WPIX News and Yankees Promo 1987

[johnissoevil]

Back when the Yanks were on 11 and the Mets were on 9. Now it's the other way around.

[bbri1991]

jesus christ...mattingly, winfield, and henderson...how THE FUCK did we not win at least one title that decade?!!! 

[TheEsquire212]

@bbri1991 Always finishing second (Boston in '86), Orioles a couple of times in the '80s, and of course Donnie's balky back near the end of the decade. I often wonder why also, because there was only one or two medicore years in there. I didn't become a full-fledged Yankee fan until Deion showed up in '89 (Mets before that) but I did keep up with the Yanks fervently.

[henhao1972]

@bbri1991 PITCHING!!!

[rrrjjjmmm100]

I hated the off-centered center field camera angle so much it gave me such a headache watching those games from a 60 degree angle all the time!!!

[ItsFrankieBoy]

87 was a good year. They came close to making the playoffs and had a sick lineup.

[dpinzow]

@ItsFrankieBoy

1987 was a weird season, the Yanks got out of the gate well, and actually led the AL East by 5 games on July 4, but fell apart after the All Star break and finished 4th in a very tough division with 89 wins...the Yanks actually won more games than the eventual world champs (Twins)

[redsuxh8r]

Aw man u cant beat that! Sunday afternoon Yankees stadium. getting off on 164th. Man the anticipation. Fuck that! that shit was great!

[terrondt]

i remember as a child into my teenage years in the 1980's watching my yanks on wpix. wow.

[manhattan85]

Hey thats the old Mrs Giuliani

[1macboo]

I remember that Yankee team very well, i was living in MA and my girlfriend had PIX on her cable, i loved the yanks and who couldn't with Scooter and White. That was a special year...hey i married her in '88 and still going strong! (three sons..all Sox fans...go figure)

[PAM2167]

Donna Hanover is still hot!

[Greefus]

this was when the mets were on 9 and the yanks on 11 and now everything is backwards and they even play each other

[TheRenegadeAssassin]

Hate the Boss if you want but business wise he's a fucking genius. I remember watching the Yanks most of the 80's and early 90's and for many years they were hard to watch. The Boss kept plugging away and once he got the YES Network it was a wrap for everyone else. He took over the baseball world after that. And to think that the Yanks can spend a lot more on players than they already do is a testiment to what the Boss did for the Yankees.

[toyotas2006]

Winfield, Mattingly, Henderson

No pitching

Bon Jovi

The 80's

Gotta love it!

[carlinrulez666]

They had Ron Guidry.

[jlive1975]

Damn this just brought me back. I miss the 80's.

[Yoseman1]

So do I! Yankee drought, worst music decade in history, Reagan, people eating cat food to get by. Wait, No, I don't miss the 80's at all.

[MoratheImpaler]

@Yoseman1 Are you under the impression that popular music and the economy are better now?

[italianman1992]

@Yoseman1 you know, as bad as the team was in the 80s-mid 90s I would like to see a game from 1988 or 1989, which was the year I was born (NOT 1992). Every time I watch Yankees Classics it's one from the late 70s to about 1983. But I'm guessing the games from the late 80s were nothing to miss either?

[legalboxers]

boooya!! The former mayors wife!

[NYerintransit]

The Yankees absolutely sucked in the '80s. They were hard to watch and many people did not watch.

[carlinrulez666]

The Yankees actually won more regular season games in the 1980s, than any other team. 1981 was their best year in the decade. The Yankees could have won another Championship or two in the 1980s, if they would have kept Reggie Jackson. Imagine a lineup with Mattingly, Jackson, Henderson, and Winfield. Have Henderson bat leadoff, have Mattingly protect Jackson, and bat Winfield 5th. They could have won at least once or twice in the decade.

[southy98]

They would have made the playoffs if it was like the way they have it now.

[iamhungey12345]

Especially 1985

How is it possible to win 97 games and still miss the playoffs? The championship team from 2000 won only 87.

Funny how things worked.

[MrMorningside125]

man i remember a lot of players on that team(don mattingly, dave winfield, rickey henderson, mike pagliarulo, bobby meacham, dan pasqua, etc..) great memories

[amishmike1]

@MrMorningside125 Claudell Washington, Bob Tewksbury, Ron Kittle, Dennis Rasmussen....etc. Man, I was a kid but NY baseball was an addiction and still is.

[dab44lb]

I still have that exact promo on v.h.s. The hat Don Mattingly tips is a Burns Security Hat.

[ortleyman]

WPIX was the shit back in the day. Yankee baseball, Chiller Theatre and the Honeymooners.

[JRobelen]

Gotta appreciate the Donna Hanover lead-in.

[Signal337]

The Mets didn't have much of a chance to win "the 2007 & 2008 National League East" as John McCain & Sarah Palin didn't win the 2008 U.S. Presidency. The "Phillies" continue to show mockery over the "New York Mets"

"Memories Of Ebbetts Field" being domolished

after the 1957 Baseball Season".

[amishmike1]

Donna Hanover! Rudy's ex-wife!!!!

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I thought that's who it was!!!

Oh, such memories! I'm a Yanks fan, and my dad used to have WPIX on EVERY weekend - Phil Rizzutto was so much fun to listen to during the games!

Thanks for posting this Ice Man!

[selicleto]

Many memories, I remeber these days when the yanks would begin in first place and then go downhill the rest of the season. This when selected areas had cable in NYC. SC took the games in 87' and then in 88 MSG took over. It was sad becuase 95% of the bronx at that time had no cable, I think it was only riverdale and Pelham that had it... But anyway how many yankee fans nowadays can remember the dark days of this area. Thanks to Don Mattingly who gave me a reason to be a Yankee fan...

[carlinrulez666]

Seeing Donnie play made me a Yankee fan as well. He is my all time favorite player.

[baddog7676]

Man oh man does this bring me back to my childhood! What a GREAT post.

Good ol 1987 Yankees. Rickey Henderson got hurt, and Fucking Wade Boggs sat out the last 2 or 3 games of the season so Mattingly wouldn't beat him for the batting title.

[gillies9]

That was 1986. I remember the Yankees ended the year in Fenway and Mattingly batted lead-off in order to get as many AB's as possible.

[baddog7676]

You're right/ I should've remembered that. I do rememebr watcing The Giants game afterward, and the announcers saying Bill Parcells would be happy for Wade Boggs because he was a Red Sox fan.

My mind is going in my old age, but I do remember Rickey Henderson missing a lot of that season

[gillies9]

Whenever Rickey was in a contract year he was the second coming of Willie Mays. Kind of like Manny Ramirez....but without the stupidity (and quitting on your former team). Just think....what those Yankee teams of the mid-80's could have done if they had any starting pitching whatsoever.

[RichieD814]

You're thinking of 1986

[SC11420]

Nice leap and grab by right fielder Dan Pasqua in front of a half empty Yankee Stadium. Years before the place would be packed with the bandwagon fans you see today.

[carlinrulez666]

I can't stand bandwagon fans.

[YankeesGooner]

Same here

PS: Mattingly pwned Keith Hernandez all day.

[carlinrulez666]

Exactly. I would take Mattingly's fielding percentage (.996), which is the highest of all time, over Hernandez's 11 gold gloves.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I'm not one of those fans - when I used to go to games, I was one of those rabid female fans. I would love to go to a game, but I haven't exactly dated Yankees fans...or have been able to get tickets in the last five years or so!

As for Rickey Henderson...I can't believe he got in the Hall of Fame...

[carlinrulez666]

Why is it that you can't believe that Rickey made the Hall of Fame? He was a great player. He deserved to make it. Even Rickey thinks that Rickey deserved to make the Hall of Fame.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

And he was a great player. I just remember him getting injured alot when he played for the Yanks, but I was young when he played for them.

Who else was up for the Hall of Fame alongside Rickey?

[carlinrulez666]

Jim Rice, a.k.a. the guy that robbed Ron Guidry of the M.V.P. award in 1978.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Oh ok - in that case, I'd rather see Rickey get it.

I'm not that up on Yankees baseball - I live in South Jersey and don't see much of what goes on in Yankees baseball - down here, its Phillies country! Try not getting pissy everytime the Phillies are introduced as "Your World Champion Phillies."

My ex was an obsessive Phils fan (used to ditch me to watch games), so as you can see, I am not fond of the Phils.

[hop2171]

The Phils are actually liked somewhere? I live in NEPA and this is clearly Yankee country here. I often wondered if they had fans outside of philly

[carlinrulez666]

In a perfect world, WPIX would still broadcast Yankee games. R.I.P. Yankee baseball on WPIX channel 11 (1951-1998).

[arkangel187045]

Oh man I remember this!! Does this take me back!! Thx for uploading this! FAVORITED!

[carlinrulez666]

Do you think you can find more Yankees on WPIX commercials, but from the 1990's?

[cowabungadoug]

i miss yankee games on Wpix channel 11 :(

My 9 network sucks big time !!!

[carlinrulez666]

LETS GO YANKEES!!!!

[mbhfromla]

Donna looks kinda old here.

[Wheeljack35]

Wow Rudy's ex

I miss the Yankees being on Chennel 11

[GeniusQBN]

i remember this commercial when i was 5. and i remembered my family hating it cause they were all Mets fans.

[carlinrulez666]

I can't wait for the baseball season to begin.

[BDOUG23]

WOW...I actually remember this. I'm 36 now. Man I feel old now..lol

[ls14]

Those Yankees games on WPIX Channel 11 were great.

[carlinrulez666]

Absolutely.

[ls14]

I think the WPIX should broadcast Yankees Baseball again at thesame time with the YES NETWORK, because i see that theres no chemestry in the Mets Games. So in the local channels The Mets should go back to WWOR-TV and bring the Yankees back to WPIX channel 11.

[nognilk]

Mrs. Guiliani!

[joelsindc]

and on nights WPIX didn't have the yankees..the odd couple...

[cgeo5150]

Yankees and WPIX were the best.

[tamerlanenj]

RIP Scooter, you huckleberry.

[JetsMets4Life]

Donna Hanover= Rudy Giuliani's wife or ex- wife???

[Brinah]

ex wife

[JetsMets4Life]

ok, thanks!

[carlinrulez666]

This would also make a good easter egg for any Yankees DVD.

[chalklounge]

Yep, I grew up without cable and lost a chunk of Yankee games as a 10-year-old boy. I was outraged! It started with MSG being home to about 50 games a season, which wasn't so awful, but just the idea that baseball was no longer free was absolutely insane.

A few years later, it was the other way around (50 free TV). Now I think it's about 25 including the national game of the week on FOX. Crap, times have changed.

[carlinrulez666]

I agree. The Yankees on WPIX were the good times. Times have definitely not changed for the better.

[carlinrulez666]

I agree. Times have changed and definitely not for the better. As far as growing up w/o cable, and missing a lot of Yankees games, you are preaching to the choir. Those were the days.

[tapthat12]

anybody have complete games on tape from the 70s-80s

[wwegod2724]

Yankees on WPIX 11. Nothing like hearing the Scooter to get a Yankee fan exicited. These times were great to see more baseball games on free TV and the simple graphics were great. If anyone's got some game footage from WPIX, plz share.

[yankschamps]

great Yankees memories and channel 11

[JBauer2635]

If I am not mistaken, Donna Hanover the former Mrs. Rudy Giuliani currently hosts Fine Living's Famous Homes & Hideaways which is distributed by none other than WPIX's owner, Tribune Entertainment.

[carlinrulez666]

I enjoyed the clip. Those were great times, seeing the Yankees on WPIX with Murcer, and Phil "The Scooter" Rizzuto calling the games. Rizzuto's stories were hilarious, and Murcer is one of my favorite announcers. If you can find any more Yankees on WPIX promos, I would greatly appreciate it.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Glory days! The Scooter was a favorite in my house, as was Bobby. Sad days when they died.

We met Rizzutto at a local mall here in South Jersey in September 1994 - the day that Jim Abbott pitched the no-hitter. He was talking to my dad for a few minutes - what a nice guy - signed the picture with "Holy cow!" that I presented to him at the signing.

[baddog7676]

Jim Abbott threw his no-hitter on September 4th 1993

[videonut33]

Have you got any "New York Tonight" clips?

[SuperAdventures]

Great clip and awesome usage of Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" on that there Yankees commercial. ;)

[arkangel187045]

Sorry to comment whore but you said it man. Hearing just that part of the song made me look for the music video of the song here on YT. It made you get so psyched up for these games back in the days. Freaking glory days, man! Nothing like it! Again, great video. Short but sweet.

[uberhund72]

This season was of particular outrage to Yankee fans. 1987 was the first season that opening day was on cable, shown on MSG if I remember correctly.

[Paul199322]

You are absolutely right. Any many people did not have MSG yet. They took away many games that PIX would have had on. The beginning of the dark days of big-time cable

[carlinrulez666]

I thought that MSG started to broadcast Yankee games in 1989.

[thelatebrianjones]

You are correct- the Yankees were on SportsChannel before that- I think the deal that strpped games from WPIX was the SC one in 1987- the first few years the Yankees were on MSG, I believe they had a 75/75 split w/ channel 11

[Paul199322]

ahh, Donna Hanover...if I am not mistaken, the future Mrs. Rudy Giuliani?

[BadGurl404]

Yep.

[Paul199322]

What I should have said was, the future ex-Mrs. Rudy Giuliani lol

[MitchCox]

'87, when they use to show spring training games over the air on Ch.11. It's almost all the games are in cable now. what a Shame...

[Paul199322]

You're right. That was a great time back then. Counting exhibition games, PIX would show about 135 games all season long. I remeber that clip well, too. I thought '87 would be a great year for them. Too bad they finished 4th lol

[wwegod2724]

Loved it when the Yankees were on WPIX. Great clip.