Horrible as it was, that the quake happened during this World Series was actually near-miraculous good fortune: by regular commuters from both cities leaving early or staying late to watch, reducing traffic on the collapsed freeways responsible for 2/3 of the overall death toll, the Series saved hundreds of lives.
You're right, TPTGopher. As disastrous as it was, the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake could have been easily as catastrophic as the 1906 earthquake & the recent mega earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
Another case of good fortune happened 19 years later or so when a 3 point shot sent a sec tournament game in the georgia dome (RIP) into overtime just as a tornado was hitting Atlanta
I remember thinking the same exact thing back then. MLB in November was not possible back then. Unfortunately it took another tragedy in September of 2001 to make that finally happen 😢
Yep. The Rolling Stones were very upset because they had a concert scheduled for the Oakland Coliseum that November 1 and their concert would have been postponed if the World Series went to Game 7 blaming "Monday Night Football."
@@ATCguy1973 And now, if it were up to me, I would have EVERY World Series game in November as I would not even start the World Series until the Friday after Election Day (with the series running as late as between November 13-19 depending on the calendar) even if it cold and WS games have to be played in less-than-ideal conditions. This would be so the start of the regular season is pushed back to after the Final Four to get more casual fans at the start of the season (that I would do with on the Saturday after the Final Four there being two games, THE traditional opener in Cincinnati in the afternoon and the WS Champs at night with everyone else opening on Sunday) after March Madness is done with.
As a supplement to the aftermath of the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, for your JG9 channel, can you talk more about the 49ers-Patriots NFL game played at Palo Alto the weekend (October 22) after the Loma Prieto Earthquake?
I remember watching an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about this. Apparently Candlestick Park had just been quake-proofed the year before, and if it weren't for that renovation it's highly likely that Candlestick Park would have collapsed, either partially or completely.
I was at this game and was sitting one section over from the one that suffered structural damage. I think we all were scared s**tless when the shaking started. There was a loud cheer when the shaking stopped. They had retrofitted the stadium to withstand a major earthquake recently and we all were extremely grateful the place held together. There was a whole lot of confusion about what would happen next at Candlestick plus no one seemed to have any idea what kind of damage had been sustained either in SF (Candlestick was about 20 minutes south of downtown) or anywhere else. I happened to find out from another fan that the game was postphoned, so I walked back to where I was sitting with the two guys who were there with me, told them the game was off and we left. Since we all lived at the time about an hour southeast (and across the bay) of the 'Stick, it took us hours to get back home and was quite the adventure in itself. My granddad had told me stories about the '06 quake when I was a kid and I guess one day I'll get to tell my granddaughter about Loma Prieta. TPTGopher is right, the Series being on when it was did save a LOT of lives. The freeways that collapsed during this quake were later torn down.
I was 12 years old when that earthquake hit. I remember that like it was yesterday. They had to move the 49ers game to Stanford Staduim because of the damage at Candlestick. I remember when they continued the World Series everyone was so happy it was nice to have that distraction from the earthquake
I was a big fan of a Detroit morning radio show (Drew and Mike!) for a long time, and while they did at some times make prank calls to people, among other things, they would have never done something as classless as that. They wouldn't have made light of a tragedy like that as a "joke" I think. I remember them being on the air as the whole 9/11 thing took place, and once they knew what was going on, all jokes ceased pretty much. In fact, their show was normally over a little after 10am, and the station (WRIF) kept them on the air for at least another few hours as I recall covering everything.
Think about this, Candlestick was a testament to corrupt Bay Area politics. There were numerous kick backs and deals when that stadium was build. Start with where it was, could you think of a worse place to build, well the owner of that land just happened to make a lot of political contributions to the mayor at that time. Now consider this, that park was built with numerous kick backs to inspectors and others and was built with substandard materials. For example where there should have been 4 bolts in a plate attaching the upper bowl to the concrete there was one. Over time the upper bowl was just sitting on the lower deck. The City of San Francisco was going to do a major renovation of the stadium after the 1989 Football season but engineers said it was in such bad shape they need to start work ASAP and that mean after the 1988 football season in early 1989. If they had not fixed that stadium part or all of the upper bowl might have collapsed on to the lower deck, and then no one would be worrying about baseball for a long time.
Until 1994, 1989 has to be one of the darkest years in the history of baseball. You have commissioner Giamatti passed away, Pete Rose banned from baseball, the earthquake. Even the playoffs were meh with both Giants and A's winning the pennant in 5 and of course the WS being a sweep that was overshadowed by the earthquake.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld that resulted in 96 Liverpool fans being crushed to death thanks to some absolutely incompetent policing by the police department in Sheffield England.
Not quite at the level of the "Hold your wee for a Wi" promotion at KDND in Sacramento but pretty vile. I think the gleeful way in which Cartwright welcomed the opportunity to benefit from the tragedy in San Francisco was rather tasteless too.
Your fake Disney World vacation analogy at 8:46 reminds me of a classic Simpsons episode where Homer and Marge fooled Bart into thinking he was going to Disneyland when he was really going to military school. Then at the end of the episode, they pulled the old Disneyland fake-out on Bart and Lisa again with an actual trip to the dentist.
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. “Oh, no,” I said. “Disneyland burned down.” He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. --Jack Handy
I remember the series because the giants were my second favorite team because my uncle lived in sf. When Al Michaels said I think we’re having an earthquake, I scared my mom when I yelled out her name and ran down the stairs to let her know what happened. We heard from him a couple days later and he was fine thankfully
I think it reminds me of a Stanley Cup finals game where the power went out and Bob Cole, as only he could, said "what could possibly happen!" It's right up there with Al Michaels saying, "I'll tell you what, we're having an earth - ."
Your content is literally perfect for baseball, I’m so happy your making baseball videos now. I remember asking you on twitter around a year ago to make baseball videos lol
This makes me think of how had Wrigley not installed lights a year earlier, Games 1 and 2 of the 1989 NLCS would have been played in St. Louis as the league refused to let the Cubs host afternoon LCS games.
wonder if that was same plan in 1984, since nl had home field for the world series, and at that point, night games were the norm for weekday games (which games 1,2,6, and 7 would have been under the format they were using). kinda wonder why st louis, though? milwaukee makes more sense, it's close by, has lights and proper setup. maybe field concerns with packers playing on the field or something? (or i guess wanting an n.l. field, which the brewers weren't at the time. guess in that sense, st louis makes sense, being the nearest nl park).
@@mfm4205 The plan was put in place in 1985, after the LCS was expanded to seven games and the league began pushing for all LCS and World Series games to be in prime time. As for St. Louis over Milwaukee, I think it had to do with capacity and better stadium conditions.
@@sirstewartwallace3917 The reason that was given is that they wanted a National League stadium, which was kind of dumb because Busch Stadium was a big artificial turf park while Wrigley was a smaller grass field. Also, the St. Louis fan base would have been actively rooting against the Cubs. Thing is, Chicago had two MLB stadiums, Comiskey would have made so much more sense, grass field, and Cubs fans could just go across town.
@@mfm4205 My recollection is that the Cubs would have been allowed to play afternoon WS games in '84, but the AL would have had HFA and the Cubs would have hosted Games 3-5.
I remember that day that I watching game 3 of the 1989 World Series, the earthquake just happened and then postponed the game following the disaster where it goes into a newscast with Ted Koppel who did “Nightline” where he covered the entire story. This was way before 9/11 happened in 2001.
One footnote of the '89 World Series that the 49ers were scheduled Patriots were scheduled for week 7 after the World Series concluded if the series ended with the A's sweeping the Giants four straight if the earthquake never happened. But after the quake that suspended or delayed the World Series for 10 days that the 49ers Patriots game week 7 matchup was switched to Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto due to some damage of Candlestick Park and the site of the Niners 38-16 Super Bowl XIX win over the Miami Dolphins. The Niners would beat the Patriots 37-20 in week 7 back in 1989.
I live in Monterey CA(two hours south of the bay area) I was 19 months old when this happened. My mom ran outside with me. My dad was in his truck at a stop light.
Australia's deadliest quake happened in late December that year too. Only killed 13 and was a 5.* but Australia sits right in the middle of the Australasian plate so earthquakes are rare and less severe.
WOW. Never thought this video would end up on John Lander, morning host of my childhood (and all my friends)....in 1990s Philadelphia....so THAT's where "Lander! In the morning! On Eagle ONE-OH-SIXXXX!" came from. Day. Made. Thank you, counselor
I've always wondered how both their fan bases feel about this? Yes, it sucked that they didn't reach the World Series but after seeing what could have happened in the Bay Area if neither the Giants or A's were the Fall Classic.... I'd like to think this would be an exception.
@@raymondhopwood9393 But things were different back then. We didn't have all the woke culture that gets people so easily offended. If that happened now, the FCC would probably take the broadcasting license away from that station. That being said...I miss the 1980s. Baseball was a better game back then. Before MLB made all the stupid rule changes. Wait until a World Series game is decided by the game clock.🙄
Oddly enough a (relatively) major Astros game was moved because of a hurricane hitting the city. In 2008 a series between the Cubs and Astros was moved to Milwaukee and that included the first Cubs no hitter in almost 40 years. Also I could totally see some people refusing to listen to that station after pulling a BS stunt like this.
That Cubs no-hitter ended up becoming the first time a no-no was pitched at a neutral site. I just happened to be at the old Yankee Stadium when David Cone threw his Perfect Game vs. Montréal in 1999, which was (1) the last no-hitter or Perfect Game of the 20th Century in the Majors and (2) the first no-hitter or Perfect Game tossed during interleague play not including the World Series.
I watched the Univision cause I was stuck doing homework and my folk loves seeimg the news in spanish unlike ABC Univision coverage ended at 8 so they could show Telenovelas.
I was a senior in high school during this series, and while I was anxious as to when they'd reschedule the World Series (& where) and keeping my "ear to the ground" on the latest rescheduling developments, all I remember hearing (and again, I was ON this) was that at first game 3 was going to be rescheduled in San Francisco one week later (that Tuesday) then it was soon pushed back 3 more days to that Friday (that seemed even skeptical at first but got more & more definate as the days approached). For a brief time before then Commissioner Fay Vincent (who had just taken over office not even two months earlier) was against any impractical delay of the series but also would not mention any possible neutral site cities. Roy Firestone during that same time said on his then "Sportslook" show on ESPN that there's been talk of moving the rest of the series to Oakland, I believe he also mentioned some stadiums in So. California (there were 3 of them) and then at the end of his sentence he sort of just mentioned while throwing up one of his hands (as I remember) "the Astrodome has also been mentioned". But, IMO the Commissioner's office was rather quick in naming a rescheduling date and city (at Candlestick Park as usual).
Out of all places in in America why would Astrodome in Houston respond? If the MLB did move the game it would make sense if they played in the game in LA. I don't think moving the game to another state when California has other teams with baseball Stadiums should've been an option.
or san diego, though los angeles makes the most sense (dodger stadium is baseball only, and if it goes to game 6 and oakland's stadium had issues, go to anaheim for 6 and 7).
Newsday in New York said there was a possibility that games 3-5 could be played at Shea stadium with games 6-7 being played at either Veterans stadium or Yankee stadium to return the Giants and A's to their east coast roots. Nobody was buying that 🤣
I still vividly remember watching that game 3, when I was 12 years old, and for some reason, I was watching it on the TV in the basement. Seems odd to me when I think of it now, because my dad was and is always a big sports fan, so what else would have he been watching where I was reduced to watching the game in the basement? lol. Anyway, I think it's one of Al Michaels' greatest calls you don't hear about all that much....after they knew they were actually back on the air, he said "the greatest opening in baseball history bar none" lol
I was 9 years old. My older brother(14 at the time) and I had sat down to watch game 3 of the series that evening. When the picture was lost I heard Al Michaels say earthquake. My brother was upset and asked what happened. I said “I think the guy said they were having an earthquake.” My brother told me he didn’t say that and I needed to shut up. A little bit later they came back and said that there was an earthquake.
The odds were Probably better of another Earthquake would happen than a Game 5. This wss easily the WORST World Series even if Earthquake didn't happen! (1990 was not that much better either).
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Horrible as it was, that the quake happened during this World Series was actually near-miraculous good fortune: by regular commuters from both cities leaving early or staying late to watch, reducing traffic on the collapsed freeways responsible for 2/3 of the overall death toll, the Series saved hundreds of lives.
You're right, TPTGopher. As disastrous as it was, the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake could have been easily as catastrophic as the 1906 earthquake & the recent mega earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
This
@@martincruz8319 it could have been so much worse than it was, this was my first experience with an earthquake, nothing but terrifying
Another case of good fortune happened 19 years later or so when a 3 point shot sent a sec tournament game in the georgia dome (RIP) into overtime just as a tornado was hitting Atlanta
Little-known fact: Had this series gone to Game 7, it would have been the first-ever MLB game played in November.
November baseball hits different
I remember thinking the same exact thing back then. MLB in November was not possible back then. Unfortunately it took another tragedy in September of 2001 to make that finally happen 😢
Yep. The Rolling Stones were very upset because they had a concert scheduled for the Oakland Coliseum that November 1 and their concert would have been postponed if the World Series went to Game 7 blaming "Monday Night Football."
@@ATCguy1973 And now, if it were up to me, I would have EVERY World Series game in November as I would not even start the World Series until the Friday after Election Day (with the series running as late as between November 13-19 depending on the calendar) even if it cold and WS games have to be played in less-than-ideal conditions. This would be so the start of the regular season is pushed back to after the Final Four to get more casual fans at the start of the season (that I would do with on the Saturday after the Final Four there being two games, THE traditional opener in Cincinnati in the afternoon and the WS Champs at night with everyone else opening on Sunday) after March Madness is done with.
There was better odds of another Earthquake than a Game 5.
October 20th 1989 was a Friday not a thursday
As a supplement to the aftermath of the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, for your JG9 channel, can you talk more about the 49ers-Patriots NFL game played at Palo Alto the weekend (October 22) after the Loma Prieto Earthquake?
I might, but for whatever reason, footage of that game gets blocked on RUclips
@@jaguargator7 Figures. I forgot the 49ers played a game at Palo Alto in 89.
@@jaguargator7 I remember seeing parts of that game here on RUclips in October.
I was there. Montana got a knee injury shortly before halftime and Steve Young finished the game.
Hey Jaguargator youtuber guy you should do a story about 89 49ers 🆚 Pats home 🏈 game that move to Palo Alto.
I remember watching an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about this. Apparently Candlestick Park had just been quake-proofed the year before, and if it weren't for that renovation it's highly likely that Candlestick Park would have collapsed, either partially or completely.
They were going to do it after the 1989 football season but the stadium was in such bad shape they started right after the 1988 football season.
This unofficial Jaguar Gator 7 historian will note this is the first video on this channel to say, “I’m sorry, WHAT?!”
Thank you for making the note. You have done a service for all of us who are fans of JG.
the broadcast sequence when the earthquake hit is straight out of a movie
12:38 The 1st Im Sorry What in JG7 history
I was at this game and was sitting one section over from the one that suffered structural damage. I think we all were scared s**tless when the shaking started. There was a loud cheer when the shaking stopped. They had retrofitted the stadium to withstand a major earthquake recently and we all were extremely grateful the place held together. There was a whole lot of confusion about what would happen next at Candlestick plus no one seemed to have any idea what kind of damage had been sustained either in SF (Candlestick was about 20 minutes south of downtown) or anywhere else. I happened to find out from another fan that the game was postphoned, so I walked back to where I was sitting with the two guys who were there with me, told them the game was off and we left. Since we all lived at the time about an hour southeast (and across the bay) of the 'Stick, it took us hours to get back home and was quite the adventure in itself. My granddad had told me stories about the '06 quake when I was a kid and I guess one day I'll get to tell my granddaughter about Loma Prieta. TPTGopher is right, the Series being on when it was did save a LOT of lives. The freeways that collapsed during this quake were later torn down.
I was 12 years old when that earthquake hit. I remember that like it was yesterday. They had to move the 49ers game to Stanford Staduim because of the damage at Candlestick. I remember when they continued the World Series everyone was so happy it was nice to have that distraction from the earthquake
I was a big fan of a Detroit morning radio show (Drew and Mike!) for a long time, and while they did at some times make prank calls to people, among other things, they would have never done something as classless as that. They wouldn't have made light of a tragedy like that as a "joke" I think.
I remember them being on the air as the whole 9/11 thing took place, and once they knew what was going on, all jokes ceased pretty much. In fact, their show was normally over a little after 10am, and the station (WRIF) kept them on the air for at least another few hours as I recall covering everything.
Fun fact, if anything about this can be considered a fun fact: Al Michaels won an Emmy for his coverage--a news Emmy.
That was then, but nowadays Michaels is insufferable to listen to. He should have retired decades ago.
Think about this, Candlestick was a testament to corrupt Bay Area politics. There were numerous kick backs and deals when that stadium was build. Start with where it was, could you think of a worse place to build, well the owner of that land just happened to make a lot of political contributions to the mayor at that time. Now consider this, that park was built with numerous kick backs to inspectors and others and was built with substandard materials. For example where there should have been 4 bolts in a plate attaching the upper bowl to the concrete there was one. Over time the upper bowl was just sitting on the lower deck. The City of San Francisco was going to do a major renovation of the stadium after the 1989 Football season but engineers said it was in such bad shape they need to start work ASAP and that mean after the 1988 football season in early 1989. If they had not fixed that stadium part or all of the upper bowl might have collapsed on to the lower deck, and then no one would be worrying about baseball for a long time.
Until 1994, 1989 has to be one of the darkest years in the history of baseball. You have commissioner Giamatti passed away, Pete Rose banned from baseball, the earthquake. Even the playoffs were meh with both Giants and A's winning the pennant in 5 and of course the WS being a sweep that was overshadowed by the earthquake.
Not to mention it was the last year before MLB's ill-fated run on CBS.
The darkest years in sports honestly. In 1989 Liverpool had a Stadium collapse that year too.
Don’t forget Billy Martin getting killed in a truck crash on Christmas Day. :(
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld that resulted in 96 Liverpool fans being crushed to death thanks to some absolutely incompetent policing by the police department in Sheffield England.
@@chrisguardiano6143 yep what I also forgot to mention was NASCAR driver Tim Richmond dying in 1989.
That prank is worse than batting a foul ball to the ground on every single inning.
A friend of mine's dad was the plate umpire that night.
Not quite at the level of the "Hold your wee for a Wi" promotion at KDND in Sacramento but pretty vile. I think the gleeful way in which Cartwright welcomed the opportunity to benefit from the tragedy in San Francisco was rather tasteless too.
Talk about a DUMB DECISION on the part of that radio station...
I feel a comment about spiking the ball on every play comment coming on.
RIP Tim McCarver.
Your fake Disney World vacation analogy at 8:46 reminds me of a classic Simpsons episode where Homer and Marge fooled Bart into thinking he was going to Disneyland when he was really going to military school. Then at the end of the episode, they pulled the old Disneyland fake-out on Bart and Lisa again with an actual trip to the dentist.
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse.
“Oh, no,” I said. “Disneyland burned down.”
He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.
I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
--Jack Handy
I remember the series because the giants were my second favorite team because my uncle lived in sf. When Al Michaels said I think we’re having an earthquake, I scared my mom when I yelled out her name and ran down the stairs to let her know what happened. We heard from him a couple days later and he was fine thankfully
I think it reminds me of a Stanley Cup finals game where the power went out and Bob Cole, as only he could, said "what could possibly happen!" It's right up there with Al Michaels saying, "I'll tell you what, we're having an earth - ."
I remember Los Angeles was considered very briefly as an alternate site for this WS instead of Houston
Your content is literally perfect for baseball, I’m so happy your making baseball videos now. I remember asking you on twitter around a year ago to make baseball videos lol
8:59 Disney World is so awesome. I’ve never flown to get there because I live like 5 minutes away and 12:39 I’M SORRY, WHAT?
Poor Canceco couldn’t drive his Porsche back to Oakland after.
Is JaguarGator6 going to be basketball, hockey, or Racing?
Good Video
This makes me think of how had Wrigley not installed lights a year earlier, Games 1 and 2 of the 1989 NLCS would have been played in St. Louis as the league refused to let the Cubs host afternoon LCS games.
wonder if that was same plan in 1984, since nl had home field for the world series, and at that point, night games were the norm for weekday games (which games 1,2,6, and 7 would have been under the format they were using).
kinda wonder why st louis, though?
milwaukee makes more sense, it's close by, has lights and proper setup.
maybe field concerns with packers playing on the field or something? (or i guess wanting an n.l. field, which the brewers weren't at the time. guess in that sense, st louis makes sense, being the nearest nl park).
@@mfm4205 The plan was put in place in 1985, after the LCS was expanded to seven games and the league began pushing for all LCS and World Series games to be in prime time.
As for St. Louis over Milwaukee, I think it had to do with capacity and better stadium conditions.
@@sirstewartwallace3917 The reason that was given is that they wanted a National League stadium, which was kind of dumb because Busch Stadium was a big artificial turf park while Wrigley was a smaller grass field. Also, the St. Louis fan base would have been actively rooting against the Cubs. Thing is, Chicago had two MLB stadiums, Comiskey would have made so much more sense, grass field, and Cubs fans could just go across town.
@@mfm4205 My recollection is that the Cubs would have been allowed to play afternoon WS games in '84, but the AL would have had HFA and the Cubs would have hosted Games 3-5.
@@mfm4205 I was gonna say the same thing about Milwaukee. Easier for Cubs to commute by bus, or even their own cars really.
My father told me once he considered waking me up during the TV coverage of this. I was 3 at the time.
I remember that day that I watching game 3 of the 1989 World Series, the earthquake just happened and then postponed the game following the disaster where it goes into a newscast with Ted Koppel who did “Nightline” where he covered the entire story. This was way before 9/11 happened in 2001.
46 years and no World Series games in Seattle!
One footnote of the '89 World Series that the 49ers were scheduled Patriots were scheduled for week 7 after the World Series concluded if the series ended with the A's sweeping the Giants four straight if the earthquake never happened.
But after the quake that suspended or delayed the World Series for 10 days that the 49ers Patriots game week 7 matchup was switched to Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto due to some damage of Candlestick Park and the site of the Niners 38-16 Super Bowl XIX win over the Miami Dolphins.
The Niners would beat the Patriots 37-20 in week 7 back in 1989.
I live in Monterey CA(two hours south of the bay area) I was 19 months old when this happened. My mom ran outside with me. My dad was in his truck at a stop light.
Australia's deadliest quake happened in late December that year too. Only killed 13 and was a 5.* but Australia sits right in the middle of the Australasian plate so earthquakes are rare and less severe.
The I-71/75 bridge in Cincinnati is a double-decker bridge. Every time I go north (the part on the lower deck) I think about that earthquake.
Love this new channel.
WOW. Never thought this video would end up on John Lander, morning host of my childhood (and all my friends)....in 1990s Philadelphia....so THAT's where "Lander! In the morning! On Eagle ONE-OH-SIXXXX!" came from. Day. Made. Thank you, counselor
If the Cubs and Blue Jays had made this World Series the quake would have been much worse.
I've always wondered how both their fan bases feel about this? Yes, it sucked that they didn't reach the World Series but after seeing what could have happened in the Bay Area if neither the Giants or A's were the Fall Classic.... I'd like to think this would be an exception.
I guess karma came for that Houston radio station!
He should have been fired.
@@raymondhopwood9393 But things were different back then. We didn't have all the woke culture that gets people so easily offended. If that happened now, the FCC would probably take the broadcasting license away from that station. That being said...I miss the 1980s. Baseball was a better game back then. Before MLB made all the stupid rule changes. Wait until a World Series game is decided by the game clock.🙄
Oddly enough a (relatively) major Astros game was moved because of a hurricane hitting the city. In 2008 a series between the Cubs and Astros was moved to Milwaukee and that included the first Cubs no hitter in almost 40 years.
Also I could totally see some people refusing to listen to that station after pulling a BS stunt like this.
That Cubs no-hitter ended up becoming the first time a no-no was pitched at a neutral site. I just happened to be at the old Yankee Stadium when David Cone threw his Perfect Game vs. Montréal in 1999, which was (1) the last no-hitter or Perfect Game of the 20th Century in the Majors and (2) the first no-hitter or Perfect Game tossed during interleague play not including the World Series.
I just LOVE this channel
Can you imagine Super Bowl LXXX on the Moon? 100 yard field goals, etc. 😆
I wonder what the reaction to a prank of this nature would be if it occurred in 2023?
But I like your hypothetical idea of a Super Bowl on the Moon!
Thinking about it, you could extend that “first time ever” thing to the entire state of Texas, not just Houston.
In the days before the internet, you could dupe thousands of listeners
I watched the Univision cause I was stuck doing homework and my folk loves seeimg the news in spanish unlike ABC Univision coverage ended at 8 so they could show Telenovelas.
I was a senior in high school during this series, and while I was anxious as to when they'd reschedule the World Series (& where) and keeping my "ear to the ground" on the latest rescheduling developments, all I remember hearing (and again, I was ON this) was that at first game 3 was going to be rescheduled in San Francisco one week later (that Tuesday) then it was soon pushed back 3 more days to that Friday (that seemed even skeptical at first but got more & more definate as the days approached). For a brief time before then Commissioner Fay Vincent (who had just taken over office not even two months earlier) was against any impractical delay of the series but also would not mention any possible neutral site cities. Roy Firestone during that same time said on his then "Sportslook" show on ESPN that there's been talk of moving the rest of the series to Oakland, I believe he also mentioned some stadiums in So. California (there were 3 of them) and then at the end of his sentence he sort of just mentioned while throwing up one of his hands (as I remember) "the Astrodome has also been mentioned". But, IMO the Commissioner's office was rather quick in naming a rescheduling date and city (at Candlestick Park as usual).
When the Astros would leave the roof open for World Series games. 0:19. Instead of it always being closed during the postseason.
Out of all places in in America why would Astrodome in Houston respond? If the MLB did move the game it would make sense if they played in the game in LA. I don't think moving the game to another state when California has other teams with baseball Stadiums should've been an option.
or san diego, though los angeles makes the most sense (dodger stadium is baseball only, and if it goes to game 6 and oakland's stadium had issues, go to anaheim for 6 and 7).
Dodger Stadium was undergoing some sort of replacing of their field, so that was unavailable
But the NFL _is_ going to build a stadium on the moon for Super Bowl LXXX. And I _do_ have my tickets.
I find it pretty ironic that the Houston-based radio station, KKBQ, is still on the air after all these years. #smh
Of course, this would be the last time Houston, the World Series, and a natural disaster would be associated with each other.
I can't wait for JG5 where he covers the history of the American Jazzercise!!!
Or a JG4 channel covering hockey
@@higgy04 THAT'S MY GIG!-The Hockey Guy
being and A's fan since '84..do U have any other videos/episdoes of the A's?
I remember coming home from school and first thing I saw was police car inside Candlestick.
Just five months ago a football player suffered a near-fatal collapse. NFL officials actually wanted the game to go on.
John Lander - think he ended his career at WBMX in Boston in the late 90s to 00s
Back when radio stations valued 1A 😂
Newsday in New York said there was a possibility that games 3-5 could be played at Shea stadium with games 6-7 being played at either Veterans stadium or Yankee stadium to return the Giants and A's to their east coast roots. Nobody was buying that 🤣
12:38 “I’m sorry, WHAT?!?”
I still vividly remember watching that game 3, when I was 12 years old, and for some reason, I was watching it on the TV in the basement. Seems odd to me when I think of it now, because my dad was and is always a big sports fan, so what else would have he been watching where I was reduced to watching the game in the basement? lol. Anyway, I think it's one of Al Michaels' greatest calls you don't hear about all that much....after they knew they were actually back on the air, he said "the greatest opening in baseball history bar none" lol
That last thing was funny
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Houston Radio, they had a problem.
Video #3 let's go
I was 9 years old. My older brother(14 at the time) and I had sat down to watch game 3 of the series that evening. When the picture was lost I heard Al Michaels say earthquake. My brother was upset and asked what happened. I said “I think the guy said they were having an earthquake.” My brother told me he didn’t say that and I needed to shut up. A little bit later they came back and said that there was an earthquake.
It could've been Seattle if had wanted to...
The odds were Probably better of another Earthquake would happen than a Game 5. This wss easily the WORST World Series even if Earthquake didn't happen! (1990 was not that much better either).
That was awesome so damn funny
Agreed.
Of COURSE that type of thing would happen when they stopped being KYND😏
12:39 😎
Thank you for ruining baseball and its future
Manfred already got there.
Sea. World. is. better. than Dineyworld
Trump: Does this count as fake news?
I could actually see the NFL trying to pull off super bowl 80 on the moon
Definitely slants and short TE passes. Play-action probably wouldn't work.
playing the Battle of the Bay WS in Houston would've felt weird. Californians worship their baseball.
Ikr why not just move the game to Dodgers Stadium or Angels Stadium not the dang Astrodome.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld that's a good point!
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