The 2012 win over the Rangers on the last day of the season is for now the greatest game I have ever been to as someone that understands baseball and is a die hard fan of the A's, but I was at another legendary game when I was 12yrs, the game that Ricky Henderson tied the all time stolen base record vs. the Angels, new to baseball I didn't realize what I witnessed,
I was ten years old when this streak happened....and it's something that you don't forget. This radio commentary gives me chills every time I hear it :)
Notice how every home run they hit, there's always players on base. Rarely see a solo home run. That's the secret, you get on base, you create more runs.
@M Not even close. Soccer players have a lot of skill but American's won't embrace it. Look at MLS in the United States, I only know one team name and that's because they're local. Never watched even 2 minutes of a soccer game other than World Cup.
Living on the east coast, It’s easy to lose track of baseball on the west coast. I remember hearing about It and watching highlights on ESPN. But watching this makes me realize how incredible it was. How can you not love baseball..
Not a baseball fan, Moneyball brings me here, and this is unbelievable. Maybe the greatest in the history in perspective of smaller in everything... club size, financial stataus, the management and couch team...
I am so happy that someone put this together. I have an old friend who was out of the country while this happened, and he is a major A's fan, and he missed this all and had no idea this was going on. So I sent him the link to this video. Thanks for putting this together for us!
Wonderful. Thanks for creating suh a great vid - listening to The Renaissance Man, Bill King calling it home, and completing it with that line, "In 103 years of American League Baseball" gives me goose bumps every time.
“You can Replay these 18 games 100 times and it’ll never happen again. The 1927 Yankees, Ruth Gehrig, murders row mad considered to be the best team to ever play didn’t even win 18. The best winning streak for them that year? 9. “ that bob costas woute gives me chills every time
Isn't it incredible that the last 3 games of the streak came from comebacks (until the last one which they blew out a 11-0 lead) and ended in walk off wins? A true magic moment in baseball history.
Thanks for making this! I've been looking for highlights from all the games for awhile, especially game 18 since I was there, best sporting event I've ever been to.
My dad took me and my brothers to this game and we got lost on our way from sacramento , when we arrived at the coliseum we were let in the game for free and say right where miggy hit the walk off!!! SIMPLY AMAZING!! IT'S HARD NOT TO BE ROMANTIC ABOUT BASEBALL!!!!
I was overseas when this was happening. One of the guys in my unit was a huge A’s fan and was getting newspaper clippings from his dad. At game 20 we were able to use a sat phone to call his dad to find out the score and he lost it when his father told him.
Sad they didn't win the World Series that year. 5 or 6 guys could hit the long ball. Mulder, Hudson, Zito to start, and Koch to close. No kidding on the music volume. Redo and repost; need to cut it in half.
It's funny to watch the movie now. A lot of these guys became All Stars and big names, yet at the time most were players nobody wanted or heard of. The whole country was caught up in it.
That wild card game though was SICK At least the Royals don't suck anymore. Like making it to the World Series after not being in the playoffs in 29 years
I heard a cool tune on the radio once while out shopping. It took me far to long to get know which song it was. I couldnt even attempt to search as it would look like Crank Yankers Special Ed calling a music store. It was frikkin Oasis. I was young and unaware. there is something that comes with services available at your finger tips. Theres also a difference to a Chance to hear cool song on a radio back before internet. Anyway... Glad I could help and I wouldnt like that somebody had cool tune stuck in head and didnt knwo what it was.
Hey Joey! Good to see this has a bunch of views...I remember chatting with you on ESPN boards. I'm on the MLB boards as AlwaysSONNYinOak. Come chat again bro, it's been a while!
Picked the background music, while still able to hear the announcer. Good music compilation if nothing else (songs with lyrics bad). Nice tribute too.
Just watched Moneyball and what an amazing achievement and strategy it was. It makes complete sense. So do teams use the money ball system in the modern era? I follow NBA more than the Superbowl from New Zealand.
In my opinion the early 2000's A's were way better than the 2012-14 teams, but like the 2012-14 A's teams they always had bad luck in the postseason, including the dumb Giambi no slide against the Yankees in I think what I believe was the 2001 division series that we were up 2-0 and we only needed that one win that night to move on to the ALCS but we screwed up, we lost the next game back when O.co was still Network Associates, then the game after that in New York at the first Yankee Stadium 3-5. The Yankees then beat the Ichiro Mariners 4-1 in the series, but then lost to Arizona in the WS that year in game 7. The closest Beane ever could take us that was close to the World Series was back in 2006 when they made it all the way to the ALCS only to get swept by the Detroit Tigers, and that series was just a major blow especially game 4 in Detroit when Maggolio Ordonez hit that walkoff, and after that the Tigers won 2 more series against us in 2012, and 2013. Man I wish the A's can just compete for the World Series, and 2015 is just bad this season.
Ya know why it hadn't been done in 103 years? Simple. If you assume that a teams chances of winning every game are 1 out of 2, that is, 50-50, the odds of winning 20 in a row, by chance alone, are 2 to the 20th power, or one in 1,048,576. A team would have to play 20 games, one-million, forty-eight thousand, five-hundred, & seventy-six times before they would be likely to win 20 in a row (by chance). Incidentally, the odds are the same that a team would have *any* sequence of wins and losses over twenty games. Of course, every team does have some sequence of wins and losses every time they play 20 games. We just don't notice, or care, that the chances of that specific sequence of wins and losses is also 1 in 1,048,576, Similarly, you'd have to flip a coin 20 times, 1,048,576 times before being likely to have 20 heads (or tails, or any specific sequence). Thanks for the video and upload. I'm sure it took a lot of work. You preserved history.
@Takabrak Games They rise a little, but, for example, the most games in a row the 1927 Yankees won was seven. I think the As were only 8 or 10 games over .500 when the streak began.
I wish he still played. One of my favorite players on one of my favorite teams and I'm a Seattle native...Your cuz had a great approach at the plate and when I coached back then I would always point to Eric's plate approach....Very logical like Ichiro....2001 Mariners were fun to watch too...
Hatteberg's Homer in game 20 gives me goosebumps every time.
Hatty went to WSU, my dad went to college with him and i was able to meet him. such a humble guy!
@MANCHESTER UNITED Its called football
@MANCHESTER UNITED Foot fairy
After watching Moneyball, I appreciate this team a whole lot more. :)
Moneyball is one of my favourite films
Watching this game live at the stadium is probably my #1 memory just ahead of the 2012 final regular season win over the ranges to take the division.
The 2012 win over the Rangers on the last day of the season is for now the greatest game I have ever been to as someone that understands baseball and is a die hard fan of the A's, but I was at another legendary game when I was 12yrs, the game that Ricky Henderson tied the all time stolen base record vs. the Angels, new to baseball I didn't realize what I witnessed,
I was ten years old when this streak happened....and it's something that you don't forget. This radio commentary gives me chills every time I hear it :)
Notice how every home run they hit, there's always players on base. Rarely see a solo home run. That's the secret, you get on base, you create more runs.
@M Not even close. Soccer players have a lot of skill but American's won't embrace it. Look at MLS in the United States, I only know one team name and that's because they're local. Never watched even 2 minutes of a soccer game other than World Cup.
Living on the east coast, It’s easy to lose track of baseball on the west coast. I remember hearing about It and watching highlights on ESPN. But watching this makes me realize how incredible it was. How can you not love baseball..
Not a baseball fan, Moneyball brings me here, and this is unbelievable. Maybe the greatest in the history in perspective of smaller in everything... club size, financial stataus, the management and couch team...
I am so happy that someone put this together. I have an old friend who was out of the country while this happened, and he is a major A's fan, and he missed this all and had no idea this was going on. So I sent him the link to this video. Thanks for putting this together for us!
Here on the 22-year anniversary of Hatteberg’s walk-off HR vs. KC and this still gives me chills. Thank you for this edit + the A1 music choice
Wonderful. Thanks for creating suh a great vid - listening to The Renaissance Man, Bill King calling it home, and completing it with that line, "In 103 years of American League Baseball" gives me goose bumps every time.
I remember going to a few games during the streak. Great baseball moment
Wish I was old enough to really enjoy this iconic moment in sports
“You can Replay these 18 games 100 times and it’ll never happen again. The 1927 Yankees, Ruth Gehrig, murders row mad considered to be the best team to ever play didn’t even win 18. The best winning streak for them that year? 9. “ that bob costas woute gives me chills every time
Great memories of this streak, I was heading into college that year and it felt like the world was there for the taking
40,000+ views, guys!! THANK YOU!!!
Isn't it incredible that the last 3 games of the streak came from comebacks (until the last one which they blew out a 11-0 lead) and ended in walk off wins? A true magic moment in baseball history.
this was awesomeness, i still remember how much i got mad when we lost the next day but that made it all the more special
Thanks for making this! I've been looking for highlights from all the games for awhile, especially game 18 since I was there, best sporting event I've ever been to.
My dad took me and my brothers to this game and we got lost on our way from sacramento , when we arrived at the coliseum we were let in the game for free and say right where miggy hit the walk off!!! SIMPLY AMAZING!! IT'S HARD NOT TO BE ROMANTIC ABOUT BASEBALL!!!!
It was a truly fabulous moment!!
I wish I could go back to 2002 . Shit is crazy now ! Bless up Bill king and Let's go OAKLAND!!!!!!! and thanks for the video !
Great set of videos. Except for the choice of music. Like spray painting the Mona Lisa.
I was overseas when this was happening. One of the guys in my unit was a huge A’s fan and was getting newspaper clippings from his dad. At game 20 we were able to use a sat phone to call his dad to find out the score and he lost it when his father told him.
Bill King...greatest ever!
I miss hearing him call games.
The A's are so awesome. And we are do for another world series. Let's GO Oakland!
Wow!!! This was an unbelievable video bro; i got chills watching them all; Go Oakland A's!!!!!!!
greatest highlight video ever
Outstanding. Thank you for the response. I look forward to watching that. Thanks again Joey.
the fact their 20th win was legit an 11-0 collapse followed by a walk-off home run is just ridiculous!!
You want to hear a joke. What separates the loyal fans and the bandwagon fans? The Bay Bridge! #LetsGoOakland
Pure magic gave me chills even to this day.
Would have liked it better if the LOUD music had not drowned out the announcemers
Sad they didn't win the World Series that year. 5 or 6 guys could hit the long ball. Mulder, Hudson, Zito to start, and Koch to close.
No kidding on the music volume. Redo and repost; need to cut it in half.
It's funny to watch the movie now. A lot of these guys became All Stars and big names, yet at the time most were players nobody wanted or heard of. The whole country was caught up in it.
Thank you for uploading. Enjoyed reliving the memories.
I wish the A's could win a world series, maybe next year
That wild card game though was SICK At least the Royals don't suck anymore. Like making it to the World Series after not being in the playoffs in 29 years
not dis year
i miss hearing Bill King call games
That streak is all well and good, but who won the World Series that year? I'll wait...
Joe Buck should be forced to listen to Bill King to learn how announce.
so beautiful.. hatteberg hitting that homerun is probably my favorite moment in baseball..
This video is worth every minute to watch.
great video man, I think I have watched it everyday atleast 3 times for the past week
Once again, sorry for the loud music volume at times. I didn't realize it was that loud while making the video.
I was at game number 18 and it was magic. We were in left field bleachers drumming. This was a very special Team
Great Job....I'm a Cub fan and I found this compelling as hell!
Good moments of the good old day's all time great a's history
Billy Beane has re-invented baseball for ever with his model !
he changed this sport like no one else.
And that model has crippled the A's.
It's amazing how much the way people play the game has changed since then.
Great video of an amazing streak!
Explosions in the Sky ❤
It deserves a great movie for history !
'That one there is GONE!' Love the commentator saying that, when Scotty hits his homerun! :)
That epic high five with the coach syncs perfectly with the music 15:18
hey joey what is the name of the song during game 14 and onwards / 13:00
xx intro
huguberhart cheers buddy
I heard a cool tune on the radio once while out shopping. It took me far to long to get know which song it was. I couldnt even attempt to search as it would look like Crank Yankers Special Ed calling a music store. It was frikkin Oasis. I was young and unaware. there is something that comes with services available at your finger tips. Theres also a difference to a Chance to hear cool song on a radio back before internet. Anyway...
Glad I could help and I wouldnt like that somebody had cool tune stuck in head and didnt knwo what it was.
huguberhart yeah I get what your saying, nothing worse than hearing something great and not knowing who or what. thanks again.
Hate baseball, hate sports in general, but every time I get hammered, I watch this video.
Incredible!
Great memories!
I still can’t believe my Angels stayed in the race against a team like this. And eventually won the World Series
Oakland A's fan here, from Michigan.
Song start at 12:43
Jesse Houston The XX Intro
Hey Joey! Good to see this has a bunch of views...I remember chatting with you on ESPN boards. I'm on the MLB boards as AlwaysSONNYinOak. Come chat again bro, it's been a while!
Hell yeah man! I haven't been on there in ages. I'll be on their soon.
Picked the background music, while still able to hear the announcer. Good music compilation if nothing else (songs with lyrics bad). Nice tribute too.
Thank you so much!!
The best team in baseball in 2001-2002
Just watched Moneyball and what an amazing achievement and strategy it was. It makes complete sense. So do teams use the money ball system in the modern era? I follow NBA more than the Superbowl from New Zealand.
Every team uses it now so it's less effective for small market teams
So impressive!
Fantastic!!!! Great job!!! I Grew up in Oakland and sat in the bleachers for $1.50 Loved your video. Keep it coming!
Young Eric Chavez
Thanks for this!
It's Mark Petrie - Go Time. Look it up on youtube and you should find it!! And thanks!!
Great Vid
We hit so many homers
Chavez & Tejada
Go As
Thanks for making this man :)
Coco Crisp game 8 smh
ERIC CHAVEZ !!!!!!! simply awesome
one handed hit
What the name of the song at 12:45
Darude - Sandstorm
If you guy's like the A's then please watch the movie "Moneyball" . It's about them.
I really miss Bill King (and Lon Simmons too).
6:08 Oh look, it's Coco. Little did he know, he'd play for this team eventually.
Andrew Pestotnik coco crisp is my favorite player ever to play on the A's but he did retire but still is my favorite ever to play on the athletics.
I got his jersey out in Oakland one time.
Andrew Pestotnik sweet I don't even have a jersey
gtgamerelit E I have most of our jerseys
Andrew Pestotnik lucky
Funny seeing highlights with Coco on a different team. Hope he stays in Oakland for the rest of his career.
I was two years old when this winning streak happened.
The greatest crime is this team not winning the World Series. Could have saved Oakland’s ball club and built them a new stadium
This after billy beane traded pena?
Apparently yes
In my opinion the early 2000's A's were way better than the 2012-14 teams, but like the 2012-14 A's teams they always had bad luck in the postseason, including the dumb Giambi no slide against the Yankees in I think what I believe was the 2001 division series that we were up 2-0 and we only needed that one win that night to move on to the ALCS but we screwed up, we lost the next game back when O.co was still Network Associates, then the game after that in New York at the first Yankee Stadium 3-5. The Yankees then beat the Ichiro Mariners 4-1 in the series, but then lost to Arizona in the WS that year in game 7. The closest Beane ever could take us that was close to the World Series was back in 2006 when they made it all the way to the ALCS only to get swept by the Detroit Tigers, and that series was just a major blow especially game 4 in Detroit when Maggolio Ordonez hit that walkoff, and after that the Tigers won 2 more series against us in 2012, and 2013. Man I wish the A's can just compete for the World Series, and 2015 is just bad this season.
what's soundtrack at 14:40 ? sweet 16. Perfect music!
Great video. Nicely done.
Ya know why it hadn't been done in 103 years? Simple. If you assume that a teams chances of winning every game are 1 out of 2, that is, 50-50, the odds of winning 20 in a row, by chance alone, are 2 to the 20th power, or one in 1,048,576. A team would have to play 20 games, one-million, forty-eight thousand, five-hundred, & seventy-six times before they would be likely to win 20 in a row (by chance).
Incidentally, the odds are the same that a team would have *any* sequence of wins and losses over twenty games. Of course, every team does have some sequence of wins and losses every time they play 20 games. We just don't notice, or care, that the chances of that specific sequence of wins and losses is also 1 in 1,048,576,
Similarly, you'd have to flip a coin 20 times, 1,048,576 times before being likely to have 20 heads (or tails, or any specific sequence).
Thanks for the video and upload. I'm sure it took a lot of work. You preserved history.
No
So you're sayin there's a chance!
@Takabrak Games They rise a little, but, for example, the most games in a row the 1927 Yankees won was seven. I think the As were only 8 or 10 games over .500 when the streak began.
@@leakyjeep5.9 That's funny. I get the reference to Jim Carey's line in, "Dumb & Dumber,"
great video man i wish my cousin still played for the A's (Eric Chavez)
I wish he still played. One of my favorite players on one of my favorite teams and I'm a Seattle native...Your cuz had a great approach at the plate and when I coached back then I would always point to Eric's plate approach....Very logical like Ichiro....2001 Mariners were fun to watch too...
What a sweet swing
great memories
awesome video, nicely done. Good job
Thanks!
amazing
I was there for win 20! It was epic!!
Nice soundtrack too!!
Great video. Love it.
and i still do. i love the oakland a’s 😢
I remember that the A's only gained a few games on the Angels because during this times, they won like 14 or 15 games.
What is the song in 7:42 ? Thank you.
Last of the Mohicans - Promontory
Joey Miller Thanks man.
Wish there was more 20th game footage. But this was a great compilation!
Anyone think the last pitch was to Hatte was ... cough... paid off?
John Mabry was a stud during this streak!