1994 All-Star Game Open

Here is the open to the 1994 All-Star Game which was televised under the short lived "Baseball Network" TV deal between NBC and ABC. This was 1 month before the season would be lost due to a players strike.

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[SFFOOL76]

Damm if CBS didn't get the baseball contract from 1990-1993, I think NBC/ABC wouldn't have lost their touch.

[jerseyfla]

I absolutely agree!! Imagine if NBC/ABC had that 1990-93 contract and Fox comes and bids for both MLB and the NFL in the same year!! That would've been the biggest story in the TV business!! Had it happened I think Fox would've taken "Game" from NBC and ABC would've kept Monday Night Baseball and would've given half the games to ESPN which would've really been the beginning of the end for ABC Sports.

[simplygu]

3 Rivers Stadium was your typical cookie cutter MLB stadium of the 70's. Their park now is much nicer. Too bad the bastards in MLB had to cancel the season a month after this game was played. It ruined potential great seasons from players such as Tony Gwynn who was hitting .394, Matt Williams had 43 HR & Ken Griffey had 40... and Greg Maddux was 16-6 with a 1.56 era and probably would have won close to 25 games. I also will always wonder how that '94 Expos team would've done in the playoffs.

[Tito1701]

Its sad when you think about the 94 season and it getting cut short due to the players strike. Its sad because that couldve been the greatest year of baseball in history when you think about how many records were being challenged that year and How the strike basically ended baseball in canada. Remember the Expos had the best record in baseball when the stike hit.

[TMC1982Part2]

Even Bob Costas (who was crushed when NBC lost baseball to CBS back in 1989) was aware that The Baseball Network was a poorly thought out idea. If you ever get a chance to read his book "Fair Ball", he called TBN "stupid and an abomination".

[TheSeattlehawk94]

Best thing about The Baseball Network was during regional Saturday Night games and all non "National" games they let the two lead announcers from the opposing teams call the game together...

Saw such pairings as:

Niehaus-Castligliano

Scully-Buck

Harwell-Harrellson

Bill King-Bob Ucker

and many others..

TBN sucked but...That was the coolest thing they ever brought to the table..

[Coastergeekperson04]

That's pretty high tech...

[TheSeattlehawk94]

@pujols37105 Bull...The Mariners were streaking when the strike hit...Someone in the AL West would've been over .500....

[Grapes428]

@pujols37105 I remember that too about Texas. That was the first year they divided each league into 3 divisions. I remember every team in the AL West that year had really good offense but bad overall pitching. Each team has 1 good starter but that was it. And also I think it was the strike of '94 that caused players to get greedy and thus MLB trying to help out the bigger market cities with their teams. This was before teams like Boston were spending tons of money to get the best players.

[Grapes428]

This was a pretty good HR derby that year. I remember Frank Thomas hitting a close to 500 foot blast to center field and the crowd going crazy.

[johnnyfive222]

this was one of the best all star games ever. Why can't people post Baseball games on you tube? They do with Football and Basketball

[raymieX]

@jerseyfla MLB produced the telecasts, not the networks. It was a time-brokered deal.

[MavsFan1982]

@pujols37105 I remember that season really well.  Back then, the AL West was extremely weak, but the Rangers had their moments as well: Rangers Ballpark was in its inaugural year, and Kenny Rogers threw a perfect game.

[pujols37105]

Aside from the Expos and challenged records, don't forget that the Texas Rangers were in first place despite being 10 games under .500. We would have seen the 2010 Seattle Seahawks of baseball that year if there were playoffs.