Cubs-Pirates, Aug. 2, 1993 (6th inning, brawls and HRs)

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  • After hitting two home runs, the Pirates' Carlos Garcia was hit by a pitch leading off the sixth. It didn't appear Cubs reliever Bob Scanlan had any intent. His pitch was high but not tight. Nevertheless, when Mark Grace led off the bottom half, reliever Blas Minor threw behind him. That emptied the benches. Though it took a little while for the players to get really riled up, the melee almost spilled into the Cubs' dugout. After order was restored, Steve Buechele and Sammy Sosa homered to give the Cubs an 11-8 lead.

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  • @TubbsMcGhee
    @TubbsMcGhee Рік тому +55

    The graphics. The commercials. The Cubs game on WGN. This takes me back to watching these games on TV after school. The good ol days.

    • @Geotubest
      @Geotubest 10 місяців тому +1

      I can relate!

    • @riff2072
      @riff2072 8 місяців тому

      And the games was two hours-thirty long at the most.

    • @cwatson4271
      @cwatson4271 8 місяців тому

      Now you have to have a special cable package to watch Cubs games. That’s definitely a disservice.

    • @jacobrichardson1952
      @jacobrichardson1952 7 місяців тому

      As a 2001 baby, I used to have Superstation WGN in Florida I did watch some Cubs and White Sox little by little.
      Sad that it's gone.

    • @angelic7007
      @angelic7007 6 місяців тому

      The commercials are better than the game.

  • @SS-kz7td
    @SS-kz7td 5 років тому +202

    This video has it all, baseball brawl, classic commercials, organ playing, mullets and Mark Grace stealing a base. This is a work of art. Thanks for the upload!

    • @carsonwentz8301
      @carsonwentz8301 5 років тому +13

      And an ump getting hit

    • @slapshot1971109
      @slapshot1971109 5 років тому +1

      @J.E. Carlson He was with the Braves during the 1993 season.

    • @slapshot1971109
      @slapshot1971109 5 років тому

      @J.E. Carlson I wasn't trying to pick a fight or anything. I deeply apologize.

    • @slapshot1971109
      @slapshot1971109 5 років тому

      @J.E. Carlson Apology accepted! We all have bad days every once in a while! 😆

    • @slapshot1971109
      @slapshot1971109 5 років тому +1

      @J.E. Carlson I live and breathe football year round! I played some football in high school as well! I'm a 49ers fan living in northwest Louisiana (which is home to mostly Saints and Cowboys fans)! As for college, I'm a diehard Texas Longhorns fan! 🤘

  • @conorgilles81
    @conorgilles81 2 роки тому +357

    It's great how the organ doesn't stop for the fight, providing a soundtrack to the whole thing.

    • @warriormvp
      @warriormvp Рік тому +31

      Rocky Theme LOL😀

    • @Revolver1701
      @Revolver1701 Рік тому +3

      Nice.

    • @recklessralphfromqueens8383
      @recklessralphfromqueens8383 Рік тому +19

      @@warriormvp bro the organist definitely started trolling.

    • @albertpeterson5585
      @albertpeterson5585 Рік тому +16

      ...it's just like when a brawl breaks out in a western movie; the piano player tries to break up the fight with music.

    • @mrnasty02106
      @mrnasty02106 Рік тому

      1. The biggest distraction in the whole game. 2. Gary Pressey is an asshole (and a big snob), 3. Let us enjoy the game without operatic, tremolo bullshit. I hate anything and anyone that likes or needs attention/shows off. I hate show offs. This is why I don't go to the games/watch with the mute button on. Pressey must have a handsome retirement (he retired a few years ago).

  • @omarll1551
    @omarll1551 Рік тому +4

    "The winner wins the fight." Great in-depth analysis of the sword fight

  • @steveprice33
    @steveprice33 Рік тому +82

    The organist playing Eye of the Tiger for the brawl is the most epic part of this brawl.

    • @BobbyMetzinger
      @BobbyMetzinger Рік тому +4

      True, but the "Let their Be Peace on Earth" hymn afterwards is slightly better! A staple of Catholic mass!

  • @mikec5916
    @mikec5916 Рік тому +4

    Guys. This is a Time Machine for me. Don’t watch any MLB nowadays but boy back then I could not watch enough!!! Thank you

  • @josh.brunty
    @josh.brunty Рік тому +14

    Nothing like tuning into a good ol brawl after school on WGN while chugging down your Capri Sun and waiting on your Hot Pocket or Totino’s Pizza rolls to finish cooking…. Gosh I miss the 80’s and 90’s.

  • @mikec5916
    @mikec5916 Рік тому +22

    Man this was great. I graduated HS summer of 93’. I loved baseball and watching games. I never watch anymore. Boy I feel old 😢

    • @nicomancinicorleone9768
      @nicomancinicorleone9768 Рік тому +3

      I feel the same way I graduated high school in 1991 Baseball was my life....I really miss those years

    • @chrisbrazee9755
      @chrisbrazee9755 Рік тому +3

      Also graduated that year. Was just finishing basic training when this game was played. A lifetime ago

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 Рік тому +2

      I was summer ‘95. Great time to grow up.

    • @jamescampione8531
      @jamescampione8531 11 місяців тому

      You have to pay to wathch now

    • @docadams7099
      @docadams7099 6 місяців тому +1

      You're OLD and you graduated in '93? I graduated in 1982, so I guess I'm ancient. I have to remind people that, when I was born Johnson was US president. That's LYNDON, not Andrew.

  • @johnpeters482
    @johnpeters482 9 років тому +134

    Incredible - I was at this game. It was my first trip to Wrigley Field. The first pitch of the ballgame was a home run. There was a bench clearing brawl and MANY ejections. Thanks for posting!

    • @jeffreyjohn2037
      @jeffreyjohn2037 6 років тому +4

      John Peters : yeah, I was at that game too. Also I was at the pine tar game, Yankee stadium. George Brett was one pissed off player.

    • @scoobycarr5558
      @scoobycarr5558 6 років тому +4

      Sir, how nice was your experience at Wrigley Field for the first time? I hope it was a very nice fling for you. And you got a like!

    • @abitoutside1973
      @abitoutside1973 Рік тому +3

      @@jeffreyjohn2037 I was at gehrig's last game and bobby thompson's shot.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      ​@@abitoutside1973 I was at the game when Billy Williams hit his 300th home run in 1971; I was 12 and it was my first MLB game. As I was watching it, I thought it was curving foul.
      That was also my first taste of ballpark food and my first Italian Beef sandwich. Priorities.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      ​@@jeffreyjohn2037 I've never seen a player as mad as Brett that day. Nitpick-y umpires. I also never saw Brett move that fast before. He wanted blood.

  • @donnyblondy8506
    @donnyblondy8506 Рік тому +12

    the organist went through the entire songbook of greatest showtime hits of the 90s and 80s

  • @jaredallen7279
    @jaredallen7279 6 років тому +179

    This was my first ever Cubs game as an 8 year old. It had everything a game could offer.

    • @c.d.macaulay66
      @c.d.macaulay66 3 роки тому +3

      Bet it made you a fan for life, didn’t it?

    • @joeversgrove7129
      @joeversgrove7129 3 роки тому +3

      Met a chick whose first game was that John Lester gem that ended in an extras walk-off grand slam. I was amazed and said your first game was the greatest game ever and she was just like Meh. Baseball has no chance. Yet here I am watching this after a long extra inning dart all game last night at dart all league. Aha

    • @wakeup1679
      @wakeup1679 Рік тому +6

      😂😂 I was there too, one of my college teammates had gotten called up a couple weeks before and a bunch of us were sitting down the first base line, hammered, I'll never forget that game 😂.

    • @markatkinson9963
      @markatkinson9963 Рік тому

      Except baseball.

    • @AcornSmokes420
      @AcornSmokes420 Рік тому

      @@joeversgrove7129 you married her?

  • @edwinearl4584
    @edwinearl4584 Рік тому +3

    Great camera work at WGN. I miss those days when I could watch a Cubs game every day. Now, I can’t afford the package.

  • @ltrain4479
    @ltrain4479 5 років тому +163

    Summer of 1993, what a good time that was. I had no worries in the world except starting 7th grade in September.

    • @basedincali8707
      @basedincali8707 Рік тому +15

      pre diversity was epic

    • @jameswilliams-zr8co
      @jameswilliams-zr8co Рік тому +6

      good summer for movies too, jurassic park !

    • @neon920
      @neon920 Рік тому +6

      Best times on West coast when wgn was free in TV. Cubs games in the morning after breakfast

    • @jeffwood7642
      @jeffwood7642 Рік тому +5

      I started 8th grade

    • @kylec.8350
      @kylec.8350 Рік тому +3

      I miss it to great times great weather and no weirdos.

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow1 8 років тому +309

    I love these videos where the commercials are included. its like a time machine.

  • @johnmoore4
    @johnmoore4 Рік тому +31

    Love how the announcers got into it. No sanctimonious lecturing or calling it “disgusting.”

    • @unit-0123
      @unit-0123 Рік тому +7

      They don’t do that nowadays during baseball fights, this whole comment section is just shitting on modern baseball for stuff that doesn’t happen

    • @playmaker5515
      @playmaker5515 Рік тому

      That’s Stoney for ya

    • @timomomomo969
      @timomomomo969 Рік тому +2

      @@unit-0123 amen. Couldn’t agree more.
      But this is the sad state of the UA-cam comments section: everyone has to project their insecurities and paranoias into every damn video here. The lines “ah the old days” and “what happened to America” are the most tired lines in the UA-cam comments sections.
      I remember the old days...when life expectancy was early 60s. Anyone longing for the old days is welcome to check out when they reach 62.

  • @JonahLoeb
    @JonahLoeb 6 років тому +316

    Forget the brawl or the homers. This video includes something truly unbelievable: Mark Grace stealing a base on a pitchout.

    • @travismonk2804
      @travismonk2804 6 років тому +3

      unhitch the trailer!

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 6 років тому +8

      @Mark Grace but a pitchout for even an average catcher nails Grace with any kind of decent throw.

    • @andyryjax
      @andyryjax 5 років тому

      Amen Jonah. Huge Grace fan and that shocked me. I do not remember this game from back in the day. XD

    • @mickeysanker1547
      @mickeysanker1547 5 років тому

      @Mark Grace That's what I was going to say. The pitcher was not paying any attention to him. I guess him stealing the base messed with his head and Steve Buechele hit one of his 15 home runs off him.

    • @carlbaumeister3439
      @carlbaumeister3439 5 років тому +4

      And with a very sloppy and hesitant slide at that!

  • @albertpeterson5585
    @albertpeterson5585 8 місяців тому +2

    ...all of the innovations in camera placement, camera work, graphics, production, and direction of televised baseball was perfected by Arne Harris and his team at WGN; bravo!

  • @BETTERWORLDSGT
    @BETTERWORLDSGT 3 роки тому +30

    I couldn't name one Baseball player these days, and lost track of Baseball by the end of the 80s. I grew up a Pirates fan through the 70s and 80s.. I Saw a Pirates Game in 1971 and again in 75 I think at 3 Rivers, the team was full of greats and legends at that time. Nobody could ever forget 79 when the Pirates and Steelers both won the Series and Super Bowl, I wonder how many Gallons of Iron City was drunk that year?

    • @donarthiazi2443
      @donarthiazi2443 Рік тому

      People really drank that swill??

    • @thegoose0m1
      @thegoose0m1 Рік тому +3

      I was going to college for my freshman year at Carnegie Mellon in '79 - '80, the year that the Pirates won the World Series, and then, a few months later, the Steelers won the Super Bowl. Both times the city erupted into a spontaneous, all-night party in the streets. It was really cool being there for both celebrations! Oh, and we all definitely drank Iron City beer at the time. Great memories!

    • @jimjoe9945
      @jimjoe9945 Рік тому +2

      @@thegoose0m1 Jesus is the way, the truth, the life.

    • @ICLight412
      @ICLight412 Рік тому +1

      @@thegoose0m1 I was born April of 80 right after Steelers won, still in moms belly 😂 though dad, her n family had fun.

  • @hoosierflatty6435
    @hoosierflatty6435 Рік тому +8

    Thanks Jeff for all these; real fun to examine this game we all love. Good lordy 1993 was a long time ago now

  • @oubrioko
    @oubrioko 5 років тому +118

    This Wrigley Field organist was funny af:
    Played *_Eye of the Tiger_* after the pushing and shoving started, played *_Let There be Peace on Earth_* after the altercation was over, then played the *_Close Encounters_* theme after the first pitch was inside to Sammy Sosa. Complete wiseass 😂 🤣

    • @HonkIfYouLoveBeer
      @HonkIfYouLoveBeer 5 років тому +9

      Gary Pressy, absolute legend. He's done every game since '87.

    • @kevinpaul1847
      @kevinpaul1847 5 років тому +3

      Lmao

    • @OldRustySteele
      @OldRustySteele 7 місяців тому +3

      Gary Pressy was a fine organist. However, Nancy Faust, on da Soudt Side at Comiskey was even better. She was the very first baseball organist that started getting organ “commentary” into the game. Ernie Hays in St. Louis gets an honorable mention in this regard, but Nancy was far more clever and prolific!

    • @epaddon
      @epaddon 7 місяців тому +1

      @@OldRustySteele Eddie Layton in Yankee Stadium was one of the greatest too. And he could work in some clever punchline bits too with song titles (Once after a brushback pitch he did "Don't Fence Me In")

    • @OldRustySteele
      @OldRustySteele 6 місяців тому +1

      @@epaddon Ah yes, I hadn’t thought about Layton. Much like Nancy Faust at Comiskey Park, he would weave musical puns or other musical references into the mix!

  • @KidFresh71
    @KidFresh71 Рік тому +13

    The organ player going with "Eye of the Tiger" during the brawl is simply the icing on the cake.

  • @hoss3138
    @hoss3138 4 роки тому +11

    My Mom took me to this game. Probably the greatest comeback I’ve ever seen in person.

  • @jscott6
    @jscott6 Рік тому +16

    I know this team wasn't great (they were bad actually) but man I LOVED the Sosa, Sandberg, Grace era of cubs baseball.

  • @horsehide3039
    @horsehide3039 5 місяців тому

    Thanks so much for showing the long version. So refreshing

  • @cs1458
    @cs1458 6 років тому +16

    Best part of this video is that the classic ads weren't edited out lol

    • @whochangedmyscreenname
      @whochangedmyscreenname 4 роки тому +1

      I LOVE THEM. It lets us relive that previous area in a complete way. Celebs, advertising, graphic design, music... it's always fun.

  • @daveth121864
    @daveth121864 6 років тому +41

    Ahhh the good old days, when they not only aired the fight in full, but they also went back and did slo-mo blow-by-blow analysis!

  • @fateagle4life
    @fateagle4life 5 років тому +17

    Outstanding work by the organist for playing Eye Of The Tiger from Rocky

  • @scottburns5376
    @scottburns5376 5 років тому +12

    This is the many times Sammy Sosa would run out into the field like a badass during an altercation, only to cower behind someone when he got close to the scuffle

  • @TheImperialShredder
    @TheImperialShredder Рік тому +14

    This is better than watching anything new... no crappy effects, no interruptions

    • @donarthiazi2443
      @donarthiazi2443 Рік тому

      What effects are used in televised baseball these days?

    • @TheImperialShredder
      @TheImperialShredder Рік тому +1

      @@donarthiazi2443 when a players name comes up he is moving around that type of stuff

    • @ritaaldison139
      @ritaaldison139 Рік тому +2

      Try BS Pitch Clocks. Useless time consuming replays.......

    • @sortofanoakyafterbirth3661
      @sortofanoakyafterbirth3661 Рік тому +1

      ​@@donarthiazi2443The 10-15 second ads the show picture-in-picture when there is a mound visit OR even just in between pitches.

  • @davidharrison3711
    @davidharrison3711 2 роки тому +18

    And this took place only TWO DAYS before the infamous Nolan Ryan/Robin Ventura fight in Arlington.

    • @ronfroehlich4697
      @ronfroehlich4697 Рік тому

      There was a ton of fighting in baseball that year

    • @CBrolley
      @CBrolley Рік тому +3

      Ventura got his ass kicked big time.

  • @ducc764
    @ducc764 Рік тому

    Wow! This is the first baseball game I ever went to, crazy to randomly have this recommended to me. Thank you!

  • @jamilmccoy2994
    @jamilmccoy2994 6 років тому +14

    I loved these pirates uni's they were the best ones I think. The road jerseys as well as the home....

  • @samfixer8155
    @samfixer8155 6 років тому +13

    Thanks for this upload. Takes me back. Waaayyyy friigginn back. Damnit I'm old.

  • @5yearsout
    @5yearsout Рік тому +6

    Loved the era, rush home from work and catch the last few innings on WGN. Simpler times for sure.

  • @TenPinTrucker
    @TenPinTrucker 6 років тому +159

    Flashbacks to the days when tv coverage didn't clog up half the screen with dumb graphics.

    • @curtisdexter3054
      @curtisdexter3054 6 років тому +6

      Ken Hemphill I hate that about today's telecasts.

    • @Weaverox5
      @Weaverox5 6 років тому +2

      I had forgotten what it was like to see the game:)

    • @Jleed989
      @Jleed989 5 років тому +4

      I like to know the score tho and what inning

    • @slyjokerg
      @slyjokerg 5 років тому +9

      What do you mean? You don't think we should know each batter's favorite 3rd Grade school subject, or how many times the home plate umpire has farted this month?

    • @gordonmckay4780
      @gordonmckay4780 5 років тому

      @@slyjokergLOL! You're not a Tim McCarver fan, are you?

  • @weaverto
    @weaverto Рік тому +3

    Steve Stone was always a good company man, not just for the Cubs, but for MLB and the pearl clutching that went on any time a small market team was good.

  • @Hagfan789
    @Hagfan789 6 років тому +18

    Listening to this commentary...as a Brewers fan I am so thankful to still have Bob Ueker doing our play by play.

    • @tkaki6029
      @tkaki6029 Рік тому +3

      Steve Stone is a hall of famer. Harry Caray would take the 4-6 innings off at this point in his career. They should have waited an inning.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому +1

      "JUUUUUUUST a bit outside."

    • @wonkxete
      @wonkxete Рік тому +1

      No one cares

    • @Hagfan789
      @Hagfan789 Рік тому +3

      @@wonkxete Yet you watched the video & decided to be weeny & comment on it. 🙄

    • @CatsClaw44
      @CatsClaw44 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Hagfan789He means no one cares about you.

  • @fraziermichaelj
    @fraziermichaelj Рік тому +10

    “I consider myself a man of faith… As there’s a drive into deep left field by Buechele and that’ll be a home run. And so that’ll make it a 10-8 ballgame.”

  • @paedahe4975
    @paedahe4975 Рік тому

    This is a great piece of baseball history here. Nice upload.

  • @Fixologist1
    @Fixologist1 5 років тому +3

    I watched this game live when it happened. This is vintage baseball.

  • @TomZ23
    @TomZ23 Рік тому +1

    Daytime Chicago Cubs baseball on WGN, when it was great to watch baseball. I miss the games on local TV, WGN...

  • @jackjones3657
    @jackjones3657 7 років тому +12

    Great double play by Rhino at 3:15! Good old Sandburg.

    • @ChibiProwl
      @ChibiProwl 2 роки тому +2

      Yep. When I used to watch Pirates vs Cubs, I knew I could count on some sweet double plays courtesy of Rhino and Grace of the Cubs, and Bell, Garcia, and the first baseman of the Pirates.

    • @williaminnes1563
      @williaminnes1563 Рік тому

      *Sandberg

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      *Ryno

  • @GeeEm1313
    @GeeEm1313 6 років тому +15

    These players take me back to when I collected cards as a middle schooler.

  • @dw8773
    @dw8773 5 років тому +11

    Steve and Thom so you know it's the middle innings...Would be fun to hear what Harry was saying on the radio. Those three were the best team ever. I miss baseball.

    • @joesloadeddiaper3007
      @joesloadeddiaper3007 5 років тому +1

      This was back when the cubs always played their home games in the afternoon

  • @Stancify
    @Stancify 2 роки тому +27

    Thom Brennaman and Steve Stone--two of my favorite announcers of all time!

    • @donarthiazi2443
      @donarthiazi2443 Рік тому +4

      Steve and Harry

    • @ginocavazos2153
      @ginocavazos2153 10 місяців тому +1

      It's a Shame he made those remarks On a Hot Mic it cost him Big-time Ended his Career

    • @OldRustySteele
      @OldRustySteele 7 місяців тому

      @@donarthiazi2443 Harry was great with the Cards and very good with the Sox. But he had become a slobbering caricature by the time he came to the Cubs.

  • @doublebogey6273
    @doublebogey6273 Рік тому +1

    This is such a great one as it got started from a throw from scanlan that no reasonable person would even think for a second was intentional. lol

  • @hamricmike8
    @hamricmike8 2 роки тому +11

    Oh man I wish Harry would have been doing that inning. He took a break from the booth during the middle innings at this point. His commentary during the brawl would have been legendary I'm sure.

    • @buckeyeschmave
      @buckeyeschmave 2 роки тому +4

      He was, just on radio. He called the middle three on WGN radio while Thom, and before him Dewayne Staats and Milo Hamilton, came over to TV.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      ​@@buckeyeschmave I remember when Lou Boudreaux and Jack Brickhouse would make a similar swap.

    • @philvaclavik6890
      @philvaclavik6890 Рік тому

      Harry woulda been doing with Santo

  • @noeymo
    @noeymo Рік тому +13

    1993 was an awesome year for me😢 I miss those days…

  • @miket2419
    @miket2419 6 років тому +2

    Check it out: at the 8:35 mark - middle of your screen: One of Orlando Merced's own teammates pushes Merced into Martinez of the Cubs. That's when the fighting starts. Gotta love it.

  • @tny0515
    @tny0515 Рік тому +9

    Sosa is one of them kids that's always expecting to get pulled back

  • @shawngregory1429
    @shawngregory1429 7 років тому +124

    The dark-skinned version of Sammy Sosa will always be my favorite.

    • @MrSmith-ke1hb
      @MrSmith-ke1hb 6 років тому +4

      Shawn Gregory thx man, that made me laugh.

    • @GeeEm1313
      @GeeEm1313 6 років тому +15

      He's thin. Pre-roids.

    • @SuperClemente18
      @SuperClemente18 6 років тому +3

      Gee Em and 30/30 season that year 🤷🏻‍♂️🔥

    • @hushg2000
      @hushg2000 5 років тому

      Ahhhhh 30/30 son FOH lol he was also young as hell. 98 was about 5 years later . Cmon now ..... all MLB players were cheaters ... Ruth, DiMaggio, Koufax, etc were all on some roids imo

    • @jamestepera3356
      @jamestepera3356 5 років тому +8

      @@hushg2000 Ruth was on hot dogs

  • @johngowler3436
    @johngowler3436 5 років тому +61

    RYNO one of the best 2nd baseman ever!

    • @jamesgentry13
      @jamesgentry13 5 років тому

      It's not Ryan it's Ryne 😆

    • @Bran-don321
      @Bran-don321 5 років тому +4

      He was my favorite player ever.

    • @jasonhicks800
      @jasonhicks800 4 роки тому +1

      He was my favorite player/idol since 1983. I live in TX and went to Wrigley when they retired his number after he was inducted into the HOF. I wasn’t going to miss that day.

    • @johngowler3436
      @johngowler3436 4 роки тому

      @@jasonhicks800 sounds good I wished I could of been there that really sounds awesome Sandberg to me is the best second baseman to play the game of baseball !!!

    • @verneolmstead8570
      @verneolmstead8570 4 роки тому

      John Gowler Gehringer was the best.

  • @dmatthews7423
    @dmatthews7423 Рік тому

    Thanks for leaving the commercials in!

  • @johngonzalez624
    @johngonzalez624 5 років тому +11

    Wow!!! The organ player actually played the theme from ROcky at one point. Cool.

  • @michaelhazen3153
    @michaelhazen3153 Рік тому

    Saw the Cubs brawl with the Braves in Atlanta. Cubs runner ran over the catcher. First time I noticed Sammy Sosa. He hit 2 or 3 home runs. They were loud off the bat. If you weren't looking you knew someone drilled one just from that extremely loud whack! Loved WGN as a kid. No cable, just an antenna and I watched a lot of Cubs games. Made me a lifer.

  • @fisterhr
    @fisterhr 5 років тому +19

    Ahhh America! Babe Ruth, John Wayne, Coca Cola, Apple Pie and MLB Baseball BRAWLS every summer! I love it! Btw, I think I saw Ferris, Cameron and Sloane in one of the club box seats from a distance.

    • @smedleybutler8787
      @smedleybutler8787 5 років тому +1

      The land of the free.lol

    • @kevinkarg4464
      @kevinkarg4464 5 років тому +1

      Hey, batter batter batter batter SWING batter!!!!

    • @dickrichards9650
      @dickrichards9650 3 роки тому +1

      I thought about Ferris, and co., whilst watching this clip.

  • @HawksFan5884
    @HawksFan5884 6 років тому +4

    I was at this game when I was really little. I remember me & my little sister begging my mom & dad to leave in the middle of the game when the cubs were getting killed. Then w/ the comeback & bench clearing brawl it ended up being one of the more entertaining games I’ve been too. Was also at the game where Steve McMicheal sang the stretch & was tossed by angel hernandez after. That’s pry the most entertaining game I’ve ever been at. Mostly b/c I was older at that game & remember it better.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      Did Steve diss Hernandez?

    • @HawksFan5884
      @HawksFan5884 Рік тому +1

      @@dalethelander3781 … I was a teen, but all I remember was cubs were losing & there was a controversial call right before the 7th inning stretch that went against them. Then Steve said something like “I’ll see that ump in the parking lot after the game”. Then all I remember was a long break & nobody knew why (before smartphones, social media obviously). So everyone was like “wtf going on?”. Didn’t find out till after the game that Hernandez threw a fit & wouldn’t continue play until McMicheal was removed from the press box & stadium for his wisecrack about the parking lot. Hernandez is such a baby!! Cubs came back & won tho. Pry best game I’ve ever seen live there

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      @@HawksFan5884 How did Hernandez know what was said on-air? He couldn't have been listening.
      Everybody knows it couldn't be serious. Wrigley doesn't have a parking lot.

    • @HawksFan5884
      @HawksFan5884 Рік тому

      @@dalethelander3781 … McMicheal said it when he had the mic to sing take me out to the ballgame, so it was broadcast on the loudspeaker in the stadium when he said it. But yeah it was just a joke & Hernandez made way too big a deal out of it. Like you said Wrigley doesn’t even have parking lots & even if for some reason a bunch of people knew where the exit the umps use to leave the stadium was at & a crowd was waiting there for Hernandez, there is plenty of security that could’ve gotten rid of them for Hernandez so he could leave
      Idk where the parking for umps & players is since the remodel, but I remember before the remodel wrigley had a gated off section on 1 of the sides where security & umps could park, so he definitely could’ve gotten to his car w/out fan interaction & even if fans were waiting for him to drive out of that gated section police or security could’ve got rid of them.

  • @uselessjoe
    @uselessjoe Рік тому +5

    Baseball needs more of this. Beanballs before helmets were common so let’s go!!

  • @Rocky_Maher
    @Rocky_Maher 7 років тому +24

    Amazing how much smaller the players were compared to those within a few years.

    • @ericcarter2020
      @ericcarter2020 2 роки тому

      Steroid change the player! Lot took to it for injury. But long run was a bad idea!

    • @oscarwinner2034
      @oscarwinner2034 Рік тому +2

      Sosa smoked that ball. Roids or not in 1993. Players also were wearing tight uniforms in the 90s. By the time Bonds was hitting 73, everyone was wearing big baggy pants. Guys were bigger and also wearing baggy uniforms.

    • @peterjohnson155
      @peterjohnson155 Рік тому +2

      Thery were also smoking cigs and drinking after the games.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      Sosa before he started juicing.

  • @devares2006
    @devares2006 4 роки тому +15

    Ahhh, the golden age of WGN. Back before it went to crap (WGN America).

  • @komeradkaput
    @komeradkaput Рік тому +3

    1993 was a great season for a Giants fan like me. In fact I listened to or watched about 150 of 162 Giants games. Nowadays they're calling that year the last pennant race. Braves-Giants went to the wire the last day of the season. Braves won, Giants lost to the Dodgers and that was it. No wild card. 1994 saw the advent of 3 divisions per league and one wild card team. A strike too!

    • @samspurgeon4222
      @samspurgeon4222 Рік тому

      I loved those days. My Dad was a die hard Braves fan,and taught me to be one too lol, and despised the Dodgers...I have a pic when we went to the HOF of him flipping off a Dodgers display, and he was in LA and stopped by Dodger Stadium just to take a leak on it lol....he hated it when they re-did the divisions....he tried to hate the Mets with the same zeal, but it just wasn't the same😂

  • @ifamilymoments1965
    @ifamilymoments1965 3 роки тому +16

    The good old days. I love my hometown of Chicago. 🙂

  • @snydedon9636
    @snydedon9636 Рік тому +2

    A bunch of thirty year old commercials. Just what I wanted to see because we all know there aren’t enough commercials these days.

  • @jerryfinch7647
    @jerryfinch7647 4 роки тому +7

    Miss the Cubs on WGN every night. Tired of 'In The Heat Of The Night' marathons.

  • @o.o1015
    @o.o1015 Рік тому +7

    Grace had the same approach at the plate his entire career. Just a pure hitter. Miss the old days

    • @AI-cp1jg
      @AI-cp1jg Рік тому

      He also was a gold glover. He's my favorite all time Cubs 1st baseman.

    • @DavidRobinson-wy7lx
      @DavidRobinson-wy7lx Рік тому

      Mark Grace’s cousin was my English teacher in high school. She was so chill and beautiful. Everybody had a crush on Ms. Grace.

    • @biggrocc19
      @biggrocc19 Рік тому

      ​@@DavidRobinson-wy7lx uh.... ok bud

  • @mgilmore5931
    @mgilmore5931 5 років тому +4

    Love the accompanying organ music, very nostalgic

  • @shaneupham705
    @shaneupham705 6 років тому +2

    i love classical baseball its always so fun to look back and think wow when this game was on i was only 12 or 11 or 10 i really miss my baseball sheets and posters and my own bat i even miss my baseball cards god i love this game

  • @GeorgeGlass1975
    @GeorgeGlass1975 5 років тому +50

    I love Mark Grace. Such a pure hitter and a great swing. Cigarette smoking, beer drinking professional ball player that had fun playing!!!

    • @DrLuke49
      @DrLuke49 5 років тому +8

      I was thrilled for Grace when he won the 2001 World Series with Arizona and against the Yankees no less!

    • @markwatkins2367
      @markwatkins2367 5 років тому +9

      Most hits in the 90's

    • @Satchmojones
      @Satchmojones 5 років тому +5

      Gracey was the best.

    • @rokyericksonroks
      @rokyericksonroks 5 років тому +4

      No batting gloves?
      Wow, that IS a pure hitter!

    • @richardgeisel4290
      @richardgeisel4290 2 роки тому +1

      Not to mention a slump breaking strategy that’s awesome.

  • @zachford2616
    @zachford2616 6 років тому +10

    I forgot about Yosh Kawano. What a nostalgic video. Derick May, Rick Wilkins, Steve Buechele - the brightness of the camera on those day games...the organ. Steve Stone, obviously Ryno and Grace...Sammy when he could run. Who knew that would be the last decade of innocence before technology triggered mass paranoia and hate. These were my childhood cubs. I was too young to have perspective. Obviously loved when they were doing well in the standings but just lived and died with them every day.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      I met Yodh Kawano in the 70s. Gave me a game used New Era cap. Boy, was it game used.

  • @hello_its_me.
    @hello_its_me. Рік тому

    Instead of the 7th inning stretch, a mandatory brawl between teams would be so exciting and worth the entry price!

  • @brycelandon6387
    @brycelandon6387 6 років тому +10

    Montgomery Ward and 1-900 numbers...back when those were still things.

  • @CAPTJACKRACKHAMZGM
    @CAPTJACKRACKHAMZGM 5 років тому +1

    Great game Footage. Thanks for posting....complete with commercials...LOL.

  • @jurgostuff
    @jurgostuff 7 років тому +23

    Somewhere little Sean Rodriguez was watching this and thought, "Hey I could do that!"

  • @mikedsayre
    @mikedsayre 5 років тому +6

    That organ music player is the real MVP

  • @travismonk2804
    @travismonk2804 6 років тому +51

    this copyrighted telecast is presented by the authority of the chicago national league ballclub which has the right of approval of the announcers and is intended solely for the private non-commercial use of our audience. any publication, reproduction, retransmission, or the use of the pictures, descriptions, and accounts of this game without the express written consent of the chicago national league ball club iiiiissssssss prohibited.
    god 25 years later and i still have it memorized in Stoney's voice

    • @AaronBradley-tarot
      @AaronBradley-tarot 6 років тому +3

      Why National League Ball Club, Inc. and not Chicago Cubs?

    • @frankkinley6272
      @frankkinley6272 6 років тому +3

      Travis Monk,
      I started reading your comment precisely at the same time when the announcer started saying it. It was freaky!

    • @JediGamingX
      @JediGamingX 6 років тому +1

      You took my comment away, I also have it in my memory. This is awesome.

    • @maynardferguson9599
      @maynardferguson9599 4 роки тому +1

      And we're breaking all those rules listed by watching this on UA-cam

  • @catbriggs8362
    @catbriggs8362 Рік тому +1

    "Don't dare turn your dial..." That brought back memories.

  • @peterf.229
    @peterf.229 6 років тому +29

    Mark Grace and Jay Bell and Curt Schilling all played on the Dbacks in 2001 when they won the world series.

    • @peterf.229
      @peterf.229 6 років тому

      lol Lonnie Smith, of Braves fame, and Randy Myers of the NAsty Boys fame, and Eric Yelding , the guy that I think Rob Dibble almost killed when he made the mistake of charging the mound on Dibble in the 90s.

    • @martyyoung3611
      @martyyoung3611 6 років тому

      @@peterf.229, I was at that game in Cincinnati when Yelding charged the mound. I was sitting behind home plate about 6 rows up and could see the radar gun. When the ball went by Yelding the gun flashed 101.

    • @luvfreedom1470
      @luvfreedom1470 5 років тому

      @@peterf.229 the fuck you talking about? Eric Yielding tore up Rob Dibble when he charged him. I remember watching that game live.

  • @michaelv3340
    @michaelv3340 Рік тому +1

    Ah, the days when the Braves and Cubs games were almost all on basic cable. I used to watch a lot of baseball back then. Now, I'd have to pay several hundred dollars a year for one team.

    • @CBrolley
      @CBrolley Рік тому

      The Mets game were also on basic cable for a while on WOR in New York.

  • @scoobycarr5558
    @scoobycarr5558 6 років тому +4

    Cubs and Pirates were a big rivalry back then - wonder how tough the rivalry is in today's modern era?

  • @AlmostReady504
    @AlmostReady504 Рік тому +1

    Oh what great name from the Cubbies back then

  • @5O4evr
    @5O4evr 7 років тому +4

    I think the cubs produced 4 gold gloves in 93, Grace, Sandberg, Dawson, and Beuchelle. Man I loved that group.

    • @finalminute3861
      @finalminute3861 6 років тому

      J Gunn you got to when you have no pitching

    • @jaydubya3348
      @jaydubya3348 2 роки тому

      No, buechele never won a gold glove, Dawson's last year with the cubs was 1992. He was in Boston in 1993.

  • @carlosfryer3887
    @carlosfryer3887 Рік тому +1

    I’m a Padres fan! Bob Scanlan reports for the Padres it’s so cooool to see him here in action !!!

  • @davanmani556
    @davanmani556 7 років тому +16

    Bob Scanlon. A long list of can't miss pitchers who didn't work. Shawn Boskie, Les Lancaster, Jay Baller, Mike Harkey, and many others.

    • @thomasdidymus1393
      @thomasdidymus1393 6 років тому

      Davan Mani | BOB SCANLAN🤣 THE DUDE THREW 98 MPH RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE. IF HIS PITCHES HAD ANY MOVEMENT HE COULD HAVE BEEN A REALLY GOOD. STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW AND RIPPED RIGHT OUT OF THE BALL PARK🤣

    • @darrelavery9809
      @darrelavery9809 6 років тому +2

      I still remember all that cash they dumped for Danny Jackson.

    • @jeremybear573
      @jeremybear573 6 років тому

      Cant miss for the Cubs?

    • @tvtitlechampion3238
      @tvtitlechampion3238 6 років тому +1

      Think of all the Cubs pitchers that went to better things after the Cubs. Donnie Moore, Bill Caudill, Greg Maddux. I'll put Lee Smith and Dennis Eckersley in there, too.

    • @darrelavery9809
      @darrelavery9809 5 років тому

      @Michael Rheinstrom he was with the Reds right before signing with the Cubs. I would have to check his wikipedia page to get more info.

  • @327Erich
    @327Erich Рік тому +1

    I forgot how small players were when steroid juicing was, for the most part, limited to just a few sluggers. Ah, nostalgia! (Loved the commercials too)
    Summer of '93 was great, graduating from HS and getting ready to go to college.

  • @tvb1020
    @tvb1020 Рік тому +11

    Thom Brennaman is a legend. Best announcer ever. Best apology ever.

    • @Jamestown-y9j
      @Jamestown-y9j Рік тому

      He sucked, that apology didn't get his job back; and nobody been knocking his door down since to hire his arrogant ass, little twit. Nepotism got him a broadcasting job in the first place; was glad when the Cubs got rid of him, they knew he was crap.

    • @sortofanoakyafterbirth3661
      @sortofanoakyafterbirth3661 Рік тому +2

      And there's a swing and a drive, home run for Nick Castellanos

    • @CatsClaw44
      @CatsClaw44 10 місяців тому +1

      I'm guessing that you love homophobes and racists

  • @YouTubeAddict50
    @YouTubeAddict50 Рік тому +1

    90s baseball was the best

  • @owenfreed700
    @owenfreed700 Рік тому +3

    Have to love baseball in the 90s

  • @christiancolossus5165
    @christiancolossus5165 Рік тому

    What an inning!!! Thanks for the upload.

  • @raypowers8083
    @raypowers8083 6 років тому +18

    Garcia's hands were up over the plate. Scanlon had every right to take back the inside.

  • @gatorguysix7631
    @gatorguysix7631 Рік тому +1

    Great time to be alive back then. Now, not so much.

  • @stephenburk7564
    @stephenburk7564 9 років тому +242

    I like how the organist is playing Eye of the Tiger during the brawl, lol.

    • @aarondecker4288
      @aarondecker4288 7 років тому +13

      I noticed that lol well played organist....well played

    • @Cj-zg6gm
      @Cj-zg6gm 7 років тому +5

      Hahaha....genius.

    • @epaddon
      @epaddon 7 років тому +13

      And then as the fight breaks up, the organist plays "Let There Be Peace On Earth".

    • @jaredflanagan5951
      @jaredflanagan5951 6 років тому +3

      How to prolong a brawl!!

    • @MarkMonforti
      @MarkMonforti 6 років тому +4

      Gary Pressey is great

  • @chuckfinley6156
    @chuckfinley6156 6 років тому +1

    Jimmy Lefebvre was a hero of mine when he played for the Dodgers. he was also a Dodger bat boy as a kid. tough as nails.

    • @TheArtOfDean
      @TheArtOfDean 4 роки тому

      I have a video (VHS) of a documentary of the 1966 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles. Lefebvre was intense then as well.

  • @randyw011
    @randyw011 6 років тому +19

    Montgomery Ward needed to use those $100 Cubs home run donations more efficiently

  • @Slinger43
    @Slinger43 Рік тому +2

    I say this as a life-long Dodgers fan...
    The Cubs have the greatest Fan's in sport, hand's down! 💪

  • @TreyMeans3
    @TreyMeans3 7 років тому +8

    There's a lot of big dudes out there, but I guarantee none of them want to fuck with Leyland. He was as tough "old school" as they came. Dude tore Barry Bonds a new one, for God's sake

    • @timdansfield9177
      @timdansfield9177 7 років тому

      Trey Warnock Leyland was a f---g drunk.Usually hammered at the games.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      ​@@timdansfield9177 A lot of managers were sauced, big deal.

  • @drakea.5816
    @drakea.5816 Рік тому +1

    A "brawl" in a baseball game consists of: "Hold me back! Hold me back!"

  • @Greg4fun
    @Greg4fun 6 років тому +3

    That Sosa Blast at 23:25 is halfway up that scoreboard they have there now. That was a blast! Just wasn't really kept up with as much back then!

    • @tvtitlechampion3238
      @tvtitlechampion3238 6 років тому

      That effin' scoreboard has made it into Wrigley Arena.

    • @TheSjuris
      @TheSjuris 6 років тому

      TV Title Champion good. Should be bigger and with a middle finger on the back of it.

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 Рік тому

      When I was a kid, I used to show up for games a couple hours early and stand out on either Waveland or Sheffield "shagging" batting practice HRs. You had to think fast once you saw that the ball was arcing over the cyclone fence. Now, there's a big damn ball stopper in LF.

  • @dxrulz4life
    @dxrulz4life 4 роки тому +2

    Thom Brennaman should be the voice of The World Series. He’s seen the best games and best brawls.

    • @user-ru9gf7ky2y
      @user-ru9gf7ky2y 4 роки тому

      Brawls aren't that cool. But his voice is silk

  • @edmadrid1776
    @edmadrid1776 5 років тому +11

    I am in L.A. and I miss the Cubbies on WGN

    • @seankeating12
      @seankeating12 5 років тому +1

      Ed Madrid yep I remember these days in the early 90’s

    • @thomasmckenzie4584
      @thomasmckenzie4584 4 роки тому +1

      I remember when I lived in Canada I watched about 80 Cubs games a year on WGN. I was almost forced to cheer for them.

    • @OscarsMama
      @OscarsMama 4 роки тому +1

      Cubs aren't on WGN anymore. It's an outrage. Ricketts bought his own station, Marquee Network. End of an era.

  • @private23930
    @private23930 Рік тому +1

    That's when tickets are worth it get to watch wrestling and baseball at the same time