 And we are back. We are watching the 1976 World Series now. Moving on up as we go. Just another reminder for everyone, not baseball historians. This game, this game happened 13 years before I was born. Around 23 years, maybe 26 years before I started actively caring about baseball. We just like baseball. Yeah, so not historians. We know some of the names more in this one because the Yankees are in here. We had these are these are my father's Yankees. And sadly, 16 year old, my dad was 16 years old at the time. Probably heartbroken because the big red machine just steamrolled everyone. Sweep a couple of fun facts about this World Series, Jim. Yes, this game we're about to watch was the first weekend World Series game that started in the evening. Nice, because they didn't have lights Sunday night night game. So that's pretty exciting. Some had lights. Some didn't really have lights to like 88 like last week. So that was kind of fun. So like crime time, sit around the house. Sunday night. This was the like the first Sunday Night World Series game. That's cool. So that's kind of cool. It was freezing. Reds could have made it a bit more of a game. It started 40. Well, this was a good game. Yeah, we're watching game two because it's the closest to game one, three and four, the Reds just beat them. The commissioner out of spite, it dropped to 30 degrees, but he didn't wear a jacket just to like show that like it's not called. Manly. Better times. Remember when Arietta used to do that? Um, and what else? Oh, the Yankees, the previous two seasons had been playing in Shea Stadium. So this was the first year that Yankee Stadium was back. That's cool. And the first World Series with a DH. Oh, or they did the DH every game. I think they did it rotating games. Someone will correct me on that. But it's something significant with the DH. Yes. And again. And that's about all we fucking know. If you expect us, a lot of people, I'm going to stop reading the commentaries because a lot of people are getting mad. We're learning. If you see an old person commenting, how didn't you know Louis, Louis Rainier say, I don't know, wasn't born for another decade and a half. One guy told me to read books and I want to flaunt all the books I read. Read a book. Big book. Read a book, dude. Play the game. Willie Randolph. Willie Randolph. Oh, Jake. As always, watching baseball is brought to you by our store at Johnboymedia, shop.Johnboymedia.com. And we just put out a whole new line of baseball is fun shirts. And here's one. Here's one. Here's another. Here's another. And there's a whole bunch of different styles. We have podcasts, YouTube shirts. So go get a baseball. Go get a baseball is fun shirt. And now now let's watch. This is the seventh inning. The Yankees are down three one. I believe they make a little comeback to make it close. Game two got the Southpaw. Fred Norman on the bump Yankees. Yankees beat the Royals in a close series. Reds steamrolled their way to the World Series. They're like a machine. Yeah. So what do we got? Ooh, that was a nice one. Uncle Charlie coming out. I like that one. I like that one. Sorry, Willie. Willie Randolph, one of the most beloved Yankees people in history. His hair over his ear looked different than the hair and the rest of the hair. I think that batting sense. Oh, that wasn't a looper. That was a line drive. To be honest, I couldn't see the ball. Yeah, I didn't see it until the guy caught it. Until the guy caught it on a bounce. I have no idea. That camera angle of Willie hitting it was good. Yeah, you can't see the pitch. Couldn't see the pitch. Couldn't see where it went. That's such a... Fred Stanley walking up and doing just the generic bat over the head stretch. You got to do that stretch. Guys need to do that more. Yeah, put the bat in between your back and do this one. Just pivot. Just swivel. Normals, oh, fake bun. Fred. Okay, Fred Norman. I love how many fake bun stands to do back in the day. Or like, I'm thinking about it. Swimming in your head. It's in my arsenal. Fred Stanley, a pretty bad hit. I think his OPS was like 600 this year. We went through the Yankees lineup, or I did very briefly. And I recognized almost every name besides Fred Stanley. I mean, he was batting last and picking it at short, and that was pretty much it. Still the same split screen that we were using in 1972. And this is pretty fun because Willie Randolph, what they're saying right now, Willie's fast, Fred Stanley can't hit, so it's a little game of hitting mouth. Are we going to bun? Is Willie just going to steal? And we're playing on concrete here still, right? Yes. Like this is the first of AstroTurf. It's concrete with carpet on top of it. Yeah. He rose just getting all those infield hits. Something about the way the first basements leaning over is making me laugh. It looks gassed. It looks like you got to do this bullshit. Like it's not even, it's gassed and bored. Yeah. Like this doesn't matter. Really? The way he put his glove up. Everything's like not too excited to be there. Strikes a sand land inside corn. It was a good baseball game. Everyone's choked up on the bat all the time in 70s baseball. By the way, incredible catchers in this series. Johnny Bench, Thurman Munson. That'll be out of play. It's a good foul ball call. Yeah. Got to let him know. Pitcher, Greg Norman. Fred Norman. Fred Norman. So Greg Norman's the golfer. We got a battle of friends. Fred Stanley versus Fred Norman, which is throwing me off. There's a lot of you don't see enough friends. Norman pitched a lot of games for them in the season like 34. Right. Storm and Norman. Nice little career. You're 76. 33 starts. Inside. Good take. Three and two full count. So you're sending will be right. Yeah, you got to send him. No, it's cool. How scared of how scared were they of benches on? I mean, they should be scared. He's a bunch of gold gloves. But I think Willie Randall's also got speed. But they don't believe in Stanley. They don't believe in Stanley at all. Well, all right. So you got to think that Stanley's probably going to try and make contact. Yeah, put it on the concrete. Yeah, you got to do like a hit and run here. Put on the concrete. There he goes. Oh, beautiful. Yo, oh, look at Willie flying. Yeah, love the jog zone. And that's huge. That's your nine hole hitter hit and run. So for anyone who doesn't understand why I love baseball so much or the beauty and the intricacy sport because that count went to three and two that happened. Yeah. That doesn't happen on a two and two count. You don't put a hit and run in motion. But once it gets to three and two, it's actually the Yankees formalize a plan and it worked perfectly. A lot of times it's not going to work perfectly, but that was awesome. And know what the other thing I was thinking during that, which again, my one liner Yankees are. No, they have the same amount of hits now. A lot of handshakes. I'm wondering if the pitcher had a good pickoff move because again, think about how much that ties into what just happened. I mean, that was a perfect time for a pickoff. But like, is that why Willie didn't leave earlier? Was it the sphere of Johnny Bench? I mean, there's so many moving Barts and we're back to the top of the lineup. Love a good hit and run. Showed he got a big old butt. Mickey Rivers. Yeah. Mickey Rivers still shows up at old timers day for the Yankees every year and he's like 80 years old now he still flies in the outfield runs faster than me. Oh, yes. We're talking about the pitcher. Yeah. So I said, he's no Don Goh. Don Goh was the guy who started Game 1. Now that looks like a blooper. Okay. Mickey. A lot of outfielders were coming in low back then. Just lobbing it in. Was it just like if you didn't, if you weren't an infielder outfield, you just. I think he was having fun. This is my dad's favorite Yankee Roy White. Roy White. This could have been when Roy White won over your dad's heart. I mean, he was 16 watching this at home Sunday with his dad probably. I maybe yeah. Yeah. This is transcendent. I don't know if I use that right. Double barrel action in the bullpen synchronized throwing. Yeah. Look how cold everyone is man. They're freezing. They're wearing like by the end of the game. They said it was 30 out winter coats. Cincinnati. So who's coming up next? Thurman. Roy White. No, no, no. Roy White's up. Roy White's up. Who's on deck? First base is open. So they're deciding months. They're deciding right now like, hey, I mean, you're not pitching around. No, you're going after. Yeah, you have to. You have to attack him pretty heavily here. Lou Pinella in the hole, by the way. Sweet Lou. All inside. Take by Roy White. Yeah. Gotta come after him though. Take third Stanley. No, don't do it. Don't do it, Stanley. He's so happy. He hit a double. Not doing anything out there. He's right in there. But Roy's got to work the count. Had to see one first. Yeah, gotta see. Because if you can get on first for Thurman. Good. Look at the hard cut out by a second. It's like the turf. Good speed on Roy White. Looks like he's standing so far away from the plate. That's a nice pitch. Ooh, I would have given it to him. He wanted it. I'm gonna have to check with Pops on that one. I mean, it's a really good pitch considering how far away from the plate Roy White is standing. That's in there. He's like, he's kind of standing like a rookie of the year when the kid goes to the bat. And he's just like as far away from the plate. Let's see what he's got to lean into it, right? No. He's a little bit, a little strident. Tiny. Yeah. I'd throw that outside breaking ball day of how far away he's staying away from the plate. You would throw your left-handed outside breaking ball all day. Yeah. Without a doubt. There's video of you throwing lefty. Yeah. Well, if I was Norman, right? If you were Norman talking about if I'm the plan, it would have been wild. If you were out there, talk about transcendent would have been great for the Yankees. Look at that hard cut out on the turf. Gets a slider. Ooh. Wow. They held up. Who's got the cannon in left field on these reds? Here's something people will get mad at me about. Who's announcing this game? I like him so much. I can find out, but it's got to be a name we recognize. They rotated like every game. Oh, okay. Yeah. But he's, it must have been such a fight between the different networks and stuff. He's like, I doubt if he can score. That was George Foster in left field with the cannon on the hard hit ball. Sparky coming out. So cold. Wearing a batting glove as gloves. That's fine. Yeah, that's good. And out of the pin, I think it's Jack Billingham. Jack Bill. Jack Bill. Bouncing ball up the middle. Okay. Whoa. Interesting. I mean, you could throw it a first there and get the double play. Once you see he's down, right? Why? Once you see he's down, throw it a first. Chambliss got down the line a little better than I thought because it looked what they're saying that hesitation, there was a chance they couldn't get the runner at first there. Okay. You don't see the camera in those things, but you think it seems like he might have been able to go for Joe Morgan. If not, you're still getting that guy. Oh, Glova. We're still getting that guy who's on the ground in the middle. I mean, maybe like, you don't know doesn't really hurt them. They win the World Series. Jesus. Tough inning for Joe Morgan. Good save. Got it though. I'm with the emphatic call, but the Yankees tied it up there. And that is important because Reds were up three nothing and they won game one of the series. So, and look at that. I mean, three runs, nine hits, zero errors across the board, and even generic baseball box score. That's always something when your two teams look at each other like whoa. We've kind of done the same shit, huh? But yeah, I mean, Cincinnati's No, no, when you see that scoreboard, you go, whoa, is a good one. We're locked up, huh? Locked up after eight. Cincinnati was about, you know, they go up three nothing. They're at home. They're about to go up two games to none. And now New York has tied it up. But the big decision here, and this is what we were looking at, and I'll start playing this. This is now we're skipping to the bottom of the ninth inning. I'm interested to see if the broadcasters talk about it. Because Catfish Hunter has how many complete games? He finished 21 games that year. He had 21 complete games. He is the Yankees' best pitcher. Ace free agent came over from the A's. He's pitching a decent game, nine hits, but three runs, whatever. They're in it. They leave him in. Now they have Sparky. Sparky Lyle. And the Yankees have Sparky. He pitched in game one, two innings, but he was their best reliever. They traded for some relievers. Their career. The Yankees traded away two relievers for Grant Jackson, who was poor in the ALCS. And it's Catfish's game. I want to see if the announcers talk about it. Yeah. Our old friend Concepcion. We've watched so much Dave Concepcion. We've seen him grow up. That's why they didn't take that guy out. That was kind of an easy play, but good job by the announcers. Yeah, the announcer hyped that up pretty good. Ninth inning in the World Series. I might be able to. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Let me see if I can find it. The announcer for you. So this is game two, right? Yeah. Catfish is talking with medals. So games one and two was Joe Garagola and Marty Breneman. I'll be very honest with you on those. Don't ring a bell. Breneman's a big name. I think Garagola is too. Garagola, I know the name, but like that. So wait, this is Catfish versus Rose. And it's probably Rose's fourth at bat. Taken the whole way. And mad about it. Says it was low. It's kind of looking at him. Sideburns are back a little more. Yeah, almost hiding the whole year. Rose's fourth at bat versus Catfish this game. Ooh, wanted that one. I mean, all my answers are already answered why they didn't take Catfish out. Yeah, you just yell at him. That's called a man. When's the last time we saw Catfish in the 72 World Series? 72 World Series with Oakland. Or was it 74 as well? We might see him twice, but he is a different guy. This guy is a grizzled vet. Yeah. Rose down the line. Wow. All right. So he had two quick outs. Yeah. That's why they left him in, like even if they're going out by out. Right. I think it was his game, but they do have Sparky back there. I wonder if he's even warming up. Probably not. Probably not, yeah. So one out away from going extras here. So Pete Rose. Spoiler doesn't happen. Pete Rose goes 0 for 4 in this game. He had a walk earlier. Here's Griff. He's here. Senior up in the two hole for this game. Hitless so far in the series, which was a game. This is the second game of the seven. Squeezes it. I'm interested in the way Thurman's catching these guys. Yeah. He's catching a lot of them thumb up, which is different. Like it looks like he's getting handcuffed, but that's clearly his style says low puts his glove in the dirt says spike it doesn't spike it. Dude. Oh, no. Holy smokes. This is why we haven't heard too much about Fred Stanley. Oh, yeah. It would have had him. It was a tough play. I don't know if it would have had him, but can't throw it away in the World Series. Can't throw it away. And you got if you're that first base, you got to come off the base, you got to stop that ball. That's the go ahead run. You just let the get the second Fred get away from the mound, dude. Get out of here. Can you tell me how old Fred Fred is? He looks young. Yeah. He looked young right there. Like I mean, that was Thurman months and Billy Martin catfish Hunter. And then Fred tried to come to the mound after throwing the ball away. You can't go there. Get out of here. You got to understand they are all mad at you. Just go do puppy dog face. And dude, again, think about how baseball writes himself. Fred Stanley had the big hit and run double. Yeah. And for Yankee fans, that's gone in one throw. That's gone. Now they're walking them. Yeah. So they're walking Joe Morgan, who had a crazy year that year. He has the highest OPS on the Reds that year. Yeah. I was looking at Fred Stanley. How old was he? I was looking at Fred Stanley. Yeah. How old was he? 5'10", 165". And 76". It's 28". Or is that the game? Yeah. You look young. They're little baby folks. Looks like a kid there. Yeah. He's also standing next to Munson catfish and Billy Martin. Yeah. Those are some... Alsace. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, they got the pingo. There's two guys. Dick Tidro, sparkly, two best relievers for the Yankees this season. Dick Tid. Finally. Perez. We saw him be a World Series hero against Boston. Runners on first and second. So he got the force everywhere. Two outs. Man, that blows for catfish. Yeah. Just like that. First pitch. Why is the outfielder so deep? I mean... Why was he so deep? So deep. I mean, I know Tony Perez is a hall of fame hitter. But you... You can't let that happen. You can't let exactly what happened happen. Man, that's good for the Reds. How quick did that happen? Yeah. I mean, once that error, two pitches, right? Pitch, error, intentional walk, pitch, lose game. That's brutal, man. And again, so many moving parts on this. This would have made the series 1-1. Going back to Yankee Stadium. I don't think the Yankees had a shot either one. I mean, it's still the big Reds this year. Look at that error. Yeah. Dude. That changes the box score. See what I was saying? Look how much that changes the box score. Yeah. It's funny. It was 3-9-0, 3-9-0. And that one... Once this error gets put... I can't see my fingers. Once this gets put up here, that changes these. God. Brutal. Terrible. Well, I think this was the last World Series for the Reds. I think they went... This was the end of the Big Red Machine? I think they went... Well, I don't know if it was the end of Big Red Machine. They might have been good and just lost in the LCS. Right. But I think they went... 72 World Series lost. 73 didn't make the playoff. 74... Yeah, we had a couple... 74 they lost in the LCS. 75 World Series wins. 76 World Series wins. A couple other powers are starting to rise in the NL. But yeah, this is back-to-back titles. Yeah. I mean, I don't know when the Big Red Machine officially ended. I'm sure that Reds fans watching will know. I think they're going to say now. But I guess probably not. They just say it runs through the 70s. Yeah. I would guess... Tony Perez... I would guess they were still a threat. I mean, that's an incredible lineup that we just saw. Good players. But I wonder what was the unraveling of it? Like, was it just they all got old together? They were addicted to drugs. Seasons. Let's take a quick look and then we'll end the video. Let's... Yeah. Dive into some Reds histories for everyone. Yanks ended up doing okay as a franchise after that. 70... 90s at least. Okay. What the fucking shit. Oh, what the... So they lost the NLCS in 79. Yeah. They didn't make the playoffs in 77 or 78. They lost the NLCS in 79. They got swept. Yeah. And then they didn't make the playoffs again until 90. So I would say... Yeah. And they came in second in 77 or 78. So I think they were still a very good team in the NL. And they came in first in 79. So I think you can... I think, you know, Reds fans can say now... Through the 70s. Through the 70s. Yeah. But the World Series and the playoffs kind of ended there. Yeah. 79, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Concepcion... After this game... Geronimo, Griffey... After this game, they didn't win another World Series game until 1990. Hmm. So 14 years. That's tough. So that might have been the end of the Big Red Machine kind of in a way. Anyway, that was cool. Fred could have stopped it earlier. I mean, he was the only Yankee name I don't know. Stuff for a reason. Should I text my dad and maybe I'll update them later and just say, What are your thoughts on Fred Stanley? Should I call him or should I just text him? What happened on that throw? Can you give him a quick call? I'll allow it. You'll allow it? I'll allow it. I'll give him a quick call to my father and let him know mobile. I think he's going to say stunk. Yeah, we'll see. Oh, oh. I forgot. I have to use my other cell phone. Oh, God. Isn't that wild? No, I have to turn it on so it's over. It's over. Let's see what my dad says. I hate Lynn. Whoa! Thanks for watching. That was watching baseball. Well, today's Thursday's episode. 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