Baseball legend Johnny Bench reflects on Reds career, his childhood, and the future of MLB
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2022
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Great interview ! I Was at that game when they had Johnny Bench day in 1983. :)
I followed JB and the BRM passionately back then. It was a special time in Reds history that more than likely will never happen again. My late father and father-in-law and myself attended Johnny Bench Night at Riverfront. It was a moment I’ll never forget. Thom I wish you the best and I will continue watching!
I'm 54. This guy is a fuckin' stud.
I am 30 years old, born in the Cincinnati area aka across the river in NKY. These interviews are great. I hope to see the Reds win a world series on the preface of hopefully my Bengals getting the Lombardi. Good content here. Lifelong Reds fan, my only regret is being born too late to witness the Big Red Machines greatness
I lived in Louisville from 69-73 and as a boy became a reds fan. My 1st game live was at old Crosley field and I thought Pete rose was the greatest thing ever. Then bench came along was rookie of the year and even as a boy Johnny looked so different at his position in my boys eyes that you knew this was greatness like none other. I was only 8 his rookie year but I couldn't take my eyes off bench when he was calling a game. The hitting was a bonus! No one looked like him catching a game. I can't say that about any other player I have ever watched. We're it not for that lung surgery I have no doubt he would've hit 500 home runs. It stole some of that bat speed and power yet he s still was able to overcome it cause he was that good. I feel like that reds team in 75 and 76 was as good a modern team as we have ever seen. I still say the 75 series was the best one in my lifetime. We had moved back to Missouri by then so I was an orphaned reds fan surrounded by hard-core cardinals fans. Until baseball has a salary cap I'm afraid the odds of a small market team ever building a dynasty is about 1 percent. It's sad and it has made me lose interest in the game. I wish every young person who loves baseball could've seen thos reds teams play! When Bernie Carbo hit that game tying home run it crushed me. I was allowed to stay up past my bedtime to watch game 6 . Another story my music teacher invited 2 of his students to have dinner with doc severson of the tonites show he happened to be touring during the 75 world series I didn't want to go cause the reds were playing a world series game that nite, my mom was gonna make me go to the dinner and fortunately with me in tears dad came to my rescue and let me stay to watch the game. Don't remember which game but it was the right decision cause of how great that series was. I could care less about som guy named doc that played a trumpet. Turned out he wasn't very friendly for whatever reason so I didn't miss much.
This man was great.
Awesome interview Johnny has always been my favorite Reds player. I remember as a very young kid watching him & how great he was. Simply a great man & best catcher of all time.
Bench and Munson made me a catcher
Marty was no slouch either! Jack buck was wonderful as well.
Great interview Thom. Johnny Bench the best catcher of all time. The Big Red Machine ruined me for life
the brm: greatest catcher of all time; greatest 2nd baseman of all time; greatest hitter of all time.
best team of all time. Deserved more WS championships than the 2 they got.
Thom Brennaman should be calling games and is a hero for saying what 90% of the country feels.
You need to redefine what a hero is because you obviously haven’t a clue. You also need to reassess how the country feels about slurring a group of citizens for doing nothing to him. He made a ridiculous unprompted statement and lost his job for it. Very simple. Case closed.
Great show Thom. You , like Johnny are legendary
loved this interview......Mr. Bench is one of the most down to earth guys i have every listen to. Started to listen to every interview i can find......my most favorite player..
Hi im Johnny Bench and this is Johnny Benches bench!😂
Best Ever! Go Reds!!!!🎉🎉🎉
Thom one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen. Long time fan of you and your dad. Thanks
Great
Great interview. Johnny is an honest and interesting
guy but can be a real ass at times. Fame does that to some folks especially if they like their privacy.
The fact that we are not hearing Thom call baseball games is a joke. Anyone that disagrees, I ask U, have U lived a mistake free life? I'll wait.
Agree 100%
mistake or not, he suxxx. He and Joe Buck BOTH jabber too much. Great for readio - SUXXXX on television.
Well I would argue he made no mistake and told the truth. Thom Brennaman should be calling games and is a hero for saying what 90% of the country feels.
@@theadamdrunkwichfiles5923 His mistake was SAYING it, on the air. Even tho he didnt know he was on, he knows that those things happen. Agree w U 100%. This country cares wayyy too much about offending someone.
What he said was ridiculously homophobic and it was unprompted. He was justifiably terminated by his employer. I don’t know where you work but if I used the same language he used my HR department would fire me.
There are levels of mistakes and when you work as a broadcaster and say what he said, then you lose your job. Case closed.
Now if you want to defend someone who simply had a slip of the tongue that went bad, you should defend Glen Kuiper, formerly of the A’s. Now he made a mistake.
Bench#1 Munson #2 Berra #3 Fisk I hate. Elston Howard underrated
I loved Johnny since I was 8 and still do. But the shift to politics was disappointing.
Johnny is so jelly of Pete
I don’t think so. He is in the HOF and still has a good name.
@@ethanweeter2732 If it was awards and achievements johnny wouldn't have sold his.....its about popularity and johnny bench will never be more popular or loved as much as Pete Rose, not in Cincinnati or in the baseball world.
Oh how true. The elephant in the room no one has the balls to talk about!! Bench’s ego is as big as the universe! He can’t stand that Pete is the hometown hero!!!! He loves to slam Pete at any time possible.
@@Videosuperfuntimes Disagree.Bench is every bit as popular as Pete Rose.Rose hurt himself,when he bet on the Reds,then, denied and lied about it for years.Before finally admitting it was true.I was a huge JB fan when I was a kid.Not really a Pete Rose fan.
@@snave59 I like em both, just johnny is jealous of rose because hes the cincy born and raised star he'll never be. Betting on baseball doesn't make you less of a ball player, I live in cincy and rose is far more respected.
So this is Thom's banned life after that slur 🤣
He did not get banned from anything.He just lost his job with the Reds.
Johnny Jealous Bench!!! Has Pete blackballed out of the HOF! Disgusting!
How did he get Rose blackballed out of the Hall of fame? Rose did that to himself! In every MLB clubhouse.There is a thing on the wall saying betting on baseball is prohibited.Rose knew what he was doing was wrong.He did it anyway.So he has to pay the price.
Bless your stupid heart. You have zero clue how things work.
Bench can't give Pete anything....it's sad.