WTBS 6/3/1984 Atlanta Braves at Cincinnati Reds with commercials (3 of 3)

[@KevinThomas-yf6sr]

More early 80's braves game please 🙏

[@berto1169]

That's James Hampton--Caretaker in the original The Longest Yard--in that Honda tractor ad, btw.

[@teresapflaumer5717]

Dutch Rennert! Strike...OOOOOOOOONNNNNNEEEEEEE!

[@dominicking5181]

TBS Network 🇺🇲 WarnerMedia (NYSE: T.) Pre-9/11 stuff.😎

[@cjones3710]

I miss our nation at this time. I miss baseball before players acted like selfish children and could relate to players , Americans who lives where they played.

[@chrisdaugherty8265]

I agree, a lot of MLB players now hate their fans and only interact with them if the cameras are on or they are getting something out of it. Not all of them, but a great amount.

[@cjones3710]

@@chrisdaugherty8265 I know. So many are not Americans, which is fine. Bit when most are speaking spansih, its really not our Culture,notour baseball anymore. Seen in thr attidues and unwritten rules being.gone. Also the clock in baseball is not good,nor is so many clubs in the playoffs . Soon it will turn into basketball, nobody will watch cept for playoffs bc players won't care about reg season. Then greedg owners willl shorten season.

[@jasontoon515]

People were saying exactly the same thing in 1984 when this video was made. Every baseball fan thinks the sport peaked when they were a kid.

[@jamesbrowne6351]

Yeah, like Pete Rose gambling on baseball, prima donna Reggie Jackson, Lenny (I stuffed tennis balls in a hollowed out bat and blamed it on my kids) Dykestra, Darryl (I snorted enough coke to make John Belushi blush) Strawberry, and who can forget Rob Dibble, an ass hole of epic stature who fought with anyone, including managers and teammates alike. Yep, times were great then. Everybody got along, no one ever did nothing bad, and all of our farts smelled like cotton candy.

[@Gappasaurus]

FYI, according to the online Baseball Almanac, the Braves would go on to beat the Reds 4-0 in this game.

[@knicksfan89]

despite getting only 4 hits

[@shrubbunny3299]

Thanks

[@wiedep]

This recording misses the 4 runs scored in 9th by Braves to win. Good observation about 'Dutch' Rennert, having his back turned to hitters when bellowing out his strike! call. Bravos won the next 4 on west coast but lost next 5 and never had a sustained win streak rest of the season.

[@brettblankenship3872]

Yikes! Len Barker on the mound! During the pennant chase in 83 the Braves decided to trade two minor leaguers and fan favorite outfielder Brett Butler for Barker. Let’s just say Barker is where the decline of eighties Braves began. He was given a five year contract and two months after this game the bone spurs in his heel required surgery. He was never the same after that. I can remember a lot of fans being incredibly ticked off at Ted Turner for sending Butler to Cleveland and I was one of them. This wasn’t the only reason Braves spiraled out of control until 1991 but I would say this is exactly where it started.

[@wiedep]

Barker looks like he's been spending a lot of time eating with the 'fat tub of goo' Terry Forster. He was listed @ 225 and Forster at "200" - yea, right... Aside from 2 years w/Indians Barker was never more than a .500 pitcher

[@gturcott1]

And Neikro

[@furnitureconsortium]

@@wiedep Well, the hate on Barker is justified.....I agree that this is where the 80's decline started. Len Barker does have one moment in the sun that nobody on the Indians or the Braves in those days experienced....a perfect game. So that moment will never be taken away from him, he'll always be in the record books for that. Tom Browning would also achieve one of those, but he's still in Triple A here in 84'....wouldn't debut with the Reds until the next year. I think that night in Cleveland in 81', all the stars aligned, the cosmos opened up, whatever cliche you want to use...but Barker put down all 27 Bluejays that he faced. Baseball is weird like that sometimes. The Braves did give up way too much talent to get Barker....Brett Butler was a great player with speed and hitting ability and awesome in the outfield. Brook Jacoby had talent as well and had a couple of good seasons in Cleveland. This wasn't apparent in 84' when they (Stirling & Van Wieren) were discussing the trade....but as Barker continued to falter and Butler & Jacoby starting putting it together later on.....the trade started to look horrible on paper and as you mentioned, the Braves went through some very lean years in the 80's. The cool thing about a superstation with national coverage is that you had Braves fans everywhere, myself included! The Tigers were and always will be #1 in my heart being a Michigan native and that 35-5 start in 84' will never be eclipsed. But the Braves and Cubs also ranked highly with me too, strictly due to the ability to see their games on WTBS and WGN, respectively. That's always going to be the huge "what if?" in 84'.....what if the Cubs expanded on that 11-0 beatdown on the Padres in Game 1 of the 84' NLCS and just demolished the Padres in the next two games? We would have had the I-94 World Series, the Cubs vs. the Tigers. EVERYBODY in Michigan and that region (Indiana, Illinois, etc.) wanted that series and were expecting that matchup to happen. Again, baseball is a weird thing sometimes. Padres were the better team in that series

[@smartluck100]

@@gturcott1Niekro. Do your research

[@smartluck100]

Back in those days. If you missed the live recording, you could watch the game replay at like 1 AM.

[@mikedemenchuk7717]

John Sterling looks like he's 15 years old.

[@904jagzsuck5]

Crazy by today's standards to hear the announcers call the Braves 'a contender' with this lineup 😂. The team BA musta been like 230