Never before has TV more extensively covered sports than it does right now. We can pretty much see any game we want and keep it forever. One thing that hasn’t kept up is the quality of the broadcasts themselves.
The picture is better and clearer, we can practically count Ted Lilly’s nosehairs when he’s on the mound. The sound is great, what we hear, often isn’t.
We take you back to an October night in 1989, when the Cubs were hosting the San Francisco Giants in game one of the NLCS. Vin Scully did an open that to this day, still gives off goosebumps. Vin didn’t hype the game and talk up Andre Dawson or Will Clark. NBC didn’t dust off an old copy of Foreigner 4 to try to fire up the fans.
Vin wrote, and read, about Wrigley Field.
She stands alone on the corner of Clark and Addison
This dowager queen, dressed in black and pearls
75 years old
Proud head held high
And not a hair out of place
Awaiting yet another date with destiny
Another time for Mr. Right
She dreams, as old ladies will
Of men gone long ago
Joe Tinker
Johnny Evers
Frank Chance
And of those of recent vintage
Like her man Ernie
And The Lion
And Sweet Billy Williams
And she thinks wistfully of what might have been
And the pain is still fresh and new
And her eyes fill
Her lips tremble
And she shakes her head ever so slightly
And then she sighs
Pulls her shall tightly around her frail shoulders
And thinks
“This time.”
“This time it will be better.”
I’m happy to see this poem.I thought I was the only one to still remember it.For all of us that witnessed 84.89.98.and 03 and everything in between I hope the joy and anticipation of whats to come stays with all of us Cub fans.It’s time to put the past where it belongs,and I wish all of you the best for whats to come.
Let’s do it.
I’m getting a little worried about the Diamondbacks. I don’t want to be. I want to feel like we can go in to Arizona and mop the floor with them, then come back here and dump out the water into the deep tunnels.
Z needs to come out with his electric stuff. After all, we did beat Webb this year.
Get it done Cubs.
…to the person who unearths a YouTube clip of that opening.
I thought I was the only one who remembered that.
Not an Irish fan, but Bob Costas’ open before the ’93 #1 vs. #2 matchup between Florida State and ND was the balls, as well, if you’re into sporting event intros not yet ruined by ESPN-ization… I don’t recall the exact words, but it basically was told from the perspective of a little kid dreaming of playing in a game like that. I didn’t even care who won, but I was ready to head-butt my roommate after watching it.
Why am I being mentioned in connection with Wrigley Field?
If you want to see that opening, just wait a few hours.
I thought the title of this thread would pertain to the connectivity issues at Desipio Media Ventures.
Obviously, it’s not.
The score for that opening was Jack Horner’s closing theme of Field of Dreams.
I’m a pubeless twink.
If you have me, you can watch this complete game – though Scully’s monologue seems to be absent. I’m not entirely sure as I was stabbing myself in the brain during Mike Schmidt’s pregame “analysis”.
Thanks for posting this Andy. I was just thinking about this open yesterday. It’s a travesty that Vin Scully doesn’t call the postseason.
It really isn’t a travesty anymore. I live in LA, and Vin’s senile ramblings have now gotten painful. He has become a rambling old man…the voice is still recognizable, but some of the things he says are ridiculous. Not in the charming way that Harry would drunkenly mispronounce names or call pop flys to short long fly balls, but unfortunate sober ramblings about nothing in particular, often having nothing to do with baseball. They don’t even put anyone in the booth with him to do color on local Dodger broadcasts. I am no Joe Buck fan, either, but sadly, Vin’s time as one of the top guys has passed. The poem was great, it was just 18 years ago.
How many hours constitute “a few” Chuck?
Working on it.
Anyone know if Comcast plans to add TBS-HD in Chicago by Wednesday?
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