1989 San Francisco Earthquake Live

[adamarimartinez638]

go giants this was so sad

[mdumas43073]

Meanwhile, Jack Buck and Johnny Bench were preparing to call the game for CBS Radio. After the quake hit and they came back on the air, Buck told Bench, "If you'd moved as fast when you played as you did getting out of our booth, you never would have hit into a double play in your career."

[EvilFingers]

I was working at Domino's Pizza near Geary/Leavenworth when the quake hit. I remember seeing the Kitchen Floor Tiles move in a Water Ripple Effect

[strymnky4evr]

*at the game

[strymnky4evr]

I was in sf in the park whn this happend, there was a loud rumble (totally freak out) but I can't imagine being the game o.o

[stayAU]

@strymnky4evr it was totally like that here in Virginia when we had our 5.8 nothing compared to a 10 but it was pretty close to a 6.

[Mrs55Lincecum]

9/11!

[Mrs55Lincecum]

Screw 9/111 bomb the east coast all you want

[njmeadowlanders]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought of during the east coast earthquake today was this?

[NASCARFAN160]

Man, knowing the 80s, I think I would've been scared as heck

[TheComicfreak10]

"We are in commercial- I guess.." Don't they have a live broadcast feed monitor or something? ITS ON A "WORLD SERIES ON ABC" SLIDE YOU MORON!

[vicorly]

@TheComicfreak10 That was probably from the network feed from New York, like color bars when there is no other video signal.

[ret4ever]

@vicorly Nope, that was broadcast over the air. I remember it distinctly

[observer9670]

@TheComicfreak10 Power was out at Candlestick Park. A quick thinking engineer in the broadcast booth patched the microphone into a regular telephone line, which was somehow still working (telephone lines don't need AC) and was able to call ABC in New York, who then put the call, with Michaels, directly on the air with their emergency slide.

[brealmsys]

@TheComicfreak10 Umm...you know, since they just were in an earthquake, they can't see what is going on, for Pete's sake, they had to CALL into the network for an audio feed. Normally, yes, I'm sure they had a broadcast feed, but when an earthquake shakes your transmission dish that much, it loses sync and you get nothing in or nothing out! :)

[brealmsys]

@TheComicfreak10 Umm...you know, since they just were in an earthquake, they can't see what is going on, for Pete's sake, they had to CALL into the network for an audio feed. Normally, yes, I'm sure they had a broadcast feed, but when an earthquake shakes your transmission dish that much, it loses sync and you get nothing in or nothing out! :)

[brealmsys]

@TheComicfreak10 Umm...you know, since they just were in an earthquake, they can't see what is going on, for Pete's sake, they had to CALL into the network for an audio feed. Normally, yes, I'm sure they had a broadcast feed, but when an earthquake shakes your transmission dish that much, it loses sync and you get nothing in or nothing out! :)

[almostfm]

@brealmsys Just to pick a small nit--the POTS line is always up and running as a backup in case the satellite link goes down. That's why it was only about 15 seconds from losing the link to having the phone audio up. You can hear them try the satellite audio @:32, and when that was just static, the phone audio came up 6 seconds later. Somebody in the network control center just had to press a couple of buttons (and maybe move a fader) to bring the phone audio up.

[brealmsys]

@almostfm Ahh...right on. I'm no expert in the matter, but I figured that was what happened. Makes sense they would always have the POTS line up, good backup for...things like this, naturally.

[sirMAXX77]

12y/o

Costco, Martinez.

[DoubleA1200]

Epic..

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

That was one awful quake.

I will never forget it.

George Vreeland Hill

[ProvinUWrong]

Thank god something interesting interrupted baseball. Talk about a boring fucking sport. At least they serve great hot dogs.

[okamijubei]

This is one event i never forget.

I was three and i'm in part of that Earthquake myself.

[TEHSWOLEONE]

I was sitting in front of the TV watching and all of a sudden it went out and they started airing an episode of Roseanne. I remember this like it was yesterday. Epic World Series.

[MommaOkie]

I was in 8th grade writing a report on James Madison and was not allowed to watch the series, which upset me, but just so happened to be in the kitchen getting a drink when this happened...needless to say I didn't finish the report, I was watching this all night!

[FutureNewsAnchor]

@MommaOkie You should've gotten the report done in study hall, like I used to do. I did some of my finest work in there.

[MommaOkie]

@FutureNewsAnchor My school didn't have study hall. :-( Oh well it was worth the zero to watch the news on this

[SFGiantsVids]

Tim McCarver didn't make to big of a deal when he did important baseball calls...

He seems surprised for the first time and only time.

[raelAlan]

i was 6 y/o i remember sitting on the living room floor while my mom was cooking dinner i told her the tv was broken. It's just a flicker of a memory but i remember this.

[kennyrulez585]

@raelAlan thats how i remember 9/11

[MIBFreakPack]

I guess it's true...

Al Michaels has been through everything in sports...

[LDD86]

Baseball fans: "God, Tim McCarver, shut the F up!"

God : "OK"

[vicorly]

@LDD86 Nice.

[orion1954]

I TELL YOU WHAT WERE HAVIN' AN EARTH--buzzz

[TechnoBoy301]

@Pancake6021 No i wasn't.....

[Pancake6021]

@TechnoBoy301 oh.

[TEHSWOLEONE]

@TechnoBoy301  LMAO

[Pancake6021]

man! i was in that earthqake when i was 8.i was so scared when i starded felling the ground shake!i nearly got killed but belive me,I WAS SCARED LIKE HELL!!!

[TechnoBoy301]

@Pancake6021 good thing you survived.....

[Pancake6021]

@TechnoBoy301 were you in it?