CBS has always done a great job with whetever sport they cover from the Baseball to the PGA Tour and even the NFL and the NCAA. Would love to see World Series on CBS again with Bob Costas and Jim Nantz
All we need is someone to post an open from the 1994-95 Baseball Network deal with NBC and ABC and then we would have had an open from every contract in the post 1975 era of baseball on CZcams.
I was there in the upper deck in right field at the Metrodome for Game 6 and can still see Kirby's homerun fly out the stadium. I thought to myself "holy sh*t, it's going out!" What a fantastic lifetime memory...I tear up watching it to this day. RIP Kirby.
This is one of my all time favorite sports themes! (Maybe in part because it was such a special time for Canadian baseball fans.) Thanks so much for posting these!
I agree. This was one of the great runs during the postseasons. CBS screwed up regular season baseball...but I was into the postseason. Jack Buck, McDonough, McCarver, Kaat, O'Brien, Gumbel...great stuff!!!
A second thing: I've only seen MLB games in the FOX era, because I'm too young to remember how baseball was with NBC. Between FOX and CBS, the edge goes to FOX, but only because the majority of baseball TV games I've seen in my lifetime were on FOX. I can't say that I loved the MLB on NBC, because I was born the year NBC surrendered baseball coverage to CBS (1990).
The CBS coverage couldn't have been that bad - they rarely ever showed any games! I remember SI saying that CBS stood for 'covers baseball sporadically' - and they did.
Bobby Vinton sang an off-key rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner prior to Game 4 of the 1990 NLCS. Jack Buck then said on air, something along the lines of "Well, if you're Polish and in Pittsburgh, I suppose that you can sing the National Anthem anyway you want!"
Thanks. I found that out after I sent the comment. Next time I'll research it before I say something...lol. That's definitely the score from the movie, though.
And the Rangers are planning to move out of the Ballpark in Arlington in 2020, and the Diamondbacks are already talking about building a new stadium. I mean, good grief, these (non-multipurpose, non-artificial turf) stadiums are barely 20 years old!
The funny thing about your comment relating to Sean McDonough is that Joe Buck has faced the same criticism. It was Sean McDonough who replaced Jack Buck (Joe's dad) as CBS' #1 baseball play-by-play man in 1992.
I remember that huge money deal. It seems they only wanted the big name events but didn't want to show any other games. I remember the 1990 All-Star game at Wrigley had a long rain delay, and those morons showed 'Rescue 911' during the bad weather. They fired Jack Buck (disgrace), hired Sean McDonough (not exactly Mr. Photogenic), and kept McCarver the mouth. I LOVED that theme music, though. I wish I could download it somewhere.
yea, FOX does well for their Saturday afternoon games, but I am always hoping maybe CBS can televise baseball again. I would say maybe do a weeknight game. CBS always did well in their baseball coverage. wished they can come back again
In defense of Jack Buck, he was practically a last minute choice after CBS dumped Brent Musburger on April Fools Day 1990. Buck had been doing the World Series for CBS Radio from 1983-1989. So he was there, for credibilty purposes. However, Musburger was still their "star" (like how Jim Nantz is at CBS today) going into 1990, so of course, he was going to be heavily involved.
@SadieRaleigh 1994 was also the first year of wild cards and six divisions, the wild card was created because Atlanta beat San Fran in 1993 in a pennant race where the Giants won 103 and lost to the Braves on the last day of the season, people thought it was unfair that a team winning 103 should be excluded from the postseason
CBS. I am begging you. I know it didn't work out with you in the 90s. but that was 20 years ago. PLEASE..PLEASE..PLEASE outbid FOX when it comes up. Baseball deserves better than the way they cover it. Baseball deserves the big moments to be covered with class, charm and excitement.
Man...the home run by Joe Carter at the end of the World Series in 1993...It was probably the single loudest ending to a World Series ever, in the 310-foot high SkyDome, and probably the most powerful explosion of Canadian happiness ever! :D Man...I want something like that to happen again...to get Canada back into a pro sports league's ultimate championship spot. It's been way too long since a monster party for that happened here. :P
@FairBolFL And here's what I think needs to happen for baseball to be relevant again.....more of a salary cap (players make way too much), faster games, a significant decrease in ticket prices (they are ridiculous), and the elimination of interleague play, except for spring training and the post-season. Would like to see the MLB back on CBS too.
Let me add my thanks to everyone elses for posting this. CBS's short run with MLB was not that memorable, but the music was well done.. right up there with the theme package used for their winter olympics coverage in the 1990's..
Folks who are nostalgic for NBC have very short memories. I can say one good thing: they did a game every week. But unless you were a fan of the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, or Mets - you didn't see your team play unless they were playing one of those teams. And God help us if it was the Yankees and REd Sox. Come to think of it - sounds just like Fox nowadays. One year, 23 of their 26 games had at least ONE of those mentioned teams. We didn't see the Mariners or Rangers.
1993 on CBS was the last time we saw football & baseball together. But that New World Deal did the bidding for some of those CBS stations to switch to Fox. Even stations in Baltimore (WBAL), Denver (KMGH), Boston (WHDH), Miami (WCIX), Cincinnati (WCPO), Sacramento (KXTV) & Seattle (KIRO) would no longer have the CBS affilation until they switched networks by 1995. KIRO would rejoin CBS in 1997 after just two struggling seasons with UPN, & KSTW didn't do much better in the market as CBS.
As a Phils fan, at the time I would have never believed it. Nowadays... it's clearly easy to see. Dykstra, Incavalgia, Daulton, most likely Hollins, a few others I'm sure... still love that '93 team, but looking back, we should have known then something was going on.
Ugh I remember this year 1993. The Braves won 104 games that year beating out the Giants on the last day only to lose to the Phillies. I was so steamed, because I wanted to see Braves/Chi Sox in the World Series that year. This was a good series Joe Carter's homerun was a classic moment. It was all good though the Braves got one in 1995 that no one will ever take away from them.
CBS didn't help their cause by airing the what was previously known as "The Game of the Week" (prior to '90), on a sporadic basis. That really alienated the fans.
Hope you can all join us at beautiful Target Field on Aug 5-7 as we celebrate the 20th anniversary (and Twins win) of the greatest World Series of all time...the 1991 World Series.
When the last TV contract was being negotiated, there were rumors about CBS teaming up w/ TBS to show MLB. However, CBS was only willing to cover the All-Star Game & World Series from my understanding. They could at the very least, get CBS Sports Network involved to show some games (and help bolster its profile).
The edge has to go to CBS (even though nothing will beat the Scully/Joe G./Costas/Kubek era at NBC or the Michaels/Palmer/McCarver era at ABC). At least CBS didn't have Joe Buck (even though they canned his dad in favor of Sean McDonough after two years), Steve Lyons, or Jeanne Zelasko on their payroll. CBS also didn't use gimmicky, video game/MTV style imagery to present their games.
Sean McDonough (it's hard to believe that the balding, rather deep voiced McDonough was 30 when he came along on "MLB on CBS") actually was very competent in his role. He was certainly better than Jack's son, Joe on FOX. Unfortunately for him, by the time he came around, CBS was counting down the days until their contract w/ MLB was up.
That was the problem with CBS' coverage of the sport--hardly any games, unless it was the All-Star game, or the associated LCS and World Series. They paid $1.8 BILLION (no, I'm not kidding) to air 16 regular season games a year, and the All-Stars, and the playoffs. That's why the CBS deal was a debacle. Otherwise, they presented the games fantastically.
@SadieRaleigh I agree. Without a strike in '94, I think it would've been Yanks v. Expos in the World Series. Both teams were great that year.....but Montreal, with Walker, Guerrero, and the Martinez's, would've won it all, IMHO. They were robbed by MLB and the incessant greed of the players and owners. It's a shame too, because I think 94 would've saved the Expos.
@SadieRaleigh Montreal was great that year! But I have a hard time seeing them beating the Braves and Yankees in consecutive 7 game series to win the World Series...I think if that season played out, the Braves win and create a mini-dynasty (1994-95) or the Yankees win and they win 5 titles in 7 years
CBS "PRESENTED" the games well, most of their sports coverage back in those days was above-average. However, they had no real dedication to baseball, they hardly showed any games, and you never knew when they would be on during the regular season. It was too bad, considering CBS Radio had done baseball for years, and they DID have the connection with baseball that the TV version of the network was never able to conquer.
@shaunnol Another thing that hurt CBS was that they overpaid in regards to baseball coverage. It wound up biting them in the ass at the end of the day because they wound up losing half a billon dollars. I wish that MLB in retrospect, kept NBC around for traditional and continuity reasons and had CBS replace ABC as the second broadcast outlet. Then, we probably wouldn't have had to stupid Baseball Network that followed CBS in 1994-95.
I wonder who's coverage was worse? MLB on CBS, or the NBA on ABC? To me, I'll slightly give an "acceptable" nod to CBS, for the uplifting theme song it has. ABC has totally destroyed coverage of the NBA, and has permanently alienated fans for its lousy coverage.
Everyone rags a lot on McCarver, but I think it's just that he and Joe Buck are not the greatest as a team--you should have seen some of the games from the 80's when McCarver was teamed up with Al Michaels and Jim Palmer. That was a hell of a broadcast crew. But I do really miss Bob Costas too.
In retrospect, the Phillies juiced their way past the Braves. It's clear now that they were one of the original "steroids" teams, led by uber-juicer Lenny Dykstra, who boosted his power in 1993 and clubbed the game-winning homer in extra innings in Atlanta in Game Five.
ABC's NBA coverage is bad because the lack of consistancy w/ their announcers and presentation, ABC's poor marketing/promotional skills (they have no clue how to properly sell/build drama), their all too close ties w/ ESPN (w/ diminishes the "special event" feel needed for broadcast TV and makes the broadcasts too garish & tacky), appealing too much to the casual fan, and bad sound and camera angles.
the year was 1990. pirates against the reds in the nlcs. yeah tim is stupid. i'm from atlanta and a braves fan. braves fans hate him. he always says something mean about the braves. it was all because deion poured ice cold water on him after game 7 of 1992 nlcs when the braves won the championship series. i always wanted to work for cbs sports in baseball. i can tell more later
Wish CBS still had the rights. It was an absolute pleasure to watch the games with Jack Buck & Tim McCarver and later Sean McDonough on the call.
CBS has always done a great job with whetever sport they cover from the Baseball to the PGA Tour and even the NFL and the NCAA. Would love to see World Series on CBS again with Bob Costas and Jim Nantz
1993 was the first season i started watching baseball, and what a finish that world series was!
All we need is someone to post an open from the 1994-95 Baseball Network deal with NBC and ABC and then we would have had an open from every contract in the post 1975 era of baseball on CZcams.
I was there in the upper deck in right field at the Metrodome for Game 6 and can still see Kirby's homerun fly out the stadium. I thought to myself "holy sh*t, it's going out!" What a fantastic lifetime memory...I tear up watching it to this day. RIP Kirby.
This is one of my all time favorite sports themes! (Maybe in part because it was such a special time for Canadian baseball fans.) Thanks so much for posting these!
I agree. This was one of the great runs during the postseasons. CBS screwed up regular season baseball...but I was into the postseason. Jack Buck, McDonough, McCarver, Kaat, O'Brien, Gumbel...great stuff!!!
A second thing: I've only seen MLB games in the FOX era, because I'm too young to remember how baseball was with NBC. Between FOX and CBS, the edge goes to FOX, but only because the majority of baseball TV games I've seen in my lifetime were on FOX.
I can't say that I loved the MLB on NBC, because I was born the year NBC surrendered baseball coverage to CBS (1990).
The CBS coverage couldn't have been that bad - they rarely ever showed any games! I remember SI saying that CBS stood for 'covers baseball sporadically' - and they did.
this is THE BEST!!!!!!!!!! id be up for watching any old CBS baseball postseason games.
Bobby Vinton sang an off-key rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner prior to Game 4 of the 1990 NLCS. Jack Buck then said on air, something along the lines of "Well, if you're Polish and in Pittsburgh, I suppose that you can sing the National Anthem anyway you want!"
Thanks. I found that out after I sent the comment. Next time I'll research it before I say something...lol. That's definitely the score from the movie, though.
Baseball didn't go on strike in 1994, Chuck Norris was pissed off that he got pre-empted for the world series, hence the next year, no world series!
That is true. The Phillies had no business beating the Braves that year.
Thank God this is now on here. I love this theme.
Weird to think that only 20 years after moving out of Fulton County Stadium, the Braves have now already moved out of Turner Field as well.
And the Rangers are planning to move out of the Ballpark in Arlington in 2020, and the Diamondbacks are already talking about building a new stadium. I mean, good grief, these (non-multipurpose, non-artificial turf) stadiums are barely 20 years old!
Glad you enjoy it, as soon as I can find it, will be posting some Olympics stuff soon!
The funny thing about your comment relating to Sean McDonough is that Joe Buck has faced the same criticism. It was Sean McDonough who replaced Jack Buck (Joe's dad) as CBS' #1 baseball play-by-play man in 1992.
I had that whole Game 7 in '91 on VHS Robin Hood theme and all, like very recently but I accidenttially recorded over it about 6 monthes ago. Sux
I remember that huge money deal. It seems they only wanted the big name events but didn't want to show any other games.
I remember the 1990 All-Star game at Wrigley had a long rain delay, and those morons showed 'Rescue 911' during the bad weather. They fired Jack Buck (disgrace), hired Sean McDonough (not exactly Mr. Photogenic), and kept McCarver the mouth.
I LOVED that theme music, though. I wish I could download it somewhere.
yea, FOX does well for their Saturday afternoon games, but I am always hoping maybe CBS can televise baseball again. I would say maybe do a weeknight game. CBS always did well in their baseball coverage. wished they can come back again
Which is ironic since Greg and his brother Bryant grew up in Chicago if I'm not mistaken.
In defense of Jack Buck, he was practically a last minute choice after CBS dumped Brent Musburger on April Fools Day 1990. Buck had been doing the World Series for CBS Radio from 1983-1989. So he was there, for credibilty purposes. However, Musburger was still their "star" (like how Jim Nantz is at CBS today) going into 1990, so of course, he was going to be heavily involved.
Those Phillies were crazy! Roids and Mullets, that's how they got things done! LOL!
I believe it was game 4 of the 1991 NLCS that you're talking about.
@SadieRaleigh
1994 was also the first year of wild cards and six divisions, the wild card was created because Atlanta beat San Fran in 1993 in a pennant race where the Giants won 103 and lost to the Braves on the last day of the season, people thought it was unfair that a team winning 103 should be excluded from the postseason
CBS. I am begging you. I know it didn't work out with you in the 90s. but that was 20 years ago. PLEASE..PLEASE..PLEASE outbid FOX when it comes up. Baseball deserves better than the way they cover it. Baseball deserves the big moments to be covered with class, charm and excitement.
Man...the home run by Joe Carter at the end of the World Series in 1993...It was probably the single loudest ending to a World Series ever, in the 310-foot high SkyDome, and probably the most powerful explosion of Canadian happiness ever! :D
Man...I want something like that to happen again...to get Canada back into a pro sports league's ultimate championship spot. It's been way too long since a monster party for that happened here. :P
i almost forgot about that
@FairBolFL And here's what I think needs to happen for baseball to be relevant again.....more of a salary cap (players make way too much), faster games, a significant decrease in ticket prices (they are ridiculous), and the elimination of interleague play, except for spring training and the post-season. Would like to see the MLB back on CBS too.
Let me add my thanks to everyone elses for posting this. CBS's short run with MLB was not that memorable, but the music was well done.. right up there with the theme package used for their winter olympics coverage in the 1990's..
Actually...the U.S. release of Cool Runnings was October 1, 1993.
Folks who are nostalgic for NBC have very short memories. I can say one good thing: they did a game every week. But unless you were a fan of the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, or Mets - you didn't see your team play unless they were playing one of those teams.
And God help us if it was the Yankees and REd Sox.
Come to think of it - sounds just like Fox nowadays. One year, 23 of their 26 games had at least ONE of those mentioned teams. We didn't see the Mariners or Rangers.
1993 on CBS was the last time we saw football & baseball together. But that New World Deal did the bidding for some of those CBS stations to switch to Fox. Even stations in Baltimore (WBAL), Denver (KMGH), Boston (WHDH), Miami (WCIX), Cincinnati (WCPO), Sacramento (KXTV) & Seattle (KIRO) would no longer have the CBS affilation until they switched networks by 1995. KIRO would rejoin CBS in 1997 after just two struggling seasons with UPN, & KSTW didn't do much better in the market as CBS.
Oh, thank goodness! I was hoping I wasn't the only one with that thought. But seriously, it really does sound like the ESPN theme.
Im still blown away how bad CBS coverage of Baseball wasy, thank god it was only 4 years (too long).
As a Phils fan, at the time I would have never believed it. Nowadays... it's clearly easy to see. Dykstra, Incavalgia, Daulton, most likely Hollins, a few others I'm sure... still love that '93 team, but looking back, we should have known then something was going on.
The music that starts at 1:40 sounds like the score from "Cool Runnings," which is odd, because that movie wouldn't be released until 1994.
cubs and the Indians are going world series . wish cbs had the world series so they could use this theme, it would be epic.
aaron hardy I wish but CBS Sports has become ultra cheap these days.
Ugh I remember this year 1993. The Braves won 104 games that year beating out the Giants on the last day only to lose to the Phillies. I was so steamed, because I wanted to see Braves/Chi Sox in the World Series that year. This was a good series Joe Carter's homerun was a classic moment. It was all good though the Braves got one in 1995 that no one will ever take away from them.
CBS didn't help their cause by airing the what was previously known as "The Game of the Week" (prior to '90), on a sporadic basis. That really alienated the fans.
@minnbeef Ugh. As a Braves fanatic, I cry everytime I hear, "And we'll see you tommorrow night."
Hope you can all join us at beautiful Target Field on Aug 5-7 as we celebrate the 20th anniversary (and Twins win) of the greatest World Series of all time...the 1991 World Series.
I was wondering if you cold upload the 1992 cbs baseball intros.
When the last TV contract was being negotiated, there were rumors about CBS teaming up w/ TBS to show MLB. However, CBS was only willing to cover the All-Star Game & World Series from my understanding. They could at the very least, get CBS Sports Network involved to show some games (and help bolster its profile).
Also, the Rockies and Marlins were added, which doesn't explain why MLB still kept the 3 division format in '93.
I agree, CBS NEEDS to come back to televise baseball. I wonder if us common citizens can make that happen
they were gonna put the wild card in in 1994 anyway, the strike just delayed it by year. Montreal got totally screwed though by the strike for sure.
i would love to see pat o'brien return to sports
@ 1:38 the intro to game 1 of the fall classic.
The edge has to go to CBS (even though nothing will beat the Scully/Joe G./Costas/Kubek era at NBC or the Michaels/Palmer/McCarver era at ABC). At least CBS didn't have Joe Buck (even though they canned his dad in favor of Sean McDonough after two years), Steve Lyons, or Jeanne Zelasko on their payroll. CBS also didn't use gimmicky, video game/MTV style imagery to present their games.
Atlanta Fulton County Stadiaum..The launching pad
Is it just me, or does the CBS baseball theme song sound like the ESPN baseball theme song?
Sean McDonough (it's hard to believe that the balding, rather deep voiced McDonough was 30 when he came along on "MLB on CBS") actually was very competent in his role. He was certainly better than Jack's son, Joe on FOX. Unfortunately for him, by the time he came around, CBS was counting down the days until their contract w/ MLB was up.
To have any game Olympic baseball where is USA.CCCP.NIC.CUB.MEX .&Others(Finland)
That was the problem with CBS' coverage of the sport--hardly any games, unless it was the All-Star game, or the associated LCS and World Series.
They paid $1.8 BILLION (no, I'm not kidding) to air 16 regular season games a year, and the All-Stars, and the playoffs. That's why the CBS deal was a debacle. Otherwise, they presented the games fantastically.
Pretty good series that one. Molitor owned the phillies. Need to find the openings from the other 5 series games.
@ 2:00 red barber goin' nuts
@SadieRaleigh I agree. Without a strike in '94, I think it would've been Yanks v. Expos in the World Series. Both teams were great that year.....but Montreal, with Walker, Guerrero, and the Martinez's, would've won it all, IMHO. They were robbed by MLB and the incessant greed of the players and owners. It's a shame too, because I think 94 would've saved the Expos.
@SadieRaleigh
Montreal was great that year! But I have a hard time seeing them beating the Braves and Yankees in consecutive 7 game series to win the World Series...I think if that season played out, the Braves win and create a mini-dynasty (1994-95) or the Yankees win and they win 5 titles in 7 years
I know the Phillies won that game, but were there any specifics about this game? Anything interesting...
I would love for my man Jim Nantz to announce baseball for CBS in the near future. Screw Joe Buck. Jim Nantz and CBS all the way
I hope y’all will reply to this RIP Tim McCarver
I Think They Both Did Grew Up In Chicago.
put the mlb on WESTWOOD 1/CBS RADIO OR CBS IMMEDIATLY!!
CBS "PRESENTED" the games well, most of their sports coverage back in those days was above-average. However, they had no real dedication to baseball, they hardly showed any games, and you never knew when they would be on during the regular season. It was too bad, considering CBS Radio had done baseball for years, and they DID have the connection with baseball that the TV version of the network was never able to conquer.
I wish that NBC would get baseball back before CBS. But I wouldn't mind seeing CBS return as long as they can serve as a counterbalance to FOX.
@shaunnol Another thing that hurt CBS was that they overpaid in regards to baseball coverage. It wound up biting them in the ass at the end of the day because they wound up losing half a billon dollars. I wish that MLB in retrospect, kept NBC around for traditional and continuity reasons and had CBS replace ABC as the second broadcast outlet. Then, we probably wouldn't have had to stupid Baseball Network that followed CBS in 1994-95.
chuck norris ftw
haha..The Blue Jays won more world series in just 17 seasons then the philles did in 100 seasons
@Kcalbryan1: LOL. Then you might want to avoid 2:45 of this video. :)
McDonough > Joe Buck
Fanik10 now he's on NFL on ESPN
Hey how's it going? I really like it improve woman
lucky enough to live in toronto, not quite
pretty classic though
I wonder who's coverage was worse? MLB on CBS, or the NBA on ABC?
To me, I'll slightly give an "acceptable" nod to CBS, for the uplifting theme song it has. ABC has totally destroyed coverage of the NBA, and has permanently alienated fans for its lousy coverage.
Everyone rags a lot on McCarver, but I think it's just that he and Joe Buck are not the greatest as a team--you should have seen some of the games from the 80's when McCarver was teamed up with Al Michaels and Jim Palmer. That was a hell of a broadcast crew. But I do really miss Bob Costas too.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Harts of the West, and Walker, Texas Ranger. CBS has aired some really shitty programs.
Don’t forget Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
CBS's music was great but not as spectacular as NBC's game of the week
In retrospect, the Phillies juiced their way past the Braves. It's clear now that they were one of the original "steroids" teams, led by uber-juicer Lenny Dykstra, who boosted his power in 1993 and clubbed the game-winning homer in extra innings in Atlanta in Game Five.
never any guarantee that any club in post season "should" win
get over it Expos fans, MLB has...
ABC's NBA coverage is bad because the lack of consistancy w/ their announcers and presentation, ABC's poor marketing/promotional skills (they have no clue how to properly sell/build drama), their all too close ties w/ ESPN (w/ diminishes the "special event" feel needed for broadcast TV and makes the broadcasts too garish & tacky), appealing too much to the casual fan, and bad sound and camera angles.
sucks neither team won the world series lol
the year was 1990. pirates against the reds in the nlcs. yeah tim is stupid. i'm from atlanta and a braves fan. braves fans hate him. he always says something mean about the braves. it was all because deion poured ice cold water on him after game 7 of 1992 nlcs when the braves won the championship series. i always wanted to work for cbs sports in baseball. i can tell more later
While they're theme was good, those years that CBS had the MLB coverage SUCKED!!!!
McDonough > Buck
Roger Center team is a jobber and will never make the playoffs ever again cause of the Yankees and Redsox.