 Welcome back to another episode of watching baseball brought to you by the store at John boy media shop dot John boy media dot com. Get this shirt and this one. What about this one? You can also get that one. We're watching baseball. We're out of the 70s. We put the 70s in our rear view. So 1980 World Series, the Kansas City Royals versus the Philadelphia Phillies, the Royals finally bested the Yankees. They had lost to them a couple years in the ALCS. They finally beat them. They get to the World Series to face the Phillies who won their division by one measly game and then beat the Astros in the NLCS. Still baseball. And as Jimmy will be excited here, this was the first ever World Series that every game was played on Astro turf. So that's exciting. It's a bad time for baseball, aesthetically. Who do we got? We've got Michael Jack Schmidt on the Phillies. He won the NL MVP this season. George Brett won the AL MVP. They both meet in the World Series. That's a very fun storyline. And I thought the only other fun fact at the time the game six of this World Series was the most watched World Series game. That's cool. Yeah. That is cool. I wonder what goes into that with like it was on more and the technology and stuff like that. Is there a big TV sale that year? Huge cable. Sears was just slinging them out. Howard Cosell not on the broadcast for you. Is he not? I don't know. I don't think he is. I remember looking. I think it was the the guys we listened to in the past years. Okay. The Gargiola. Yeah. Yeah. I read his book. I grew up with Yogi there. Hey this is game three. Why'd we choose game three? It's close come back. Game three we chose because I think we go extra so we get a walk off and we get tied up in the eighth. Did I dream that? Here we go. This is the eighth inning game three 1980 World Series. What an electric open. 2300 real skinny people in there from skinny people to what looked like a home run swing that went foul. Holy smokes. I wonder what the context of that skinny people will never find out. Manny Trillo. So he's leading off top of the eighth. Phillies are behind one run three to two. Manny Trillo Trillo leading off. Larry Boa on deck. Boa. Larry Boa. Hi. They're swinging. He was swinging. He wasn't getting job. You're missing Howard. This is good stuff. You're missing Howard. Go on. Oh I've got a I've got another fun fact. The record for put outs. I've never ever heard someone brag about that or talk about it. If you don't know why baseball is a sick sport. Look at that Boa. Wow. Willie Wilson Jim. He's on Kansas City. Yeah. He led the league in hits during the regular season. Willie Wilson. Willie Wilson. He had 81 strikeouts during the regular season. His 12 strikeouts were the most in World Series history. Jeez. Brutal. Another really crouched batting stance. They call that a ball. That yacker. They're not giving it to him. He's got a crouched stance. Haven't seen Larry Boa highlights. Yeah. I mean obviously I know who Larry Boa is but I don't know if I've ever seen highlights of him. I mean what is that fucking camera. Can't see the ball. Half of the field. Can't see the ball. Like they just expect him to bond or something. That stance. There's. That is a nice curve. I like the ump with the quicks right there. While he messed up the last time. Okay. I'm digging this guy. Oh my god. There's the ball. Baseball always finds a way. So when we were looking at the baseball reference like finding which game to do. I read that I was like single to the pitcher. Yeah. What could that mean. Good play by the pitcher. Yeah. I don't think he had a shot. No. Probably was just too fast. But yeah. Really good play. Why. Oh if he threw the ball away. How he picked. Yeah. Great pick by the first place. He did. He did say that because at the time it's the go at the tying run. Right. That goes overlooked a lot. Didn't we see that in another one of these games we did. The throw went into the dugout. Fred Stanley. Yeah. Chicken Stanley. Jesus this curveball does move. Yeah. It's pretty nice. The catcher right now is like dude come on. Yeah. Bow is at wheels. Computer drop 1980. Baseball had no idea what a computer baseball has always embraced analytics. I love Larry Bow's stance when he's taking a lead. Not double barreled but two guys warming up again. That's all we do. Yeah. Get both up. So who's pitching right now. If they show Larry Bow taking a lead again. He goes like full Bob Boone. Historic baseball family. Thought about it. Who's pitching. Renee Martin. I think so. Number 27. Watch ball. He'll decoy. Rene. Rene. Renee. I don't know. Shortstop or second baseman of position. Even though you are watching North Frank White move. All you got to do is lead a little bit on this turf from the ball to get by it. Here's the manager's delight. Two and one. Two and one. The manager's delight. Look at him. He's stealing. Why is it two and one. The manager's delight. I've never heard that phrase. I think it's like a good hit and run count. Yeah. Okay. They were pretty terrified about being down in the count back then. People talk about that. Like nowadays if you're a good pitcher you don't care. Rene. Three and one. You got to steal. Yeah. Okay. He's going. That's huge. That's history people. I'm just surprised I didn't know that. Amos Otis is up there on my baseball names. Amos Otis. Who broke the record for Amos. You know what I mean. Tied a couple since you guys. Amos Otis record for put. They're so worried. Had a nice secondary tag on the throw over to first. Oh right here. Lonnie Smith. Looks like looks like I like this announcer. He's coming around. That was a good line. I like this. He'd been losing me up to that line. Trying to find them put out. That was Pete Rose on deck. Old Pete Rose. I think he's like 40-39 years old. Pete Rose from the big red machine gambling stuff. I can't find the record for single season put outs or postseason put outs. Excuse me. Biting him on the arm. There was a welt. All that effort to try and contain him. Catcher drops it. Yeah it's a nice. He got excited. Was that a fast ball? Yeah Jake they threw like 92. Had some movement on it. It looked like it was a slider instead of a curve ball. Maybe the catcher got crossed up. I mean that's huge. Now he's in time. Now he's a scoring musician. Lonnie Smith. That's the curve ball. Yeah. You don't even like hear that anymore. They're going to give him the chopper in the infield. Early every team baseball give you the chopper in the infield. It's a nice pitch man. That one ended up in a meeting spot. That's still true. It's a really nice match. Here we go three two. Oh on second you think he's thinking about it. He's dancing. Bow ball huh. Oh that was cool. He spoiled it. Yeah kind of the old philosophy. This guy when he starts saying sentences I don't think he knows where he's going but I kind of like that. I'm enjoying him. Lost him. And again I think this is another case. I mean I like our guy Lonnie Smith who was just up but Pete Rose all time hit leader. You probably don't want to see him up in this situation. He's older Pete Rose. 39 years old I think it's maybe 40. Double play is in order again and you're playing. He's a ground ball guy. I don't think I want I mean I don't want to hit King up here. He went after that dirty didn't pitch around him. No but still you get you got to throw a strike. Look at Pete Rose dance dude. Nope. He didn't want it. Smith. Bow on second. Rainey Martin on the hill. Yeah I think we got two out so it's not setting up the double play. Look at his look at his look at I mean it's tight. Choked up Max. Pete Rose is like 16th year in the league. What was that? I guess everybody knows how durable Pete Rose has been. He played all 162 games in this season all the championship series games but I gotta believe even as strong as he is his baddest snow down late this season. That's why you see him choking up so much. Dude Tony it's the first time I've seen him choked up that far. The first year in my career I just choked up so far. Get it in. Tie game. Once again and Mike Schmidt is the bad guy. Eighth inning. Pete Rose ties it up. One batting glove. Trade a bat for it all day. What was that? It's fastball. Oh yeah. I just turned on it. Jeez. An easy game people. No weird stance. Easy game. I don't think it was weird in this era. No. Let's skip forward. Okay. They bring in a new pitcher. He gets out of this. Gets out Michael Jack Schmidt who turns out to be the MVP of the series but we don't care right now. Oh it's where are we going now? We're going I guess bottom 10 if you want. It's a lot of action. But there's an argument here. Let's see what this is about. Good spike after the whole play. Another Whirlyburden. Three straight gold gloves. That's no joke Frank White. It's a nice play. That is a brutal. This is the I mean if that's through the game's over right. He just has to be bottom instead. That's a double play ball. Bottom nine. Are we in Philly? Are we in Philly? Yeah. Rebarb. Bit of a Rebarb. I think they're wondering if it bounced. Let's see how these were handled back in the day. Yeah. Talus Green. I mean that red with that blue. You hear the music they're playing? Yeah. Interesting. He's got to be saying that ball bounce. Can you at least ask him? He's got a better view. That's probably what's happening. It's a weird route. That just took a real weird route. Sure we will. And there's Stando. Damn cheats. So this is probably top 10. Whoa. Look at that hair. Tug McGraw baby. Father of Tim McGraw. Tim didn't know he was his dad until he was a teenager I think. He had posters. That's a nice curve. A shape to that curve. I literally sat on it. Do you know that story between Tim and Tug? He had posters up. Your favorite fun facts. He had posters. Well the fact he had posters of Tug McGraw on his wall and then later on in life finds out that's his dad. And that's, well Ole nonsense. So they get out of this. It's your body. So is this the, is this? Willow Wilson. Is this, what's going on? Is this bottom 10? This is bottom 10. Okay. A perfect spot. Perfect spot. Oh look at this. In reaction. I can call games. So that's UL Washington who had the single in the left field. And again, not saying, kind of got to get your body in front of that a little bit. It's the World Series. Rocketed it. We're not happy with that. UL Robinson. Ugly Lance Robinson. UL Washington is on first base. So who's the one showing butt now? This is Willow Wilson. Willow Wilson. Too low. He's trying to throw down a bunt and it's now 2-0. And you got the third baseman coming in. So you put the hit away on now? Like I would. Now. But. Nowadays maybe. Willie Wilson led the ale and hits that here by the way. So just let him hit. He's still definitely bunting. No. Let him get a hit here. It's P. Third baseman is in. When you see the third baseman there, that's when you think about making a change. He's they liked going down the first baseline. He's not going to. He's has to throw a strike. He can't go down 3-0. It's. Cloting. I mean that but that tug's just being bad. Just saying I'd take the bunt off. Little charge call. Get the crowd going. Why doesn't Bud Light make a commercial with like dinner dinner dinner charge from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Don't want to buy the rights to the song. She said you see him toss the bat across. Like I was trying to get out. Yeah. I would have got out to get that guy to second. Now I'm not out and I'm on first base. So tug what gives. Throw a strike kid. Geez. Tug. I would have liked that one. 3-0. I would have liked that one. That's incredible that that didn't get called a strike. Tug getting squeezed a little bit. Fix is on. Excuse me. What is the music? I think this is in the stadium. I think the guy's having a blast. Organist is going ham. Now that's good. Led this led the American League and sacrifice buns. They used to be a thing of pride. It is amazing what they're highlighting. Record for put outs. Record for sack buns. We got to talk about it again. Well Boone's like, I'll fucking strike. Both my sons are going to be MLB players. Got to throw a strike at some point. I'd be swinging out of my shoes around this dude. Led the league and sacrifice buns. This is honestly where it doesn't make sense. The guy's in scoring position. On concrete. Yeah. Yeah. I mean if you get the runner to third, sack fly wins it. Or ground out. Okay. That's a good. That's good. But it's still just. Yeah. Like we've seen this situation and they'd have like star players doing this. This guy led the league in sack buns. That's what he does. Holy smokes. Boone and the third baseman. There we go. There he is. Yeah. I think it's me. Bob Boone. Boone with a great play. I'm giving Schmidt credit there. That's third baseman going backwards catching the ball. Just so excited with the way things were going. Let's get another runner. Yeah he's out. It's a nice tag. Boone. Nice play by your father. Come on the show. I swing and I miss there. I mean and that's how momentum has changed. This guy's pretty good. He's coming up. George Brett. George Brett. Cocomos. Look it up. How does George Brett here? 27. It's hot. That's what I'd say. George Brett in 1980. That's what you want. That's what you want. How old was UL Washington? George Brett was 26. OK. Or no. 27. All right. Right. Bottom 10th. George Brett. It's in there. It's good. Good baseball talk. UL was 26. Guys with the pitch outs. They just said the runner won't steal because George Brett's up. They don't want to pitch to Brett. Can you pitch out? But they also don't want to pitch to Brett. What is this? What a fucking organist. Yeah. The organist is having a blast. Which that's good for him. But yeah. Now they're going to intentionally walk George Brett. Right. They should. They just did two pitch outs in a row. He makes the pick there. He's me. Tough inning for the shortstop. Oh. Tough inning for Larry. That wasn't a pitch out. There's walking him now. Right. Yeah. Yeah. None of this is adding up. Yeah. Booney had another one pegged. Yeah. Who's there? So. So we got a lefty coming up and he likes that. He thinks this pitch mix from Doug McGraw is better. That's what the announcers at least guessing. McGraw doesn't throw a screwball to lefties. That's what he gets righties out with. That's still to this day. I mean it's you don't throw a change lefty doesn't throw a change up to a lefty. It doesn't matter which way the wind is going to. He's scoring. Does not matter for Willie Wilson. Spits on it. Come on. Meet. Throw me one. That's what he said. And I'll never be. That hair is a tough look in hindsight. Oh all when all the straight hair like George. Or like Pete Rose's hair is too straight. You're going to have long hair. You need to get some flop or some curls. I got to say this. Just looks oompa oompa light. There's a lot of talk in modern day baseball about getting your best swing off and that kind of stuff. The big guys in these days are getting their big swings off. Yeah. So I do I'm I'm appreciating that. That was a big old back loading up. Oh. See a little pitch frame in there might help out. It's a nice pitch. It's a nice pitch. Tony's doing great. Shit your butt. Need it. Squeeze it and freeze it. Who are you rooting for? I'm rooting for McGraw. Me too. Wow. That's tough. Go to the track. I think it was like a bounce before the track. There's Clint Hurdle in the celebration. Being a pitcher is tough man. I know that they won the game. They just did so much dumb and still won. Yeah. They almost got two base runners thrown out. In the end they win. So great job. Yeah. Good for the Royals. Another team that loses the World Series. But look at all they did when tug was just struggling. Yeah. Brett probably would have won it if they let him swing. Larry Boa. That's a tough ending. I bet he looks back and doesn't love that ending. How many former or how many players went on to be managers. But I'm a craze in this game. I think he managed briefly. Look at these guys. Yep. Boa went to be a manager. Clint Hurdle went on to be a manager. Did Brett ever coach or manage anywhere? I don't think so. I don't think so. I think they just invite him to camp is like a fun thing. UL Washington. I don't think so. Tug McGraw went on to be a father. I'm not a manager. You're managing a kid. That's true. Bob Walk. Bob Boone. Did he manage? Yes. Makes sense. Right. Pete Rose. Pete Rose. OK. We're up to four. That's a good amount. It's not bad. Bob Boone definitely managed right. I'm pretty sure. Don't quote as manager manager Royals and the Reds. Huge. There's probably some other but don't remember or whatever. Don't know. Not that I don't remember. I don't know. Phillies win the World Series. Mike Schmidt MVP. He was good. That's cool. Can't believe you all Washington got thrown out third. He got saved. He gets saved. Saved. All right. Thanks for watching with us guys. We appreciate it. We will see you later.