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The Day MLB Died
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- #MLB #MLBLockout #2022 #1994Strike
With the current MLB lockout looking a long way from reaching a resolution, I wanted to take a look back at the last time games were missed because of a CBA dispute.
The 1994 MLB Season was cut short by a strike in the middle of August, and when it happened, many potentially historic seasons were put to an end.
I'm going to talk about three of the most exciting stories of that year. Tony Gwynn's pursuit at .400, Ken Griffey Jr. and Matt Williams's home run chase, and the Expos and Yankees World Series contention never came to fruition, but left a mark as some of the greatest "what if's" in big league history.
Intro 0:00
Mr. Padre 0:42
Home Run Chase 3:18
Collateral Damage 6:07
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Sometimes I wonder if the big market MLB teams should break off and form a Premier League. It worked for soccer.
Sorry can't 😞
Now you have 10k+ 👏👏
@@NJGuy1973 that’s a cool idea
hey 2 years younger ATB, you've almost got 50k now congrats
You know he's talking about Gwynn when he says "after bottoming out at .300" absolute legend, Mr Padre.
Nobody else like him since Ted Williams
Only struck out about once a week, legend indeed.
@@AndThatsBaseball ichiro?
@@dspsblyuth Ichiro may be closest, but he was a little different. He'd use his speed to get infield hits, Gwynn would put the ball almost wherever he wanted on the field. Still an incredible average hitter even after his injuries and speed decline.
@@AndThatsBaseball does it matter how a player gets on base?
I remember watching this season with my grandpa. I was 8yr old and he made me fall in love with baseball that season, as I was watching "history in the making". My old guy died this year and this video brought me so many memories, thank you so much for it!
Glad you enjoyed!
It's crazy to think that we might've missed out on seeing Pujols hit 700 and Judge hitting 62 if this season was shortened.
Yeah even the proposed 2 week shortened season would've had crazy ramifications.
Good thing MLB brought those juiced balls to make that happen before the season ended
That 94 Expos team was loaded. So many great players. Great Video!
Yeah it's such a shame that they gutted it. They could have been the team to beat in the NL if they kept Walker and Grissom around. Maybe the worst part is that they got nothing at all for prime Larry Walker. It's just so hard to win with cheap ownership.
As a Blue Jays fan I have to say that team was a menacing group of players.
Expos vs Jays were amazing games then.
It bothers me to no end that people credit the Braves' 1993 and 1995 division titles as consecutive.
Bud Selig killed the Montreal Expos.
@@JayTemple really, THAT bothers you... To no end? My condolences
1990-94 was the best time in baseball. Every year new superstars were coming up from the big hurt Frank thomas, Ken Griffey Jr,Piazza,Bagwell....etc. Cal Ripken was getting close to breaking the streak. Watching baseball tonight every night was great. After the strike things just were never the same though baseball was still pretty good but I didn't watch it as much as those 90-94 years when I first started watching sports as a kid. I always said I wish baseball had a salary cap and my Reds didn't have to trade most good players they got.
Today was a fun day of baseball, I think it’s as good as it’s been in a while right now
I agree. I watched Junior from 1989 until the end of his career. My favorite player ever. After the strike, it just wasn't the same.
Unfortunately, I can't watch this. Too many painful memories that I don't want to visit right now.
Bagwell had a magical 94 season as well. I would have liked to see where he ended up stat wise with that season completed.
Barry Bonds might've hit 60 home runs. He was on a pace to hit 55 and was having an insane second half after Darryl Strawberry joined the team and hit behind him. He was also on a pace to steak 40+ bases.
Greg Maddux had a 1.56 ERA that year and probably would've won 24 games had the strike not happened. Atlanta was a notoriously good second half team at that time so he probably would've received more run support down the stretch. He also lost a lot of great pitching in 1995 due to the 144 game season and pitchers throwing fewer innings in the first month or so of the season.
Fred McGriff hit 34 home runs in 1994. He was on a pace to hit 48. McGriff retired with 493 career home runs but would have had 514 with a 48 home run season in 1994. He'd be in the Baseball Hall of Fame with 500 career home runs (and deserves to be there regardless).
Randy Johnson had 204 strikeouts in 23 GS and was on a pace for 310 in 35 starts. The strike likely cost him two 300 K seasons.
Frank Thomas had one of the greatest offensive seasons in modern MLB history. He played in every game on the White Sox schedule up to the strike and, over the course of 162 games, was on a pace to hit .353 with 48 doubles, 54-55 home runs, 152 runs scored, 145 RBI, and 156 BB. Absolutely incredible. When he was in his prime he was the best hitter I've ever seen.
Albert Belle was on a pace to bat .357 with 50 doubles, 52 home runs, and 145 RBI in 152 games. The following season, he hit 52 doubles in 50 home runs in 143 games, which becomes 59 doubles and 56 home runs in a full season. He's the only player in baseball history to hit 50 doubles & 50 home runs in a season, and he could have done it in back to back seasons. He belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Kenny Lofton hit .349 and was on a pace to steal 78 bases, score 151 runs, and hit 46 doubles. Like Belle, he belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Bret Saberhagen had 14 wins in 23 starts with only 12 base on balls. It was exceedingly rare for a hard throwing pitcher to exhibit that kind of control back then. Even today, hard throwing pitchers rarely have more wins than walks in a season (Clayton Kershaw is the only pitcher who's done it since then that I can recall).
David Cone was on a pace to win 24 games, the most of his career
It’s crazy how many potential historic seasons were cut short
I consider myself SO lucky to get to see Tony Gwynn play in person for my entire childhood. He was incredible. That '94 season definitely robbed him of an all time year.
My dad stopped watching the Yankees. This year I have convinced him to start going to games again and he loves them. Got someone back into this sport. Help revive the sport.
Booooooooo yankees! GO GUARDIANS!!!..........I hope we win..........
To be fair, why hold a grudge anymore at this point. It doesn't accomplish anything. I understand the frustration. We ALL understand. But ultimately if you choose to not watch anymore, the owners are still making money. They aren't going to care. Might as well enjoy the game that you love. Labor/Management negotiations are just a part of life. If you stop watching you are only hurting yourself.
It needs a lot of reviving …. We need to go back to traditional playoff formats and ditch instant replay
Yea, the world needs more Yankee fans. That's what's wrong.
@@Kickingit06 People like you are killing the sport.
1994 was the last year I paid attention to MLB. Before the strike I used to pay to go to games, I closely followed the races, and I cared. When they canceled the World Series I went on strike. I've been to a few games since then, including Cal Ripken's record breaker, his last game at Camden Yards, and some company functions. They were tickets given to me. I only watch on TV if it happens to be on someplace I'm at. I'd say I miss it, but I guess I really don't.
Dude! You got to go to iron man’s 2,131?!?! I went to 2,117. I at least got to see one of flags drop on the warehouse. But I had to watch the record on tv. Got it recorded on vhs somewhere. Lol. I’m a diehard Ripken and Orioles fan. I’m from de, and me and my friend are probably the only O’s fans here.
@@christopherkimber7679 Yes I did.
The company Mom worked for had box seats behind the first base line dugout. They had a drawing each year for picking order to the game.
She got second pick that year. Surprisingly the first picker didn't ask for the Sept 6 game. She did and got them. They came by later and said that game wasn't supposed to have been in the pool.
She was high enough up in the company that she said tough break.
When she told my brother and I she had the tickets, I said sorry Mom I'm on strike. She said too bad, you're going. Even though I was living in a different state, was married, had kids and a mortgage, I relented. So glag I did.
As they were about to roll the banner to 2131 there was this palpable feeling in the air that I've never felt before or since. So many people all focused on one thing it was amazing.
Sucks to be you I guess. No idea why your watching videos on baseball if you gave up decades ago.
@@Riteaidbob true. UA-cam offered it to me and the title caught my attention.
Loved Ken Griffey Jr.. They talk about his bombs, but he was one of the best center fielders in history.
Yes he was. He was always better than Bonds until bonds started using hgh or whatever. Absolutely kills me how Griffey was injured so damn much those last 10 years cause we all thought for sure he would break the all time homerun record.
Missing out on a possible pennant run by the ‘94 White Sox (67-46) will always be a disappointment too.
-Frank Thomas was hitting .353 w/ an OPS of 1.217, 38HR, 101 walks & a WAR of 6.4.
-Julio Franco at 35y/o had 20HR, 90RBI, a BA OF .316, OBP of .406 & a OPS of .916.
To that you can throw in a prime Robin Ventura, an aging but effective Tim Raines, Lance Johnson’s speed & a career year from Darrin Jackson
The pitching staff & bullpen were pretty good too. They were fun to watch & an all time “What-If” for the ages to fans of the south siders…
Frank Thomas shot his way into the home run chase and was having one of the best hitting seasons in decades. 1994 was not a normal year with the amount of storylines that were going by august.
The young Cleveland Indians would have caught the Sox. They were coming on strong!
Yea, but that Cleveland team was only 1 game back that year , with Lofton, Belle, Thome, Murray, Manny, and Alomar. Their pitching was loaded too.
Frank Thomas was hitting .353 with 38 homers and 101 RBI in 113 games. I quit watching baseball for almost 5 years after they went on strike that year.
Thomas from 1993-94 was historically great
That '94 season strike also cut short what could have possibly been another chance for that Braves dynasty to get a ring. The rotation was in their prime. The lineup was loaded and the bullpen was stacked as well. Very possible we could have seen Chipper Jones make his first appearance that season as well
In 1994, Smoltz-Glavine-Avery were having down years with ERA of around 4.00 . Only Maddux was pitching amazing in 1994, and he was super elite. And it didnt help at all that Chipper missed the whole season with an injury (1993 was supposed to be his official rookie season)
Baseball would almost certainly be more popular today without the '94 strike. Both the owners and the players lost from this one.
The fans of small market teams really got the shaft from the 94 strike. It’s still being felt today.
I never went back to baseball after ‘94. And when I hear about all these weird rules they have brought in lately, it doesn’t make me want to come back.
Last october and this season have been some of the most fun I've had as a baseball fan. The rules are mostly small changes that you don't really notice. I hope you forgive the game and come back one day.
@@AndThatsBaseball if you don't notice they destroyed the game you're on crack
Tony Gwynn stats are freaking mind boggling I wish I got to watch him play in his prime. My dad always tells me how incredible a hitter he was it’s awful how he didn’t get a shot at .400
RIP Tony Gwynn
One of the best baseball minds, hitting philosophers, and smiles the game has ever known
After the 1994 strike, MLB instituted interlegue play in 1997, the owners started building the retro ball parks, the Yankees closed out the century with multiple world series championships, Cal Ripken broke Gehrig's record, and Sosa & McGwire broke Maris record with the juice. So basically baseball got lucky in a way. It still didn't get back to that magic of what was about to happen in 1994, but it survived.
Were you there? I was. I wrote a report about it in 7th grade as it was happening. Yea, I learned quite a lot about collective bargaining that year. I also learned that it was f-ing heartbreaking to watch Junior lose that season. My favorite player ever, out of ANY sport. I followed his entire career from 1989, when I got a Ken Griffey Jr baseball card out of a pack of Upper Deck cards.
This 1994 MLB Strike robbed us of a team making the postseason with a sub-500 record (AL West and NL West)
The AL West had the lowest division win percentage ever I think. Absolutely insane
Dodgers were 2 games over .500 at the time though. But yea best AL West team was 10 games under!
As a young Yankees fan 1994 breaks my heart because it was likely Don Mattingly's best shot at winning a world series. Announcers like Joe Morgan would mercilessly trash Mattingly because he never won a title. Saying things like "real Yankee legends have rings". Which wasn't fair at all. Despite how terrible Yankee pitching was because of Steinbrenner Mattingly was the only reason to watch Yankee games for most fans. If given a decent team with adequate pitching I'm sure Mattingly was good enough to bring home a title in his prime. I've always thought the critcism of Mattingly not winning a title was extremely unfair. But back then it was a very commonly heard critcism.
If his back didn’t go out, he certainly would’ve won a few rings. Such a shame.
@@AndThatsBaseball well his back and his wife. Mattingly was only supposed to take off for one year off in 1996 because his wife was going through some serious alcohol or addiction issues. Steinbrenner promised to resign him the following year in 1997. But in 1996 the homelife for Mattingly's kids and health of his wife got too out of control for Mattingly to continue to travel with the team. 1996 also happened to be the year the Yanks won the world series and Tino Martinez went off with numbers Mattingly hadn't had since the 80s at that point. So Mattingly decided then to retire in 1997 because the team successfully moved on. Along with his kids and back issues made staying at home better for him as well. But if not for family issues Mattingly would have returned for 1996 back issues an all. It was his wife and kids that was the real deciding factor in his early retirement. Which knowing his family was the main reason he retired and he was only supposed to take a year off makes it all the more heartbreaking he didn't get a ring. Mattingly understandably doesn't really share this info in interviews but as a young Mattingly super fan who read every news story in the papers back then I remember this well. If you search old news articles you will find his family issues mentioned as likely the real reason for his retirement. And like I said he was supposed to resign in 1997. I was heartbroken not only did Mattingly miss out on a ring in 1996 I was heartbroken when he didn't resign in 1997. Unless you grew up in NYC in that era it's hard to describe just how popular Donnie baseball was with every kid in the city. I guess because the Yanks sucked so bad it made Mattingly all the more loved as the only good reason to watch the games.
Ironic that the two most famous Expos seasons were 1981 and 1994 (both seasons that were touched by a strike)
1994 strike killed the Expos franchise. Fans had enough.
@@taekwondotime wonder how a team would do in Montreal now? I haven't lived their since the 90s.
@@fintanoclery2698 With a fresh start, a proper stadium, a wealthy owner, a competitive team that builds into contention quickly, and a desire by MLB to make it work, I think it could become a powerhouse franchise in baseball.
The stumbling block to baseball in Montreal has always been the media blackout on the franchise and its players in America, and MLB's disdain for the Canadian teams.
MLB takes the opposite approach of the NHL. The NHL makes expansion into non-hockey markets its priority. They are willing to suffer long term losses to keep franchises in southern US markets with low ticket prices. MLB is the opposite. MLB never tries to "grow the game" by having franchises in Vancouver (for example). MLB just doubles up on existing cities like New York, Chicago, LA, etc. MLB would rather that teams like the Jays and Expos don't succeed.
One of the biggest what-if seasons for so many reasons, good stuff!
There’s so much more I didn’t even talk about. There were like 3 more guys close to the HR record pace and the AL West was atrocious. Those can each be their own videos.
I really thing the awful AL West was such a good concept. That and Frank Thomas being utterly ridiculous.
I’ll talk about them next work stoppage
Amazing content man!! I am a happy subscriber now, keep up the great work!
I wish the 1994 strike would’ve never happened, those poor Expos. Canada needs them back. I met some amazing Expos fans when I went to Tim Raines’ HOF induction ceremony in 2017; I’ve always thought Canada was big on hockey, but they’re huge with baseball too!
MLB is probably expanding in the next decade, so maybe Montreal will be considered. Thanks for the sub, I'm glad you enjoyed!
Same, but at least the Expos live on as the Nationals - and this is coming from an Astros fan.
Dude I'm happy for you. You deserve the recognition! Keep making videos
Great video of 'What if." Also Greg Maddux had like the 2nd lowest ERA since Bob Gibson. That 1994 All Star Game was the last great all star game with an epic finish that featured Tony Gwynn. Other key notes about this year is that Jeff Bagwell got his hand broken a couple of days before the strike and the MVP would have went down to Williams and Bonds. Bonds would have reached the 40/40 that year. I also feel that Griffey and Matt Williams would have reached 60 hrs, due to their protection in the lineup. Williams hitting behind Bonds (as you mentioned) and Griffey hitting behind Buhner or Edgar. Worst of all there was no post season, and the Yankees (historically the premiere team in baseball) were missing out when they had their chance. It was going to be the first post season with eats, central, west due to the Giants winning 103 games in 1993 and finishing 2nd behind the Braves who erroneously in the NL West. What happened though was the NFL, the Cowboys and the 49ers, and football became America's Game. Baseball ruined it's greatest season, and football gave the public what it wanted.
One thing that always gets over looked is of how bad the AL West was, the Rangers were 52-62, all 4 teams separated by 5.5 games. Would've probably been the first team with a losing record to make the post season.
Its crazy knowing how potentially 1994 could have turned into the best season in baseball history with all the teams players and storylines involved,but the strike destroyed that season
Gwynn was a hitting machine.
How does this video only have a few k views? Awesome job!
Glad you enjoyed!
This is going to be a masterpiece, I can already tell.
Don't worry it is
Nice video. I didn't know almost any of this info until now
Just discovered your channel today, subbed! Your graphics style looks familiar ;).
Glad you enjoyed!
Another odd distinction that the strike killed was the likelihood that, for the first time ever, there would likely have been a sub-.500 team in the post-season. The Texas Rangers were in 1st place in the AL West at 10 games under .500 when the strike happened.
The Yankees were playing really good that year could of been Mattingly’s first world series
And possibly cost Mattingly a HOF spot.
You know what’s crazy, over his career Barry bonds is responsible for winning an entire seasons worth of games all on his own
I really liked your tony G part that was really nice sub earned
Reggie Sanders was an idiot for charging Pedro Martinez. Dude just lost a perfect game with a HBP did he honestly think he hit him on purpose? Pedro’s immediate reaction after hitting Sanders is all you need to know.
This is by far one of the most interesting historical sports videos out there nothing like historical baseball facts
Great video. I was in love baseball at the time, but also still young and pretty naïve and the whole money thing really turned me off the game. I'll watch a game here and there, but I've never really been able to get myself back into baseball like I was before the 1994 strike. It's kind of dumb, because sports is money, and I know that now, but for whatever reason, I still am unable to reconcile that when it comes to MLB.
Killed me when the lockout hit. As a Giants fan, the team had been playing bad to mediocre baseball all season, but they were finally hitting their stride. The acquisition of Daryll Strawberry. (.363 OBP!) seemed to energize the club, and wake up the bats. Plus, the whole Matt Williams HR chase was amazing. The worst part of the season - besides the work stoppage - was Todd Benzinger and J.R. Philips trying and failing to fill Will Clark's shoes- just awful. On the other end of the spectrum, you have Barry Bonds with a 183 OPS+ (.426 OBP!!). And the aforementioned Matt Williams with a 141 OPS+, .607 SLG and playing gold glove calibre defense.
Then on the pitching side, the Giants had a deep veteran staff, featuring 4 above average starters, and 3 above average relieves (including a dominant Rod Beck, with 28 saves despite the shortened season). I really felt like the Giants were climbing out of their funk, and going to do some real damage in the second half. Us baseball fans were robbed, and no one was burned harder than Expos fans. It quite literally killed their franchise.
Giants got screwed in ‘93 by the old playoff format then lost another chance at the playoffs in ‘94, what a shame
@@AndThatsBaseball exactly. Giants were screwed again in 1997, when they faced the wild card Marlins in that wacky format, where the better team played the first two games on the road. Giants got hosed yet again last year, after winning 107, but facing the 106 win Dodgers in the first round. Oh well- thank goodness for 2010-2012-2014.
@@KidFresh71 Yeah I imagine a recent dynasty makes all of that worth it
Griffey Jr had the prettiest swing of all time.
💯
Between the Dodgers winning 111 games, the Braves passing the Mets at the last second, Shohei Ohtani being one of the greatest athletes in sports history, Aaron Judge hitting 62 home runs, Gerrit Cole striking out 257 batters, and now 3 major upsets in the wild card round of the playoffs, this was certainly a season for the ages. Who knows, maybe 1994 would have been this good too
It’s crazy to think how close we were to losing a couple of weeks because of the lockout. Could’ve been a similar situation of cutting records short
I remember this all to well given my parents give me 93 Xmas n May birthday gift as a season ticket holder to the Pittsburgh pirates. I'm shocked u didn't mention about Mr. Padre show in the all star game
I liked Larry Walker playing for the Expos ESPECIALLY since he was a native-born Canadian. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Dude you deserve views in the tens of thousands if not more. Excellent content
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed
I was a young Giants fan at the time, and after the injustice of 1993 (103 wins, didn't make playoffs) we had to suffer again watching one of the team favorites (I was a Will Clark guy myself) lose his big moment. At least he got to win a world series in 2001 with the Diamondbacks.
Dude your videos are so sick. Is there direct message on UA-cam? I have a million questions
You can tweet at me @AndThatsBB
Damn these vids are high quality, this is great work. You've earned a new sub. Keep going!
Glad you enjoyed!
So many players were doing amazing things that year. I hate that we'll never know. Some records would have been broken for sure.
Among the many nuances in 1994 was the plight of the Mariners, losing the ability to play home games in the Kingdome a few weeks before the strike. Had they won the AL West would MLB have allowed Seattle to host playoff games in AAA Tacoma or somewhere else in the NW? Would Griffey have had better HR success playing the rest of the season away from Seattle?
The Expos would of won the world series. They were champions of 1994. It was full of terrific players.
I'm still mad that that dude prevented Pedro from throwing a no-hitter by charging the mound! 😡
President Brandon loves my videos 😎
I was so devastated when the 1994 season ended the way it did. I truly wanted to see if the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics or Seattle Mariners could win the American League West with a sub .500 record. Today in 2021 I am still sad over what happened. Um...thanks for the memories??? LOL
The 1994 AL West could be a video on its own, I don't think we've ever seen anything like it.
@@AndThatsBaseball Living in the Dallas area at the time, most Rangers fans thought that it would be perfect for the Rangers to finally win the West, but with a losing record.
My dad always says he thought it would be Yankees expos in that ws
I would agree. The Expos and Yankees would of been the favorites. As good as CLE CHW and ATL were, they were not on the same level.
Always great to see your videos on my sub box. Keep them coming!
Thanks brother!
Let’s not forget Maddux who had 16 wins and 1.56 ERA. Imagine he got his normal # of starts in? He missed about 10.
Heck. Same with the next year. 19 wins and he missed starts due to MLB delay.
CY yes, but those stats could have been even crazier.
Maybe the craziest thing is that he pitched over 200 innings in both shortened seasons. Only 8 pitchers threw 200 this season and only one threw over 205
@@AndThatsBaseball cuz he had the uncanny ability to go deep into games with low pitch count. Strikeouts were not necessarily his goal to get a batter out.
They weren’t his goal yet he was still a good strikeout pitcher. What an amazing talent.
This was so dang cool to watch and relive this season!
Glad you enjoyed!
Great channel 👍
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This strike was the death knell for the Expos.
Imagine "bottoming out" at a .300 BA
There will never be another Tony Gwynn
I will never forgive baseball for that season
I will curse Selig and the owners to my dying day for 1994.
Good video mate
Glad you enjoyed!
Crazy as it sounds, it took another 25 years before I started watching baseball again because of that strike
I'm glad you're back!
Don’t forget Bonds, Bagwell and Thomas all could’ve had a 50HR+ season in ‘94 as well, not to mention, a good possibility of Sox-Expos WS where either the end of a 76yr drought or 1st WS championship was possible.
So many stories shut down smh
Even Fred McGriff and Jose Canseco had a good shot at 50.
I was 14 in 1994 and followed everything MLB I could before the internet. I was so upset with MLB that I didn't get back into it until the Nationals came around and I had a team to root for because I live in Virginia.
2019 must've been an awesome season for you
@@AndThatsBaseball My wife and I listened to the entire playoffs and WS on the radio while we played cards. Every pitch from the WC game vs Milwaukee to the final strikeout in Houston. It was one of the best memories we had together. Good luck with your channel!
.394, 552, and 1348 are three numbers special to Padres fans.
Jeff Bagwell had nearly 40 bombs, dude would've hit 60+ that year
No, he wouldn’t have. He broke his hand just before the strike started. The strike was a mixed blessing for the Astros. It allowed Bagwell to become a unanimous MVP, but it deprived the team of its 1st playoff appearance since 1986.
No he was going to be out around 8 weeks due to being hit by a pitch on his hand. The MVP would have been awarded to Williams or Bonds had the season been completed. Monster season for Bagwell though.
1:07 I feel like I’m the only person here who remembers who Luke Scott is, let alone seeing him play.
Tony Gwynn would be even more dominant today in the world of shifts, dude could hit it wherever he wanted to
In a league where the shift affects almost every hitter, he’d be unaffected. Batting champs win with .320 averages now, he’d still hit .370
The music in the background reminds me of 'tek it' by cafune
Seemed like every great player from the 90's was an Expo or in the Expo farm system at some point.
Never kept em around to save cash, what a shame.
Junior was the best player I ever saw play
You know, say what you will about Rob Manfred - at least he pulled through with the MLBPA. We had no 1994 thanks to everyone getting their shit together, and no games were cancelled; everything was just postponed by a few weeks. And 2022 just so happened to be one of the best seasons of baseball in recent memory. The Padres made it to the NLCS for the first time since Gwynn’s twilight years in 1998, Roger Maris’ AL record was broken by a fellow Yankee, and both of the World Series teams claimed redemption - the Astros by winning fair and square, and the Phillies by simply being there. What a ride. And also - Manfred > Selig, let’s be honest.
When the strike happened, I made up my mind to never watch another MLB game again, after the players decided to ruin such a great season. I don't miss MLB at all, to this day.
I recommend you tune in this October. Everyone involved with the strike is gone and there’s a ton of young and exciting teams
Gwynn should still be around today the fact he isn’t is a goddamn shame.
The 1994 Strike Absolutely KILLED the Sports Books in Vegas !!!
No other sports in august really I’m not surprised
Uh, Mattingly in 95? I kinda thought he never played in the playoffs... like that was a thing :/ enjoyed the vid until that now my past doesn’t line up with the current timeline
It was his thing. He only played one playoff series and it was well past his prime when his back was cooked. He couldn’t even sit down on the flight back from Seattle because his back was so bad, and he retired right before the dynasty teams.
It's a shame the expos were never the same, after 1994. They didn't have a winning season, ever since.
They actually did go 88-74 in 1996 and had mathematical hope for a wildcard all the way until game 161.
Wow there was never a 1994 World Series who do you think would’ve won?
Yankees but I’m super biased
I was 12 when this happened. And I vaguely remember there being talk around wether or not the strike would stop Ripken’s streak. And I was a HUGE Ripken and Orioles fan (still am). In retrospect I don’t know why that would’ve been a conversation, because he can’t keep playing if there’s no games to play. Lol. The strike def sucked.
Took me almost a decade to care about MLB again .. and its still pretty fleeting
Been some fun seasons and players recently, I’m optimistic about the future of the league
MLB died for me in 1987. I never watched or listened to a game after they went on strike.
It Was 1994 Genius
This video deserves more views.
I started watching baseball in 1995 because of Griffey.
Is there a call that Gary Thorne did in the 90's that isn't iconic?
Watching this after the 2022 regular season…. Damn we missed out
1994 could've been as historic as 2022. Such a shame
It died for me when Curt Flood won his case for free agency.
Why’s that?
Also the Expos just won the 1994 World Series on a shoestring budget.
How do you only have 10k subscribers
I'm glad I do lol I had 1k last month
1994 robbed the fans and some players and teams of magical moments.
On the plus side, thank god the strike destroyed the horrendous idea that was The Baseball Network 😂.
So many dreams unrealized. Honestly it was worse having played 70% of the season to have it flushed down the drain rather than the NHL losing a whole season…at least no dreams and hopes were developed.
1994... the year my interest in the game went from absolute love to disgust. Such a great game that had to go and step on it's own toes... again.
I hope you’re back as a fan, but I understand if you’re not
@@AndThatsBaseball
I'm working on it. I still enjoy watching the high school and college game. I haven't been to a minor league game yet but that will be my next big step to recovery... I hope 🙂
The White Sox would have won the World Series in ‘94
Frank Thomas was having an insane year
Best part of that lost season was it gave Jays fans an extra year as defending World Series champions.
Booooooooooo 👎👎
94 killed the Expos
I think with the elimination of the shift a .400 season is somewhat possible bow
It would have to come from an absolutely generational contact hitter. Pitching might just be too good for it to happen. It's so easy to find a hitter's weakness, and pretty much every hitter has some weakness against 100mph fastballs and 90mph sliders that are in the league now.
No one can convince me that if 1994 was allowed to play out there would be a season even close to how great it would’ve been.
So many great storylines cut short, such a shame
@@AndThatsBaseball The Mariners basically on a roll and were on the road for almost a month due to Kingdome tiles falling and MLB not allowing to finish the home season at Tacoma’s AAA Cheney Stadium. Was one you left out. Mariners were charging despite living in hotels that last month.
the day the expose died