Definitely a memorable season for Randy Johnson. He started it off with the bird incident in spring training, then had his 20K game. He would also set a new record for strikeouts in a relief appearance, when he had to come in relief after a blown fuse led to a game Curt Schilling started being delayed to the next day. He'd take over when play resumed and struck out 16, breaking a record set by his non-relative Walter set all the way back in 1913! He won his 200th career game with his final win of the regular season, then his win in the NLCS snapped an excruciating seven-game post-season losing streak dating back to 1995. Then came his World Series heroics leading to a share of the World Series MVP Award, his fourth career Cy Young award, and finally being named Sportsman of the Year with Schilling. Yessir, it was definitely a memorable season for the Big Unit. Of course as you presented so well it was a memorable season overall.
We may not have reached are destination, but it was one hell of a ride and I'll never forget it. It was pleasure watching Freddy Garcia, Aaron Sele and Jamie Moyer pitch that year.
As a New Yorker who witnessed the attack on the twin towers first-hand, I can not overemphisize the positive psychological impact of Piazza's home run. It didn't matter if you were a Mets or a Yankees fan, that one swing brought more joy to my city than any other single moment, sports-related or not, than I have seen before or since. Mike Piazza will always be my hero, not just because he was one of the greatest catchers to ever play the game, but because he made me, and everyone around me, feel GOOD again.
I was in upstate NY during the attacks. I was only 5 and my sister was being born that same day, I didn’t want to be in school that day at all cause something was really odd. You couldn’t have said it better about that Piazza home run. Hard to believe my sister will be 20 very soon.
@@Ally_Rayne6 I’m from Texas. I dropped my mom off at work, and on the radio, they made it seem like they were hearing some idiot flew into one of the twin tower’s. I wasn’t thinking a huge plane, but I was 20 and getting ready to go to college when I turned the TV on just in time for the second to hit. No one in my community knew that it had happened. I wanted to get up to the college as fast as possible to see if anyone had seen what had happened. No, but our History teacher ran to the room and said “Everyone need’s to go home because this will be the biggest event in your lifetime, and to mourn accordingly” I went to my girlfriend’s house, and we watched crying our eye’s out for those people.
@@mockingslur6945 It’s crazy to think back at this cause I just didn’t want to be at school I just wanted to be with my family. But you know, at the end of the day I was glad to be with them afterwards
He won Rookie of the Year, Made the All-Star team, Won a Gold Glove, Silver Slugger.... oh and the MVP.... all in 2001. Explain to me how that's unappreciated??
Ichiro is a legend and absolutely a stand up guy ... underappreciated how are you getting that? Even non-baseball fans knew who he was and that guy was beloved by every team. He wasn't even booed when he joined the Yankees. By what regard was he underappreciated?
@@graysonbyass-rascoe4326 Were you not around in 2001? EVERYBODY cared about Ichiro. The Ichiro is number 1 commercials played during Cubs games and the Mariners aren't even in the National League.
I started watching baseball when I was 10 in 99... 2001 was the first year I remember watching every single televised game (Hard to believe that 20 years ago not every game was still) AND as a kid growing up in STL seeing Albert Pujols explode onto the scene was amazing. It was truly something special.
Juice the balls an get a common sticky stuff... let them cheat on the same level... I wanna see 👀 it just like the rest... Just note in record books that this is when it happened like dead ball Era an when mound was higher.
@@TheKrazyk2010 dude was a war criminal but he wasn’t an inflammatory asshole that disparaged half the country every other day. He was charismatic. This pitch was the perfect example of that..you gotta imagine how hard his secret service agents were pushing him not to do this. The entire country watching. Dude throws some cheese and dips out like a boss
Look, I'm pretty much a dyed in the wool leftist who doesn't even think there should be such a thing as a president. I detest George W. Bush. But goddamn do I respect that strike he threw.
@@TheKrazyk2010 Every President for the past 90 years has been a War Criminal. Plain and simple. The United States is an Empire built on blood and seeps it’s claws into every single one of its citizens achievements and inventions. I wish Baseball existed in a vacuum, greatest game ever invented.
Class? How about him grabbing his crotch after sparky Anderson intentionally walked him in a game in 1993. All because Griffey sr hated sparky. Griffey jr. was petty. And his grudge vs Mckeon.
@@alwillk If you intentionally walk someone, you should have to accept it when they grab their crotch and stfu about it. Fuck intentional walks. Play the game, cowards.
2001 one was also memorable as a Twins fan, but from a very different perspective: this was the year the league very nearly put my team and the Montreal Expos up on the chopping block for contraction. Whether or not they were actually serious, it’s interesting to examine that year through the perspective of it potentially being the final year of the Twins as a team in the MLB.
As a Diamondbacks fan who grew up in Arizona and went to the championship parade, this was such a memorable season. I was in 3rd grade and it was a wonderful time to be a kid. Too bad my other Arizona sports memories aren’t as good. Lol
After 9/11 ill always remember the 2001 Diamondbacks for being the biggest scumbags in sports history. Took away our feelings of recovery and 5th dynasty win, AZ didn't deserve it with the infield in call from Torre with Mo pitching. Gayest bloop hit in sports history.
2001 was a great season. Even though my Dodgers came up short. The Seattle mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks were fun to watch. Lots of new faces and farewells.
Baseball was lit in the early 2000s. I doubt itll ever return to that level though. Not until mumble rappers tell their automaton followers that baseball is cool.
I was only 11 when the Diamondbacks won and I was born and raised in Arizona. I used to go to Dbacks games as a kid around this era. I still wear a 2001 championship t-shirt to this day even though I now have lived in California since 2011. I just watched the Diamondbacks lose in the 2023 World Series, and it was painful but also I was grateful that we were there at all. This video gave me chills and I think the 2001 WS was one of the best of all time. Also on a sidenote I got to meet Randy Johnson in person around 2015, I was working a big event in Las Vegas and he was a photographer for the event. He is a big human being haha.
Even though I knew what happened this season, watching this made me so excited and drawn in, I caught myself smiling toward the end. Baseball was/is the greatest sport of all time, the happiness and memories of this era are so refreshing to bring to mind
The 2001 World Series made my entire household cry, considering how shaken NYC still was following 9/11. We felt a connection with those Yankees, especially knowing that the team was likely going to be different going forward. Despite the Yanks not winning the World Series, I’ve never been prouder of a sports team I root for than that Yankees squad
I still Remember sitting in my 8am western civ class as a senior in high school on 9/11/01. I had a lot of friends and some family answer the call after that and some of them never came back. Thank you guys. I still miss you all.
Man, 9/11. I was 18 and had been in the Air Force for 3 months. Was in Biloxi training to be an air traffic controller. Crazy day that I still remember like yesterday. Hard to believe it's been 21 years
This is the season that solidified my love for baseball. I had already been a fan of the Braves (living in the south in the 90’s meant every game was broadcasted on TBS) but as a 10 year old kid playing little league, everything about this season was magical. It’s the reason Ichiro was and always will be my favorite non-Atlanta Brave.
The D'Back's closer, Kim, made the 2001 World Series one of the most memorable WS by blowing up two games. The best closer in the history of the Yankees, Rivera, also blew up the game 7 in the bottom of the 9th. I lived in Phoenix and as a D-Backs fan, watching the 2001 WS was like riding the most dramatic emotional roller coaster in my life.
Twenty damn years this coming September! Can you believe it? It truly was an amazing baseball season in 01! I worked a graveyard shift for a friend/co-worker the night before that ugly morning and I fell asleep, watching SPORTS CENTER on the couch trying to see what Bonds was doing and I finally fell asleep about 20 minutes before the first tower....It was odd to wake up around 1pm Mst, knowing that I had ESPN on when I fell asleep and by this time it was all over. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out just what the hell I was looking at on my TV set. By then, it was just a wide shot of Manhattan, completely engulfed in smoke and dust. Once everything "resumed", I believe that the rest of that season, was the most important baseball seasons of my life! It just had a different meaning that year.....
I'm a new baseball fan, and I remember a lot of the names in this vid from watching the news and when my dad had baseball on the TV in the background. This was a great video that taught me a lot about what seemed to be a great time in the sport!
I'm sure that EVERYONE felt bad for NYC that year, but God damn I was completely sick of the NYY by then! Worst WS walkoff hit in MLB history but damnit it worked!
i was a freshman in highschool in 01 and saw 9/11 happen from across the hudson river in new jersey. we had a perfect view of the skyline. such a chaotic day. the whole ny sports scene did well in handling the situation in my opinion. they really helped with morale and unity. i went to two of those world series games and it was definitely special.
As a Diamondbacks fan, I wish I could’ve seen the World Series but I wasn’t even a year old when it happened. I’m glad that it happened and I’m glad to be a Diamondbacks fan
Bro i know this comment is old but what are you talking about. the dbacks dominated the series and outscored yall 37-14, the yankees were lucky to be back in AZ at all, and ur a yankee fan but ur pfp and username are padres@@Padre619
The 2001 World Series made me a baseball fan for life ! I was twelve years old and rooting against my dad who was pulling for the diamondbacks still sour over the yanks beating the Braves for it all in the years prior. I watched the entire series with dad that year and have been a fan ever since. I still root for the yanks but now days my team is the Braves, naturally.
As a D-backs fan, this was definitely a great season, World Series title aside. I only wish you had mentioned Tony Womack's grand slam on Father's Day, since he had lost his own father the previous April.
As a kid growing up in AZ, I didn't understand what had happened to NY at the time, but it was so exciting to see the diamondbacks win. AZ teams hardly ever win anything important.
people were never kind to one another 😂😂 i was 13 in 2001 and people that are kind and act often with empathy has actually gone up bc of our generation and the shit our boomer parents put us through youre seeing it through rose tinted nostalgic glasses.
I am a Yankees fan. At 15, I got to go to the clinchers that year against the As and the Mariners. I was dumbfounded when the Dbacks won Game 7, but I can tell you I probably took it better than my 11-yr-old self did when the Indians knocked them out in 97 😅. I also remember being mentally prepared the Yanks could blow it since they had managed two 9th inning comebacks themselves just days earlier. Looking back on that inning though, objectively, it really was one of the best World Series finishes.
Being a mariner fan we are infinity reminded of this season.. it's a good season but it meant more than a regular season for us. It's one of the last times everything clicked for us. Thank you for not rubbing it in
That was the last time we’ve been to the playoffs. Every. Single. Other. Team. in all four of the major North American sports leagues has been to the playoffs since then.
MLB Network did a great job talking about the '01 season in their "Baseball Season's" documentary, and you SportStorm did a fantastic job adding more importance and intrigue to a season that is always a pleasure to look back on out of both respect and entertainment value. There were moments in the video that I had never seen before from that year and I was proud to learn and see these plays from this video that would have been almost difficult for me to find on my own time.
Them and the 2005 White Sox were the two best one-year-wonder teams I’ve ever seen in MLB. 2002 Angels were great as well.....but the two 20 game winners is ridiculous. Just nuts. And they ended a Dynasty
I was at the Cubs game at Wrigley on 9/10/01 as we were trying to claw back into the playoff picture. This became an afterthought about 12 hours later.
Wow great video. Luis Gonzalez has to be one of the last under appreciated baseball players of that whole era. The guy is almost never talked about now. His World Series walk-off off of Mariano Rivera might just be one of the craziest things in baseball history.
2001 was also the first time in 11 years that Independence Day and Halloween were Wednesdays, Thanksgiving was on the earliest possible day (November 22), and Christmas was on a Tuesday.
I was living in New York City as a 16 year old when the towers fell. It's one of those "Where were you moments" where I can recall that day so vividly looking out my classroom window and seeing the smoke coming from the city. As a Yankee fan going back to 1994, Mike Piazza's Home Run that night was perhaps the most important home run of the 2001 season. It's the last time I saw a nation as one.
Really fantastic video….brought back a lot of memories from that season and year,as a Yankees fan it is still quite upsetting and annoying to see the end of game 7….will never blame Mariano for “blowing the save”,can’t remember any other time I’ve ever seen him asked to pitch two innings since he became the full time closer
Yep, On the first ballot back in 2012. The baseball hall of fame writers really suck, and they need new writers inducting all these players given how backwards some of the people within the sport who they’ve inducted including and especially bud selig, big popi, but not bonds, clemens, and especially curt schilling
One of the things that most people don’t know about the 98-2000 Yankees is that they only lost 1 game in the World Series. Over 3 years. In 3 series of first to 4, they only played 13 games.
A.j Burnett was one of my favorite pitchers, as I got to see him pitch a bunch of times. I remember one game he gave up a bunch of runs and threw a literal perfect game into extra innings despite giving up a bunch of runs in the first two innings. I came out after 27 straight outs in extra innings and the team still lost. He also has a ring from the Marlins on the only time he spent serious time on the d.l. and basically missing the whole season.
The narrator claimed that most of the country was behind the Yankees, but most people, including myself, couldn't be rooting for a team that has won so many World Series before, including four of the most recent five before 2001. It was great to see the Diamondbacks win this World Series.
I don't think America changed forever on that specific day, but our reactions to it is what changed it forever. I remember just a day or two after, driving in a line of cars that was going through a couple of blocks in my city that was essentially a big USA rally, people lined the streets holding flags, waving to each other, nothing but love. I rear-ended the pick up truck in front of me when they stopped short, we both got out and looked at his bumper, he looked up and started chanting USA USA USA and everyone who could hear it followed suit, it was out of a movie. We got back in our vehicles and continued on, but I'll never forget that moment. We were all united as I'd ever seen. It was things like the patriot act, the lies to drag us into middle eastern quagmires and the propoganda that basically forced you to take a side that ruined everything. The country hasn't felt the same since and it gets worse every year.
Damn... what a memorable year indeed. I was young at the time and was really into playing and watching baseball. It felt different back then. I remember being a huge Barry Bonds and Ichiro fan. What a time to be alive and be a baseball fan. Haven't watched much baseball since then but Shohei is making me want to subscribe to an MLB streaming service.
Definitely a memorable season for Randy Johnson. He started it off with the bird incident in spring training, then had his 20K game. He would also set a new record for strikeouts in a relief appearance, when he had to come in relief after a blown fuse led to a game Curt Schilling started being delayed to the next day. He'd take over when play resumed and struck out 16, breaking a record set by his non-relative Walter set all the way back in 1913! He won his 200th career game with his final win of the regular season, then his win in the NLCS snapped an excruciating seven-game post-season losing streak dating back to 1995. Then came his World Series heroics leading to a share of the World Series MVP Award, his fourth career Cy Young award, and finally being named Sportsman of the Year with Schilling. Yessir, it was definitely a memorable season for the Big Unit.
Of course as you presented so well it was a memorable season overall.
2001 wow hard to believe it’s been 20 years. I feel old... I remember being 10 years old and watching most of this live.
I was 22, watching the towers come down, and thinking I was gonna be drafted lol
@@wesleyantrim6648 i was 11 and I thought I was gonna be drafted too lol
This season still hurts, signed, a Mariners fan
Same I’m a Yankees fan
Yes sir feels
Agreed, signed a Yankees fan.
We may not have reached are destination, but it was one hell of a ride and I'll never forget it. It was pleasure watching Freddy Garcia, Aaron Sele and Jamie Moyer pitch that year.
It doesn’t hurt as bad... because it gave you a Japanese icon 🇯🇵
As a New Yorker who witnessed the attack on the twin towers first-hand, I can not overemphisize the positive psychological impact of Piazza's home run. It didn't matter if you were a Mets or a Yankees fan, that one swing brought more joy to my city than any other single moment, sports-related or not, than I have seen before or since. Mike Piazza will always be my hero, not just because he was one of the greatest catchers to ever play the game, but because he made me, and everyone around me, feel GOOD again.
What was it like
Everyone cried for New York that day. It hurt for a long time.
I was in upstate NY during the attacks. I was only 5 and my sister was being born that same day, I didn’t want to be in school that day at all cause something was really odd. You couldn’t have said it better about that Piazza home run. Hard to believe my sister will be 20 very soon.
@@Ally_Rayne6 I’m from Texas. I dropped my mom off at work, and on the radio, they made it seem like they were hearing some idiot flew into one of the twin tower’s. I wasn’t thinking a huge plane, but I was 20 and getting ready to go to college when I turned the TV on just in time for the second to hit. No one in my community knew that it had happened. I wanted to get up to the college as fast as possible to see if anyone had seen what had happened. No, but our History teacher ran to the room and said “Everyone need’s to go home because this will be the biggest event in your lifetime, and to mourn accordingly”
I went to my girlfriend’s house, and we watched crying our eye’s out for those people.
@@mockingslur6945 It’s crazy to think back at this cause I just didn’t want to be at school I just wanted to be with my family. But you know, at the end of the day I was glad to be with them afterwards
That Qualcomm car commercial gives me so much nostalgia. Btw all the in-game clips from the intro are from 2001. I hope you enjoy the video!
I got absolutely flooded with nostalgia after seeing that holy shit.
rip qualcomm 😢
Over 2000 vehicles from San Diego's biggest dealers MUST be sold
Wow. That commercial used be blasting all the time in my house growing up. Damn.
its crazy that the stadium is now completely gone, with the demolishing being finished a few weeks ago :(
Ichiro was super unappreciated by baseball guy was amazing and a stand up guy
He won Rookie of the Year, Made the All-Star team, Won a Gold Glove, Silver Slugger.... oh and the MVP.... all in 2001. Explain to me how that's unappreciated??
@@billyfraiser6298 We didn't care lol, nobody paid attention it was all about new york and the diamondbacks run.
Ichiro is a legend and absolutely a stand up guy ... underappreciated how are you getting that? Even non-baseball fans knew who he was and that guy was beloved by every team. He wasn't even booed when he joined the Yankees. By what regard was he underappreciated?
@@graysonbyass-rascoe4326 Were you not around in 2001? EVERYBODY cared about Ichiro. The Ichiro is number 1 commercials played during Cubs games and the Mariners aren't even in the National League.
@@TheMilapMehta sure exposure but the usa was not the same, 9/11 post era was all about the nyc teams.
“What chance did the Yankees have against the Mariners?”
Me: *cries in Jon Bois*
Well, as we learned from Jon, baseball doesn't matter when it comes to the Mariners
Like Bush or hate Bush that was the greatest First Pitch of All Time.
Can’t even be questioned
FACTS.
That was America's First Pitch that's why
Yes he bombed that one 🙏🏾🤝
Yup. Boss imperialistic shit right there.
I started watching baseball when I was 10 in 99... 2001 was the first year I remember watching every single televised game (Hard to believe that 20 years ago not every game was still) AND as a kid growing up in STL seeing Albert Pujols explode onto the scene was amazing. It was truly something special.
Wow, what a year! I miss the steroid era. Say what u will but it was the most entertaining era of baseball!
Of course with out it theres no baseball
wil dasovich iyot christine samson
Juice the balls an get a common sticky stuff... let them cheat on the same level... I wanna see 👀 it just like the rest...
Just note in record books that this is when it happened like dead ball Era an when mound was higher.
Yes 2001 (being the start of the 21st century) was an incredible year, unless your a mariners fan
@@ethanniedorowski116they did juice the balls and the fans complained lol
Being from Arizona and that being our only championship still to this point the 2001 season holds a close place in my heart.
President Bush coming out of the dugout and firing a strike still gives me the chills.
Also the last time a Republican president actually got a standing ovation in a liberal heavy area
@@TheKrazyk2010 dude was a war criminal but he wasn’t an inflammatory asshole that disparaged half the country every other day. He was charismatic. This pitch was the perfect example of that..you gotta imagine how hard his secret service agents were pushing him not to do this. The entire country watching. Dude throws some cheese and dips out like a boss
@@jujuonthatqueef5043 yeah joe biden is killing the country hard
Look, I'm pretty much a dyed in the wool leftist who doesn't even think there should be such a thing as a president. I detest George W. Bush. But goddamn do I respect that strike he threw.
@@TheKrazyk2010 Every President for the past 90 years has been a War Criminal. Plain and simple.
The United States is an Empire built on blood and seeps it’s claws into every single one of its citizens achievements and inventions.
I wish Baseball existed in a vacuum, greatest game ever invented.
What a banger, hope to see more season breakdowns like this
Please Please Please
"Deion Sanders hit a homerun off Eric Gagne." Sentences I never though I'd hear.
With everyone juicing around 2000, I respect Griffey Jr. even more now. 56 homeruns in 1997. Doing everything with his God givin talent, nothing else.
Class? How about him grabbing his crotch after sparky Anderson intentionally walked him in a game in 1993. All because Griffey sr hated sparky. Griffey jr. was petty. And his grudge vs Mckeon.
@@alwillk He misworded it. Griffey was not that classy but his integrity was intact and I'll take a man with integrity than a man with class.
He did not hit 56 in 2001.
@@brandonmatics652 Yea thanks, I corrected it... it was 1997. Regardless, he did it without taking anything, just relied on his talent
@@alwillk If you intentionally walk someone, you should have to accept it when they grab their crotch and stfu about it. Fuck intentional walks. Play the game, cowards.
2001 one was also memorable as a Twins fan, but from a very different perspective: this was the year the league very nearly put my team and the Montreal Expos up on the chopping block for contraction. Whether or not they were actually serious, it’s interesting to examine that year through the perspective of it potentially being the final year of the Twins as a team in the MLB.
2002 you mean also a video about the 2002 Twins ALCS team to save the team would be appreciated
As a Diamondbacks fan who grew up in Arizona and went to the championship parade, this was such a memorable season. I was in 3rd grade and it was a wonderful time to be a kid. Too bad my other Arizona sports memories aren’t as good. Lol
Cardinals are pretty g- ... wait ...
After 9/11 ill always remember the 2001 Diamondbacks for being the biggest scumbags in sports history. Took away our feelings of recovery and 5th dynasty win, AZ didn't deserve it with the infield in call from Torre with Mo pitching. Gayest bloop hit in sports history.
Me too! Best sports year of my life.
2001 was a great season. Even though my Dodgers came up short. The Seattle mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks were fun to watch. Lots of new faces and farewells.
This was when baseball was the top dog. Almost knew every player.
Hasn't been the case in 40+ years. Nfl is king
@Big Planz he isn’t “trippin bruh” he’s telling the truth lol here’s an example, the New York Yankees
Same
Baseball was lit in the early 2000s. I doubt itll ever return to that level though. Not until mumble rappers tell their automaton followers that baseball is cool.
Just a fun fact it's been 55 years since football over took baseball. That's not opinion that's just a fact. 1965 was when football became king.
I don't even care about the diamondbacks but the ending of that Game 7 always gives me goosebumps.
I was only 11 when the Diamondbacks won and I was born and raised in Arizona. I used to go to Dbacks games as a kid around this era. I still wear a 2001 championship t-shirt to this day even though I now have lived in California since 2011. I just watched the Diamondbacks lose in the 2023 World Series, and it was painful but also I was grateful that we were there at all. This video gave me chills and I think the 2001 WS was one of the best of all time. Also on a sidenote I got to meet Randy Johnson in person around 2015, I was working a big event in Las Vegas and he was a photographer for the event. He is a big human being haha.
Growing up in San Diego, hearing the “giant used car tent sale” brought back so many memories lol
And I thought I appreciated 2001 already. I never fully realized how many amazing things happened that season. Thank you for the video.
This is going to be good.
What a nightmare that could've been for Kim I still get goosebumps.. The man was so young and also a great closer..
Even though I knew what happened this season, watching this made me so excited and drawn in, I caught myself smiling toward the end. Baseball was/is the greatest sport of all time, the happiness and memories of this era are so refreshing to bring to mind
Unacceptable 😄
The 2001 World Series made my entire household cry, considering how shaken NYC still was following 9/11. We felt a connection with those Yankees, especially knowing that the team was likely going to be different going forward. Despite the Yanks not winning the World Series, I’ve never been prouder of a sports team I root for than that Yankees squad
I still Remember sitting in my 8am western civ class as a senior in high school on 9/11/01. I had a lot of friends and some family answer the call after that and some of them never came back. Thank you guys. I still miss you all.
Man, 9/11. I was 18 and had been in the Air Force for 3 months. Was in Biloxi training to be an air traffic controller. Crazy day that I still remember like yesterday. Hard to believe it's been 21 years
You need to make one of these for every year this century! This is so good
Ichiro's Rookie of The Year and MVP while leading the Mariners to 116 Wins is quite possibly the most impressive first MLB season in History.
This is the season that solidified my love for baseball. I had already been a fan of the Braves (living in the south in the 90’s meant every game was broadcasted on TBS) but as a 10 year old kid playing little league, everything about this season was magical. It’s the reason Ichiro was and always will be my favorite non-Atlanta Brave.
I have been successfully distracted for another half an hour by some of the best nostalgia. What a season!
The D'Back's closer, Kim, made the 2001 World Series one of the most memorable WS by blowing up two games. The best closer in the history of the Yankees, Rivera, also blew up the game 7 in the bottom of the 9th. I lived in Phoenix and as a D-Backs fan, watching the 2001 WS was like riding the most dramatic emotional roller coaster in my life.
Hard to believe I witnessed all this in just one season. What a year that was man!
Twenty damn years this coming September! Can you believe it? It truly was an amazing baseball season in 01! I worked a graveyard shift for a friend/co-worker the night before that ugly morning and I fell asleep, watching SPORTS CENTER on the couch trying to see what Bonds was doing and I finally fell asleep about 20 minutes before the first tower....It was odd to wake up around 1pm Mst, knowing that I had ESPN on when I fell asleep and by this time it was all over. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out just what the hell I was looking at on my TV set. By then, it was just a wide shot of Manhattan, completely engulfed in smoke and dust. Once everything "resumed", I believe that the rest of that season, was the most important baseball seasons of my life! It just had a different meaning that year.....
So sad that people now think that dark day was basically nothing
Those lasers from Ichiro are still one of my favorite things to see. It's a thing of beauty.
I'm a new baseball fan, and I remember a lot of the names in this vid from watching the news and when my dad had baseball on the TV in the background. This was a great video that taught me a lot about what seemed to be a great time in the sport!
I’m not one to get emotional but man, I started tearing up around the 18:00 mark
That ending of that World Series is so good is still gets me going
I’m love this video . I really felt like I was in 2001 again. Need more videos like this 🔥
18:22 as a Yankees fan, I will always love Mike piazza for that home run, his carrer and personality
One of the most important homers ever hit! I'll never forget it! Almost like it was a "message " to the world.
I'm sure that EVERYONE felt bad for NYC that year, but God damn I was completely sick of the NYY by then! Worst WS walkoff hit in MLB history but damnit it worked!
i was a freshman in highschool in 01 and saw 9/11 happen from across the hudson river in new jersey. we had a perfect view of the skyline. such a chaotic day. the whole ny sports scene did well in handling the situation in my opinion. they really helped with morale and unity. i went to two of those world series games and it was definitely special.
As a Diamondbacks fan, I wish I could’ve seen the World Series but I wasn’t even a year old when it happened. I’m glad that it happened and I’m glad to be a Diamondbacks fan
As a Yankees fan y’all got lucky 💀 it should’ve been the Yankees 4th straight but they blew it
Bro i know this comment is old but what are you talking about. the dbacks dominated the series and outscored yall 37-14, the yankees were lucky to be back in AZ at all, and ur a yankee fan but ur pfp and username are padres@@Padre619
The 2001 World Series made me a baseball fan for life ! I was twelve years old and rooting against my dad who was pulling for the diamondbacks still sour over the yanks beating the Braves for it all in the years prior. I watched the entire series with dad that year and have been a fan ever since. I still root for the yanks but now days my team is the Braves, naturally.
As someone who just got into baseball a year ago I appreciate your videos culturing me on the lore.
Nice instrumental selections btw
incredible video man. 32 minutes long and had me entertained the whole time. HUGE Ichiro fan myself. to me the sport just isnt the same without him
The Indians came back from a 14-2 run deficit after the 6th inning. Cant believe this was missed. It was done against that historic mariners team.
RIP Tony Gwynn, hard to believe he’s gone
Tony Gwynn Did More Good Than Bad For The Game
@@futuregohan4837 I can’t think of any bad he did ever, besides smokeless tobacco.
One of the best baseball videos ever. I loved that season so much. Thank you for the memories. Excellent job 👌
This was a really solid video I forgot how intense 2001 baseball season was sometimes
As a D-backs fan, this was definitely a great season, World Series title aside. I only wish you had mentioned Tony Womack's grand slam on Father's Day, since he had lost his own father the previous April.
As a kid growing up in AZ, I didn't understand what had happened to NY at the time, but it was so exciting to see the diamondbacks win. AZ teams hardly ever win anything important.
As far as I can tell tho is the only (proper) championship an AZ team has won
Nah those Rattlers chips are legit. They're basically the Yankees of indoor football. (/s)
I remember this year so well. I was about to turn 18. People were still kind to one another. Bonds was on fire. Randy Johnson amazing. What a year.
people were never kind to one another 😂😂
i was 13 in 2001 and people that are kind and act often with empathy has actually gone up bc of our generation and the shit our boomer parents put us through
youre seeing it through rose tinted nostalgic glasses.
I am a Yankees fan. At 15, I got to go to the clinchers that year against the As and the Mariners. I was dumbfounded when the Dbacks won Game 7, but I can tell you I probably took it better than my 11-yr-old self did when the Indians knocked them out in 97 😅. I also remember being mentally prepared the Yanks could blow it since they had managed two 9th inning comebacks themselves just days earlier.
Looking back on that inning though, objectively, it really was one of the best World Series finishes.
Being a mariner fan we are infinity reminded of this season.. it's a good season but it meant more than a regular season for us. It's one of the last times everything clicked for us.
Thank you for not rubbing it in
That was the last time we’ve been to the playoffs. Every. Single. Other. Team. in all four of the major North American sports leagues has been to the playoffs since then.
MLB Network did a great job talking about the '01 season in their "Baseball Season's" documentary, and you SportStorm did a fantastic job adding more importance and intrigue to a season that is always a pleasure to look back on out of both respect and entertainment value. There were moments in the video that I had never seen before from that year and I was proud to learn and see these plays from this video that would have been almost difficult for me to find on my own time.
Them and the 2005 White Sox were the two best one-year-wonder teams I’ve ever seen in MLB. 2002 Angels were great as well.....but the two 20 game winners is ridiculous. Just nuts. And they ended a Dynasty
Please we need more of these season breakdowns !!! They’re the best! Watched it 5 times already haha
I was at the Cubs game at Wrigley on 9/10/01 as we were trying to claw back into the playoff picture. This became an afterthought about 12 hours later.
I was at the 7 September game where Kerry Wood out pitched Greg Maddux. Best pitcher's duel I ever witnessed hands down.
0:06 my god im so glad you're a Padres fan so you can unlock memories long sealed away in my mind
Imagine if the Mariners still had Griffey or A-Rod and Ichiro
Unstoppabler
And randy Johnson
If they still had them they’d all be 45-50 year old has beens.
What if they had their entire 1997 lineup and Ichiro? That would be insane.
Throw in a juiced Bret Boone too.
Wow great video. Luis Gonzalez has to be one of the last under appreciated baseball players of that whole era. The guy is almost never talked about now. His World Series walk-off off of Mariano Rivera might just be one of the craziest things in baseball history.
he was roided out of his mind as well just like Bonds and Sosa
Man that Qualcomm commercial brings back memories
Luis Gonzalez's walk-off gets all the praise and deservedly so but everyone sleeps on Tony Womack's game-tying hit.
Best video you ever made 👏🏼
Great research, A+ editing, awesome video my dude!
This was incredible to watch! I would love to see other seasons in the future.
Man.. this brought back so many memorable moments of that year.
2001 was also the first time in 11 years that Independence Day and Halloween were Wednesdays, Thanksgiving was on the earliest possible day (November 22), and Christmas was on a Tuesday.
This video hits hard. As a New Yorker, it's the only World Series that broke my heart when we lost.
I absolutely love this kind of your content, documenting a specific special year for a team.
The fucking chills at the end. Omg!! I'll never forget this series. I was 14 years old. Baseball will never be more exciting than the early 2000s
12:52 lol what did the Angles do to deserve not even warranting a click
Waste Trout
I was living in New York City as a 16 year old when the towers fell. It's one of those "Where were you moments" where I can recall that day so vividly looking out my classroom window and seeing the smoke coming from the city.
As a Yankee fan going back to 1994, Mike Piazza's Home Run that night was perhaps the most important home run of the 2001 season. It's the last time I saw a nation as one.
Got goosebumps all over again with that Piazza homerun
I wish I could go back and relive this season as an adult. This is the next best thing though, and for that, I thank you.
This is one of the greatest mlb UA-cam videos I’ve ever watched
Really fantastic video….brought back a lot of memories from that season and year,as a Yankees fan it is still quite upsetting and annoying to see the end of game 7….will never blame Mariano for “blowing the save”,can’t remember any other time I’ve ever seen him asked to pitch two innings since he became the full time closer
2001 was my very first season watching baseball. I loved it thank you bro
Curt Schilling should be in the hall of fame.
His regular season numbers are borderline, but he has some of the best playoff numbers of any playoff pitcher. He should be in on that.
Well he’s an outspoken conservative so you can count the hall of fame out for him….. maga baby!
Yep, On the first ballot back in 2012. The baseball hall of fame writers really suck, and they need new writers inducting all these players given how backwards some of the people within the sport who they’ve inducted including and especially bud selig, big popi, but not bonds, clemens, and especially curt schilling
@@GordonFalthe backs everything about collective people up, and I love listening to him given how great he is
@@legitbowler9877 he’s the man
I would love a 2017 video like this . Even tho I’m a dodger fan just shows how good that team was
That 2001 Major league baseball season was just amazing...
One of the things that most people don’t know about the 98-2000 Yankees is that they only lost 1 game in the World Series. Over 3 years. In 3 series of first to 4, they only played 13 games.
Can you please do more season summaries like this? I love this video
A.j Burnett was one of my favorite pitchers, as I got to see him pitch a bunch of times. I remember one game he gave up a bunch of runs and threw a literal perfect game into extra innings despite giving up a bunch of runs in the first two innings. I came out after 27 straight outs in extra innings and the team still lost. He also has a ring from the Marlins on the only time he spent serious time on the d.l. and basically missing the whole season.
only 20k subs?! That's an absolute sin. Awesome content man cant wait to binge the rest lol.
I would love to see more season story videos like this for more crazy seasons in MLB history!
hats off to you wow what a video
I remember this whole season like it was yesterday. Truly the Golden era of baseball for me
Ichiro is and will always be my favorite non Yankee of this era 🔥🙌🏼
He was a yankee
Yeah…
My dad was at the 116th win game for the Mariners, breaks my heart thinking about how good we were
I feel bad for your dad considering the last 2 decades
The narrator claimed that most of the country was behind the Yankees, but most people, including myself, couldn't be rooting for a team that has won so many World Series before, including four of the most recent five before 2001. It was great to see the Diamondbacks win this World Series.
Love finding these baseball mini docu channels
They’re awesome man
I don't think America changed forever on that specific day, but our reactions to it is what changed it forever. I remember just a day or two after, driving in a line of cars that was going through a couple of blocks in my city that was essentially a big USA rally, people lined the streets holding flags, waving to each other, nothing but love. I rear-ended the pick up truck in front of me when they stopped short, we both got out and looked at his bumper, he looked up and started chanting USA USA USA and everyone who could hear it followed suit, it was out of a movie. We got back in our vehicles and continued on, but I'll never forget that moment. We were all united as I'd ever seen.
It was things like the patriot act, the lies to drag us into middle eastern quagmires and the propoganda that basically forced you to take a side that ruined everything. The country hasn't felt the same since and it gets worse every year.
Damn... what a memorable year indeed. I was young at the time and was really into playing and watching baseball. It felt different back then. I remember being a huge Barry Bonds and Ichiro fan. What a time to be alive and be a baseball fan. Haven't watched much baseball since then but Shohei is making me want to subscribe to an MLB streaming service.
This was awesome brought back so many memories….
What a GREAT video this is, one of the most enjoyable ones I've watched on UA-cam
I recently found your channel and I love all of your videos these are amazing, Thank you
Crazy year, great video. Not much else to say, just commenting to help the algorithm for this banger of a video.