I got a standing room ticket outside the stadium, for $30. I stayed until the very end!

sat in the bleachers at fenway in the 1986 world series. ticket was 25 bucks

How many umbrella s did y'all have.

That would be down one game. They needed two to win the series. 😉

That's devastating

Thanks for the spoiler

He almost got another crack at it with the Angels 4 years later.

Sutton, with the Astros in 1981, got hurt in the final series of the year and missed the playoffs, where Houston, ironically, played the Dodgers. The Astros won the first two games in the Dome, then lost the three games in LA (a real house of horrors for Houston then, and vice-versa the other way). Had Sutton been available, who knows, may the Astros win one of those games in Dodger Stadium and eliminated the Dodgers.

He had to have elbow surgery, and missed all of 1983.

What I got to do, was wander from seat to seat, talking with many fans. I had gotten a bus ticket from Louisville, KY to attend. :-)

NBC aired 'The Tonight Show' for part of the rain delay. Sports Illustrated joked that John Stuper won by 'pitching around Johnny Carson'.

@@BrianONEILL-qf2csThat episode of the Tonight Show has now been posted and the rain delay was long enough so the whole episode aired. Bill Cosby was guest host that night

No way. Milwaukee didn't have Fingers and Vuckovich was 60% healthy at best at the end of the season. When this series got back to St. Louis everyone knew the Brewers were doomed because they didn't have the pitching depth to win a six- or seven-game affair. The fact that Vuckovich got as far as he did in the last game was a miracle. Cardinals fans always complain about not winning in 1985 and 1987, but they never mention that they also got a bit lucky in 1982.

@@bluebirdconundrum Pete Vukovich was really a battler as he did when pitching for the Cards. Milwaukee though seemed to have a great chance with Don Sutton pitchihg game 6 against a rookie wince he really helped the Brewers down the stretch. I agree the Cards really eked one out and Rollie Fingers would have really helped. I play baseball strat-o-matic a very realistic baseball game based on probability player cards from a given season and have these teams offered by the game. The Brewers and Cards play tough and Joaquin Andujar was really key forr STL kind of like in the Bob Gibson role. The Brewers had so many who could hit a homer versus the Cards small ball stealing bases.

@@larryloveless2967 Sutton was so poor for Milwaukee in the World Series he might as well have been wearing a Cardinals jersey. The Brewers had tried to bolster their pitching by acquiring Sutton, but he just didn't have any great stuff left when they got him. The Brewers' lineup was extremely potent, but a powerful offense cannot offset a severe lack of arms in a World Series. The Cardinals' pitching was MUCH better than Milwaukee's with Fingers out and Vuckovich hurting, and even then the series was only decided in the last few innings of the seventh game in St. Louis.

Bud Selig. That said, watching the drama over the rain delay here makes me so glad that Bud codified officially that no WS game can be called early, even if the game has to be suspended.

He came close to the catastrophie of a rain shortened title clinching game in the '08 World Series. THEN he changed the rule to what you were talking about. BTW, I would've loved to see what kind of a commish Bart Giammati would've been? My guess, he wouldn't have changed much. He was quoted as a traditionalist. Bud Selig was at the start of this new wave of catering leaugues so it's owners make the most money possible. And Roger Goodell took it to even yet a higher level.

I'm going with Fay Vincent, he got completely shit on by that pos Bud Selig

At 1:24:24 there goes the machine that screwed up Vince Coleman in 1985.

@@BAYAREA-kd1ig You see it starting to open at 1:13:12.

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@@fantasticvoyage262 Thank you Not bad for complete.

@@cards1985 He threw one of the more underrated pitching performances in team history.

Until 1985, entire WS were played either on NL or AL rules, and 82 happened to be an AL year

@@robheaton I wasn't aware of that. So it alternated just like home field advantage every year?

​@@fantasticvoyage262 From1976-85 the DH was used in alternate years. Even numbered years the DH was used and odd numbered years no DH.1986 is when the home team determined the use of the DH untill the adoption of the universal DH

@@paulsonj72 You are right. I always thought whomever was the home team determined whether there was a DH. That was the rule I was used to when interleague play started. So what prompted the change in 1986?