@@confusedrealm7047 yeah, kind of like 2017. I'm a die hard Dodgers fan but there was no denying that that was an amazing world series. Even though it's looked at through a different lens in hindsight, at the time it was one of the best. And so was this one.
As a Yankee fan, even though they lost, this is still my favorite World Series that I've experienced. The wonderful distraction that this team provided us while going on with our day to day in the city, with reports of more bodies found in the debris and the smell of burning jet fuel still in the air cannot be fully described. I'd have to say the serinade of Paul in Game 5 was probably my personal favorite moment of this series along with the walk offs at the Stadium. Hats off to the Diamondbacks. They were the better team at the time, the Yanks just went as far on pure emotion that everyone was giving them.
Spot on,, the team uplifted a city for only a few hours a few times a week when they definitely needed it,, my fav WS by far,,, Mr November added to his lore, just wow kinda chit every damn game!!!
No joke, I live in Arizona, AZ is my NL team and Gonzo hit the winning hit on my 15th birthday to the minute. This is my absolute favorite memory of baseball. I'm so happy you did this, thank you!!!
The story I love the most about this series is from Buster Olney’s The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty. It goes that former Yankee manager Buck Showalter (the first Dbacks skip) had the grounds crew make that dirt path from the mound to home, which is an odd feature for a diamond. As such, that bunt got to Rivera too quickly and he couldn’t get the best grip before having to relay to Jeter at second (and so the ball flew into center).
Interestingly, almost all of the DBacks roster in 2001 came to AZ after the franchise's inaugural 1998 season. Poetically, the two most notable exceptions who were there from day 1 were Jay Bell (who scored the Series winning run) and Matt Williams (who was on deck after Gonzalez and thus the first to greet Bell at the plate). Most of the 98 team was young and would eventually be traded for the veterans of the 01 team. The team that eventually won it all really started in 99, when they got Johnson, Gonzalez, Womack, Finley, and a few others, then won their division. They acquired Schilling a mid-season trade in 2000, then in 2001 rounded out the roster with guys like Grace, Sanders, and Counsell.
If there's a silver lining to be had, it kept Enrique Wilson from getting on the plane that would crash into a neighborhood in Queens. The guy had a flight booked in anticipation of a WS ticker tape parade but after the loss, the parade gets cancelled (to be fair, I'm not sure if it should be held considering...) and he changed the flight to an earlier one back to DR. While Wilson may not get a ring but at least he's still alive.
Kind of crazy that this series made it to seven at all. Given that the diamondbacks won two blowouts at home to start he series, and lost three close games in NY followed by another blowout to force game seven
@@DanielOrteez Randy won three games, Curt started three games. The two walk-offs game 4 and 5 off of Kim were unbelievable. AZ blew out the Yankees in game six with 15 runs and 22 hits which let Randy rest early.
Even tho Pettite imploded in that game, the vast majority of the damage was done against the Yankees bullpen (wanna say it was Witasik but I'm too lazy to look it up).
Read an article once about the plays in baseball history that had the biggest change on a team's % chance to win the championship, and the Womack hit was either #1 or 2.
I was there. I was 12 years old. It was at BOB ( Bank One Ballpark) which is now Chase field. Same stadium though.I will NEVER forget this! Then got to miss school and go to the parade I think the next day or day after! I still have my white towel
I was a huge Yankee fan but this was an incredible series. I loved it. So many ups and downs. The dramatic home runs by Jeter, Martinez and Brosius. Great series.
Lots of key moments in this series and I'm surprised they left out Jeter's game winning home run. cementing him as Mr. November, Randy's only game 7 appearance to keep them afloat, and a few others. I get the celebrations and interviews in the 3rd half brings it to over 30 minutes, but this was a special world series.
Luis Gonzalez had a restaurant in downtown Gilbert called gonzos that lasted about a year haha. The food sucked but it was very cool inside with all his trophies and stuff
Fortunate to attend games 1-2-6&7, After the craziness in NY & needing a W in game 6 the DBacks torched for 13 runs in first three innings & for six innings the stadium was celebrating knowing that game 7 tickets would be punched for us the following night with Clemens vsSchilling for the whole enchilada. Without question the best of the very best WS ever IMO,, Had it all including healing a city & fans from unprecedented tragedy. Only the phenomenal game of baseball could do this!!! Go Blue!!
20 years later and still riddled with chills when watching this. Hope the Dbacks can put something like this (or just not be the worst team in baseball) together again soon.
An INFIELD FLY is a fair fly ball (not including a line drive nor an attempted bunt) which can be caught by an INFIELDER with ordinary effort, when first and second, orfirst, second and third bases are occupied, before two are out. The pitcher, catcher and any outfielder who stations himself in the INFIELD on the play shall be considered infielders for the purpose of this rule. Or maybe I'm wrong and an infielder trying to make a catch 70 feet deep into the outfield is "routine"
Cade Speaman You're so close to being right. Like you said, if it can be caught by an infielder given routine effort. It doesn't matter if that infielder catches the ball in the outfield. It has nothing to do with the batted ball location. It has everything to do with the level of effort required by the infielder to catch the ball. 100% the correct call.
Jeter got hurt in ALDS game 5 in Yankee stadium vs Oakland. He flipped over the wall down the 3rd base line catching a foul ball. Looked like he hurt his arm, maybe his elbow (I was at that game) He definitely was not the same the rest of that postseason. Through a series of circumstances I went to 7 out of the 9 home games at Yankee stadium that postseason. Only missed ALCS game 5 and World Series game 5. It was awesome.
The question has always been could Brosius have gone to 1st, and this had a good overhead to where I think if he was thinking that and had his feet adjusted there is a play
The second Rivera picked up that ball, it looked like the World Series was over. Double play would've decimated them. But, and I know this is hindsight, an honest question: Why didn't SB throw to first? He had an easy play. Was there ever an actual comment/statement from the Yanks about that?
I wonder the same thing. Used to think maybe he didn't have time until I saw the clip, turns out he had plenty of time. Maybe he was looking to see if he could throw to second? Guess we'll never know. With that said, no matter what people said, I still think Mo made the right call by going for two, just that he messed up on the throw however. If Foolish Baseball video is anything to go by, much of that inning was a result of bad luck but that's how it goes and one still have to take advantage of it which the D-Backs did.
The Lockdown Kid yeah, I was surprised they didn’t mention how the double play probably could have been had right there-ends up being a huge blunder. You can kind of see Mo react, like, “wtf? Why did you not throw to first???”
@@mindofmind5350 I mean. To be fair, nobody really hits doubles off of Mo like Womack did. So with runners on first and second one out...its not hard to get a double play. Also. If they nailed both runners at the corners, besides mental, the tie run is still in scoring position.
Torre has said that he had a meeting with the infield before Bell came up (while the trainers were looking at Jeter), and he told them to just play for an out and not try to do too much. Seems like Brosius took that to heart and played conservatively- you'll notice his left foot is on the bag, meaning he isn't in position to come off the bag and throw to first anyways, as he'd have to flip his shoulders to get any power on the throw.
They had the perfect theme song for the ads of this series, "Tonight Tonight" from the Smashing Pumpkins. It just worked perfectly. (And one of the VERY rare times that I was cheering for the Yankees, for obvious reasons).
The games were so good and that's funny, for a couple years in the mid-2000s I forgot that the Yankees lost this world series because being a New Yorker there was so much made about the Yankees being in it and the whole Jeter Mr November thing with the walk off was something that stuck in my mind alot longer but in rewatching the series not too long ago it was just a really good series and even though the Yankees lost I still loved it
Luis Gonzalez in 2001 is one of the all-time Roidy Magoo seasons. Went from 10-15 HR/season, jumped up to 20-30 for a few years, then all of a sudden was running down Maris with 57 in 2001. Finished between Sosa and A-Rod.
Tbh Phoenix is just a really fair-weathered sports.town, but the fans turn out and are loud for a good team. Suns games are a madhouse the last couple years. Cardinals have sold out every game since the Glendale stadium was built. I've been to 3 DBacks playoff games (fortunately all wins) in 01, 11, and 17 and they were all crazy loud. Even the Coyotes got great crowds that one year they made it to the conference finals.
There was one loud and proud Yankees fan in my fourth grade class back in Maine in 2001, named Mike. Went wayyy to deep into slamming the Dbacks and saying the Yankees could ever lose. I think every kid in the grade woke up extra early the day after the Yankees lost this series just to rub it in his face.
I watched this WS with Yankee fans during the year I lived in Albany, NY at grad school. As a Tigers fan from MI, I wasn't really pulling for the Yanks even thought this was right after 9-11, but I did feel bad for my roommates after this game. I wasn't rooting for AZ either, although I was happy for Gonzalez (former Tiger they should have never let go of). I was rooting for a really good series which I got.
They had one out so they should have gone corners in when Gonzo came up to bat. If it’s hit to first or third then you come home with it or just turn 2 up the middle.
That was an amazing world series. Just after 9/11, everyone was one the same side, pro-america, no division or stupid politics. Say what you want about Bush but when he threw out the first pitch and nailed that strike. I was seeing eagles. Great comeback from the Dbacks. No one was sitting during those last innings of game 7. Awesome.
Your Scott Brosius comment got me thinking...I'm not a fan of the Yankees, but I think you can make a very strong case for Brosius on an all-time team based strictly on World Series performance. I went down the baseball reference rabbit-hole and only Home Run Baker from the spitball era Philadelphia A's (and early 20s Yankees) comes close. So that's two Yankee third baseman in contention...although Baker's WS performance in pinstripes was not good. But his 4 World Series for the A's are stout. You've inspired me to build all-time World Series rosters for NL and AL. Maybe Quarantine isn't that bad.
It's a little embarrassing to admit, but before watching these recaps/reactions/whatever you want to call them I had completely forgotten Scott Brosius had played for the Yankees. I still think of him as an Athletic first.
Greatest World Series game 7 was a tactical battle yanks were about to win 4 series in a row! But the Arizona underdogs pulled the greatest upset in baseball history the whole game is on the dbacks yt channel.
To me this has to go down as the best World Series ever. There are other series that can match with this one when it comes to close games & walkoff finishes (ie 1991), but this one separates itself for a few reasons: - The backdrop of 9/11 with the Yankees in the Series, and the chills-inducing moments that came with that: Bush's first pitch, Ray Charles singing "God Bless America", the tattered flag flying above Yankee Stadium. - Not all close games & walkoffs are created equal: Tino & Brosius hitting the tying homer when down to the last out on back-to-back nights. Jeter's "Mr November" homer. Gonzalez's iconic winner off Mariano Freaking Rivera. No offense to 1991 or others, but how do you top that? - The star power. Tons of Hall of Fame-level talent (won't digress much further on that point lol): Jeter, Rivera, Clemens, Schilling, Johnson. But even look at the rest of these rosters and they are absolutely stacked. That whole Yankees lineup are basically legends thanks to that dynasty, while the D-Backs had a bunch of dudes like Grace, Williams, and Finley who were a little old at that point but extremely accomplished players who were staples of the 90's.
I've been a Yankee fan since 1977. This game 7 was the worst loss I ever experienced. If I could reverse the outcome of one game, all time, it would be this game. Losing in 2004 was nowhere near as bad as the bottom of the 9th in 2001 WS game 7. ☹☹☹☹
Best World Series ever. This made me fall in love with the Dbacks as a kid
booooooo
As a Jays fan and Yankees hater, yes this was a great World Series.
Amazing world series! Diamond backs put on a show and didn't disappoint.
zakwan10 Even as a Yankees fan. The was an incredible series. Sure we lost but was it incredible. So many things happened to make baseball magic
@@confusedrealm7047 yeah, kind of like 2017. I'm a die hard Dodgers fan but there was no denying that that was an amazing world series. Even though it's looked at through a different lens in hindsight, at the time it was one of the best. And so was this one.
As a Yankee fan, even though they lost, this is still my favorite World Series that I've experienced.
The wonderful distraction that this team provided us while going on with our day to day in the city, with reports of more bodies found in the debris and the smell of burning jet fuel still in the air cannot be fully described.
I'd have to say the serinade of Paul in Game 5 was probably my personal favorite moment of this series along with the walk offs at the Stadium.
Hats off to the Diamondbacks. They were the better team at the time, the Yanks just went as far on pure emotion that everyone was giving them.
Spot on,, the team uplifted a city for only a few hours a few times a week when they definitely needed it,, my fav WS by far,,, Mr November added to his lore, just wow kinda chit every damn game!!!
Tony Womack is criminally underrated in AZ considering he had the 2nd biggest hit in Dbacks history.
Don't forget his walkoff hit in game 5 of the LDS against the Cardinals that year.
No joke, I live in Arizona, AZ is my NL team and Gonzo hit the winning hit on my 15th birthday to the minute. This is my absolute favorite memory of baseball. I'm so happy you did this, thank you!!!
What a birthday wow 🐍
Games 4 5 and 7 deserve their own separate episodes this WS was crazy
One of the best of all time
The story I love the most about this series is from Buster Olney’s The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty. It goes that former Yankee manager Buck Showalter (the first Dbacks skip) had the grounds crew make that dirt path from the mound to home, which is an odd feature for a diamond. As such, that bunt got to Rivera too quickly and he couldn’t get the best grip before having to relay to Jeter at second (and so the ball flew into center).
Dude u guys skipped randy Johnson coming in for the 9th inning. Sad
David Babbitt agreed. His top of the 9th was dominant a day after he pitched game 6.
This was a pretty much worthless video.
Typical Yankee fans. This was lame
They don't know anything about baseball history.
This was SUCH a good series. Just watching game 7 doesn't do it justice.
Interestingly, almost all of the DBacks roster in 2001 came to AZ after the franchise's inaugural 1998 season. Poetically, the two most notable exceptions who were there from day 1 were Jay Bell (who scored the Series winning run) and Matt Williams (who was on deck after Gonzalez and thus the first to greet Bell at the plate). Most of the 98 team was young and would eventually be traded for the veterans of the 01 team.
The team that eventually won it all really started in 99, when they got Johnson, Gonzalez, Womack, Finley, and a few others, then won their division. They acquired Schilling a mid-season trade in 2000, then in 2001 rounded out the roster with guys like Grace, Sanders, and Counsell.
Games 3, 4 and 5 deserve some kind of Jomboy analysis. I was at game 4 and can honestly say it was the greatest sports memory I'll ever have.
If there's a silver lining to be had, it kept Enrique Wilson from getting on the plane that would crash into a neighborhood in Queens. The guy had a flight booked in anticipation of a WS ticker tape parade but after the loss, the parade gets cancelled (to be fair, I'm not sure if it should be held considering...) and he changed the flight to an earlier one back to DR. While Wilson may not get a ring but at least he's still alive.
Kind of crazy that this series made it to seven at all. Given that the diamondbacks won two blowouts at home to start he series, and lost three close games in NY followed by another blowout to force game seven
Was Arizona stealing signs?!
Daniel Orteez No they had the two best pitchers at the time.
@@DanielOrteez Randy won three games, Curt started three games. The two walk-offs game 4 and 5 off of Kim were unbelievable. AZ blew out the Yankees in game six with 15 runs and 22 hits which let Randy rest early.
Its because of the dbacks closer who blew 2 games in the 9th at Yankee Stadium
Even tho Pettite imploded in that game, the vast majority of the damage was done against the Yankees bullpen (wanna say it was Witasik but I'm too lazy to look it up).
An ad for The Tick behind home plate? What is this, 2001?
Yes!
Schilling time is a play of "it's Miller time"
I was about to say that but decided to scroll the comments first
Yup! It's Miller Time!
Gregorio Gonzalez haha same!
Same. Thought it was obvious 😂
I don’t them there yankee fan they are watching bad memories 🤣🤣 but it’s a great series though
Tony Womack was super underrated
At one time Womack's hit was named the most clutch hit of all time.
Read an article once about the plays in baseball history that had the biggest change on a team's % chance to win the championship, and the Womack hit was either #1 or 2.
@@drewdrewski4188 it was number 2
Jomboy yes Gonzo used to have a restaurant in Gilbert AZ but now he has Gonzo's Grill at Chase Field.
I was there. I was 12 years old. It was at BOB ( Bank One Ballpark) which is now Chase field. Same stadium though.I will NEVER forget this! Then got to miss school and go to the parade I think the next day or day after! I still have my white towel
I was a huge Yankee fan but this was an incredible series. I loved it. So many ups and downs. The dramatic home runs by Jeter, Martinez and Brosius. Great series.
One of the best finishes to a world series ever! Such a magical moment for Arizona! They definitely earned this one.
Lots of key moments in this series and I'm surprised they left out Jeter's game winning home run. cementing him as Mr. November, Randy's only game 7 appearance to keep them afloat, and a few others. I get the celebrations and interviews in the 3rd half brings it to over 30 minutes, but this was a special world series.
Still my favorite series wasn’t old enough to remember it. 2011 and 2014 were some of the best I’ve watched as well
Luis Gonzalez had a restaurant in downtown Gilbert called gonzos that lasted about a year haha. The food sucked but it was very cool inside with all his trophies and stuff
As a Rockies fan I anticipate some Vietnam-tier flashbacks in around 6 days
Fortunate to attend games 1-2-6&7, After the craziness in NY & needing a W in game 6 the DBacks torched for 13 runs in first three innings & for six innings the stadium was celebrating knowing that game 7 tickets would be punched for us the following night with Clemens vsSchilling for the whole enchilada. Without question the best of the very best WS ever IMO,, Had it all including healing a city & fans from unprecedented tragedy. Only the phenomenal game of baseball could do this!!! Go Blue!!
I'll always remember after the blowout in game 6, the PA playing Sinatra NY, NY while the Yankees scowl in the dugout.
2:42 Huge Falcons fan here. I wasn't watching greatness, I was watching disappointment and frustration
I will always love that shot of the D-Backs running out of the dugout
greatest moment in az sports. 10yo me will never forget. always gonna rep that randy jersey. go d backs.
7yo me is right there with yah ahha. Hope they can turn it around sometime soon.
20 years later and still riddled with chills when watching this. Hope the Dbacks can put something like this (or just not be the worst team in baseball) together again soon.
Can't blame Jeter for that play at second. The throw from Rivera was off and sailing towards a hard charging runner.
Jeter did all he could. As a Diamondback fan I'm so happy Rivera's throw was too far right.
This was the series that made me a baseball fanatic
When you think about it, the fact that SB 42 happened in Arizona was actually pretty fitting.
Soriano LOVED golfing homers out the dirt
He was so great. I hated him 😝
Soriano was and still is a goddamn legend
pretty sure my mom has a crush on Alfonse
@@OhGeeRonC one of my favorite players!
jomboy can you please do a breakdown of the controversial infield fly call in the 2012 NL wild card game that caused braves fans to trash the field
Hope he would break down how it's correct so people would quit blindly believing it was a bad call.
@@quickman1047 except it's not
An INFIELD FLY is a fair fly ball (not including a line drive nor an attempted bunt) which can be caught by an INFIELDER with ordinary effort, when first and second, orfirst, second and third bases are occupied, before two are out. The pitcher, catcher and any outfielder who stations himself in the INFIELD on the play shall be considered infielders for the purpose of this rule.
Or maybe I'm wrong and an infielder trying to make a catch 70 feet deep into the outfield is "routine"
Cade Speaman You're so close to being right. Like you said, if it can be caught by an infielder given routine effort. It doesn't matter if that infielder catches the ball in the outfield. It has nothing to do with the batted ball location. It has everything to do with the level of effort required by the infielder to catch the ball.
100% the correct call.
Gonzo & Johnson are part of the Dbacks front office now
7:02 wait, what kind of video is this, fellas? What kinda racket you got running?! Lol
15:22 congrats MacCarver! Even a broken clock is right twice a day
It took several years, but, McCarver got something right and was insightful.
‘It’s KILLING time’ is the expression, lads. Love to Jomboy & Jake, stay well.
...and before that, "It's Miller time!" was the expression.
This was one of my favorite WS to see
The amount of times I rewound to watch zim pump his fist in pure joy is unhealthy but so worth it. RIP ZIM NY LOVES YOU.
Mark Grace had the most hits in the 90s
The Soriano butter knife stat is that he is one of only 6 players in baseball history with at least 400 HR and at least 275 SB
I was like 12 years old when this happened and I was so mad. But it's one of the greatest moments in WS history
As cool as it would have been for NY to win the Series in 2001, this was such an amazing series and the D-Backs so earned this.
Luis gonzalez has a restaurant for a few years called Gonzo’s but it shut down back in the day. Now there’s a Gonzo’s Grill at Chase Field lol.
Jeter got hurt in ALDS game 5 in Yankee stadium vs Oakland. He flipped over the wall down the 3rd base line catching a foul ball. Looked like he hurt his arm, maybe his elbow (I was at that game) He definitely was not the same the rest of that postseason.
Through a series of circumstances I went to 7 out of the 9 home games at Yankee stadium that postseason. Only missed ALCS game 5 and World Series game 5. It was awesome.
You’ve made me love baseball Jim. A little over a year ago it was my least favorite sport, now it’s my favorite. Thank you
The only time I’ve ever seen Mariano make a bad throw to a base
The question has always been could Brosius have gone to 1st, and this had a good overhead to where I think if he was thinking that and had his feet adjusted there is a play
The second Rivera picked up that ball, it looked like the World Series was over. Double play would've decimated them.
But, and I know this is hindsight, an honest question: Why didn't SB throw to first? He had an easy play. Was there ever an actual comment/statement from the Yanks about that?
I wonder the same thing.
Used to think maybe he didn't have time until I saw the clip, turns out he had plenty of time. Maybe he was looking to see if he could throw to second? Guess we'll never know.
With that said, no matter what people said, I still think Mo made the right call by going for two, just that he messed up on the throw however. If Foolish Baseball video is anything to go by, much of that inning was a result of bad luck but that's how it goes and one still have to take advantage of it which the D-Backs did.
The Lockdown Kid yeah, I was surprised they didn’t mention how the double play probably could have been had right there-ends up being a huge blunder. You can kind of see Mo react, like, “wtf? Why did you not throw to first???”
@@mindofmind5350
I mean. To be fair, nobody really hits doubles off of Mo like Womack did. So with runners on first and second one out...its not hard to get a double play. Also. If they nailed both runners at the corners, besides mental, the tie run is still in scoring position.
@@TheLockdownKidNYC it changes the infield position and Jeter wouldve been in a better position to grab Gonzos single
Torre has said that he had a meeting with the infield before Bell came up (while the trainers were looking at Jeter), and he told them to just play for an out and not try to do too much.
Seems like Brosius took that to heart and played conservatively- you'll notice his left foot is on the bag, meaning he isn't in position to come off the bag and throw to first anyways, as he'd have to flip his shoulders to get any power on the throw.
I think Paul O'Neill won more World Series in the 1990s than anyone else. 1990 with the Reds, 96 with the Yankees, and 98-99 with the Yankees.
He'd be tied with Cone
Still my most painful sports moment. It still really really hurts.
Dude new York has like 40 championships. We have ONE.
They had the perfect theme song for the ads of this series, "Tonight Tonight" from the Smashing Pumpkins. It just worked perfectly. (And one of the VERY rare times that I was cheering for the Yankees, for obvious reasons).
As a Yankee fan, I hate this world series. But I recognize how objectively it was amazing.
The games were so good and that's funny, for a couple years in the mid-2000s I forgot that the Yankees lost this world series because being a New Yorker there was so much made about the Yankees being in it and the whole Jeter Mr November thing with the walk off was something that stuck in my mind alot longer but in rewatching the series not too long ago it was just a really good series and even though the Yankees lost I still loved it
Great video. Such a great series
Luis Gonzalez in 2001 is one of the all-time Roidy Magoo seasons. Went from 10-15 HR/season, jumped up to 20-30 for a few years, then all of a sudden was running down Maris with 57 in 2001. Finished between Sosa and A-Rod.
This was the best WS ever, until 2016.
I'm saying tho. Brosius could've made a throw to 1st for a double play @10:24
Virtuoso I’m amazed they didn’t point that out
Mccarver pointed that out too
Being from Arizona - this was a massive event, despite having a history of lackluster fan base in professional sports.
Tbh Phoenix is just a really fair-weathered sports.town, but the fans turn out and are loud for a good team. Suns games are a madhouse the last couple years. Cardinals have sold out every game since the Glendale stadium was built. I've been to 3 DBacks playoff games (fortunately all wins) in 01, 11, and 17 and they were all crazy loud. Even the Coyotes got great crowds that one year they made it to the conference finals.
There was one loud and proud Yankees fan in my fourth grade class back in Maine in 2001, named Mike. Went wayyy to deep into slamming the Dbacks and saying the Yankees could ever lose. I think every kid in the grade woke up extra early the day after the Yankees lost this series just to rub it in his face.
Wow Jomboy actually covered this game. I thought it would sting too much. He seemed to see diff perspective though. Good on ya
2001 and 2002 two of the best world series of all time
2016
1991
“I bet he secretly supports T....Schilling.” 😆
Can't wait to see you guys do 2016, if you get to there!
Jake is getting so annoyed in this video
Yankees won 4 out of the last 5 World Series and this might prove you remember the ones you lose more than the ones you win.
Ref cheering for the dynasty. That Pats-Falcons game was the only time I rooted for the Patriots in the superbowl. Good timing for me!
Fans chanting Paul O'Neill was just the best fan to player moment ever 💯‼️
Diamondbacks were my NL team before this series...
I remember someone pointing out that the Yankees were a baseball team before Arizona was a state. 🙂
I watched this WS with Yankee fans during the year I lived in Albany, NY at grad school. As a Tigers fan from MI, I wasn't really pulling for the Yanks even thought this was right after 9-11, but I did feel bad for my roommates after this game.
I wasn't rooting for AZ either, although I was happy for Gonzalez (former Tiger they should have never let go of). I was rooting for a really good series which I got.
Looking at Luis bat. Technically they could have George Brett him
Heck yeah bro. This game was something else.
Jeter fell into the stands in Yankee Stadium Game 5 of the ALDS
as a dbacks fan this was pure heaven
They had one out so they should have gone corners in when Gonzo came up to bat. If it’s hit to first or third then you come home with it or just turn 2 up the middle.
OL` Randy J was bad ass
The big unit
Miller Time. Jomboy knew that, he was foolin around with us
That was an amazing world series. Just after 9/11, everyone was one the same side, pro-america, no division or stupid politics. Say what you want about Bush but when he threw out the first pitch and nailed that strike. I was seeing eagles. Great comeback from the Dbacks. No one was sitting during those last innings of game 7. Awesome.
Your Scott Brosius comment got me thinking...I'm not a fan of the Yankees, but I think you can make a very strong case for Brosius on an all-time team based strictly on World Series performance. I went down the baseball reference rabbit-hole and only Home Run Baker from the spitball era Philadelphia A's (and early 20s Yankees) comes close. So that's two Yankee third baseman in contention...although Baker's WS performance in pinstripes was not good. But his 4 World Series for the A's are stout. You've inspired me to build all-time World Series rosters for NL and AL. Maybe Quarantine isn't that bad.
It's a little embarrassing to admit, but before watching these recaps/reactions/whatever you want to call them I had completely forgotten Scott Brosius had played for the Yankees. I still think of him as an Athletic first.
I wouldn’t have had the infield in because you could turn a double play up the middle because the bases we loaded
Greatest World Series game 7 was a tactical battle yanks were about to win 4 series in a row! But the Arizona underdogs pulled the greatest upset in baseball history the whole game is on the dbacks yt channel.
Curt
Schilling sounds like Jeff Garlin
Let’s go dbacks!!!! Such great memories. Hopefully we can get there again.
You guys have to watch game 6 of the 2002 World Series
To me this has to go down as the best World Series ever. There are other series that can match with this one when it comes to close games & walkoff finishes (ie 1991), but this one separates itself for a few reasons:
- The backdrop of 9/11 with the Yankees in the Series, and the chills-inducing moments that came with that: Bush's first pitch, Ray Charles singing "God Bless America", the tattered flag flying above Yankee Stadium.
- Not all close games & walkoffs are created equal: Tino & Brosius hitting the tying homer when down to the last out on back-to-back nights. Jeter's "Mr November" homer. Gonzalez's iconic winner off Mariano Freaking Rivera. No offense to 1991 or others, but how do you top that?
- The star power. Tons of Hall of Fame-level talent (won't digress much further on that point lol): Jeter, Rivera, Clemens, Schilling, Johnson. But even look at the rest of these rosters and they are absolutely stacked. That whole Yankees lineup are basically legends thanks to that dynasty, while the D-Backs had a bunch of dudes like Grace, Williams, and Finley who were a little old at that point but extremely accomplished players who were staples of the 90's.
I am announcing as head of your Mets fan fanbase... we're back after a break for a few days :)
God damn, shit still brings tears of joy
Thanks for giving McCarver props!
I feel like you gotta have corners in middle double play depth
I've been a Yankee fan since 1977. This game 7 was the worst loss I ever experienced. If I could reverse the outcome of one game, all time, it would be this game. Losing in 2004 was nowhere near as bad as the bottom of the 9th in 2001 WS game 7. ☹☹☹☹
How is Alfonso Soriano remembered in NY if the Yankees with this game?
I think Soriano was the bat speed king of his time (even in a league with Gary Sheffield). He was also my childhood favorite player so I'm biased
BEING 30 THIS WILL ALWAYS BE MY YANKEES TEAM. I CRIED SO HARD FOR PAUL ONEIL I WANTED HIM TO HAVE THAT RING! LOL
Let's not forget how the bombers got there. Easily beating a record setting 116 win Seattle Mariner team.
@jomboy_ can you breakdown Sanchez for the white Sox dumping the cooler on himself twice? Haha.
"Past a diving Jeter!"
jake, if you see this by miracle, thanks for always jokin