Favorite World Series Menory, post 1983

[spiritof66]

4 hours ago, tntoriole said:

One of my favs… Luis Gonzalez in bottom of ninth beating Mariano and MFYs in 2001

 

 

I'm with you. I remember thinking at the time that without the Orioles in a WS it won't get better than that . . . and it hasn't.

[LA2]

16 hours ago, tntoriole said:

One of my favs… Luis Gonzalez in bottom of ninth beating Mariano and MFYs in 2001

 

 

Ditto!

[glenn__davis]

Gibson was great.  My Dad didn't (and still doesn't) care one iota about any sport other than motor racing, and he woke me up to tell me about that one.  When my Dad's excited about a sporting event you know it was special haha.

[foxfield]

Wow, a fun exercise.  What are my favorite World Series memory since 1983? 

 

1)  2015.  The Royals win the Series after beating the Orioles somehow.  2015 shoulda been.  I think about that one a lot.

2)  2003.  The Marlins beat the Yankees.  What else do you need to know.  

3)  2001.  Arizona and a bloody sock beat the Yankees.  It was magic.

There are other great memories of other series', but most of those post 83 WS memories are smiling while watching WS show replays of past WS and getting to remember that time when Cal Ripken, Jr. caught the final out with a little hop.  It was the best of times!!!


OP didn't ask but my worst post 83 memory also involves WS showing flashbacks to 83 and remembering that in 1983, I thought Ripken and the Orioles would repeat 1983 with about 20 titles.  It was the worst of times!!!

Edited October 11, 2022 by foxfield

[Moose Milligan]

Luis Gonzalez's duckfart over a drawn-in Yankees infield off Rivera.  

21 hours ago, jdwilde1 said:

Kirk Gibson’s homer, game 1 of the 1988 WS against the A’s.  Definitely my favorite “non-home team” sports memory.

Kirk Gibson's homer defied everything.  Looking at the replay, it's always unfathomable to me how that ball got out.  The swing looked so weak and awful.  I bet if Gibson had 100 chances to do it again that night, he couldn't do it.

 

[jdwilde1]

 

[eddie83]

Probably 1986 WS Game 6. Been a bunch of good ones though. 1991, 2001, 2016. Game 7 of 1997 WS to me doesn’t get talked about enough. Great game. 

[spleen1015]

18 hours ago, foxfield said:

Wow, a fun exercise.  What are my favorite World Series memory since 1983? 

 

1)  2015.  The Royals win the Series after beating the Orioles somehow.  2015 shoulda been.  I think about that one a lot.

2)  2003.  The Marlins beat the Yankees.  What else do you need to know.  

3)  2001.  Arizona and a bloody sock beat the Yankees.  It was magic.

There are other great memories of other series', but most of those post 83 WS memories are smiling while watching WS show replays of past WS and getting to remember that time when Cal Ripken, Jr. caught the final out with a little hop.  It was the best of times!!!


OP didn't ask but my worst post 83 memory also involves WS showing flashbacks to 83 and remembering that in 1983, I thought Ripken and the Orioles would repeat 1983 with about 20 titles.  It was the worst of times!!!

Bloody sock was the ALCS in 2004.

[DrungoHazewood]

18 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

Luis Gonzalez's duckfart over a drawn-in Yankees infield off Rivera.  

Kirk Gibson's homer defied everything.  Looking at the replay, it's always unfathomable to me how that ball got out.  The swing looked so weak and awful.  I bet if Gibson had 100 chances to do it again that night, he couldn't do it.

 

Looks like he kind of flicked his wrists with no leg push at all.  If I did that the ball might get to second base.  Did someone sneak in a baseball that had a super bounce ball in the center?

[Redskins Rick]

On 10/10/2022 at 6:17 PM, jdwilde1 said:

Kirk Gibson’s homer, game 1 of the 1988 WS against the A’s.  Definitely my favorite “non-home team” sports memory.

I got to agree with you on this one.

[Moose Milligan]

16 hours ago, jdwilde1 said:

 

The other thing about this that no one mentions is that it was an epic battle to begin with.  He fouled off two pitches right away, got into a quick 0-2 count.  Battled back to 3-2 while fouling off more pitches and then hits that homer.  

I also always liked this, too.

Talk about an all-time jinx.  if NBC doesn't flash that graphic in front of Eck, does Gibson hit that homer?  We'll never know.

I also don't know how to describe this, but there's something about the way sports were broadcast in the mid-late 80s, especially night baseball games that has always just looked so cool to me.  It's slightly fuzzy, slightly grainy with great contrasts and tones, I'm not really sure how to put it into words.  But this, the Buckner grounder, Ryan's 5000th strikeout, etc...I dunno what it is about the way those broadcasts look but I can't get enough of it.  I'm sure you guys think I'm crazy and I probably am.

Anyway, this is good stuff:

 

 

 

 

 

[jamalshw]

I'm not old enough to remember Kirk Gibson's homer. 

I do have vivid memories of watching the Luis Gonzalez hit in 2001 and remember the 2002 World Series (namely Game 6 with Erstad's homer in the eighth and Percival closing it out). As much as I hate the Red Sox now, watching them win in 2004 is memorable (even though the ALCS is much more memorable than the World Series). The Cubs in 2016 was also a big one. The 2017 World Series was a great one at the time, too, though that's been ruined since. 

[DrungoHazewood]

26 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I also always liked this, too.

Talk about an all-time jinx.  if NBC doesn't flash that graphic in front of Eck, does Gibson hit that homer?  We'll never know.

Isn't that a weird thing to remark upon? This was mid-October, so at that point Eck hadn't allowed a homer in six or seven weeks.  Epic all time closer, wouldn't you'd think not allowing a homer in two months was normal? In 2016 Zach Britton went from April 12th to the end of the year without allowing a homer.  Cionel Perez' last homer allowed this year was on July 15th.  And in 1988 there were like 30% fewer homers than today.

Actually, in '16 Britton once went over two months without allowing a run.

Edited October 12, 2022 by DrungoHazewood

[Just Regular]

46 minutes ago, jamalshw said:

The Cubs in 2016 was also a big one. 

Rajai Davis off Aroldis when he was still Aroldis 2 runs down in the 8th inning of Game 7 was stunning.   It'd be like McKenna getting Hader to move Championship Probability a ton.

It had an even shorter shelf life than '75 Fisk (Joe Morgan has very well pounded into me the Reds won the next day) as his team gave it back a couple innings later.