Hope you can all join us at beautiful Target Field on Aug 5-7 as we celebrate the 20th anniversary (and Twins win) of the greatest World Series of all time...the 1991 World Series.
CBS. I am begging you. I know it didn't work out with you in the 90s. but that was 20 years ago. PLEASE..PLEASE..PLEASE outbid FOX when it comes up. Baseball deserves better than the way they cover it. Baseball deserves the big moments to be covered with class, charm and excitement.
CBS has always done a great job with whetever sport they cover from the Baseball to the PGA Tour and even the NFL and the NCAA. Would love to see World Series on CBS again with Bob Costas and Jim Nantz
I was there in the upper deck in right field at the Metrodome for Game 6 and can still see Kirby's homerun fly out the stadium. I thought to myself "holy sh*t, it's going out!" What a fantastic lifetime memory...I tear up watching it to this day. RIP Kirby.
I think multi-purpose stadiums are better than these new stadiums. I hope the Coliseum stays up. I don't care how it looks, at least it's not one that only Joe Buck likes.
1993...the last good year for baseball - great World Series but they strike the next year when Montreal should have won. Now we have wild cards and interleague play - whoopee.
@SadieRaleigh I agree. Without a strike in '94, I think it would've been Yanks v. Expos in the World Series. Both teams were great that year.....but Montreal, with Walker, Guerrero, and the Martinez's, would've won it all, IMHO. They were robbed by MLB and the incessant greed of the players and owners. It's a shame too, because I think 94 would've saved the Expos.
@FairBolFL And here's what I think needs to happen for baseball to be relevant again.....more of a salary cap (players make way too much), faster games, a significant decrease in ticket prices (they are ridiculous), and the elimination of interleague play, except for spring training and the post-season. Would like to see the MLB back on CBS too.
Montreal was great that year! But I have a hard time seeing them beating the Braves and Yankees in consecutive 7 game series to win the World Series...I think if that season played out, the Braves win and create a mini-dynasty (1994-95) or the Yankees win and they win 5 titles in 7 years
1994 was also the first year of wild cards and six divisions, the wild card was created because Atlanta beat San Fran in 1993 in a pennant race where the Giants won 103 and lost to the Braves on the last day of the season, people thought it was unfair that a team winning 103 should be excluded from the postseason
McDonough= DRY AND VERY BORING Only got the job because his Dad worked in the business. A face made for radio and a voice made for a church sermon. Man, is he boring.
The funny thing about your comment relating to Sean McDonough is that Joe Buck has faced the same criticism. It was Sean McDonough who replaced Jack Buck (Joe's dad) as CBS' #1 baseball play-by-play man in 1992.
@simplygu I'm listening to Sean McDonough now on Monday Night Baseball and this guy is BORRRRRRR-RING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've always thought it. It is such a shame ESPN hired him. He's HORRIBLE.
CBS always had the best sports intros back in the day, from the NBA to Major League Baseball and even the NFL especially from 1986-1993 was CBS Sports in its prime.
I agree. This was one of the great runs during the postseasons. CBS screwed up regular season baseball...but I was into the postseason. Jack Buck, McDonough, McCarver, Kaat, O'Brien, Gumbel...great stuff!!!
@shaunnol Another thing that hurt CBS was that they overpaid in regards to baseball coverage. It wound up biting them in the ass at the end of the day because they wound up losing half a billon dollars. I wish that MLB in retrospect, kept NBC around for traditional and continuity reasons and had CBS replace ABC as the second broadcast outlet. Then, we probably wouldn't have had to stupid Baseball Network that followed CBS in 1994-95.
I disagree CBS' coverage of MLB was pretty good but their coverage was on the same planet as NBC's telecast and is it me or did CBS seem to just broadcast postseason games
Folks who are nostalgic for NBC have very short memories. I can say one good thing: they did a game every week. But unless you were a fan of the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, or Mets - you didn't see your team play unless they were playing one of those teams.
And God help us if it was the Yankees and REd Sox.
Come to think of it - sounds just like Fox nowadays. One year, 23 of their 26 games had at least ONE of those mentioned teams. We didn't see the Mariners or Rangers.
CBS "PRESENTED" the games well, most of their sports coverage back in those days was above-average. However, they had no real dedication to baseball, they hardly showed any games, and you never knew when they would be on during the regular season. It was too bad, considering CBS Radio had done baseball for years, and they DID have the connection with baseball that the TV version of the network was never able to conquer.
Ugh I remember this year 1993. The Braves won 104 games that year beating out the Giants on the last day only to lose to the Phillies. I was so steamed, because I wanted to see Braves/Chi Sox in the World Series that year. This was a good series Joe Carter's homerun was a classic moment. It was all good though the Braves got one in 1995 that no one will ever take away from them.
Wasn't this the series when the Phillies defeated the Braves, who should have won the 1993 World Series? CBS, The Skydome, and Roberto Alomar should do a marketing venture on flash in the pan superstar postseasons and postseason heros of the 1990's, that have no value today.
In retrospect, the Phillies juiced their way past the Braves. It's clear now that they were one of the original "steroids" teams, led by uber-juicer Lenny Dykstra, who boosted his power in 1993 and clubbed the game-winning homer in extra innings in Atlanta in Game Five.
Watching the NBA on ABC/ESPN feels like I'm watching a game with Sega Genesis-like audio with Super Nintendo-like camera angles...I would like 2 see NBC and CBS (even though I was born a year before CBS stopped airing NBA games) get back n2 the NBA business...Also, TBS should come back, even though TNT's the best...ESPN was better in the 1980s and 1990s than it is now...But, yeah, I would take CBS' coverage of MLB Baseball any day over the NBA on ABC/ESPN.
A second thing: I've only seen MLB games in the FOX era, because I'm too young to remember how baseball was with NBC. Between FOX and CBS, the edge goes to FOX, but only because the majority of baseball TV games I've seen in my lifetime were on FOX.
I can't say that I loved the MLB on NBC, because I was born the year NBC surrendered baseball coverage to CBS (1990).
The edge has to go to CBS (even though nothing will beat the Scully/Joe G./Costas/Kubek era at NBC or the Michaels/Palmer/McCarver era at ABC). At least CBS didn't have Joe Buck (even though they canned his dad in favor of Sean McDonough after two years), Steve Lyons, or Jeanne Zelasko on their payroll. CBS also didn't use gimmicky, video game/MTV style imagery to present their games.
I would say so too, even though I was born a year before CBS took baseball away from NBC and ABC (1989)...Even though I was too young 2 remember watching CBS' coverage, but I'm sure I watched some with my dad and bro...But, nothing can beat the NBC/ABC era with Vin Scully, Al Michaels, Tim McCarver, Bob Costas, etc...I wish baseball was still on ABC and NBC, as long as ABC Sports can STOP involving ESPN to ruin their legacy.
CBS and The Baseball Network both kick Fox's ass. Ucker,JACK Buck,McDonough,Costas, Micheals(him and Costas really need to get back into baseball),Scully,and the rest LET THE GAME CALL ITSELF.
Unlike Joe "I think I'm Funny" Buck and Tim "Kiss the Yankees Ass Every Day" McCarver,those guys didn't need sound effects,bells and whistles,and other bs to "make the game interesting".
They let the game speak for itself.Imagine JOE Buck calling Puck's HR?His dad's call was perfect.
Everyone rags a lot on McCarver, but I think it's just that he and Joe Buck are not the greatest as a team--you should have seen some of the games from the 80's when McCarver was teamed up with Al Michaels and Jim Palmer. That was a hell of a broadcast crew. But I do really miss Bob Costas too.
I wonder who's coverage was worse? MLB on CBS, or the NBA on ABC?
To me, I'll slightly give an "acceptable" nod to CBS, for the uplifting theme song it has. ABC has totally destroyed coverage of the NBA, and has permanently alienated fans for its lousy coverage.
The CBS coverage couldn't have been that bad - they rarely ever showed any games! I remember SI saying that CBS stood for 'covers baseball sporadically' - and they did.
That was the problem with CBS' coverage of the sport--hardly any games, unless it was the All-Star game, or the associated LCS and World Series.
They paid $1.8 BILLION (no, I'm not kidding) to air 16 regular season games a year, and the All-Stars, and the playoffs. That's why the CBS deal was a debacle. Otherwise, they presented the games fantastically.
I remember that huge money deal. It seems they only wanted the big name events but didn't want to show any other games.
I remember the 1990 All-Star game at Wrigley had a long rain delay, and those morons showed 'Rescue 911' during the bad weather. They fired Jack Buck (disgrace), hired Sean McDonough (not exactly Mr. Photogenic), and kept McCarver the mouth.
I LOVED that theme music, though. I wish I could download it somewhere.
Sean McDonough (it's hard to believe that the balding, rather deep voiced McDonough was 30 when he came along on "MLB on CBS") actually was very competent in his role. He was certainly better than Jack's son, Joe on FOX. Unfortunately for him, by the time he came around, CBS was counting down the days until their contract w/ MLB was up.
I remember Jack Buck getting himself into a little trouble when, after the Pirates won a game in the NLCS, he said that there were a lot of happy pollocks in Pittsburg. I'm not sure what year it was that he said it or if it contributed to him being discharged. He was a good voice for the game. I still can't stand McCarver... he's just too annoying too often.
the year was 1990. pirates against the reds in the nlcs. yeah tim is stupid. i'm from atlanta and a braves fan. braves fans hate him. he always says something mean about the braves. it was all because deion poured ice cold water on him after game 7 of 1992 nlcs when the braves won the championship series. i always wanted to work for cbs sports in baseball. i can tell more later
Bobby Vinton sang an off-key rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner prior to Game 4 of the 1990 NLCS. Jack Buck then said on air, something along the lines of "Well, if you're Polish and in Pittsburgh, I suppose that you can sing the National Anthem anyway you want!"
CBS didn't help their cause by airing the what was previously known as "The Game of the Week" (prior to '90), on a sporadic basis. That really alienated the fans.
ABC's NBA coverage is bad because the lack of consistancy w/ their announcers and presentation, ABC's poor marketing/promotional skills (they have no clue how to properly sell/build drama), their all too close ties w/ ESPN (w/ diminishes the "special event" feel needed for broadcast TV and makes the broadcasts too garish & tacky), appealing too much to the casual fan, and bad sound and camera angles.
Watching the NBA on ABC/ESPN feels like I'm watching a game with Sega Genesis-like audio with Super Nintnendo-like camera angles...I would like 2 see NBC and CBS (even though I was born a year before CBS stopped airing NBA games) get back n2 the NBA business...Also, TBS should come back, even though TNT's the best...ESPN was better in the 1980s and 1990s than it is now...But, yeah, I would take CBS' coverage of MLB Baseball any day over the NBA on ABC/ESPN.
Thanks. I found that out after I sent the comment. Next time I'll research it before I say something...lol. That's definitely the score from the movie, though.
1993 on CBS was the last time we saw football & baseball together. But that New World Deal did the bidding for some of those CBS stations to switch to Fox. Even stations in Baltimore (WBAL), Denver (KMGH), Boston (WHDH), Miami (WCIX), Cincinnati (WCPO), Sacramento (KXTV) & Seattle (KIRO) would no longer have the CBS affilation until they switched networks by 1995. KIRO would rejoin CBS in 1997 after just two struggling seasons with UPN, & KSTW didn't do much better in the market as CBS.
Let me add my thanks to everyone elses for posting this. CBS's short run with MLB was not that memorable, but the music was well done.. right up there with the theme package used for their winter olympics coverage in the 1990's..
Thanks eyeontv. CBS made a huge improvement by 1993 in all aspects of their broadcasts.
Still CBS should have had a 'partner' with NBC or ABC.
Sean McDonugh was a very good announcer(he no "Vin Scully' but who is?)and better than Joe Buck.
The mistake CBS-TV made was hiring an Hall of Fame Broadcaster but aging Jack Buck as lead announcer to partner with McCarver. The Late Buck or Brent Musberger were both bad choices.
CBS should have hired Vin Scully away from NBC to work with McCarver.
In defense of Jack Buck, he was practically a last minute choice after CBS dumped Brent Musburger on April Fools Day 1990. Buck had been doing the World Series for CBS Radio from 1983-1989. So he was there, for credibilty purposes. However, Musburger was still their "star" (like how Jim Nantz is at CBS today) going into 1990, so of course, he was going to be heavily involved.
You bring up good point TMC. Not trying to sound who hates older people but some announcers do stay on 'too long' ie Keith Jackson(i am a big fan but after his 1st retirement in late 1990's he should have settled into sunset)
Just like Bryant Gumbel (NFLN), Brent Musburger is an outstanding studio host (imo best NFL pre game ever) but terrible doing play-play.
Very few guys can do both great play-play and studio host.
Brent maybe could have been MLB on CBS host instead if he stuck around.
No, ESPN's music was it's own...They both started MLB coverage in 1990 and ESPN's has changed slightly but it's still the same general music they've used since that season.
It's just a coincidence that they kinda sound similar.
Tear to my eyes....That music chokes me up everytime. Miss the old CBS presentation, best music ever.
Still wish they'd bring back the NFL theme from the '90s. CBS did things classey before they "Fox-ed" up and started this "hip" bullshit for the idiots, kids, and non-fans.
Man...the home run by Joe Carter at the end of the World Series in 1993...It was probably the single loudest ending to a World Series ever, in the 310-foot high SkyDome, and probably the most powerful explosion of Canadian happiness ever! :D
Man...I want something like that to happen again...to get Canada back into a pro sports league's ultimate championship spot. It's been way too long since a monster party for that happened here. :P
This is one of my all time favorite sports themes! (Maybe in part because it was such a special time for Canadian baseball fans.) Thanks so much for posting these!
All we need is someone to post an open from the 1994-95 Baseball Network deal with NBC and ABC and then we would have had an open from every contract in the post 1975 era of baseball on Youtube.
I agree with this, we would have every network open, (with the exception of the espn, and tbs current themes), every theme from 1975 to the present day, if we get the baseball network themes,someone please get that on youtube.
I disagree... I have yet to see one from NBC in the 1996-2000 era. Yes, they used the "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr" theme... but I am sure another theme was also used during that time (circa 98-2000ish). If someone would post one from this time period we would see. :)
Nice addition. Brings me back to my childhood seeing the Phils go for it all.
The theme music/opens, Jack Buck in the first two years, and to a slightly lesser extent Sean McDonough the last two years were about the only good thing from CBS' baseball coverage.
@Kcalbryan1: LOL. Then you might want to avoid 2:45 of this video. :)
minnbeef 4 months ago
@minnbeef lmao
xaqshuna2003 4 months ago
Hope you can all join us at beautiful Target Field on Aug 5-7 as we celebrate the 20th anniversary (and Twins win) of the greatest World Series of all time...the 1991 World Series.
minnbeef 7 months ago
@minnbeef Ugh. As a Braves fanatic, I cry everytime I hear, "And we'll see you tommorrow night."
Kcalbryan1 6 months ago
CBS. I am begging you. I know it didn't work out with you in the 90s. but that was 20 years ago. PLEASE..PLEASE..PLEASE outbid FOX when it comes up. Baseball deserves better than the way they cover it. Baseball deserves the big moments to be covered with class, charm and excitement.
MickeyMorandini1 8 months ago 2
I would love for my man Jim Nantz to announce baseball for CBS in the near future. Screw Joe Buck. Jim Nantz and CBS all the way
JMK213 9 months ago
@JMK213 If CBS got it back Nantz would be in the Pat O'Brien role and Gumball would be the "feature guy"...Just a hunch...
TheSeattlehawk94 4 months ago
CBS has always done a great job with whetever sport they cover from the Baseball to the PGA Tour and even the NFL and the NCAA. Would love to see World Series on CBS again with Bob Costas and Jim Nantz
rlaump3 1 year ago
Joe bucks sucks thumbs if you agree. If I have to hear another baseball series with buck montone pussy voice I will explode.
JDOGFTW 1 year ago
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sexykatie911 1 year ago
I was there in the upper deck in right field at the Metrodome for Game 6 and can still see Kirby's homerun fly out the stadium. I thought to myself "holy sh*t, it's going out!" What a fantastic lifetime memory...I tear up watching it to this day. RIP Kirby.
minnbeef 1 year ago
I wonder when FOX will ever give up control of baseball. Would like to see it on CBS again!!
TheRyan623 1 year ago 2
@ 1:38 the intro to game 1 of the fall classic.
StFidjnr 1 year ago
Baseball was more exciting back then. Started to get boring about 2004 onwards
tealmarlin 1 year ago
put the mlb on WESTWOOD 1/CBS RADIO OR CBS IMMEDIATLY!!
Jean0987654321 1 year ago 2
chuck norris ftw
Jean0987654321 1 year ago
Pat O'Brien looked like my 5th grade teacher. It's a shame he left sports.
CristoeSalvatore 1 year ago
While they're theme was good, those years that CBS had the MLB coverage SUCKED!!!!
dennydog10 1 year ago
Nice, I am too young to remember Greg Gumbel as a baseball announcer but IMO he is a good football announcer.
TheMadStork83 1 year ago
anpanman!
takako uehara!
keiichiudagawa 2 years ago
wow this seems like it was just yesterday , hard to believe i was only 13 then lol.
JokerRIPLedger 2 years ago
neither one of them cause was no 94 w.s moron
darrenderrick 2 years ago 4
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Trivia question: MVP of 1994 WS:
Manny Ramirez?
David Justice?
Chipper Jones?
Jim Thome?
lumpagogo 2 years ago
Larry Walker, Moises Alou or Pedro Martinez
llehman84 2 years ago
Indeed, 84--let's make it a 7 person multiple choice. Fans who know their baseball should have no problem with this.
lumpagogo 2 years ago
None: There was a strike in 1994 and there was no world series
Mercemadness1 2 years ago
M-mad, you pretty smart. And you, d-derrick, you not a good guy, mang. You a bad puson, mang. Did you know dat'?
lumpagogo 2 years ago
i almost forgot about that
corrupt200 2 years ago
non eno WS IN 1994!
thedude19766 2 years ago
Baseball didn't go on strike in 1994, Chuck Norris was pissed off that he got pre-empted for the world series, hence the next year, no world series!
professorintellect 2 years ago 5
i remember being so pissed i missed Hearts of the West!
chiefhookem 2 years ago
I think multi-purpose stadiums are better than these new stadiums. I hope the Coliseum stays up. I don't care how it looks, at least it's not one that only Joe Buck likes.
brzklt 2 years ago
Roger Center team is a jobber and will never make the playoffs ever again cause of the Yankees and Redsox.
mrwrestlingtape1 2 years ago
i would love to see pat o'brien return to sports
plpfctn2007 2 years ago
1993...the last good year for baseball - great World Series but they strike the next year when Montreal should have won. Now we have wild cards and interleague play - whoopee.
SadieRaleigh 2 years ago 11
@SadieRaleigh I agree. Without a strike in '94, I think it would've been Yanks v. Expos in the World Series. Both teams were great that year.....but Montreal, with Walker, Guerrero, and the Martinez's, would've won it all, IMHO. They were robbed by MLB and the incessant greed of the players and owners. It's a shame too, because I think 94 would've saved the Expos.
FairBolFL 1 year ago
@FairBolFL And here's what I think needs to happen for baseball to be relevant again.....more of a salary cap (players make way too much), faster games, a significant decrease in ticket prices (they are ridiculous), and the elimination of interleague play, except for spring training and the post-season. Would like to see the MLB back on CBS too.
FairBolFL 1 year ago
@SadieRaleigh
Montreal was great that year! But I have a hard time seeing them beating the Braves and Yankees in consecutive 7 game series to win the World Series...I think if that season played out, the Braves win and create a mini-dynasty (1994-95) or the Yankees win and they win 5 titles in 7 years
dpinzow 8 months ago
@SadieRaleigh
1994 was also the first year of wild cards and six divisions, the wild card was created because Atlanta beat San Fran in 1993 in a pennant race where the Giants won 103 and lost to the Braves on the last day of the season, people thought it was unfair that a team winning 103 should be excluded from the postseason
dpinzow 8 months ago
McDonough= DRY AND VERY BORING Only got the job because his Dad worked in the business. A face made for radio and a voice made for a church sermon. Man, is he boring.
simplygu 2 years ago
The funny thing about your comment relating to Sean McDonough is that Joe Buck has faced the same criticism. It was Sean McDonough who replaced Jack Buck (Joe's dad) as CBS' #1 baseball play-by-play man in 1992.
TMC1982Part2 2 years ago
@simplygu I'm listening to Sean McDonough now on Monday Night Baseball and this guy is BORRRRRRR-RING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've always thought it. It is such a shame ESPN hired him. He's HORRIBLE.
Zooomabooma 7 months ago
gumbel pronounces chicago like a douchebag. but then again he is.
TyphoonALX32 2 years ago
CBS always had the best sports intros back in the day, from the NBA to Major League Baseball and even the NFL especially from 1986-1993 was CBS Sports in its prime.
juan833cheer 2 years ago 10
@juan833cheer I always liked the closing tag they'd run in that era, too:
"When you look for champions, look to CBS Sports!"
mdumas43073 1 year ago
@juan833cheer yeah 1994-1997 was the decline of CBS Sports before they got NFL football back
thedude19766 1 year ago
sucks neither team won the world series lol
mtbking02 2 years ago
McDonough = greatest baseball announcer ever.
The Red Sox screwed him.
MBurke15 2 years ago 3
I agree. This was one of the great runs during the postseasons. CBS screwed up regular season baseball...but I was into the postseason. Jack Buck, McDonough, McCarver, Kaat, O'Brien, Gumbel...great stuff!!!
rockbmg1 2 years ago
lucky enough to live in toronto, not quite
pretty classic though
dicekid891 3 years ago
Love the Cool Runnings theme mixed in there...
WhiteWhale5384 3 years ago
this is THE BEST!!!!!!!!!! id be up for watching any old CBS baseball postseason games.
dfcintron 3 years ago 3
I had that whole Game 7 in '91 on VHS Robin Hood theme and all, like very recently but I accidenttially recorded over it about 6 monthes ago. Sux
valoguy 3 years ago
tonight's ws will be the same: an al east team vs an nl east team. Go Phillies!!!
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browies 3 years ago
What theme music is that, that started at around the 1:50 mark?
JustinD43 3 years ago
Philly's last visit to the World Series....until now!
faysal21adigun 3 years ago 2
if ur reading this and bored 1
Hillariousfilmz 3 years ago
Pretty good series that one. Molitor owned the phillies. Need to find the openings from the other 5 series games.
onedingshort 3 years ago
I meant to say Not on the planet as NBC but good though
Tito1701 3 years ago
MLB on CBS was good, but they just never showed that many regular season games, one reason it led to their demise.
shaunnol 3 years ago
@shaunnol Another thing that hurt CBS was that they overpaid in regards to baseball coverage. It wound up biting them in the ass at the end of the day because they wound up losing half a billon dollars. I wish that MLB in retrospect, kept NBC around for traditional and continuity reasons and had CBS replace ABC as the second broadcast outlet. Then, we probably wouldn't have had to stupid Baseball Network that followed CBS in 1994-95.
TMC1982Part2 4 months ago
I disagree CBS' coverage of MLB was pretty good but their coverage was on the same planet as NBC's telecast and is it me or did CBS seem to just broadcast postseason games
Tito1701 3 years ago
MLB on CBS STINKS. I hope to see it back on NBC instead of Fox.
ls14 3 years ago
Really? I used to love MLB on CBS! So much tradition behind it!!
jasondh22 3 years ago 3
yeah like FOR EXAMPLE game 7 of the 1992 NLCS Pirates vs Braves
ls14 3 years ago
Or Twins vs. Braves game 6 of 1991 world series
nyyankees79 3 years ago
Baseball should have stayed with NBC forever.
Joeydback 3 years ago 2
Folks who are nostalgic for NBC have very short memories. I can say one good thing: they did a game every week. But unless you were a fan of the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, or Mets - you didn't see your team play unless they were playing one of those teams.
And God help us if it was the Yankees and REd Sox.
Come to think of it - sounds just like Fox nowadays. One year, 23 of their 26 games had at least ONE of those mentioned teams. We didn't see the Mariners or Rangers.
Maestrohbill 3 years ago
CBS "PRESENTED" the games well, most of their sports coverage back in those days was above-average. However, they had no real dedication to baseball, they hardly showed any games, and you never knew when they would be on during the regular season. It was too bad, considering CBS Radio had done baseball for years, and they DID have the connection with baseball that the TV version of the network was never able to conquer.
walterlv01 3 years ago 2
Thanks for posting! I've been searching for that CBS World Series theme for years!
glanzerr 3 years ago
great great theme song
chiefhookem 3 years ago
Ugh I remember this year 1993. The Braves won 104 games that year beating out the Giants on the last day only to lose to the Phillies. I was so steamed, because I wanted to see Braves/Chi Sox in the World Series that year. This was a good series Joe Carter's homerun was a classic moment. It was all good though the Braves got one in 1995 that no one will ever take away from them.
sxw 3 years ago
Wasn't this the series when the Phillies defeated the Braves, who should have won the 1993 World Series? CBS, The Skydome, and Roberto Alomar should do a marketing venture on flash in the pan superstar postseasons and postseason heros of the 1990's, that have no value today.
MANSHOTS 3 years ago
haha..The Blue Jays won more world series in just 17 seasons then the philles did in 100 seasons
johnymo96 3 years ago
In retrospect, the Phillies juiced their way past the Braves. It's clear now that they were one of the original "steroids" teams, led by uber-juicer Lenny Dykstra, who boosted his power in 1993 and clubbed the game-winning homer in extra innings in Atlanta in Game Five.
joekiddlouischama 3 years ago
That is true. The Phillies had no business beating the Braves that year.
sarnow76 3 years ago
Watching the NBA on ABC/ESPN feels like I'm watching a game with Sega Genesis-like audio with Super Nintendo-like camera angles...I would like 2 see NBC and CBS (even though I was born a year before CBS stopped airing NBA games) get back n2 the NBA business...Also, TBS should come back, even though TNT's the best...ESPN was better in the 1980s and 1990s than it is now...But, yeah, I would take CBS' coverage of MLB Baseball any day over the NBA on ABC/ESPN.
thatdudecozz89 3 years ago 3
Atlanta Fulton County Stadiaum..The launching pad
prausch65 3 years ago 2
Phillies!
bwads31 3 years ago
A second thing: I've only seen MLB games in the FOX era, because I'm too young to remember how baseball was with NBC. Between FOX and CBS, the edge goes to FOX, but only because the majority of baseball TV games I've seen in my lifetime were on FOX.
I can't say that I loved the MLB on NBC, because I was born the year NBC surrendered baseball coverage to CBS (1990).
dbadefense1990 3 years ago
The edge has to go to CBS (even though nothing will beat the Scully/Joe G./Costas/Kubek era at NBC or the Michaels/Palmer/McCarver era at ABC). At least CBS didn't have Joe Buck (even though they canned his dad in favor of Sean McDonough after two years), Steve Lyons, or Jeanne Zelasko on their payroll. CBS also didn't use gimmicky, video game/MTV style imagery to present their games.
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago
I would say so too, even though I was born a year before CBS took baseball away from NBC and ABC (1989)...Even though I was too young 2 remember watching CBS' coverage, but I'm sure I watched some with my dad and bro...But, nothing can beat the NBC/ABC era with Vin Scully, Al Michaels, Tim McCarver, Bob Costas, etc...I wish baseball was still on ABC and NBC, as long as ABC Sports can STOP involving ESPN to ruin their legacy.
thatdudecozz89 3 years ago
AMEN TMC!
CBS and The Baseball Network both kick Fox's ass. Ucker,JACK Buck,McDonough,Costas, Micheals(him and Costas really need to get back into baseball),Scully,and the rest LET THE GAME CALL ITSELF.
Unlike Joe "I think I'm Funny" Buck and Tim "Kiss the Yankees Ass Every Day" McCarver,those guys didn't need sound effects,bells and whistles,and other bs to "make the game interesting".
They let the game speak for itself.Imagine JOE Buck calling Puck's HR?His dad's call was perfect.
seattlehawk94 3 years ago 2
Everyone rags a lot on McCarver, but I think it's just that he and Joe Buck are not the greatest as a team--you should have seen some of the games from the 80's when McCarver was teamed up with Al Michaels and Jim Palmer. That was a hell of a broadcast crew. But I do really miss Bob Costas too.
ADEAL416 3 years ago
I wonder who's coverage was worse? MLB on CBS, or the NBA on ABC?
To me, I'll slightly give an "acceptable" nod to CBS, for the uplifting theme song it has. ABC has totally destroyed coverage of the NBA, and has permanently alienated fans for its lousy coverage.
dbadefense1990 3 years ago
The CBS coverage couldn't have been that bad - they rarely ever showed any games! I remember SI saying that CBS stood for 'covers baseball sporadically' - and they did.
Maestrohbill 3 years ago
That was the problem with CBS' coverage of the sport--hardly any games, unless it was the All-Star game, or the associated LCS and World Series.
They paid $1.8 BILLION (no, I'm not kidding) to air 16 regular season games a year, and the All-Stars, and the playoffs. That's why the CBS deal was a debacle. Otherwise, they presented the games fantastically.
kcmetro1 3 years ago
I remember that huge money deal. It seems they only wanted the big name events but didn't want to show any other games.
I remember the 1990 All-Star game at Wrigley had a long rain delay, and those morons showed 'Rescue 911' during the bad weather. They fired Jack Buck (disgrace), hired Sean McDonough (not exactly Mr. Photogenic), and kept McCarver the mouth.
I LOVED that theme music, though. I wish I could download it somewhere.
Maestrohbill 3 years ago
Sean McDonough (it's hard to believe that the balding, rather deep voiced McDonough was 30 when he came along on "MLB on CBS") actually was very competent in his role. He was certainly better than Jack's son, Joe on FOX. Unfortunately for him, by the time he came around, CBS was counting down the days until their contract w/ MLB was up.
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago
I remember Jack Buck getting himself into a little trouble when, after the Pirates won a game in the NLCS, he said that there were a lot of happy pollocks in Pittsburg. I'm not sure what year it was that he said it or if it contributed to him being discharged. He was a good voice for the game. I still can't stand McCarver... he's just too annoying too often.
dome1972 3 years ago
the year was 1990. pirates against the reds in the nlcs. yeah tim is stupid. i'm from atlanta and a braves fan. braves fans hate him. he always says something mean about the braves. it was all because deion poured ice cold water on him after game 7 of 1992 nlcs when the braves won the championship series. i always wanted to work for cbs sports in baseball. i can tell more later
kcaruso37 3 years ago
I believe it was game 4 of the 1991 NLCS that you're talking about.
Maestrohbill 3 years ago
Bobby Vinton sang an off-key rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner prior to Game 4 of the 1990 NLCS. Jack Buck then said on air, something along the lines of "Well, if you're Polish and in Pittsburgh, I suppose that you can sing the National Anthem anyway you want!"
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago
I have to admit, that is pretty funny.
mdumas43073 3 years ago
CBS didn't help their cause by airing the what was previously known as "The Game of the Week" (prior to '90), on a sporadic basis. That really alienated the fans.
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago
ABC's NBA coverage is bad because the lack of consistancy w/ their announcers and presentation, ABC's poor marketing/promotional skills (they have no clue how to properly sell/build drama), their all too close ties w/ ESPN (w/ diminishes the "special event" feel needed for broadcast TV and makes the broadcasts too garish & tacky), appealing too much to the casual fan, and bad sound and camera angles.
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago
Watching the NBA on ABC/ESPN feels like I'm watching a game with Sega Genesis-like audio with Super Nintnendo-like camera angles...I would like 2 see NBC and CBS (even though I was born a year before CBS stopped airing NBA games) get back n2 the NBA business...Also, TBS should come back, even though TNT's the best...ESPN was better in the 1980s and 1990s than it is now...But, yeah, I would take CBS' coverage of MLB Baseball any day over the NBA on ABC/ESPN.
thatdudecozz89 3 years ago
The music that starts at 1:40 sounds like the score from "Cool Runnings," which is odd, because that movie wouldn't be released until 1994.
braves15 3 years ago
Actually...the U.S. release of Cool Runnings was October 1, 1993.
kcmetro1 3 years ago
Thanks. I found that out after I sent the comment. Next time I'll research it before I say something...lol. That's definitely the score from the movie, though.
braves15 3 years ago
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Harts of the West, and Walker, Texas Ranger. CBS has aired some really shitty programs.
KNS1996DFS 3 years ago
1993 on CBS was the last time we saw football & baseball together. But that New World Deal did the bidding for some of those CBS stations to switch to Fox. Even stations in Baltimore (WBAL), Denver (KMGH), Boston (WHDH), Miami (WCIX), Cincinnati (WCPO), Sacramento (KXTV) & Seattle (KIRO) would no longer have the CBS affilation until they switched networks by 1995. KIRO would rejoin CBS in 1997 after just two struggling seasons with UPN, & KSTW didn't do much better in the market as CBS.
dgendvil 3 years ago
Better than FOX
glory789 3 years ago
Best thing about the CBS coverage was the uplifting theme music... Worst thing about the CBS coverage was that it was on CBS.
twarod 3 years ago 4
Im still blown away how bad CBS coverage of Baseball wasy, thank god it was only 4 years (too long).
SFFOOL76 3 years ago
1993 was the first season i started watching baseball, and what a finish that world series was!
fgarcia20 3 years ago
I'd like to see CBS get MLB back one day. I'm not a fan of Fox's coverage.
ntcw 3 years ago 3
I wish that NBC would get baseball back before CBS. But I wouldn't mind seeing CBS return as long as they can serve as a counterbalance to FOX.
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago
Dude Mitch Williams threw fuckin gas lol
thndrct218 3 years ago
Let me add my thanks to everyone elses for posting this. CBS's short run with MLB was not that memorable, but the music was well done.. right up there with the theme package used for their winter olympics coverage in the 1990's..
joebradio 3 years ago 2
Glad you enjoy it, as soon as I can find it, will be posting some Olympics stuff soon!
eyeontv 3 years ago
Thanks eyeontv. CBS made a huge improvement by 1993 in all aspects of their broadcasts.
Still CBS should have had a 'partner' with NBC or ABC.
Sean McDonugh was a very good announcer(he no "Vin Scully' but who is?)and better than Joe Buck.
The mistake CBS-TV made was hiring an Hall of Fame Broadcaster but aging Jack Buck as lead announcer to partner with McCarver. The Late Buck or Brent Musberger were both bad choices.
CBS should have hired Vin Scully away from NBC to work with McCarver.
USAGiant 3 years ago
In defense of Jack Buck, he was practically a last minute choice after CBS dumped Brent Musburger on April Fools Day 1990. Buck had been doing the World Series for CBS Radio from 1983-1989. So he was there, for credibilty purposes. However, Musburger was still their "star" (like how Jim Nantz is at CBS today) going into 1990, so of course, he was going to be heavily involved.
TMC1982Part2 3 years ago
You bring up good point TMC. Not trying to sound who hates older people but some announcers do stay on 'too long' ie Keith Jackson(i am a big fan but after his 1st retirement in late 1990's he should have settled into sunset)
Just like Bryant Gumbel (NFLN), Brent Musburger is an outstanding studio host (imo best NFL pre game ever) but terrible doing play-play.
Very few guys can do both great play-play and studio host.
Brent maybe could have been MLB on CBS host instead if he stuck around.
USAGiant 3 years ago
Do you have the '93 All-Star Game,the first and only to be played at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore?
faysal21adigun 3 years ago
cool.... thanks for adding this!
steeltribute75 3 years ago
Is it just me, or does the CBS baseball theme song sound like the ESPN baseball theme song?
oppppppe 3 years ago
just u
Cbone05 3 years ago
I almost thought the same thing too.
faysal21adigun 3 years ago
Me too
Red7288 3 years ago
Oh, thank goodness! I was hoping I wasn't the only one with that thought. But seriously, it really does sound like the ESPN theme.
oppppppe 3 years ago
Maybe ESPN's music was inspired by the CBS music.
faysal21adigun 3 years ago
No, ESPN's music was it's own...They both started MLB coverage in 1990 and ESPN's has changed slightly but it's still the same general music they've used since that season.
It's just a coincidence that they kinda sound similar.
seattlehawk94 3 years ago
Thank God this is now on here. I love this theme.
sactoindyfan 3 years ago
Tear to my eyes....That music chokes me up everytime. Miss the old CBS presentation, best music ever.
Still wish they'd bring back the NFL theme from the '90s. CBS did things classey before they "Fox-ed" up and started this "hip" bullshit for the idiots, kids, and non-fans.
CBS used to be ALL ABOUT the REAL fans.
seattlehawk94 3 years ago
CBS's music was great but not as spectacular as NBC's game of the week
crawford371 4 years ago
Man...the home run by Joe Carter at the end of the World Series in 1993...It was probably the single loudest ending to a World Series ever, in the 310-foot high SkyDome, and probably the most powerful explosion of Canadian happiness ever! :D
Man...I want something like that to happen again...to get Canada back into a pro sports league's ultimate championship spot. It's been way too long since a monster party for that happened here. :P
RonicW 4 years ago
Those Phillies were crazy! Roids and Mullets, that's how they got things done! LOL!
EwingOil 4 years ago
HELL YEA!!!!
cgbam89 4 years ago
I know the Phillies won that game, but were there any specifics about this game? Anything interesting...
chrisuncleahmad 4 years ago
love the cbs theme
thedude19766 4 years ago
This is one of my all time favorite sports themes! (Maybe in part because it was such a special time for Canadian baseball fans.) Thanks so much for posting these!
brithgob 4 years ago
All we need is someone to post an open from the 1994-95 Baseball Network deal with NBC and ABC and then we would have had an open from every contract in the post 1975 era of baseball on Youtube.
jerseyfla 4 years ago 2
I agree with this, we would have every network open, (with the exception of the espn, and tbs current themes), every theme from 1975 to the present day, if we get the baseball network themes,someone please get that on youtube.
richie137 4 years ago
I disagree... I have yet to see one from NBC in the 1996-2000 era. Yes, they used the "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr" theme... but I am sure another theme was also used during that time (circa 98-2000ish). If someone would post one from this time period we would see. :)
itsdannyg 3 years ago
Nice addition. Brings me back to my childhood seeing the Phils go for it all.
The theme music/opens, Jack Buck in the first two years, and to a slightly lesser extent Sean McDonough the last two years were about the only good thing from CBS' baseball coverage.
FOXSportsFan 4 years ago