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.