johnny bench and roger clemens

With David Concepcion or Joe Morgan making the tag? And WHY is there nothing of The Big Red Machine on YouTube? Oh, how I miss Captain Hook.

Yah, the big red machine, Bench, Perez, Morgan, Rose, Concepcion, Foster, Griffey at al, and before that Tolan & Lee May
If they ever had an amazing pitching staff (back then like the A's, Orioles for example) they might have won 7 or 8 World series in a row.

IIRC, it was the additions of Rawley Eastwick and Will McEnaney that put them over the top World Series wise in '75 and '76. Billingham, Nolan et als were at best mediocre, and Pedro Borbon and Clay Carroll weren't exactly overpowering. Usually, The Big Red Machine just beat their opponents to death with their bats and gloves. ;-)