 5 and could not believe when Kim gave up another home run to Brosius, who has a weird looking face amirite? After we lost I really felt like we could lose that series.
Hard to describe how deflated and. PISSED OFF everyone was that Friday between game 5 and 6. Kim was a popular player, we knew he was good, so we complained about him, but just the whole situation was like wtf, is this actually happening?
Game 6 I was soooo nervous for, and idk if just me, but doesn't Chase Field look so much nicer and friendlier than Yankee Stadium. I mean that respectfully because Yankee Stadium was a nightmare place, but it looks so much darker, dirtier and just a mob of pulsing screaming humans compared to Dbacks' field. That's how I felt at the time and it felt good to be home. Anyway, I was still a little nervous when the Yankees scored 2 runs to make it 15-2 lol, but it was good. It was at some family party.
Game 7 in Phoenix was the tensest 3 or 4 hours I remember. EVERYONE was watching. We left another party to head home and I remember my dad hurrying everyone into the car and to say goodbyes fast during the commercial break so we wouldn't miss any part on the radio during the drive lol, and then everyone running into the house to turn on the TV. When Soriano blasted the HR I couldn't believe it was happening, and after Rivera killed our 4-5-6 hitters effortlessly, it felt over. Grace was a champion getting the lead off single and it felt so strange seeing Rivera make the shitty throw to 2nd. Jay Bell made the worst bunt of all time and made everyone groan.
As others have said, the real champion hit was Womack (clutch playoff champion)'s double on Rivera. He laced that sucker HARD into right, and then it felt like the weight of the world was off our shoulders. Like, we had survived and even if tied, it was bullpen v bullpen and Rivera was out, there was still a chance. The excitement built as Counsell got hit (they looked at replays for like 5 minutes to see if it hit his hand), and then Gonzalez had a kind of lame little hit to get the win, and Bell did the goofy overhead double clap running home lol, but still we were all sooooo elated. It was the best series ever, hard to describe the week long roller coaster of emotions.
Thanks for reading
Why would you type all this on a RUclips comment? Nobody will read it lmao
1:38 90s computer graphics were definitely interesting LOL
Those Mid-Late 90's Mariners commercials were GOOOOLD!!
There's a certain irony to this world series matchup, the Dbacks were accused of spending big to "buy" the 01 World Series (which their GM admitted was part of the plan, because he wanted the team to be successful and convince Arizona that they would be legit ASAP)...and now a young Snakes squad of many home grown talents and a modest 21st-in-the-league payroll is going against a Rangers team accused of trying to buy their world series.
It's a shame that Jerry Colangelo doesn't own the Snakes or Suns anymore. He made them into a really competent franchises during his time.
And the Rangers won in DOMINANT fashion. Money pays. 🤷
love the video but have you considered doing ADR for when what you say doesn't match the on-screen graphics? Think it could be helpful
Truly great content.
I'm a huge Randy Johnson fan and this is one of my favorite teams ever. The Yankee fatigue was soooo real then. This was awesome!
The mlb power pros 07 music is so nostalgic
I was 8 years old in 1998. My family had season tickets for the first 10 years and looking back I have some great memories watching Randy and curt pitch every five days
This brought back some memories
As a Yankee fan, this is still my all time favorite world series to watch. The crazy comebacks from both sides, especially the ones the Yankees pulled off in game 4 and game 5, I mean it's like it was written for a movie. Just a beautifully chaotic world series.
as a D-backs fan, I totally agree.
I do wanna see the Rangers win it, but the DBacks are looking really good!
The ending of the 01 series was amazing.
Game 7 of the 2001 WS was what you call a true epic. People dont remember most fans in 2001 HATED the Yankees, they were the bad guys of pro sports before the Patriots took over. Even after 9/11 a lot of people groaned at the NYY going back to the WS. Then you saw a true clash up to game 7 and that bottom of the 9th was the peak of postseason greatness. Randy Johnson cemented himself as the greatest lefty of all time, and Luis Gonzalez became a hero for being the one to stop the juggernaut that was the yanks.
You can’t tell me this is not the greatest WS of all time. Sure 1991 had a closer box score. And 2016 was an incredible series. But look at the legends on both sides: Randy Johnson, curt schilling, Derek jeter, Roger Clemens, Mariano Rivera. The best pitching duel EVER. Look at the setting: right after 9/11, and the country was finally rooting for the Yankees. The Yankees are the biggest MLB franchise. Baseball was a way to express patriotism and took on a whole new degree of importance. Look at the challenge: the Yankees were the 90s Chicago bulls, winning 4 of the last 5. Look at games 3-5, 1 run games in which games 4/5 ended in extra innings after bottom of the 9th, game tying 2 run home runs. Look at game 7, it didn’t end in a throw to first base or a fly ball. It ended in hits to tie then to win off the GREATEST closer of all time, bottom of the 9th inning, bases loaded. Rivera had not had a post season blown save for FOUR years. Sorry it’s the greatest WS ever
🗣'greatest WS of all time'🏆🙌🍻😁✌😎
Need someone to make a video of how old Reggie Sanders always ended up on World Series teams in the early 2000s (01 Diamondbacks, 02 Giants, 04 Cardinals)
Your channel is awesome man, your to baseball what jxmyhighroller is to basketball on RUclips. Keep up the great work!
Not taking away from the other players but..
Johnson
Schilling
Gonzo
This is it. This was the team right here. If these guys didnt do their jobs in that season, we wouldn’t be talking about them today. I heard Grace say that the 02 was better than the 01 team. I have to say he was right. If they repeated in 02, they could’ve had the chance to become a dynasty. Unfortunately, Gonzos production fell the next year (yes it could’ve been the steroids, but he is and still my idol). Johnson and Schilling were still the best 1-2 punch in the MLB. If Gonzo repeated his production, they could’ve made it back to the World Series. It was fate and bad timing for the Dbacks after getting swept out of the first round by the Cardinals. I think the franchise knew that they weren’t the same team anymore and it showed after that.
i know everybody loves the purple and teal jerseys but i think those gray and black uniforms are top 2 baseball jerseys of all time
This DBacks reminds me of young Stros. Same pitching coach, underdog, unexpected etc...
Babe wake up new jolly olive banger
I never forgot Hanley has and always will be one of my favorite players. I am a die hard Dodgers fan and I always cheered for Hanley so when he joined as a kid I was the happiest ever. His linedrive home runs were crazy
What a great team and a great world series
To comment on the bobcat, it seems that since the University of Arizona’s mascot is the Wildcat, many of the mascots for many high school teams in Arizona were some kind of wildcat, like tigers, cougars, panthers, etc. It just seemed the bobcat was following the same path.
19:23 I know its a mistake that as little affect on the great quality of the video but how how did you read "15 - 2" as "14 - 5" 😂.
The way he said right like three times while looking into the camera had me dying laughing. 😂😂😂💀💀
Fun fact Randy Johnson is now a camera man for sports in Arizona.
As a cubs fan, I have bias toward 2016, but I will admit, diamondbacks have my vote for second favorite team and second favorite World Series of all time. What. A. Team.
2016 doesn’t come close to 2001’s WS. That’s definitely your bias
Seeing Mark Grace and Matt Williams win a World Series was really special
Imagine if Craig Counsell, now manager of the brewers and someone who struggled in 2001, walked off game 7 off the World Series. Sadly he got „hit“ by the pitch (I don’t think he did)
I'd argue Gonzo wasn't that unexpected of a one year wonder. Like Brady Anderson before him, he always had a ton of contact potential and the ability to build a power frame through a quick swing. Whether steroids were what pushed his reaction time and strength over the edge, he went from houston to miami to detroit- all a lot more pitcher friendly parks in their time- to arizona, in a division with very good parks for a lefty swing. It sucks that it was a shorter stretch, but that season was legendary.
6:18 that little smile he gives after breaking the window😂
There was actually 1 out when Gonzalez got the walk off; that’s why the infield was in
Yeah it’s pathetic and uninformed when people blame Joe torre for that decision lmao
Pissing off your main audience ! Hats off to you Jolly!
Holy crap. I love hearing that MLB Power Pros theme
I'm a lifelong Yankees fan and not winning this world series really hurt :(
Just wanna say I love your content. I’m a big Astros fan, would you be doing on a 2022 WS Champ Astros?
Power Pros music still slaps
“From the beginning of the century” 😂 Jesus I’m old
Love all your videos, but this one is my favorite (and I’m not even a D-Backs fan lol)
Amazing!
8:09 RIP DARRYL KILE
I was 3 years old when the Diamondbacks won the World Series in 2001
I was lucky enough to be a fan from the start, and be in the stands for game 7.... good memories......
MLB power pros music at the start!!
Soon as baseball youtubers made all these D-Backs videos, the Rangers end up beating them quite convincingly lol. Rangers up 3-1 and probably winning tonight. You jinxed em Jolly!