 Welcome back to another edition of Watchin' Baseball. It's a thing we do where Jake and I, that's Jake, this is I, sit down and watch some baseball. We started with the- Pretty cool, huh? Let's go, let's go, let's go. Pretty cool, Watchin' Baseball. Watchin' Baseball. We started with the 1972 World Series. We've done a video on every World Series. We are up to the 1983 World Series, which features... The Baltimore Oreos and the Philadelphia Phillies. They called it the I-95 Series, Jim, because that's a road that connects the two cities. Pretty close together. Closer than probably America realizes if you don't know those two places, right? My friends in California have no idea. No idea. At their close, yeah. So, exciting. What I was really excited about, and again. Say it, baby. Disclaimer, learning everything for the first time, not familiar with these teams or these players. I know the names. I don't know their day-to-day. Some of them, I don't even know their names. Hey, is this the first series with a ball player that you've seen play baseball live? Yeah, because we have a young Cowroopkin Jr., 22 years old. The season before this, 1982, Cowroopkin won the rookie of the year. This season, he wins MVP. What a start to a career. And dude, it's... Think of the way you think of Tatees and Soto. Right, and that's a little eye-opening from the Scarian that we're getting older and stuff, but it's also crazy because I picture Cowroopkin as the old balding Cowroopkin that hit the home run in his last All-Star game in Seattle. And also, whenever I saw Cowroopkin, he was pretty much on bad Orioles teams. This is gonna be really cool seeing a young Cowroopkin how we literally view Fernando Tatees Jr. today. Yeah, I mean, he won the rookie of the year at 21 MVP at 22. This is game three and the sixth inning. What are we watching? We are watching the sixth inning. It's either the sixth or the seventh. I'm not sure. They're down to nothing or two-one. The Orioles are down. They're gonna mount a little comeback. At the end of the video, we will go to game six. Five. Game five and watch the last out in the celebration because I've been enjoying those. I really like the celebration. And as always, these videos are brought to you by the shop at Johnboymedia, shop.johnboymedia.com and you can get this shirt. Poof. Wait, what's this? What do you got? This shirt. Let's do it. That's ending with Rich Dower leading. Oh, hot start. Oh my God. Rich Dower. I love the catch. Quick first out. I like those Philly's uniforms. So we are in the seventh. So I think it's a two-one game. Yeah, it's two-one Philly's. This game had a really premier pitching matchup. Well, A, I think three Cy Young winners pitch in this game. Jim Palmer, Steve Carlton, and Mike Flanagan. A quick redo on that one. Yeah, wasn't feeling it. No, it's Flanagan. Outside ball, I agree. Where are we playing? What stadium is this? I believe we're in Philly. Another just, they're all gross, huh? This was the time of Astro turf, man. Like even though fans behind home plate it all just is gross. That's Citizens Bank. That's what it is now. It's an all-time ballpark. Veteran Stadium. Oh, yeah. The vet. We were there already. Michael Jack Schmidt. Got him. What a ball player. Maybe the ball player that fit his era the best. You close your eyes and think of 80s ball player and like you see Schmidt. Yeah. He knows how to play that third part of that turf. Yeah. Which is strange for players who don't play there all the time. Play on artificial turf all the time. Is this, is that the Orioles manager? Former Orioles manager? So Earl Weaver, this was his first year not managing the Orioles. And they decided he'd be a great color commentary for the World Series that featured the Orioles. If you were a Philly's fan, you had to be so mad. Yes. And also that's really sad too, because I know Ken Singleton, who's the DH on this Orioles team now, he tells so many Earl Weaver stories on the Yankees broadcast. And I was like, oh, this must be Earl Weaver's ring. And then I was like, oh, not. Just all of his guys. Who took over as manager? It was a name I wasn't even familiar with, Ted. You're about to get so shamed. Shame me. Shame me, daddy. Orioles manager, Joe Altebelli. Altebelli, huh? Altebelli. Good bison name. Where babies come from. Altebelli. So who's up here? Well, Pine Tar Grip right there. Oh, Benny I. L. on deck. Love that. Val. Checkeroo. Amen. So wait, who is on this? Is it Cassel Weaver? And then who's doing play-by-play? And then there's a play-by-play, I'm not sure. Ooh. Rope one. There's the ball. I think this is just the version that's on YouTube. Because it does look like we took a step back. Because this is awful. Ooh, a Thurman Munson fan. I love it. I think he's a catcher, too. So maybe that was like a tribute to Thurman? I don't think Thurman's invented that. We just saw Thurman do it. Throw the hands. But like it could be, right? The jerseys definitely got a little tighter and a little smaller in the 80s. And a little more painted on. Earl. Oh, here we go. Howard going after him. He's a four-hitter. The crowd's with you, Jim. I mean, that was almost a full swing, no? I mean, that was almost a full swing, no? Yeah, Jason. That's awesome. You know what I know, it really is. He's a typical Baltimore situation player. One old victim is one of a kind. Both sliders. There's Epi. There's Epi. I was wondering where she was. Ben Stiller. You should make that a video, like that check swing. Because that was the most ridiculous. That was easily the most ridiculous. It was in the World Series. He's pointing at the pitcher. Great. I mean, the, oh, then it hit a foot or anything? I guess it got the catcher's foot. I don't know what that was. You know what, straight up, if this is the first one you're watching of this series, the check swings back in the day. They just never ever got calls. We got to bring that up a cone. Yeah. Because that's bullshit. Think so? Think so, Earl? Earl should have just managed from the booth. He's only a year removed. That's a real, yeah. If you're swinging 3-0 swing, man, two guys that are lost. Oh, yeah. You see these guys know that they're looking for the closest autos. I think there's a bathroom there, but it's got a long line. Come on, guys. Let's have a better swing here, 3-1. Benny. There we go. Jeez, Schmidt laid out for that. That's what he says. What does that even fucking mean? He's a Baltimore situation player. Howard was all over that one. Dude, that's Howard's first reaction to a big hit in the World Series. Like I said, he's a Baltimore. Dude, Schmidt. I love him. That would have been awesome. My word. Epi. Oh. I kind of want the coaches with the names on the jerseys back. Benny and Epi? Benny and Epi. The I. Alice. Epi, for sure. Always building a moment. They could have died, but they did. That's why it's an interesting series. We'll be right back. He's always building. I can say something with confidence. I'm so excited. I don't live in an era where Howard cell calls World Series games. That grinds my fucking gears. I like it. Like, I can understand. My dad said they used to auction off bricks. Right. So that one lucky person could throw their bricks through their window and not have to listen to Howard. Your family is not a Cousel family. That's fine. I don't think I don't know if my dad didn't like him. He just told me like people. Like it wasn't. He wasn't revered. Like we know the name. So we were like, oh, are we bashing a legend? And my dad said, oh, more people. I'm not bashing. I want that out there. It was good for boxing and stuff. But this World Series stuff is brutal. So we just tied the game, right? How about Schmidt? What if that dies, man? Tied the game. But more importantly, Howard was right. He's a Baltimore situational guy. Can you believe it? I doubted him. Which, you know, I can't believe it. So we got double batting gloves. No ear flap though. Stretch. 12 years strong with this split screen. You would think they would have developed. No. If it ain't broke. What do we got? John Shelby versus Al Holland. A couple of your phase. They don't even do this anymore. Like they don't do split screen at all. That's it? No, they do. They have that side angle that shows the picture and the runner leading off. And they just switch it. Real quick, they'll switch it. They didn't figure that out yet. They couldn't switch that fast. Here it comes. Yep. Dan Ford. Dan Ford, having a day. Walk, homerun. Danny Ford. He's in there. He doesn't pay very much attention to him. Okay. Give me the ball. It's me and the batter. He's a fellow who told George Foster earlier this season. Get in the box. And for Foster and Homer again. Who's this announcer? I recognize his voice. Now Michael's maybe. But that had something on it. He was looking for it. Against a pitcher like this, Ford will normally hit to right or right center. Not old. Easy catch. He really looks the part, though, of a mean, tough relief pitcher. A guy comes out of the bullpen. If you ever hear him speak, he's got the perfect voice. He's got that cool voice. Al Michaels, yeah. Al Michaels, Howard Casale, and Earl Weaver. What a task for Al Michaels. I want to call him up and be like, was that the toughest booth you ever worked with? Got one dude who does soliloquies. Another dude that's famous for just swearing his ass off at managers. And has never done it before. And his team is playing. Yeah. Look at all three of them. They made it work for a pinch. The Mad Hungarian brought them together. Yeah. How do you hit? Dude, I can't turn my neck like that. Try. That's Orioles' situational baseball or whatever he said. Yeah. No, Howard, once again, he knows. We see a lot of, is it the concrete and the balls? Like in the last three World Series, we've seen some rough infield play. And it's a little like, yeah, they put the ball and play more so things happen more. Yeah. But just couldn't handle it. But it feels like there's timely, like teams won by dinking and dunking and babbling luck. I think it ties into a lot of people's theory that, oh. There's Cal. Just putting it in play sometimes is the right thing to do. The geeks don't want to hear that though. Excellent. That is true because we saw, I forget which one it was, but we saw a guy go full Ole. Ole, yeah. And it was like, come on. And it's skipping across cement, actually. Yeah. Come on, Cal. It's a holy bit to center. Lovely. Nice camera switch. So three to two, Baltimore. And so... Are we watching the bottom of the seventh? No. That's kind of it. This is the final score. Oh. Whoa. Oh, they were trying a little painting cutaway here. I love it. Shamish through it. All right. So let's just skip to the... Last out of the World Series. Yeah. Here we go. Orioles are up. Orioles are up. I think it's five-nothing. Yeah, they're blowing them out in this game. And Philly's won. Philly's won game one. And, oh, my. Cal, wow. That's a nice big hug. It's a brace. On the road, so no fans are going to run out. Some music playing. That Philly team had a lot of the old big red machine on it, too. Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Tony Perez. I like those Philly uniforms. These guys are sad. Show the happy guys. You're lingering a little too long. What was that? It's great. That is such a good look. Sad. Yeah, these are the most sad looks we've gotten. Nobody rushing the field? No, they're the away team. Ah. Keith. Where's the cutoff where when people stop calling like shots of TV pictures? Yeah. I think you might be listening to it. Another catcher again MVP. Imagine, I used to, well, you know, it's kind of us, because I used to go to my neighbor's house. Sure. And my neighbor's grandma would say, I'm trying to watch the pictures. And I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? No. But I think if I was to tell Luke, my little brother's 10 years younger, or even someone like that's 15, and like. Oh, I still, I would assume you're looking at photographs. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's us. I think we're. Yeah. But I'm old. It's the day Howard Cosell passed. The last time someone said look at the pictures. We're old enough to know that people used to say that. I don't think like 10 years younger, let's even know that people used to say that. Yeah. I mean, dude, I'm telling you, if I didn't see it in this context, I would still be out. It's a person who can rise to the occasion. Not excited. And this lady's getting all the attention. I think she's someone's wife. I feel like the wife came out this year because they showed happy, happy. A fat lady will sing tonight. Good sign. Fact. Good sign. Just thought about bringing that to like have your female musicians concert. It's tough. Me. Two homers in a clinching game. That's pretty big for Eddie Murray. That's our main reliever, right? Yep. He's so mean. Al Holland. Were these the Phillies main jerseys this year? I believe so. They wear those as throwbacks every now and then now, but I like them. Do you like them for then, or do you like them like if the Phillies were like we're rolling with these now? I like a lot of the Phillies jerseys, but I like them as standalone jerseys. If a team was that color, I like them. Reggie. Wow. Two years ago, it was Bob Euker. Then it was Bob Kossus. Now it's Reggie Jackson doing this job. We have Commissioner Bowie Cune of baseball here to present the World Series trophy, the World Championship trophy to Mr. Edward Bennett Williams. Ed is the chairman of the board. I have a very special sense of nostalgia in presenting to you and your skipper, Joel DeBelle, your executive vice president, Hank Peters, the World Series most valuable player, Rick Dempsey. Wow. And all of you champions, the World Championship trophy, you earned it. Thank you very much, Bowie. I'm so proud of this magnificent band of brothers, Colli Orioles. They have been so great all year. They came back from adversity. They overcame it. They have character. That's the happiest moment of my life in sports. Nice. Really? Wow. I was so worried. Did anyone say that? No. Because I was waiting for the besides getting married in the day my kids were born. But that's a much better caveat. Athletes need to pull that out of the bag. It's a much better caveat. Because you always hear it is the happiest day of my life, except when I got married in the day my children were born. Yeah. But just saying it's happiest day of my life in sports is a really good caveat. Wow. And Hank Peters for the magnificent job that they did. They deserve all the credit with the players for this great accomplishment. I'm very happy to take this great trophy back to Baltimore to the people who gave us the magnificent support that we had all year long. Oh, fuckers. You guys were a success. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Commissioner. All right, man. I'd like to. Can we party? Why is Reggie Jackson here? Mr. Reagan, Mr. President. Oh, my God. I'll talk to you and congratulate you. The president's on the phone? I forgot about this. Guys, on the phone with the president. He's not on the phone yet? To talk to the Baltimore Championship, the chairman of the board here, Mr. Edward Bennett Williams, we are waiting for President Reagan to come on the line right now. I forgot when calling the president's after a team one was a thing. There's the champagne. That's for sure. That's a sign of a world championship. Rick Dempsey. Rick Dempsey while we're waiting for the president of the United States to while we're waiting for the president to get through. Rick, you've been named the. He's not even listening to us. Someone told me that I'm to get hot. You haven't been hot in 11 years. I've been here for 11 years. I've never been hot. This is one series I remember for a long time, Reg. That's awesome. In fact, I had two good hits like that in a series since my first trip into Texas early this year. The champagne has my eyes burning. That's for sure. Any way that you fellows decided to pitch the Philadelphia Phillies because you really seem to handle them. Well, there was really nothing specific when McGregor goes out there on the mind, you know, we're just going to throw as fast ball and as change up the majority of the time. And we just have to play situation and try to stay away. Dude's still waiting for the president. Yeah, it's tough. The president of the United States is on the telephone right now with Mr. Bennett Williams. Hello, Mr. President. This is tough. You are. Listen, I'm just sorry that you missed this game, Mr. President. No, I mean, I don't even care. You got to pull the plug on that. Jesus Christ. I wonder if they do that every year for now on. Rick Dempsey. Yeah. Career 666 OPS. Jesus. So he made a deal with the devil to get this MVP trophy, which is fine. I mean, his best season ever. Career 666. If anyone's not familiar with baseball, it's not good. And thank you for watching this video. His best season ever is like 254-751 OPS. Most of them are in the 6s. How did he play for so long? Hey, I mean, he was obviously a good clubhouse guy what we just saw. Jim, he played from 1969 to 1992. Holy, he played for. 69 to 92. All of the 70s in all of the 80s. That's a bit. That's a baseball. How did he play for that long with such bad stats? It's around, man. Was he like an everyday starter face ID? For a chunk of it. I don't think he won any awards. Okay. So in 69 and he only. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, only eight of his 24 years. Did he play more than a hundred games? So he was just a bench guy. So he's just a clubhouse guy. People just liked him. Never won a single award besides World Series MVP. So that Ryan, when Reggie said he hadn't been hot in 11 years, he's a bench player. That shit's awesome. Rick Dempsey. That is awesome. Can I play my game with Rick Dempsey real quick? Yeah. And then we got to end this. Let's see. Rick Dempsey was teammates with, I mean, Harman Kilibrew, I think he played in what? 40s? 54. So I kind of missed the window a little bit. But he played up to 92 with Ripken, who goes to 2001. So there's about 50 years of baseball that Rick Dempsey's played. Between two guys. God, I love that. All right. Thank you guys very much for watching. We'll be back again with 1984. Something from the 1984 things. Goes. Yeah. And let's see. Today is Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. This is getting released on Saturday. Maybe. Maybe. And I don't think we're recording the next one until Monday. So if you have a moment or game from the 1984 World Series that you think is worth it, comment it. And maybe we'll do that one. See ya. Thank you.