The 2001 MLB Season Was One of the Most Memorable Seasons Ever

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This is one of my favorite videos I have made. The 2001 season was certainly one of the greatest seasons in MLB history for many reasons, so I decided to compile all of those reasons into one video. I hope you enjoy!
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[@McCormickRenner]

“What chance did the Yankees have against the Mariners?” Me: *cries in Jon Bois*

[@Anita_sensei]

Well, as we learned from Jon, baseball doesn't matter when it comes to the Mariners

[@ILoveMisty1985]

Definitely a memorable season for Randy Johnson. He started it off with the bird incident in spring training, then had his 20K game. He would also set a new record for strikeouts in a relief appearance, when he had to come in relief after a blown fuse led to a game Curt Schilling started being delayed to the next day. He'd take over when play resumed and struck out 16, breaking a record set by his non-relative Walter set all the way back in 1913! He won his 200th career game with his final win of the regular season, then his win in the NLCS snapped an excruciating seven-game post-season losing streak dating back to 1995. Then came his World Series heroics leading to a share of the World Series MVP Award, his fourth career Cy Young award, and finally being named Sportsman of the Year with Schilling. Yessir, it was definitely a memorable season for the Big Unit. Of course as you presented so well it was a memorable season overall.

[@LordBeastwarking]

This season still hurts, signed, a Mariners fan

[@kaden1592]

Same I’m a Yankees fan

[@nononsense424]

Yes sir feels

[@icecreamfreedom]

Agreed, signed a Yankees fan.

[@DrGonzoChronic]

We may not have reached are destination, but it was one hell of a ride and I'll never forget it. It was pleasure watching Freddy Garcia, Aaron Sele and Jamie Moyer pitch that year.

[@allainangcao28]

It doesn’t hurt as bad... because it gave you a Japanese icon 🇯🇵

[@blaketaylor9850]

2001 wow hard to believe it’s been 20 years. I feel old... I remember being 10 years old and watching most of this live.

[@wesleyantrim6648]

I was 22, watching the towers come down, and thinking I was gonna be drafted lol

[@TheZombieeeeeee]

@@wesleyantrim6648 i was 11 and I thought I was gonna be drafted too lol

[@caseywalters6197]

Like Bush or hate Bush that was the greatest First Pitch of All Time.

[@treybear8174]

Can’t even be questioned

[@whywelovefilm7079]

FACTS.

[@earloflemongrab1290]

That was America's First Pitch that's why

[@renaldopierre1995]

Yes he bombed that one 🙏🏾🤝

[@shakedownnnable]

Yup. Boss imperialistic shit right there.

[@SportStorm23]

That Qualcomm car commercial gives me so much nostalgia. Btw all the in-game clips from the intro are from 2001. I hope you enjoy the video!

[@Figwumberton]

I got absolutely flooded with nostalgia after seeing that holy shit.

[@suntower4379]

rip qualcomm 😢

[@Bobisgayfag]

Over 2000 vehicles from San Diego's biggest dealers MUST be sold

[@carsonhahn1970]

Wow. That commercial used be blasting all the time in my house growing up. Damn.

[@endOfEvolution]

its crazy that the stadium is now completely gone, with the demolishing being finished a few weeks ago :(

[@robertkidnley93]

Ichiro was super unappreciated by baseball guy was amazing and a stand up guy

[@billyfraiser6298]

He won Rookie of the Year, Made the All-Star team, Won a Gold Glove, Silver Slugger.... oh and the MVP.... all in 2001. Explain to me how that's unappreciated??

[@graysonbyass-rascoe4326]

@@billyfraiser6298 We didn't care lol, nobody paid attention it was all about new york and the diamondbacks run.

[@TheMilapMehta]

Ichiro is a legend and absolutely a stand up guy ... underappreciated how are you getting that? Even non-baseball fans knew who he was and that guy was beloved by every team. He wasn't even booed when he joined the Yankees. By what regard was he underappreciated?

[@TheMilapMehta]

@@graysonbyass-rascoe4326 Were you not around in 2001? EVERYBODY cared about Ichiro. The Ichiro is number 1 commercials played during Cubs games and the Mariners aren't even in the National League.

[@graysonbyass-rascoe4326]

@@TheMilapMehta sure exposure but the usa was not the same, 9/11 post era was all about the nyc teams.

[@ReklawLah]

As a New Yorker who witnessed the attack on the twin towers first-hand, I can not overemphisize the positive psychological impact of Piazza's home run. It didn't matter if you were a Mets or a Yankees fan, that one swing brought more joy to my city than any other single moment, sports-related or not, than I have seen before or since. Mike Piazza will always be my hero, not just because he was one of the greatest catchers to ever play the game, but because he made me, and everyone around me, feel GOOD again.

[@ZKGaming129]

What was it like

[@mockingslur6945]

Everyone cried for New York that day. It hurt for a long time.

[@Ally_Rayne6]

I was in upstate NY during the attacks. I was only 5 and my sister was being born that same day, I didn’t want to be in school that day at all cause something was really odd. You couldn’t have said it better about that Piazza home run. Hard to believe my sister will be 20 very soon.

[@mockingslur6945]

@@Ally_Rayne6 I’m from Texas. I dropped my mom off at work, and on the radio, they made it seem like they were hearing some idiot flew into one of the twin tower’s. I wasn’t thinking a huge plane, but I was 20 and getting ready to go to college when I turned the TV on just in time for the second to hit. No one in my community knew that it had happened. I wanted to get up to the college as fast as possible to see if anyone had seen what had happened. No, but our History teacher ran to the room and said “Everyone need’s to go home because this will be the biggest event in your lifetime, and to mourn accordingly” I went to my girlfriend’s house, and we watched crying our eye’s out for those people.

[@Ally_Rayne6]

@@mockingslur6945 It’s crazy to think back at this cause I just didn’t want to be at school I just wanted to be with my family. But you know, at the end of the day I was glad to be with them afterwards

[@chaseb3828]

"Deion Sanders hit a homerun off Eric Gagne." Sentences I never though I'd hear.

[@Wil_Dasovich]

Wow, what a year! I miss the steroid era. Say what u will but it was the most entertaining era of baseball!

[@SixHundredandThirteen]

Of course with out it theres no baseball

[@mbdtf9006]

wil dasovich iyot christine samson

[@ethanniedorowski116]

Juice the balls an get a common sticky stuff... let them cheat on the same level... I wanna see 👀 it just like the rest... Just note in record books that this is when it happened like dead ball Era an when mound was higher.

[@ronanaviation9520]

Yes 2001 (being the start of the 21st century) was an incredible year, unless your a mariners fan

[@RealCGH]

​@@ethanniedorowski116they did juice the balls and the fans complained lol

[@ethancalhoun5185]

What a banger, hope to see more season breakdowns like this

[@TheKGP1107]

Please Please Please

[@mitchellpeck3749]

Being from Arizona and that being our only championship still to this point the 2001 season holds a close place in my heart.

[@stevendeckert6373]

President Bush coming out of the dugout and firing a strike still gives me the chills.

[@TheKrazyk2010]

Also the last time a Republican president actually got a standing ovation in a liberal heavy area

[@jujuonthatqueef5043]

@@TheKrazyk2010 dude was a war criminal but he wasn’t an inflammatory asshole that disparaged half the country every other day. He was charismatic. This pitch was the perfect example of that..you gotta imagine how hard his secret service agents were pushing him not to do this. The entire country watching. Dude throws some cheese and dips out like a boss

[@TheKrazyk2010]

@@jujuonthatqueef5043 yeah joe biden is killing the country hard

[@andrewjacks2716]

Look, I'm pretty much a dyed in the wool leftist who doesn't even think there should be such a thing as a president. I detest George W. Bush. But goddamn do I respect that strike he threw.

[@bbarrettgriffith]

@@TheKrazyk2010 Every President for the past 90 years has been a War Criminal. Plain and simple. The United States is an Empire built on blood and seeps it’s claws into every single one of its citizens achievements and inventions. I wish Baseball existed in a vacuum, greatest game ever invented.

[@johnnycheckpoint8431]

As a Diamondbacks fan who grew up in Arizona and went to the championship parade, this was such a memorable season. I was in 3rd grade and it was a wonderful time to be a kid. Too bad my other Arizona sports memories aren’t as good. Lol

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

Cardinals are pretty g- ... wait ...

[@Goo762]

After 9/11 ill always remember the 2001 Diamondbacks for being the biggest scumbags in sports history. Took away our feelings of recovery and 5th dynasty win, AZ didn't deserve it with the infield in call from Torre with Mo pitching. Gayest bloop hit in sports history.

[@MrBurns-fn1iz]

Me too! Best sports year of my life.

[@andrewboyce7268]

This was when baseball was the top dog. Almost knew every player.

[@xdan9xx]

Hasn't been the case in 40+ years. Nfl is king

[@JohnnyGlaze7]

@Big Planz he isn’t “trippin bruh” he’s telling the truth lol here’s an example, the New York Yankees

[@MrAlvin714]

Same

[@dustinwroten353]

Baseball was lit in the early 2000s. I doubt itll ever return to that level though. Not until mumble rappers tell their automaton followers that baseball is cool.

[@itsthekid9815]

Just a fun fact it's been 55 years since football over took baseball. That's not opinion that's just a fact. 1965 was when football became king.

[@BKrystall]

2001 was a great season. Even though my Dodgers came up short. The Seattle mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks were fun to watch. Lots of new faces and farewells.

[@NighthawkScope]

And I thought I appreciated 2001 already. I never fully realized how many amazing things happened that season. Thank you for the video.

[@ryanthompsonthompson820]

This is going to be good.

[@MikeysPsyche]

I don't even care about the diamondbacks but the ending of that Game 7 always gives me goosebumps.

[@JPGRRocksProductions]

2001 one was also memorable as a Twins fan, but from a very different perspective: this was the year the league very nearly put my team and the Montreal Expos up on the chopping block for contraction. Whether or not they were actually serious, it’s interesting to examine that year through the perspective of it potentially being the final year of the Twins as a team in the MLB.

[@rocknrallsoul94rockero4]

2002 you mean also a video about the 2002 Twins ALCS team to save the team would be appreciated

[@MVuke84]

With everyone juicing around 2000, I respect Griffey Jr. even more now. 56 homeruns in 1997. Doing everything with his God givin talent, nothing else.

[@alwillk]

Class? How about him grabbing his crotch after sparky Anderson intentionally walked him in a game in 1993. All because Griffey sr hated sparky. Griffey jr. was petty. And his grudge vs Mckeon.

[@maaarcus7227]

@@alwillk He misworded it. Griffey was not that classy but his integrity was intact and I'll take a man with integrity than a man with class.

[@brandonmatics652]

He did not hit 56 in 2001.

[@MVuke84]

@@brandonmatics652 Yea thanks, I corrected it... it was 1997. Regardless, he did it without taking anything, just relied on his talent

[@muddro420]

@@alwillk If you intentionally walk someone, you should have to accept it when they grab their crotch and stfu about it. Fuck intentional walks. Play the game, cowards.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

Ichiro's Rookie of The Year and MVP while leading the Mariners to 116 Wins is quite possibly the most impressive first MLB season in History.

[@DojKim]

What a nightmare that could've been for Kim I still get goosebumps.. The man was so young and also a great closer..

[@Matts_Smirkingrevenge]

I started watching baseball when I was 10 in 99... 2001 was the first year I remember watching every single televised game (Hard to believe that 20 years ago not every game was still) AND as a kid growing up in STL seeing Albert Pujols explode onto the scene was amazing. It was truly something special.

[@lordvader420]

Hard to believe I witnessed all this in just one season. What a year that was man!

[@Ninja_Walrus]

I was only 11 when the Diamondbacks won and I was born and raised in Arizona. I used to go to Dbacks games as a kid around this era. I still wear a 2001 championship t-shirt to this day even though I now have lived in California since 2011. I just watched the Diamondbacks lose in the 2023 World Series, and it was painful but also I was grateful that we were there at all. This video gave me chills and I think the 2001 WS was one of the best of all time. Also on a sidenote I got to meet Randy Johnson in person around 2015, I was working a big event in Las Vegas and he was a photographer for the event. He is a big human being haha.

[@happyseizure8941]

I’m not one to get emotional but man, I started tearing up around the 18:00 mark

[@wholuv_j]

Imagine if the Mariners still had Griffey or A-Rod and Ichiro

[@jamesmoltres8623]

Unstoppabler

[@jayyswerve9647]

And randy Johnson

[@djquinn11]

If they still had them they’d all be 45-50 year old has beens.

[@neutralamity]

What if they had their entire 1997 lineup and Ichiro? That would be insane.

[@benriffle104]

Throw in a juiced Bret Boone too.

[@jamman950]

18:22 as a Yankees fan, I will always love Mike piazza for that home run, his carrer and personality

[@andrewmiller4573]

One of the most important homers ever hit! I'll never forget it! Almost like it was a "message " to the world.

[@andrewmiller4573]

I'm sure that EVERYONE felt bad for NYC that year, but God damn I was completely sick of the NYY by then! Worst WS walkoff hit in MLB history but damnit it worked!

[@eyemissmyunclecharles7185]

I'm a new baseball fan, and I remember a lot of the names in this vid from watching the news and when my dad had baseball on the TV in the background. This was a great video that taught me a lot about what seemed to be a great time in the sport!

[@thetwoseamer6676]

Wow great video. Luis Gonzalez has to be one of the last under appreciated baseball players of that whole era. The guy is almost never talked about now. His World Series walk-off off of Mariano Rivera might just be one of the craziest things in baseball history.

[@MrKJ444]

he was roided out of his mind as well just like Bonds and Sosa

[@byronf9021]

The 2001 World Series made me a baseball fan for life ! I was twelve years old and rooting against my dad who was pulling for the diamondbacks still sour over the yanks beating the Braves for it all in the years prior. I watched the entire series with dad that year and have been a fan ever since. I still root for the yanks but now days my team is the Braves, naturally.

[@thomasmartin4281]

RIP Tony Gwynn, hard to believe he’s gone

[@futuregohan4837]

Tony Gwynn Did More Good Than Bad For The Game

[@thomasmartin4281]

@@futuregohan4837 I can’t think of any bad he did ever, besides smokeless tobacco.

[@amh424]

I was at the Cubs game at Wrigley on 9/10/01 as we were trying to claw back into the playoff picture. This became an afterthought about 12 hours later.

[@logalogalog]

I was at the 7 September game where Kerry Wood out pitched Greg Maddux. Best pitcher's duel I ever witnessed hands down.

[@Joe-bm4wx]

As a kid growing up in AZ, I didn't understand what had happened to NY at the time, but it was so exciting to see the diamondbacks win. AZ teams hardly ever win anything important.

[@createnewhandle_]

As far as I can tell tho is the only (proper) championship an AZ team has won

[@drewdrewski4188]

Nah those Rattlers chips are legit. They're basically the Yankees of indoor football. (/s)

[@aidanbannister566]

Growing up in San Diego, hearing the “giant used car tent sale” brought back so many memories lol

[@123itsjrd]

MLB Network did a great job talking about the '01 season in their "Baseball Season's" documentary, and you SportStorm did a fantastic job adding more importance and intrigue to a season that is always a pleasure to look back on out of both respect and entertainment value. There were moments in the video that I had never seen before from that year and I was proud to learn and see these plays from this video that would have been almost difficult for me to find on my own time.

[@ConBarry11]

You need to make one of these for every year this century! This is so good

[@hermanuslemmer1695]

2001 was also the first time in 11 years that Independence Day and Halloween were Wednesdays, Thanksgiving was on the earliest possible day (November 22), and Christmas was on a Tuesday.

[@HighpointerGeocacher]

The narrator claimed that most of the country was behind the Yankees, but most people, including myself, couldn't be rooting for a team that has won so many World Series before, including four of the most recent five before 2001. It was great to see the Diamondbacks win this World Series.

[@jg7102]

The Indians came back from a 14-2 run deficit after the 6th inning. Cant believe this was missed. It was done against that historic mariners team.

[@DavidRay39]

As a D-backs fan, this was definitely a great season, World Series title aside. I only wish you had mentioned Tony Womack's grand slam on Father's Day, since he had lost his own father the previous April.

[@xvwwvxxvwwvx]

Great research, A+ editing, awesome video my dude!

[@iamkonner4813]

I absolutely love this kind of your content, documenting a specific special year for a team.

[@mpaulm]

Best stat of that season; Bond's OBP of .515. Amazing considering .400 is elite.

[@mpaulm]

@Don Clark People who say that know nothing about that era. It's like saying Wayne Gretzky only put up as many points as he did because he played in the 80's.

[@doctorpepper3343]

@@mpaulm that analogy sucks...try harder

[@mpaulm]

@@doctorpepper3343 I don’t think you know what an analogy means; try harder.

[@danwhitehurst9592]

@Don Clark Mays and Aaron took amphetamines provided by the team as did hundreds of other players in the 50’s-70’s. Look up “greenies in baseball “ they weren’t illegal but are now. If you think Bonds’s accomplishments are tainted from substances you don’t know the history of the game very well. If you remove players from the Hall of Fame that used substances to enhance their preformance illegal or not, morally or not, once illegal or always illegal, you would go through the building in 5 minutes.

[@danwhitehurst9592]

@Don Clark building muscle doesn’t equal homeruns. The most homeruns hit in 1 year by the league was 2019. Plus the VAST majority of substance users in the “steroid era” were pitchers.

[@TheOscarhernandez264]

This was awesome brought back so many memories….

[@madmania9446]

Imagine having Ichiro, Griffey, and A-Rod in the same lineup

[@JusNoBS420]

And Randy Johnson on the mound. What a team

[@perryegolson833]

Ummm, they didn’t. Ichiro arrived in 2001. A-Rod was a Ranger that year and Griffey was a Red. Johnson was also a Diamondback.

[@madmania9446]

@@perryegolson833 No shit??? I said IMAGINE!!! As in Imagine if those 3 never left Seattle

[@MarloSoBalJr]

@@perryegolson833 Had the Mariners predicted the future. They would have a World Series today... and not an "if"

[@qwuzzy]

Still wouldn't win lol

[@justmaxproductions]

12:52 lol what did the Angles do to deserve not even warranting a click

[@averagejosh6699]

Waste Trout

[@Kyle_Evers]

Damn... what a memorable year indeed. I was young at the time and was really into playing and watching baseball. It felt different back then. I remember being a huge Barry Bonds and Ichiro fan. What a time to be alive and be a baseball fan. Haven't watched much baseball since then but Shohei is making me want to subscribe to an MLB streaming service.

[@earloflemongrab1290]

Even though I knew what happened this season, watching this made me so excited and drawn in, I caught myself smiling toward the end. Baseball was/is the greatest sport of all time, the happiness and memories of this era are so refreshing to bring to mind

[@ryanbarber7618]

Unacceptable 😄

[@OJTheBLAK]

The 2001 World Series made my entire household cry, considering how shaken NYC still was following 9/11. We felt a connection with those Yankees, especially knowing that the team was likely going to be different going forward. Despite the Yanks not winning the World Series, I’ve never been prouder of a sports team I root for than that Yankees squad

[@Peterskillz]

Thanks for making this videos, brought me back to when I was 11 and was fully in love worth baseball. I miss baseball in the 2000s even though my Padres were trash. I remember that World Series walk off by Luis Gonzalez like it was yesterday

[@tofferwilliams6121]

“The country was squarely behind the Yankees”. Really? I know absolutely no one who cheered for them, despite everything… they’re still the Yankees.

[@Mrtacos456]

Oh my god that GIANT USED CAR TENT SALE ad is so fucking nostalgic to everyone in SD. Rip Qualcomm

[@stevendeckert6373]

Curt Schilling should be in the hall of fame.

[@alwillk]

His regular season numbers are borderline, but he has some of the best playoff numbers of any playoff pitcher. He should be in on that.

[@GordonFalt]

Well he’s an outspoken conservative so you can count the hall of fame out for him….. maga baby!

[@legitbowler9877]

Yep, On the first ballot back in 2012. The baseball hall of fame writers really suck, and they need new writers inducting all these players given how backwards some of the people within the sport who they’ve inducted including and especially bud selig, big popi, but not bonds, clemens, and especially curt schilling

[@legitbowler9877]

@@GordonFalthe backs everything about collective people up, and I love listening to him given how great he is

[@GordonFalt]

@@legitbowler9877 he’s the man

[@OH_MY_DOGGG]

In 2001 or by the end. Schilling was a consensus first ballot hall of famer. Even though he had been off and on to that point. His run on the D'Backs was just that fulfilling.

[@jacobcelmer4928]

Luis Gonzalez's walk-off gets all the praise and deservedly so but everyone sleeps on Tony Womack's game-tying hit.

[@tysparks598]

I'd just graduated college when 9/11 disrupted everything... One thing people don't remember is how United we were -- I think W had a 92% approval rating by the end of the year. Tragedy, yes, but also something to look to as positive today, as we can all come together again, we don't have to be separated by politics. We can come together over baseball.

[@jasonkeenan4154]

I think about this often when I'm reminded of how divided we are. For a brief time, everyone was in it together.

[@tysparks598]

Right on

[@trevorschmitt-ernst4813]

How do you come out with so many quality, good length videos this frequently?

[@andrewmiller4573]

Twenty damn years this coming September! Can you believe it? It truly was an amazing baseball season in 01! I worked a graveyard shift for a friend/co-worker the night before that ugly morning and I fell asleep, watching SPORTS CENTER on the couch trying to see what Bonds was doing and I finally fell asleep about 20 minutes before the first tower....It was odd to wake up around 1pm Mst, knowing that I had ESPN on when I fell asleep and by this time it was all over. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out just what the hell I was looking at on my TV set. By then, it was just a wide shot of Manhattan, completely engulfed in smoke and dust. Once everything "resumed", I believe that the rest of that season, was the most important baseball seasons of my life! It just had a different meaning that year.....

[@Padre619]

So sad that people now think that dark day was basically nothing

[@xtlm]

I forgot so many of those moments were in the same season.....wild.

[@youfound_natman5546]

Every time something about 9/11 comes on something I watch. It gives me the most chills out of anything else

[@SammySosaChannel]

Things you didn't mention: Bud Smith throws a No-Hitter as a rookie Albert Belle retires in Spring Training Mark McGwire batting .187 in just 97 Games with 29 of his 56 hits being Home Runs

[@steveschmidt3961]

8:05 JESUS CHRIST ICHRIO!!!!!! that was fucking downright amazing.

[@karsonmapes]

hats off to you wow what a video

[@dukeon]

I’m a simple guy. I see Barry Bonds, Ichiro, and The Big Unit on one video - I click immediately.

[@raptorspostgametalk]

I'm just happy the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees that year lol

[@avplayz1711]

I wasnt alive when the September 11th attacks happened, but seeing some of those moments makes me realize why i love baseball.

[@Deltasquad382943]

As a Diamondbacks fan, I wish I could’ve seen the World Series but I wasn’t even a year old when it happened. I’m glad that it happened and I’m glad to be a Diamondbacks fan

[@Padre619]

As a Yankees fan y’all got lucky 💀 it should’ve been the Yankees 4th straight but they blew it

[@MeMe-kk1xt]

Bro i know this comment is old but what are you talking about. the dbacks dominated the series and outscored yall 37-14, the yankees were lucky to be back in AZ at all, and ur a yankee fan but ur pfp and username are padres@@Padre619

[@zackdurost5359]

You definitely should do more of these, this was great!

[@rohnwest4497]

Your content is amazing !! THANK YOU !

[@thisisme513]

Haven’t even watched the video yet but I already know it’s amazing good stuff

[@drewdrewski4188]

If you want proof that the baseball gods exist, then I present you with the 2001 World Series. This probably should have been a forgettable 5-game win for the D-Backs, ending with the awkward image of a random expansion team partying at Yankee Stadium less than two months after 9/11. But the baseball gods said no, that's not how it's gonna be. The nation, and the city of New York in particular, needs something to cheer about and distract themselves from tragedy. So, sorry Byun Hyun Kim, but this won't go well for you. Yankees fans got to see their team get three victories they'll never forget, including two unbelievable comebacks on back-to-back nights with homeruns after being down to their final outs, and their Jeter being crowned "Mr November" with a walkoff homerun just after the crack of midnight on the first at-bat in MLB history in November. Then the baseball gods were like, well of course this is going the distance. Game 6, Arizona blows them out early, wins 15-2, done. Let's get down to it: Game 7. Schilling vs Clemens. This is what America needs. In the end, the baseball gods figured it'd be too cruel to let Arizona lose after what they did in New York. Let's get the Big Unit that ring and WS MVP to fill out the Hall of Fame resume, let's get that boatload of accomplished-but-ringless castoff veterans on the D-Backs roster theirs too. But of course, let's do it as epically as possible. Let's do a bottom-of-the-ninth comeback against the greatest closer of all time, and end it with the hometown MVP at the plate in a scenario every kid who's played baseball in their backyard has dreamed about, and fans losing their minds. Well played, baseball gods.

[@starlinpena4943]

Facts 2001 was so great dont forget ppl how good oakland was im a yankee fan they scared the crap outta me in 01

[@KingTC12]

phenomenal video man

[@SportStorm23]

thank you!

[@tubuskan4348]

God the crowd just makes ya happy

[@eetuanquin1330]

best channel in the world! rad vid bro!

[@joshuapatrick682]

Frank Thomas got his ring, but never got the respect he deserved. Like Stieb in Toronto he never got to play in the playoffs when his team won but they recognized his contributions assisted in getting to the WS

[@RyansColoradoRailProductions]

You forgot to mention one of the craziest finishes in MLB history, 8/7/01 Rockies @ Cubs

[@Shawzboy]

damn dude, what an awesome video... keep up the good work!

[@utubechy]

Very well produced. Bravo

[@o.o1015]

98 and 2001 were the greatest baseball seasons of all time.

[@tylerc2853]

This is the season that solidified my love for baseball. I had already been a fan of the Braves (living in the south in the 90’s meant every game was broadcasted on TBS) but as a 10 year old kid playing little league, everything about this season was magical. It’s the reason Ichiro was and always will be my favorite non-Atlanta Brave.

[@DenverGhost]

This year was seriously insane

[@tommyryan8631]

Can you please do more season summaries like this? I love this video

[@xMassacreOG]

2001 was a good year for sports and sports entertainment

[@ShellShockTay]

What an amazing year in all aspects. It's still makes me laugh to this day that Yankee tv and radio announcers still falsely remember this world series as another world series win during their nostalgic story times during games these days haha. Nonetheless, some of the greatest baseball we've ever seen and showed the "greatest closer" according to many wasn't perfect on the grandest stage.

[@seankiesling2054]

Fuck... there was more history in this season than I ever thought....WOW

[@Realistic316]

i wonder how many HRs Bonds would have hit if they didn’t walk him an absurd amount of times.

[@druem]

no mention of the paul o neil chant in game 5? that is one of the most vivid childhood memories of baseball that i have.

[@SerFondue]

Ichiro is and will always be my favorite non Yankee of this era 🔥🙌🏼

[@bradyrhodess]

He was a yankee

[@orangezapinator7450]

Yeah…

[@D0RYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY]

i was a freshman in highschool in 01 and saw 9/11 happen from across the hudson river in new jersey. we had a perfect view of the skyline. such a chaotic day. the whole ny sports scene did well in handling the situation in my opinion. they really helped with morale and unity. i went to two of those world series games and it was definitely special.

[@TheNoobMaster84]

Even though I'm not a Mets fan I always get the chills watching Piazza's Homer after 9/11

[@TimForzaTorinoF95Ole]

Best season ever way to go Dbacks 🐍🐍🐍 even tho I was only 5

[@dom_k4424]

Ichiro could’ve been a home run hitter too, we can never forget that would’ve changed sooooo much in baseball history

[@pager3530]

My dad was the strength coach for the 2001 dbacks

[@Jagnole101]

Them and the 2005 White Sox were the two best one-year-wonder teams I’ve ever seen in MLB. 2002 Angels were great as well.....but the two 20 game winners is ridiculous. Just nuts. And they ended a Dynasty

[@joeg5414]

Man, 9/11. I was 18 and had been in the Air Force for 3 months. Was in Biloxi training to be an air traffic controller. Crazy day that I still remember like yesterday. Hard to believe it's been 21 years

[@robertmacias279]

RIP TONY GWYNN... Many years he was the only reason to watch my Padres.

[@WaffleLover-my1hi]

good video! you forgot to mention that Foolish Baseball played on the Braves in 2001