The BIZARRE TELEVISION DRAMA at the 1995 World Series

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
  • Imagine ABC not showing the start of the World Series because they had to show the ending to a Big West football game between Nevada and Louisiana Tech. Well, in 1995, that's exactly what happened when KOLO, the ABC affiliate in Reno, Nevada, missed the start of game one of the 1995 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians, in a reverse Heidi Game situation. This is the story behind the broadcasting controversy
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Komentáře • 157

  • @marcus813
    @marcus813 Před rokem +10

    I have no problem with KOLO-TV sticking with Nevada's win over Louisiana Tech. I think the station made the right call.

  • @666Brago
    @666Brago Před rokem +41

    I live in Reno and I actually remember this event. I watched the football game knowing full well that Channel 8 could pull the plug at any moment. I'm glad the network stuck with the football game. I know the World Series is always a huge deal but we have priorities.

    • @kinocorner976
      @kinocorner976 Před rokem +6

      Priorities for mediocre teams 🤣

    • @dionr1168
      @dionr1168 Před rokem +4

      Postseason baseball always outprioritizes regular season football, just as postseason football always outprioritizes regular season basketball & hockey, and postseason basketball & hockey always outprioritizes regular season baseball.

    • @dustinsindledecker154
      @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem +3

      Yeah baseball is boring.

  • @ThatDonChannel
    @ThatDonChannel Před rokem +10

    This reminds me of when NBC had to cut away from a Sunday afternoon NFL game in overtime...to air its Sunday national news, 30 minutes before it aired a World Series game.
    If you're taking requests about strange TV broadcasts, here's one: the NCAA men's basketball tournament game that CBS moved to another channel (Temple-Santa Clara, 1993 second round).

    • @chrisguardiano6143
      @chrisguardiano6143 Před rokem +6

      Speaking of strange broadcasts, another strange one was during the 1994 World Cup when Spain vs South Korea was moved to ESPN2 (it was originally going to be on ESPN) so that ESPN could cover the infamous OJ Simpson car chase on the freeways of LA.

    • @danielanderson4726
      @danielanderson4726 Před rokem +2

      I would have tohught that NBC's NFL contract would have prevented them from cut away from a Sunday afternoon NFL game in overtime...to air its Sunday national news, 30 minutes before it aired a World Series game.

  • @JohnSmith-zw8vp
    @JohnSmith-zw8vp Před rokem +8

    5:59 -- They DID win the World Series in 1957 in Milwaukee and 1914 in Boston.
    6:07 -- No sir, they were in the World Series in 1991 and 1992. As a matter of fact, there were those at the time who thought the Braves would end up being the "Buffalo Bills of Baseball" if they didn't finish the job in 1995.

    • @stephenholloway6893
      @stephenholloway6893 Před rokem +4

      Yeah they are the only MLB team to my knowledge to have won a World Series in every city they played. Boston Milwaukee and Atlanta. In fact they later won the 2021 World Series as well. Giving them 4 currently.

    • @ajk
      @ajk Před rokem

      In ways they sorta did after that...considering they never won one again in their division win streak era, despite a few more shots at it.

  • @dionr1168
    @dionr1168 Před rokem +6

    "...which isn't even the official MLB record."
    Tell that to the people who legitimately dismiss McGwire, Sosa, and especially Bonds on the account of steroid use.

  • @Tubewings
    @Tubewings Před rokem +8

    5:59; Actually, the first time a Southern city experienced a World Series was in 1991, not 1995. The Braves were involved, though.

  • @davidlivingston2754
    @davidlivingston2754 Před rokem +4

    Nowadays, they'd move one game to a subchannel. This would never happen these days

  • @trainman666
    @trainman666 Před rokem +5

    I am a Nevada native, and I even worked at Lawlor Events Center for three years. I was only five at the time this story takes place, so I didn't know just how big the controversy got. Yea, it was definitely a lose-lose situation. there was no right answer, but personally I'm glad it stayed with the local game until completion.

  • @americanidol30
    @americanidol30 Před rokem +6

    Greg Maddux did win the Cy Young Award in 1995. His fourth straight. But he didn’t officially win it until November 1995. So technically, he only had three Cy Young Awards when the 1995 World Series began.

  • @Michael-sb8jf
    @Michael-sb8jf Před rokem +2

    This sort of reminds me of a time in kansas city where the local CBS station had to decide between airing the NCAA tournament games of KU and Missouri. Both had games roughly the same time. Not a big deal today with multiple stations but back in the 90's only CBS could air the games.

  • @turbokart3776
    @turbokart3776 Před rokem +25

    If you're doing a video on the Wolf Pack, you really should do one on the largest-and most forgotten-comeback in the history of football: Nevada's 55-49 win over Weber State in 1990, where the Wolf Pack overcame a 42-7 deficit to win the game somehow.

    • @666Brago
      @666Brago Před rokem

      You forgot the space in Wolf Pack. The NC State Wolfpack writes is as one word while the Nevada Wolf Pack writes it as two words.

  • @GamerKiller2347
    @GamerKiller2347 Před rokem +4

    I think the callers were just part of the vocal minority. It was their local team and it was a close game, so I think more people in Reno cared more about their college football team. There just wasn't a reason for them to call the station. I agree with their decision.

  • @scoleman9848
    @scoleman9848 Před rokem +4

    It looked like the local station was producing the broadcast. I don't think it was an ABC regional game that the local station picked up. That probably played a factor in the decision. Also, I would assume the angry callers are much more likely to call the station than the supportive fans.

  • @Dannypuck
    @Dannypuck Před rokem +4

    I'm with the station manager. Too bad they didn't have a sister channel they could put the World Series on until the college football game was over.

    • @americangiant1003
      @americangiant1003 Před rokem +2

      Or ideally put this Nevada game on a local regional/state wide RSN cable channel such as I think Prime Network at that time.

  • @rjhw2394
    @rjhw2394 Před rokem +8

    This channel is a national treasure. You are the equivalent of the Smithsonian for random football controversies!

  • @Inzane764
    @Inzane764 Před rokem +12

    Little would I know that Nevada would appear in this channel. Go pack and keep up the great content.

    • @dustinsindledecker154
      @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem +2

      Nevada hasn't been relevant since Colin kaepernick played ther.

    • @Inzane764
      @Inzane764 Před rokem

      @@dustinsindledecker154 that and when they moved to the mountain west conference (a good amount of okay and disappointing seasons since they joined)

  • @Gopitt100
    @Gopitt100 Před rokem +12

    This game reminds me of the 1994 Pitt West Virginia game that has a similar finish. You should do a video on this game. This game was famous for Pitt's public address announcer making jokes about West Virginia fans.

    • @peacefrog0521
      @peacefrog0521 Před rokem

      This probably wasn’t one of them, but…
      “WVU’s valedictorian had a 2.0…on the breathalyzer.” 😅

  • @saintbrownthetrojan
    @saintbrownthetrojan Před rokem +4

    Neither decision is any good, honestly. But I think he made the right call in sticking with Nevada. Local sports representing!

  • @chrisguardiano6143
    @chrisguardiano6143 Před rokem +4

    This might happen again on December 18th with Fox, FIFA & the NFL as the World Cup Final takes place that day before the day's NFL games on Fox. If the World Cup Final goes to overtime or penalty kicks, the start of the 1 PM ET NFL games on Fox will not be shown because there is no way that Fox will move the biggest & most watched sporting event on the planet to FS1.

    • @bhratbrat
      @bhratbrat Před rokem +2

      They will
      NFL is king

    • @chrisguardiano6143
      @chrisguardiano6143 Před rokem

      @@bhratbrat not sure about that, FIFA would be super pissed if they were upstaged by the NFL & would likely strip Fox from broadcasting the 2026 World Cup (which is being held in the US) costing Fox billions of dollars in revenue. Fox needs that World Cup money in order to keep the rights for the NFL & especially the Big Ten when the time comes to renew those rights.

    • @brandynhenry7107
      @brandynhenry7107 Před rokem

      Nothing but an educated guess I imagine they'd split what gets moved by market. Green Bay plays at that time theyd throw a fit if something like Croatia vs France was on instead lmao. But showing it on Fox in say Pittsburgh while they play on CBS seems a no brainer. World cup final and cumulative 1pm fox games looks like a ratings wash
      Obviously that's assuming there's nothing in the contracts where one can't be pushed or something. Is kind of interesting though

    • @runrafarunthebestintheworld
      @runrafarunthebestintheworld Před rokem

      @@brandynhenry7107 well at least Fox has a sister channel if they can't show the game on Fox they could probably show the game on Antenna TV like they did with some MLB games here in California because of the Rams preseason games. That's one option.

    • @mattries37315
      @mattries37315 Před rokem +2

      Yeah, I think the kick off would be 10 a.m. and normal game would end at noon or a little after, overtime would get close to 12:45 p.m., and PKs would cause an overlap. So my guess is that FOX will buy off the FIFA referee crew to get the game finished by noon, just kidding (or am I?), I think all the games that will aired on FOX will probably have a start time of 1:10 or 1:15pm.

  • @nelroy78
    @nelroy78 Před rokem +4

    WOW. And this was the year before overtime. Nevada could've conceivably kicked a field goal and went to overtime had it been in effect and the viewers could've missed even MORE of the World Series.

  • @Musicradio77Network
    @Musicradio77Network Před rokem +2

    WABC-TV (channel 7) aired Game 1 of the 1995 World Series, and both New York teams, the Yankees and Mets are out for the rest of the season, no broadcast controversies there.

  • @robplunkett5543
    @robplunkett5543 Před rokem +2

    I'm curious about this national/regional split screen thing. In 1991, ABC broadcast a Penn State-Miami game (10/12) and cut away for the Clarence Thomas hearings. Not only did WPLG in Miami do a split screen to show the game from the wild feed still coming out of the Orange Bowl with Jon Frankel doing his best to do a play-by-play from the WPLG newsroom, they were eventually able to get the WIOD radio broadcast as the audio since they didn't have ABC network audio. Just curious if you could do some research into why WPLG could get away with that, but this channel could not.

  • @mfm4205
    @mfm4205 Před rokem +4

    oh, btw:
    orel isn't just the first player to win both lcs awards, he's still the only player to do it (and one of only 2 players to win the award twice, regardless of league, the other being dave stewart, who did it in 1989 with oakland, 1993 with the blue jays)

  • @dustinsindledecker154
    @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem +2

    To be fair its just game one of the world series if it was game 6 or 7 than that would be crazy.

  • @stevenvitte
    @stevenvitte Před rokem +8

    This situation is very much understandable. As the region's network exec, you wanted to make local fans of the Nevada Wolf Pack happy by sticking to a game that meant quite a bit in their college football regular season. You chose to air Nevada football, so you should stick with it. To be honest, MLB is becoming less and less of a big deal by the day, including the World Series. Yes, MLB still meant something back in 1995, but if this same scenario played out today in 2022, I doubt many fans would be as upset. (MLB today is a big joke with their many problems...)

    • @runrafarunthebestintheworld
      @runrafarunthebestintheworld Před rokem +2

      Yep the steroid era of the MLB will always haunt the league. Plus the ratings for the World Series aren't there anyways. They've been going down every year.

    • @donaldpaluga
      @donaldpaluga Před rokem

      @@runrafarunthebestintheworld EVERY program's ratings have been going down since 1995

    • @americangiant1003
      @americangiant1003 Před rokem

      @@donaldpaluga Exactly. The only reason the NFL has excellent ratings and viewership is 1 word. Legalized Gambling.
      And back to the World Series. Even with them only getting about 1/3 of their TV viewership from their heyday in the 1970's and 80's, the MLB World Series is still among the most watched events in America every year NON-NFL/College Football. Without the World Series here in the early 2020's Fox outside of the NFL would in deep trouble. Fox has awful ratings for their non sports entertainment shows as well. A far cry from the Y2k when they smash hits such as American Idol and 24. So the lack of a hit show is probably the main reason, Fox just signed a recent record 10 year extension to be the exclusive American TV home of the World Series until at least the 2029 World Series.

  • @TMC1982Part2
    @TMC1982Part2 Před rokem +2

    A correction at the 6:15 mark. Fox did not have Major League Baseball broadcasting rights in 1995, so they wouldn't have aired any portion of the World Series that year. The 1995 World Series was shared by ABC (who had Games 1, 4-5, and 7 if necessary) and NBC (who had Games 2-3, and 6). 1995 was the first and only year that the World Series was broadcast by The Baseball Network, which was a revenue-sharing consortium between MLB, ABC, and NBC.

    • @WaltGekko
      @WaltGekko Před rokem

      That is correct. It was done that way because FOX took over most of the baseball rights the following year, including the World Series. It was done the way it was due to the strike wiping out the playoffs a year earlier.

  • @66edoug
    @66edoug Před rokem +2

    The vast majority of complaints shouldn't be shocking. Not many call companies to say good job. Another thing is that Greg Maddux is from Nevada. He wasn't born in Nevada but has lived most of his life there.

  • @tigercap100
    @tigercap100 Před rokem +6

    Braves won the 1957 WS.

    • @JaguarGator8
      @JaguarGator8  Před rokem +4

      You’re right. Giant error on my part. Not sure what I was thinking with that one. Trimming that part out, so it should be corrected within the hour or so (whenever CZcams finishes processing the vid). Thanks for pointing that out!

    • @tigercap100
      @tigercap100 Před rokem +4

      @@JaguarGator8
      Nobody's perfect. You do a great job

    • @dustinsindledecker154
      @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem +2

      Yeah he made a mistake he is only human.

    • @tigercap100
      @tigercap100 Před rokem

      @@dustinsindledecker154 lol. Look what I said

    • @dustinsindledecker154
      @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem +2

      Sorry I didn't see that,my bad.

  • @chrisp679
    @chrisp679 Před rokem +4

    Uh, dude…Braves had two previous World Series wins.
    That 1958 team entered the Series as the defending world champions.
    They also won in Boston in 1914. Look up “miracle Braves.”

    • @JaguarGator8
      @JaguarGator8  Před rokem +8

      You’re right. Giant error on my part. Not sure what I was thinking with that one. Trimming that part out, so it should be corrected within the hour or so (whenever CZcams finishes processing the vid). Thanks for pointing that out!

    • @chrisp679
      @chrisp679 Před rokem

      @@JaguarGator8 not a problem. Always glad to help.

  • @JCDavis314
    @JCDavis314 Před rokem +2

    Prior to the universal DH rule, sure having the difference in American and national league records was important. With it….the line is blurred between the two and it doesn’t matter as much.

  • @benjaminfeige7986
    @benjaminfeige7986 Před rokem +4

    It was a part of the "Baseball Network" with ABC and NBC as partners. Only lasted from 1994 to 1995. Both ABC and NBC covered the 95' World Series because the 94' World Series was cancelled by the strike!

    • @santiagivan
      @santiagivan Před rokem +2

      The word series move to fox in 96

    • @marcus813
      @marcus813 Před rokem +2

      I wanna forget that The Baseball Network ever existed. I hated its format with a passion, especially in the playoffs. I'm in Florida, but I was unable to watch the Marlins play at the Giants on a Friday night in 1995 because The Baseball Network determined that the 1st pitch time (shortly after 11 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. PDT) wasn't appropriate for my time zone (Eastern). If there was a way to make CBS' MLB coverage look good by comparison, The Baseball Network did it.

    • @runrafarunthebestintheworld
      @runrafarunthebestintheworld Před rokem

      @@marcus813 yeah people still love the MLB in NBC theme song though. I still don't want TBS covering anything baseball related it just doesn't make sense to me. Might as well give some playoff tv rights to NBC.

    • @americangiant1003
      @americangiant1003 Před rokem +2

      @@runrafarunthebestintheworld Not happening if ever again. MLB this past 2022 season just signed 8-10 year TV contracts with Fox(mainly Saturday Night games over the summer plus the ASG and World Series)TBS(Tuesday Night & the Divisional/LCS playoff)ESPN(Sunday Night Baseball & the 1st round/wild card)and Apple TV (Friday Night streaming)for the media rights. With the hundreds of regular season games, Run Rafa you are correct that in ideal world NBC could have shown Sunday Afternoon/Friday Night games for part of the season.
      However the trends are that MLB and soon the rest of Pro Sports will have by a decade or now have *almost all* of their games both egular season and post season only on a basic sports channel such as ESPN or TBS. Or streaming. The days of a NBC Baseball Game of the Week is long gone.

    • @bobscott2429
      @bobscott2429 Před rokem

      @@santiagivan NBC also had the World Series in 1997 (Marlins/Indians) and 1999 (Braves/Yankees). Fox had 1996 (Braves/Yankees), 1998 (Padres/Yankees), and every World Series since 2000.

  • @mfm4205
    @mfm4205 Před rokem +2

    with judge, should have just shown the at bat after it happened, during a break (or you know, in between plays, since not like unless it's a no huddle offense or late game drive, they're snapping the ball 5 seconds after the play ends).
    hell, i'm a huge baseball fan, but if i was wanting to watch the game, i wouldn't be watching the football game instead.

  • @TheManFromWaco
    @TheManFromWaco Před rokem +2

    Louisiana Tech’s 2012 season would make for a great story. The Bulldogs went 9-3 and had the nation’s top scoring offense… and completely missed out on Bowl Season. The school was offered a spot in the Independence Bowl, but held out for a spot in the Liberty Bowl. It looked like a very safe bet because the Liberty Bowl had the last pick from the Big 12, which meant that it had to find a replacement team in years when the league sent a team to the BCS. Oklahoma State was undefeated and looked like a lock for the National Championship Game… until it suffered a late season upset at Iowa State on a controversial field goal call. OSU missed the Championship, the Big 12 filled all its bowl commitments, and LA Tech spent Bowl Season at home due the fact that the Western Athletic Conference only had a single guaranteed bowl bid for its champion.

    • @samporter5526
      @samporter5526 Před rokem +2

      The real story about la tech is they declined a bowl bid hoping not to play not to play Louisiana Monroe because they thought ulm was

  • @btperkins
    @btperkins Před rokem

    I've worked at TV stations as the person who takes viewer calls. I sympathize with the people who had to deal with the complaints on that day. Gotta love the unpredictability of sports.

  • @heathrunyon4036
    @heathrunyon4036 Před rokem +2

    I live in Reno near the UNR campus.

  • @Wildcat_Media
    @Wildcat_Media Před rokem +2

    Can I just say thank you for pronouncing “Nevada” properly? Not a lot of east-coast folks do that.

  • @CTubeMan
    @CTubeMan Před rokem +2

    This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 8/9 historian will remind everyone you made videos about the following:
    1. How Nevada made the Las Vegas Bowl that season, and how that factored in the decision the bowl made in 2003.
    2. How the NBC affiliate in Sacramento had to make a similar decision in 1992, and missed the start of the Buffalo-San Francisco game.
    3. How CBS unwittingly ushered in the marathon Super Bowl pre-game show before Super Bowl 12 in its attempt to show other sporting events before the game.

  • @jmed412
    @jmed412 Před rokem

    I love when you do videos about games from the 90's. Seeing the uniforms and equipment from the era I played high school and college ball

  • @vdubproductions2646
    @vdubproductions2646 Před rokem +2

    Totally forgot that the World Series games started a little after 7 PM ET and not 8 PM ET like it does now.

    • @Musicradio77Network
      @Musicradio77Network Před rokem

      That must be WABC-TV (channel 7) in NYC. They aired Game 1 of the 1995 World Series in its entirety with no interruptions there, and channel 7 has no broadcast controversies at all, the World Series would run after the news depending on the East Coast, and college football was on Saturday afternoons.

    • @vdubproductions2646
      @vdubproductions2646 Před rokem +2

      @@Musicradio77Network However this game was not an ABC telecast itself but a telecast from the local Reno Station. Which happened to be the Reno's ABC affiliate.

    • @Musicradio77Network
      @Musicradio77Network Před rokem

      @@vdubproductions2646 In NYC, WABC-TV didn’t carried a local team there, all they had was the newscasts and the pre-game of the World Series leading up to game 1 of the World Series. No problem there.

    • @vdubproductions2646
      @vdubproductions2646 Před rokem

      @@Musicradio77Network It's because the game did not air in New York. It only aired in Reno. If you watch the video again, it will show the beginning and it says News 8 Presents or something like that which is the local Reno station.

  • @bobscott2429
    @bobscott2429 Před rokem +2

    Couple of things....
    1) Hey, JG8, at the end of your story, you said "...one station manager had to make what you could only describe as a JUDGEment call." I see what you did there!
    2) Definitely remember The Baseball Network in 1995 (especially as an Indians fan since the 1970s), but couldn't have ABC/NBC called its presentation something other than "Baseball Night In America"? (A ripoff of "Hockey Night in Canada," if you ask me.) Of course, now we have "Football Night In America" Sunday nights on NBC. A little more originality, please.

  • @Rutherford12
    @Rutherford12 Před rokem +2

    It was the Braves 3rd apperance in 5 years (1991, 1992) and their first win in Atlanta. They won in 1914 in Boston and 1957 in Milwaukee. But the question remains, does JG9 like baseball?

  • @jamesklatt
    @jamesklatt Před rokem

    They should have added the following wording ‘we apologize for any inconvenience this may have cause’

  • @micmac99
    @micmac99 Před rokem +2

    KOLO might have made a different decision if a regional baseball team with a stronger local following in Northern Nevada (like either of the Bay Area ballclubs) was involved.

  • @mikeschmidt4800
    @mikeschmidt4800 Před rokem

    I would prefer to watch my team versus watching game 1 of the World Series. In 1995 I couldn't imagine these teams having fanbases large enough to justify not switching.

  • @thomascrowley9122
    @thomascrowley9122 Před rokem +2

    Big Baseball and Yankee fan. But there was no reason for them to show Judge's AB's would be one thing if it was the record. But it was only the AL record.

    • @dustinsindledecker154
      @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem

      Well.some people will still think its the real record because of steroids.

    • @thomascrowley9122
      @thomascrowley9122 Před rokem +2

      @@dustinsindledecker154 They can think what they want. But the record books will always say otherwise.

    • @dustinsindledecker154
      @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem +2

      I agree but alot of baseball nerds will get angry with you when you say bonds is the record holder.

  • @jacekatalakis8316
    @jacekatalakis8316 Před rokem +2

    ABC, at least on one occasion that I've ound, cut away several times from their CART coverage at Laguna Seca in 1998 to cover the home run chase. It's weird to hear Bob Varsha talk about home runs and fly balls while on the screen, the CART cars are blasting around Laguna Seca. it wasn't just a one off, either, rom what I've found, and the full race has been on CZcams for a while, it was a regular thing.
    Okay. 98 and the World Series in 95 was a bigger deal than Judge's going or the AL record, but to cut away from programming or 20-30s of baseball, from a whole other sport? Hilariously, at leat for CART, Honda bought up all the commercial time so they'd run flag to flag, uninterrupted....and then cut away to the Cubs or Cards games with that game's feed instead of, I don't know, putting it in a box like they did in 97 for various things in the race...a
    EDIT: Apparently it was a thing in 98 across ESPN/ABC, not just a one time thing too.

  • @Phateagle262
    @Phateagle262 Před rokem

    Back in the summer, I came across another oddity that involved baseball and Nevada...a bunch of old Nevada baseball jerseys popped up on eBay, some of them from 1994...for some reason, those jerseys had MLB's 125th anniversary patch on one sleeve. There are a ton of college baseball uniforms inspired by big league teams, but Nevada using the actual anniversary patch was outright weirder than the inexplicable popularity of Padres-style script lettering among college teams.
    Can't win sometimes...people are weird sometimes.

  • @parkerthehurricanethomas

    5:46 I will add a extra fact in the next year the Brooklyn Dodgers will go head to head with the NY Yankees in the 1955 World Series. Which Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series and the MVP of 1955 World Series was Johnny Podres for the Brooklyn Dodgers

  • @jcrhea001
    @jcrhea001 Před rokem

    You mentioned FOX but didn't NBC carry game 2?

  • @jeffanderson3962
    @jeffanderson3962 Před rokem

    The station would have had the same negative response no matter what they did. Who calls a media outler to say they LIKE something they did?

  • @shanefoster6976
    @shanefoster6976 Před rokem

    There is no way that that is accurate for average TV size in 1995. I don't think from 1990 on my parents had a TV smaller than 25 in. And I don't think too many other people did.

  • @ozark75
    @ozark75 Před rokem

    I really didn’t care about the 95 World Series, not a fan of either team. Hated both teams and still do to this day

  • @mfdixon1985
    @mfdixon1985 Před rokem

    "This was the first time a Southern city had experienced a World Series." Unless you count the ones that the Braves played in in 1991 and 1992.

  • @SamtheBravesFan
    @SamtheBravesFan Před rokem

    6:01 NOT exactly. They won in 1914 when they were in Boston, lost in 1948, won in 1957 when they were in Milwaukee, lost the next year, and of course were in the 1991 and 1992 series. So by that point, the Braves hadn't won the Series in 38 years.

  • @joenintendo
    @joenintendo Před rokem

    Atlanta played in 2 other World Series before 1995 in the 90's.

  • @thatduderobo1974
    @thatduderobo1974 Před rokem +2

    I think it was utterly ridiculous that ESPN would interrupt programming just to show Judge break a record that most people don’t care about and is not the official MLB record anyway, and as for this one I don’t blame the network for sticking to the football game and people are gonna cry over missing a few innings of game one seriously, if it was game seven then they have a good reason to be upset but it was only game one and the series lasted six games

  • @sirstewartwallace3917

    I'm just glad Roger Maris Jr. finally shut up.

  • @mandalorianrailfan8458

    Aaron Judge didn’t break the American League record, he broke the MLB record.

    • @btperkins
      @btperkins Před rokem

      No, the record is the record. It doesn't stop being the official record just because fans don't agree with the way the new recordholder did it.

  • @maplemiles3381
    @maplemiles3381 Před rokem

    People who live in Oklahoma really love their sooners then the Yankees in a same way the people of North Texas have a close driver to care more about the sooners over the longhorns and aggies

  • @zacharyscott6779
    @zacharyscott6779 Před rokem

    Whoa whoa whoa. As a tennis fan, they better show if an American male has match point at the US Open. Hasn't been done since Andy Roddick in 2003. Haha. I get your point though. Have the broadcast on one of the "sister stations" if it's that big of deal

  • @Michael-sb8jf
    @Michael-sb8jf Před rokem

    I'm my opinion unless it's contractual agreement local teams take precedence

  • @Sephiroth766
    @Sephiroth766 Před rokem

    That Becky comment is an amazing Reddit comment if it happened today, that was genius

  • @GarrettCRW
    @GarrettCRW Před rokem

    This is kind of nothing when it comes to Channel 8, and also the broadcast of the World Series in Nevada.
    For KOLO, I was told when I went to UNR that the station’s lead news anchor, had suffered a heart attack ON AIR. Totally hearsay, obviously, but still a wild story.
    But when it comes to the World Series, in the ‘70s, KORK (now KSNV) in Las Vegas got in the habit of pre-empting a lot of NBC’s programming. The straw that broke the camel’s back with the public and the network was KORK pre-empting the 1977 World Series, which involved the Dodgers, who had and still have a substantial fan base in town. The owners of the station (who were also the owners of the Review-Journal, Vegas’s biggest newspaper), were forced to sell.

  • @briandonegan8480
    @briandonegan8480 Před rokem

    Woah Woah Woah.
    The Braves franchise had won 2 World Series to that point in 1914 as the Boston Braves and in 1957 as the Milwaukee Braves. The Atlanta Braves had played in the World Series in 1991 and 1992 losing both times.

  • @CTubeMan
    @CTubeMan Před rokem

    I think the station made the right decision, but I’ve never lived in Reno.

  • @connorakers668
    @connorakers668 Před rokem

    My Dad actually worked at KOLO back then

  • @mattries37315
    @mattries37315 Před rokem

    I bet if the station switched to the World Series, then they would have received more than 200 calls given that Nevada is the University of Nevada at Reno. And unlike the 2 Nevada fans that called to support the decision, I doubt any of the Braves or Indians fans would have called to support the decision and if by some chance they did then they would have been swamped.

    • @Musicradio77Network
      @Musicradio77Network Před rokem

      Here in New York, the 1995 World Series got underway when WABC-TV (channel 7) aired it without any interruptions and the game did started.

  • @jkelley747
    @jkelley747 Před rokem

    *the real MLB HR record

  • @jacobnyhart6862
    @jacobnyhart6862 Před rokem

    If the MLB teams involved were small market clubs, I could see favoring the regional football game of low tier D1 ball, but given the teams involved in both sports, I think the station manager made the wrong call. It would be different if it was a top tier D1 game with National Championship implications, but Nevada and La Tech? Meh... (No offense to those programs, but neither team was worth pre-empting game 1 of the WS between the Midwest and southeast tribes).

  • @nyfinest017
    @nyfinest017 Před rokem

    I get it was a tuff choice on the station manager to keep showing the wolf pack game, but this was the World Series and a big one at that. Baseball was shutdown for a year due to the player's strike and no World Series was played the year before. You had two teams that had championship droughts spanning back decades and it started two of the dominant pitchers of that time.
    The answer can be simplified as such: If it's a championship game show it.
    If a football game runs long and you have a movie on that time slot keep the game on.

    • @americangiant1003
      @americangiant1003 Před rokem

      Or simply put this Nevada Wolf Pack game on a local Regional Sports Network.

    • @nyfinest017
      @nyfinest017 Před rokem

      @@americangiant1003 that too.

  • @brianhiedemansr2936
    @brianhiedemansr2936 Před rokem

    Fox will more than likely put the college game ob one of its secondary stations or the start of the World Series at that time. Heck they might even start the game as soon as the football game ends. Now me personally would be waiting for the baseball game since the teams on Fox in the 2nd game usually isn't of any real interest of mine. Now I am a fan of all sports and I pay attention to certain sports and watch them in the playoffs where I feel that sports is more exciting in person during the regular season. I do that with done hockey games, a lot of baseball, and also the NBA but I will sit in front of the TV to watch college basketball, and all NFL games and the NCAA but I would prefer going to a college game in person. I love the atmosphere at a college football game where I feel the NFL is more exciting on TV.

  • @rushbroussard5399
    @rushbroussard5399 Před rokem

    AARON JUDGE'S HOME RECORD IS NOT THE MLB HOME RECORD BARRY BONDS HAS THAT RECORD

  • @jeffanderson3962
    @jeffanderson3962 Před rokem

    Now I'm wondering, since the last two AL season HR record holders were also Yankees (Ruth/Maris) , who is the non-Yankee with the most AL dingers? Maybe Griffey Jr?

    • @mattries37315
      @mattries37315 Před rokem +2

      Jimmie Foxx (Philadelphia Athletics) with 58 in 1932, Alex Rodriguez (Texas) with 57 in 2002, and Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle) with 56 in both 1997 and 1998.

  • @bhratbrat
    @bhratbrat Před rokem

    I mean they made the better choice. Plus anything on the baseball network was a disaster

  • @e93sports80
    @e93sports80 Před rokem +2

    Hey!

  • @dustinsindledecker154

    I don't know much about Nevada football other than Colin kaepernick playing his college ball there.

  • @stevengrvp
    @stevengrvp Před rokem

    It's a good season for judge

  • @charleswilliamsjr
    @charleswilliamsjr Před rokem

    Now Reno joined the game in progress!

  • @adiuntesserande6893
    @adiuntesserande6893 Před rokem +4

    Okay, normally I'm very much in favour of football over baseball, but seriously? A *Big West* game over the *WORLD SERIES?!?*

    • @anthonyjkenn6319
      @anthonyjkenn6319 Před rokem +2

      Side note that is totally irrelevant, but whatever: Southwestern Louisiana was back then what the University of Louisiana (at Lafayette) is now. USL made the name change to UL(L) in 1999. #GeauxCajuns

    • @dustinsindledecker154
      @dustinsindledecker154 Před rokem +2

      Well football is more entertaining than baseball.

  • @trevorsmith8565
    @trevorsmith8565 Před rokem

    I love College Football but ESPN they are a sport network

  • @epholson97
    @epholson97 Před rokem

    I can only imagine a TV station cutting off the ending of a game in this type of scenario, with as crazy of an ending as this game had, for very few, other sporting events. I'd say; Superbowl for sure... any part of any NFL playoff game... any part of a deciding playoff game in either basketball or baseball... any part of BCS Bowl game... any part of a Final 4 game (let's be honest, it'd only be for the men's college basketball though, sadly)... Those are off the top of my head and nothing else is coming to mind so I'll leave it there. Hopefully I didn't offend anyone, too much.

  • @mkepioneet
    @mkepioneet Před rokem

    6:05 uh dude the Braves won the world series in 1957 against the Yankees. Oddly enough, the next year, they lost the world series against the Yankees

  • @lloydmarshalljr1951
    @lloydmarshalljr1951 Před rokem

    The 1995 World Series aired on NBC, not ABC; maybe you're thinking the ALCS or NLCS instead.

    • @TMC1982Part2
      @TMC1982Part2 Před rokem

      The 1995 World Series did air on ABC. Or more specifically, Games 1, 4, and 5 and Game 7 had it been necessary. Al Michaels, Jim Palmer, and Tim McCarver were the announcers for ABC's World Series coverage that year.
      The 1995 World Series was aired by NBC and ABC as part of a short-lived partnership that they had with Major League Baseball called The Baseball Network. ABC was supposed to get the World Series in 1994, the first year of The Baseball Network's operation, but the strike wound up canceling the World Series.
      In July 1995, ABC and NBC announced that they were getting out of The Baseball Network after the season was over, so it was decided that that both networks would share the 1995 World Series as a means of salvaging what was left of the now lame-duck deal.

    • @lloydmarshalljr1951
      @lloydmarshalljr1951 Před rokem

      @@TMC1982Part2 It turns out I was judging according to what I saw in Game 6. Thanks for the correction.

    • @mgb4692
      @mgb4692 Před rokem

      This game aired on NBC, Al Michaels mentioned it in his book: going by Fulton County Stadium during the Olympics the next year reminded him they didn't get to do Game 7 (would have been on ABC) or the Olympics (lost to NBC)

    • @TMC1982Part2
      @TMC1982Part2 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@mgb4692 I think that Al Michaels mentioned in his book that there was a clause in his contract at the time that stated that he would've gotten to be the prime time anchor (Jim McKay would've presumably, been placed in a emeritus role instead of once again hosting himself) in the event that ABC landed the Olympics again. The last time that ABC showed the Olympics (Winter or Summer) was the 1988 Winter Games from Calgary, and Michaels did the ice hockey events like he had done since 1980 and the famous "Miracle on Ice".

  • @brianoneill7186
    @brianoneill7186 Před rokem

    As much as I enjoy the videos on this channel, too many of them misrepresent 'a dumb decision by a network *affiliate* as 'a dumb decision by the *entire network*.

  • @yankees2864
    @yankees2864 Před rokem

    I love college football but come on it’s the world series

  • @stevengrvp
    @stevengrvp Před rokem

    So tv size matters

  • @brandynhenry7107
    @brandynhenry7107 Před rokem

    Snoreball needs to play about 120 less games(at least) for me to care. It's not 1997 anymore I have tons of things I can do while I'm sitting on my ass doing nothing now lmao

  • @MexWanker0589
    @MexWanker0589 Před rokem +2

    You're not too bright. How is the ratio of calls of people calling the station upset vs happy proof more people were upset? Why would you call a TV station to tell them good job. I'm surprised a few people even did that.

  • @robertkauffman8137
    @robertkauffman8137 Před rokem +2

    The correct decision made 25 years before its time. Baseball is dead.

  • @youtubeman3356
    @youtubeman3356 Před rokem

    i understand showing it over Tulane/Houston as it wasn’t a big game, but it being shown over #23 Wake vs #5 Clemson made 0 sense. as there was a couple of unimportant games on ESPN that same day, not ABC.