Baseball: The 10th Inning
Garcia_Vega
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Who watched this schlock last night? Totally glossed over the '94 lockout, I remember that shit like it was yesterday, such an awful summer. It also treats the steroids debate with total kid gloves. I know I shouldn't expect much from Ken Burns at this point, but man, I really wanted it to be good. I even let my kid stay up with me to watch it and had to supplement so much information from my own memories, I wonder how much she got out of it. I'll probably watch part 2 tonight, but expectations have been drastically lowered.
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The one thing that I walked away with was that in my lifetime the threesome of Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz might have been the GOAT for a 3 man rotation.
They were very kind to Barry Bonds too.
Film of the final game of the 1960 World Series between the Yanks and Pirates was recently discovered in the archives of the Bing Crosby estate. No other film of this game, which has been called the greatest of all-time, exists.
They will run a special in the near future showing this game film which ended with the legendary Bill Mazaroski(sic) home run.
I also thought the Smoltz, Maddux, and Glavin trio was well done, actually that was one of the best parts. That trio was nasty.
Cosign the part about the Brave's pitchers. I was always a fan of Maddux since back in his Cubs days. Dude just seemed like he knew exactly where he wanted each and every pitch to go.
Also somehow I had missed (or forgot) the whole "sneaking into the umps office to steal Albert Bell's corked bat" back when that originally happened. That was kinda cool for them to talk about that.
I remember when this was all going down Sport's Illustrated put up a photo of the bat's x-ray.
uh no they really werent. They made it sound like this whole steroid thing was mcquire, sosa and bonds. Im sorry but for a documentarian of Burns' caliber to so blatantly miss the forest for the trees is inexcusable. The homerun era in baseball was based on a vast, unspoken agreement btwn the players, owners, fans and commissioner. Singling out Bonds, in light of the vast mountain of information that has come to light since he was hitting, is not really acceptable anymore. Burns bought into the Bonds hatery hype, and in turn played himself. Burns is a clown for this one.
I like this review: http://www.salon.com/life/baseball/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/misc/2010/09/30/baseball_according_to_ken_burns
My impression after seeing Part I was that they were not going to harp on the steroid issue....apparently I was wrong.
Looking forward to seeing Part II.
That said, when I first landed on it, I thought it was a doc all about the 04 Sox and only after HALF AN HOUR did I realize, "oh wait, this is about baseball as a whole."
Not that I'm mad at it.
I would think the Red Sox > Yankees has way more weight than the Phillys win.
No, I know, but the Phillies '08 run was pretty great. And it was only their second WS win, they're also the oldest club in MLB history. And I hate the Red Sox
Is that bad thing? Cal saved baseball. He deserves all the props and ball sniffin' that he gets.
Dude, no.
The 1998 Home Run race saved baseball. Which, when it all fell down, makes the story that much more interesting from a documentary standpoint.
Revisionist Cal Ripken dickriding needs to die a quick death.
I ride as hard for Burns as anyone- CIVIL WAR LIKE WHAT! - but, the closer he gets to modern times, the less reliable narrator he becomes. The 9th Inning was the worst of, "Baseball," and this just piles on.
There's no denying that the Red Sox winning that series against the Yankees was huge, but it's been exaggerated nonetheless. The fact was that the Yankees pitching sucked (Leiber, Quantrill, Vasquez, Brown) and they were unlikely to win that series anyway. Losing in seven games to the Sox was the appropriate outcome to that series, it was just weird that it went in the order it did rather than back and forth wins.
sounds like this year :talib:
Joba = David Clyde
u sound like a yankees fan.
Historically The Sox were supposed to choke. And they did it up. Down 3-0.
Im a Yankee dude and that was a good ass punch in the face for arrogant/sense of entitlement Yankee fuckers (who werent around in the 80s when they sucked).
i really think red sox fans sell their team short talking about a Yankees '04 ALCS collapse. i'd say it's one of the great comebacks, but they can dwell in whatever shadow they're used to.
goes both ways, yin/yang: people running into the streets and wilding out after the '03 Aaron Boone HR off Wakefield. grown men playing stickball at 1am with broken chairlegs and balled up newspaper.
i miss those two years!
Not in the Baltimore-Washington area. Sorry. Cal was/is the man. No revision needed. No juice, just Iron.
This is awesome- "cal saved baseball!" "no, he didn't." "yes, he did!... in Baltimore."