I was 8 when we won the World Series. Watching it with my parents is one of my most favorite memories as a child. I’m so glad it’s here on KZfaq to rewatch as a 40 year old man lol.

@@K1ngAw3som3 I was 2 weeks and 4 days old when I saw this game. My mammy just left me on the couch on the baby seat for some hours and it was agony watching this dumb sh t.

The glory days are returning!

@@kentuckyman21 I hope. The Reds are looking pretty good right now but I wish baseball had a salary cap cause any young stars we have we won't be able to keep long term. Ive always said baseball needs a salary cap. I understand dome small market clubs can have success like Tampa Bay or when the Royals won the WS but they usually always have to trade their young stars and keep on top of that or face losing players via free agency to the Yankees,Dodgers or Redsox. I would love to see my Reds win another WS before I die or at least make it to one,that would be sweet.

Same here. I watched this on TV when I was 9 years old. I remembr how much hype Oakland got leading up to this series, and for good reason. I knew about Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Rickey Henderson, Dave Stewart, Bob Welch, and Dennis Eckersley. Watching my heroes go out and destroy these guys was insane. As a die hard fan. This was and still is one of the greatest seasons I've ever seen from one of the few teams I follow religiously in any sport. It ranks up there with Ohio States football National in 2002. Like the Reds in 1990, the media pundits gave these Buckeyes 0 chance of beating a Miiami Hurricane team on a 34 game winning streak. Also in 2014 the Buckeyes were again written off because they had to play against mighty Alabama. And then Zeke rushed for 230 yards as Osu won the NC. I guess what I'm getting at is that my favorite teams can only win a Championship once a decade as massive underdogs..

Kozmo Kramer I was SHOCKED the Reds swept. It was amazing. The A's looked too tough

@MANCHESTER UNITED Who gives a damn about the world? In the US Baseball is a national pastime. Soccer? very few in the US care about pro soccer.

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Wrong comment section. Fairy.

That strike zone was a joke fuck cin

@M Nobody gives a crap about soccer when they're watching a baseball video.

I was 8 years old and the biggest Reds fan ever. I went to my first game that year and the Giants beat them 3-2. I was so pissed lol. But they swept the series and made everything right in my 8 year old heart

@@K1ngAw3som3 The reds are just a loser organization. They haven't won jack sh|t since this world series 33 years ago lol.

I was 9. Eric Davis was and still is my all time favorite baseball player. He played with so much swagger you can feel it electrify his team and the crowd . Davis also had the coolest batting stamce ever. He would just nonchalantly stand there while slowly allowing his bat to drift back and forth above his head...he could hit, he could run, and he had a cannon for an arm from the outfield...total badass.. I wouldn't be surprised if Dave Stewart still has nightmares about this game!

It is 2023 meaning you have been a red’s fan for 53 years… I beat you by two

@domxem5551 I was born 1960 St. Mary's on the River, n was BORN a Reds fan. My aunt used to babysit pretty sure it was for Mahoney's kids and Danny Keyes would drop his kids off (so babysat them for free! Haha) I was 4 so may have names wrong there. Also remember a family gathering ('64) and running around collecting up the coke bottle caps that had pics of Reds players...p.s.was one of a few to be in the Bay Area cheering on the Reds! Don't get me going on the Bengals here, OMG, but Niner fans respect us, the Best Niner SuperBowls they ever won (esp. w/ Sammy n Bill's History-see the regular season game 49ers stole-we shoulda walked back stalling time for a safety, THEN PUNTED p.s. didnt we have the whole Reds infield born in Cincy? or 7 of 9 starters?!!!! Always Special Teams!!! God Bless

LOL...ED was one player who I'm *positive* wasn't on the juice. Steroids? Dude was 6'2" and weighed 165.

+Duneedon and you know one of the players that was on the juice that never gets mentioned....Bo Jackson!!!

Did you have good seats for the game? That would be some awesome to be at a World Series game. What a team that was.

That was an astoundingly beautiful National Anthem. I hope you were on time for that.

Duneedon I think you're exactly right. He "flipped the script" with one swing.

Yep, you basically NEED something like a 5-0 start minimum. (i think they started 9-0)?

Yeah, I believe the next team to do it after the '90 Reds was my other team (for the AL)...the 2005 White Sox! I had heard when I was living in Chicago in '05 that the Sox were the first team to go wire-to-wire since the 90 Reds. Went to both World Series for my two fav teams!

I was 12 and everyone was doubting. My uncles, many of my friends at school, the news…..I thought we would we would win the whole time. Oh, the nativity of a 12 year old baseball freak. They made me correct, and made the best sports memory of my childhood.

Eric the Red

Yeah well you have that wide ass strike zone to thank for it

It was my favorite World Series that’s for sure... the A’s were seen as unbeatable at the time

Mine too.

Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!!

Probably will never be broken

You might've liked him The rest of the country didn't

That's awesome. I was 10 and just moved from cincy. Loved those reds. Sabo, larkin, davis and browning were heroes in my house

That's always been the narrative, but honestly the Reds were the better team heading into the Series. Jose Rijo was lights out, and Billy Hatcher played out of his mind. The A's, while getting swept, didn't exactly roll over after that. Game Two went to extra innings and Game Four was a one run game. The Reds just had the better pitching staff overall and McGwire, Canseco, and Dave Henderson were completely overmatched. The Reds had a combined ERA of 1.70 in the Series compared to 4.33 for the A's. The Reds' pitching was the difference

@@TheVCRTimeMachineI think because the NL probably had better pitching that year.

Pitching was the key. Rijo, Jackson, Browning. Top notch.

@@brianjacob8728 youre forgetting the nasty boys

@@averagecitizen8491 I was focusing on the starting rotation. But yeah, best bullpen in baseball that year.

@pete ziriaah It was great hearing And Randall Kirk Myers closes the game out and this one belongs to the Reds. I wish the mgmt at 700 wlw would podcast all 4 games of the WS

@LTATJ's JaYs Are you one of those oaktown clowns?

Andrew Hiedelburg I feel same about my Seahawks when they won the ship. We thought we’d go back for at least another few years. Football seems to strip SB teams down due to cost where baseball just the opposite but different teams get in.

4lifeReagan nah gfoh CBS sucked covered baseball even worse than Fox. NBC used to be the best but they gave up on baseball in 2001.

@@TheLocalLt NBC and MLB. Need to reconnect.

cbs sucked doing baseball..... bring back days of abc and nbc...from 70s and 80s....leave out joe Buck

@@glst1974 Dick Ebersol has a great interview about why NBC didn't renew the baseball contract, and why baseball on a National scale doesn't financially work.

They can lose pat O, and mccarver too... Mcdonut is AWFUL too!

@Jim McCracken True, he did that. IMO, he did it because he didn't trust his pitchers as well as Bench and there was a lot of justification for it as well. The relievers were notoriously unreliable in close games. The starting pitching was OK, but not great either.

And Sparky had a short leash. Free agency coming out after 1976 hurt the Reds too.

Id love to hear marty and joes podcast of the series

Good Lord those Pirate teams were stacked too.

Probably because Davis looked mean kind of. Then Dibble, Myers, and company were called the Nasty Boys. Then like Jim, Lou was known for his temper.

Totally agree

The steelers.. They had more hof players on one team.

sailsail sailsail I'm talking baseball outside the 27' Yankees and you know it!. Not the pitt / cincy football shit. I'm talking great baseball teams. So which Pirate's team compares? I'll wait! Better mgr than Sparky Anderson!! I'll wait!# He's in the HOF as well! Still waiting

sailsail sailsail Don't make me name the Great 8 again! " Bench" batted 7th! Greatest catcher in baseball history! Look it up

@@mattmatt5888 fuck the steelers

Yeah, the Reds were awesome, they kind of broke up after '76, lost Gullet and Perez right about the time Steinbrenner started spending ridiculous amounts of $$$ and it started getting really hard for small market teams like Cincinnati to compete. They were still good, but the Dodgers got really good in '77 and the Red Machine went into slight decline, didn't have the pitching to compete.

I needed this

@DarthVader20201 Davis was one of those players who, if he hadn't had so many injuries, would likely be in the HOF. Grew up with the Big Red Machine, and I still can't pick a fav player, bit E is def in my top 5.

Oakland was the main team in MLB at the time.

Now 33 years later the 2 franchises are so irrelevant it’s sad. Granted the Reds had a nice explosion of youth talent in 2023 and just barely missed the Playoffs but will they continue to trend upwards in 2024? I hope so but sadly doubt it and the MLB owners yesterday unanimously approved for the As to move to Las Vegas

Heck, they might in 2023.

But A’s suck this year.

I was right behind you!!!

Probably because the NL had that elite pitching, especially in the NL West. Though the way they did divisions then was so weird.

luvfreedom Agree 100% Those Reds Uniforms were smooth

I have a 1990 red Larkins uni and it is 🔥🔥🔥

@Jim McCracken They definitely had great pitching.

McGwire was never thin; he was thinner.

Before he started hitting the gear

Not sure if Pete with his gambling ways would have been a great manager.

I'm from Cincy, but was living in the Oaktown area for two years before this. Saw a lot of games. They looked like a great team then. I thought Oakland would be great for years to come. Came home to Cincy in early '90. Went to two games, and was on the square with about 200,000 other people cheering with brooms after it was over...LOL

As a child and super A’s fan at the time, my memories of this World Series is watching at my best friend’s house and both of us crying about losing....lol. I still don’t like Chris Sabo for whatever reason haha....Still sucks because I wish that A’s squad could’ve gotten one more championship, but yea it was obviously the Reds’ year....cheers.

That was a “certified 90’s strike zone” strike.

Had an off series! So he STILL didn't give the Reds the credit they deserved. smh

The funny thing is that Eric told about the shoulder injury affecting his hitting. Just to score a 2-run HR in his first at bat

@Chip Whitley he lacerated a kidney in Game 4 in Oakland. Owner Marge Schott made him pay his own air fare home. Don't get me started on Marge.

@@ronsterm7076 It's telling that the Eric Davis episode wasn't even the very worst thing that Marge Schott did during her ownership of the Reds. If anything, that was just a harbinger of thins to come in the next few years. I heard that Marge was actually pissed that her team won the World Series in a four game sweep. I if I have my facts straight, was upset that she was being deprived of additional revenue since Games 6-7 would've been played in Cincinnati.

@Wayne Lear not nearly as biased as Curt Gowdy was in the '75 Series. My dad and I talked serious shit about him for years.

He sounds fabulous. Among the best all time!

Yes. I come back to this video just to hear that intro and to go back to 1990. I was 10 and it was so great. Things just used to be more special I suppose. The announcers the music and themes. I remember MNF used to be great and watching John madden and Summeral call games. I miss the 90's baseball. Ken Griffey Jr,Frank Thomas,Cal Ripken,Nolan Ryan....etc. 1990-1995 was an amazing time, the 80's and 90's were the best of times and I'm so glad I experienced those days as a kid growing up.