1981 09 12 NBC GOW Red Sox at Yankees

[@GT25Ump]

Love these old ballgames, in particular the ones from the late 70's thru the 80's. Good stuff!!!!

[@nightowl5475]

Grant Thompson I agree with you. Being a kid back in the 70’s, I love watching these games in particular because this era was when I became a baseball fan. I don’t even watch baseball these days. It’s not the same. I don’t like players fisting each other and I don’t like how they don’t let pitchers go the entire 9 innings. The game has changed. Some of the players today look like animals and they don’t take pride in their uniform. They’re sloppy. Their uniform pants go all the way down to their sneakers. It’s more of a money thing today. The players aren’t loyal to a team. To them, it’s just about money. To the owners, it’s all about high ticket prices and how much they can price gouge the fans. Most of the stadiums are empty. The owners make their money on network broadcasting of the game. It’s way too commercial and there is something fake about it.

[@zvbx]

@@nightowl5475 Take a laxative. You’ll feel better. Some of the things you mentioned were going on back then.

[@sportsfisher9677]

@@zvbx After you he can take a laxative. He is a legit gripe dude.

[@zvbx]

@@sportsfisher9677 I don’t have the gripe but if you do you can do the same legitimately.

[@martincurtis6445]

English watcher and quite new to the game. Love it! This one was so exciting, thanks for the upload.

[@Nickrj3]

Ron Cey out until 1982? He was one of the three MVP's in the 1981 World Series.

[@bdog1323]

And for 1 pitch from Gossage during that WS, everybody thought Cey was out forever.

[@garyrosato6982]

A promo for a Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Eagles game during this video, I love it!

[@johnlaird4003]

I agree 100% Grant! This is awesome! Thanks so much!

[@terrytyler3139]

best theme song

[@BookClubDisaster]

Early 80's Red Sox..........gave up on Bob Ojeda and John Tudor and watched them become stars in the NL.

[@sportsfisher9677]

true

[@NicanTlacaWarrior1]

Great game

[@scottaznavourian7617]

So weird that lemon was a midseason steinbrenner replacement twice and both times they won the al pennent

[@bainsey89]

23:02 A treat for Sox fans... check out who's getting a little announcing practice.

[@wheelinthesky300]

There should not have been a split season. That was unfair to everyone. Standings should have picked up where they left off.

[@therealjaystone2344]

wheelinthesky300 unpopular but what else can you say for mlb? Unless you’re a Card or Red fan rip

[@stevep8445]

@@therealjaystone2344it was done for one reason. Money.. mlb passed off the sham of a split season pennant race. Some mlb officials would admit years later it was a mistake

[@scottaznavourian7617]

Cant believe we traded this guy for calvin schiraldi

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

Think the Mets won that trade? Handed them the 86 Series

[@luckybestwash]

Epic announcer comeuppance at 36:48

[@scottaznavourian7617]

Wiw remy doing the redsox limeup...that would one day become a day thing

[@kandtherestcandtherest9080]

When Reggie came to the plate, he never disappointed. Even if he didn't make contact

[@rafaelramirez1507]

Amazing that the only two hits by the Yankees in the game were by pinch hitters , Ricky Cerone and Dave Winfield

[@johnrust592]

Announcer at 56:00. "Let's go back a few years to Bucky Dent when --" Red Sox fans: "NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!! NO GOING BACK TO THAT GAME!!!! NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!"

[@cheddarcheese7928]

I was 99% Sure Ojeda didn’t toss a No No..But Wow!.In the 8th and 9th inning I was locked in just hoping I was wrong!

[@michaelskurski912]

RIP Jerry Remy

[@mariepavlov9144]

NBC Major League Baseball Game of the Week (Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees, September 12, 1981) Merle Harmon (PBP) & Ron Luciano (C)

[@johnmanier7968]

Garagiola and Kubek must have been calling Expos-Cubs.

[@scottaznavourian7617]

3:26 well he was one of the world series co mvps that year so i guess thats wrong

[@FerdinandCesarano]

Ron Luciano was delightful, if a little undisciplined as an announcer. What a shame it is how things turned out for him. Merle Harmon is a bit pushy. He keeps insisiting that Charlie Lau should be a manager; and when Bucky Dent (who joins them in the booth due to his injury) says that not everyone wants to manage, Harmon just dismisses Dent's comment.

[@furnitureconsortium]

I couldn't agree any less.......Luciano was the worst color commentator I've ever heard.....and I've heard Art Donovan on Wrestlemania back in the 80's, lol It's no wonder than soon after this period, NBC upgraded by getting Bob Costas, Joe Garagiola, and ultimately Vin Scully.

[@FerdinandCesarano]

@@furnitureconsortium - Of course Luciano is not in the class of other great colour commentators on NBC, such as Tony Kubek (when Joe Garagiola did play-by-play) or Garagiola (after the incomparable Vin Scully came in to do play-by-play). He also was not nearly as good as Tom Seaver, who succeeded Garagiola alongside Scully. But for me Luciano, while raw and often clumsy, added plenty of interesting commentary. He was not even close to the worst colour man I have heard. That distinction belongs to Bob Gibson and Norm Cash, each of whom filled that role during the disastrous first year of ABC's Monday Night Baseball in 1976 (before the network brought in Howard Cosell, Keith Jackson, and Don Drysdale the next year to save the project). Nothing Luciano ever did on the air was as bad as that mess. Listening to Luciano is not listening to a seasoned broadcaster. It's listening to a rambling mind, with so many great stories to tell. This was compelling at the time; given the tragic fate of this unusual and endearing person, it is heartbreaking in retrospect.

[@furnitureconsortium]

@@FerdinandCesarano I never knew his story (Luciano’s) and it IS pretty sad to read. Seemed like a nice guy with some funny stories to tell. Perhaps I was a bit too harsh with my initial criticism of him

[@scottaznavourian7617]

Cerrone sounda like hes reading a half assed scouting report 'keep em off the bases' yeah no shit

[@scottaznavourian7617]

54:39 classy

[@JGEDWILL]

Dave Winfield, missing from the Yankees' lineup...

[@scottaznavourian7617]

Dont worry im sure steibrenners spy knew where he was

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

Until the end

[@mikefallopian3191]

Forgot how annoying Bryant Gumbel's voice was.

[@sportsfisher9677]

This analyst was not good. Guess he wasn't aware of Mickey Rivers, who played center inf 76-78 AND he stole bases, lots of them.

[@scottaznavourian7617]

2:57 sammy sosa!

[@johnclark4593]

Dick Williams and Davey Johnson were both great managers but never could stay at one job very long.

[@paulsonj72]

Part of Dick Williams issues were he almost always had the players turn against him and he lost the clubhouse.

[@winkydog184]

Sounds like Buck Showalter in today's game.

[@Longetty]

bore witness to this from the upper deck 3rd base side

[@scottaznavourian7617]

Wow a 100 million to refurbush a 53 year old stadium wtf

[@mrg8581]

That would be over 400 million in 2019 dollars

[@zxccxz164]

Billion in inflated 2021

[@DonQwantsyou]

never should have traded bob the snob to the goddamed mets

[@davidb5728]

haha, check out rick cerone's afro

[@swaugertim]

ain't baseball great!

[@scottaznavourian7617]

1:55:00 gee yaz your not 30 anymote

[@rafaelramirez1507]

❓🤔

[@keithshaughnessy1645]

Announcers are so awful I can't stand it.

[@jimnelson47]

L

[@Alcapone3176]

Think about if an announcer today said a pitcher looked overweight. They would be fired before the game was over. The good ol days when u could tell it like it used to be.

[@Alcapone3176]

The Reds had the best record in baseball and missed the playoffs.

[@Alcapone3176]

Think about if an announcer today said a pitcher looked overweight. They would be fired before the game was over. The good ol days when u could tell it like it used to be.