NBC's Saturday Baseball "Game of the Week" Intro from 1989

1989 marked the final year of NBC broadcasting the Saturday afternoon baseball "Game of the Week", due to them and ABC being outbid for over-the-air national TV rights by CBS. The final edition of the "GOTW" aired on September 30, 1989 from Toronto's SkyDome. Bob Costas and Tony Kubek called this game in which the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles to clinch the American League East title.

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[crawford371]

why do i see a clip of the golden girls at the end?

[TMC1982Part2]

I originally got the clip from bobcnn, who has a compliation of TV opens from 1989. I took the original 9 minute long clip, and tried to edited down to the NBC "GOTW" intro.

[QBCNetwork]

I miss NBC having baseball. It would be great if they wrestle it away from Fox in 2013, then maybe the Toronto Blue Jays will finally be on a game of he week not since the CBS years.

[mdumas43073]

No network televised MLB with more integrity and class than NBC in the '80s.

[877LLB]

Look how fox has destroyed baseball nbc had an awesome baseball crew!!!!! FUCK fox joe buck Tim mccarver they suck cock!!""!!!!!!!!!!!

[MsKeith1969]

@mdumas43073 hear!  hear! (hoor! hoor! in afrikaans)

[MsKeith1969]

i STILL wish that nbc still had the saturday game of the week, the league championship series during the odd-numbered years and the world series during the even-numbered years. i also STILL wish that abc had "monday night baseball" as well.

[QBCNetwork]

@ckendall67 Even if they were on top of the AL East, Fox will find a way t snub them, just like NBC does for the Detroit Lions & Houston Texans (the only AFC & NFC team that have mmeber played on NBC since they got the NFL back in 2006).

[ckendall67]

@QBCNetwork Only if the Jays are actually competing for a division title, that is. They won't show the Jays if they're in last place or anything like that.

[svrhodes77]

@Fruth37 I absolutely agree. I don't know what FOX thinks is so great about Joe Buck...He'll never be a tenth of the announcer that his father was.

[aharoldcampbell]

@mdumas43073 In the '60s and '70s too.

[MasterAtari]

@QBCNetwork - Same here. I hate the way Fox does baseball. Would be great to have Vin and Joe back doing games.

[Fruth37]

FOX baseball stinks. Joe Schmuck and Tim McDimwit can't call a good game. They yammer on and on and can't go an inning without talking about the Yankees and how great they are. The back up game announcers are better, but not much. NBC was entertaining and much more professional.

[richie137]

If NBC gets the Game of the Week, they will have to lose some of their other sports, to do like Norte Dame football to grab it back. But it could still happen

this is what I think it should be done

NBC or FOX- Saturday

MLB Network-Thursday and Saturday Night

ESPN- Sunday and Monday Night

I think that it should be done.