I was catching up on ESPN’s Catching Hell documentary and really got caught up in the early part if the film that focuses on Game 6*
(* if I have to clarify which Game 6 Then this isn’t the blog for you.)
It’s absolutely amazing that they have Buckner on film 12 dats earlier saying that the dream is to win the World Series and the nightmare is to have a ball roll between your legs as the wining run scores. What?!!
If you put that in a fictional baseball movie I’d say the writer was a hack.
Equally as mesmerizing is the footage of the Boston locker room. I had seen shots of Costas and the champagne, and heard the story many times, but this doc somehow has footage of the clubhouse staff getting that stuff the he’ll out of there. Incredible.
I still remember every feeling I had that night. If you’re old enough you have it too and if you’re too young you’ll never be able to totally understand baseball’s greatest half inning.
To this day I get depressed when I watch the DVD, and one of these times Carter is likely to fly out to center.
But then I watch it and it is surreal. I still can’t believe it’s happening. Then it does, and of course Vin Scully has the perfect call. I’m getting choked up even as I think about it.
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It’s nice to hear Dwight Evans mention the “Congratulations Red Sox” scoreboard flash in the documentary. I don’t think a picture of that ever surfaced, and at times I begin to doubt myself.
Chief, Game 6 of the NLCS was pretty good, too
I’m about 92% sure there is a shot of the congratulations message in the show Simply Amazin’
Osh41 never lets MetPolice forget that I attended that game as a 16 year old. My seats were in the last section of the uppers in right, so when the ‘Congrats Red Sox’ flashed up we wouldn’t have been able to see it anyway. That would have been a horror to see. All I thought was that I was going to be at Shea the night they lost and that I would have to transfer schools. Going back after they lost the World Series would have been a nightmare as osh41 talked much trash about his Mets. Let’s just say I didn’t end up transfering and floated on air the rest of my senior year……….
Now you got me trying to find proof of the Congratulations Red Sox…here is what I found:
In The Bad Guys Won, by Pearlman, he tells a detailed story of a Diamond Vision operator named Mike Ryan, Mass. native, who ordered up a Congratulations Red Sox screen on a preview monitor as soon as Backman flew out. The three words inadvertantly flashed as Carter was strolling to the plate for no more than 5 seconds…he screamed “get that s**t off now!”
In his Daily News column, 10/27/86, Mike Lupica writes that “with Mookie at the plate-and Congratulations Boston coming on the message board, then going-the Mets were one strike away again.”
I watched the game tape just now and saw nothing and no mention of it or any unexplained crowd reaction. So we now have two more questions…did it appear with Carter coming to the plate, or with Mookie up? Did it say Congratulations Red Sox or Boston?
I would tend to think that by the time Mookie was up, they did not have Congratulations Whatever queued up. In fact on the tape, during Mookie’s at bat, I clearly saw “Let’s Go Mets” on Diamond Vision. It’s pretty much certain that something did flash at some point.