If Jose Mesa didn't shake off multiple Sandy Alomar Jr's signs, the Indians would've won the World Series and none of this ever happens.

I would love to see the Beef between Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas.

Looking back, ‘97 is one of the few World Series where I genuinely believe the better team lost. Cleveland outhit, outscored, and largely outplayed the Marlins during the series, and it was mostly thanks to a few lucky breaks that the Marlins wound up winning in the end.

Mike Piazza and Roger Clemens

I find it interesting that Cleveland's ace Orel Hershiser lost 2 games in that series, Charles Nagy gave up the winning run in the 11th inning and yet Jose Mesa gets blamed for losing the series!

This is a classic baseball beef, glad it's covered.

Please do a beef history on Mike Piazza and Roger Clemens

Mesa didn't exactly pull an Armando Benitez in that game - he gave up 2 singles and a sacrifice fly. People talk about it like he was Mitch Williams in 1993 and it wasn't at all. Heck even Mariano's G7 outing in Arizona in '01 was a meltdown by comparison.

If you’ve got more ideas for ‘beeves’

Omar’s my favorite short stop of all time

Donovan McNabb vs Terrell Owens.

The music when Mesa saying he’ll kill him 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Vontaze Burfict vs the Pittsburgh Steelers

ca 1997, I was just young enough and the Indians vs. Marlins were just far enough away from my fandom that Mesa's collapse had long faded from my memory. Interestingly enough, this has reminded me of one other collapse he suffered that also redirected his career. When Safeco Forks opened in the second half of 1999, the first game was a thrilling example of "true" baseball entering the Top of the 9th. The hometown Mariners had just come back with a 2-run rally in the bottom of the 8th to have a 2-1 lead to Mesa who proceeded to... repeat his personal history. He gave up two runs, got the loss and had passed the point of no-return in Seattle Home Fan disdain. He just never seem to receive a warm welcome when he came in to pitch for the home crowd for the rest of his tenure in Seattle. He sucked the entire time he was there, but he was really, *really* unwelcome after that one particular gaffe on his Seattle resume full of... almost nothing but gaffes.

FIVE YEARS! Seems like his arm would get tired.

0:56 What do you expect? It's Cleveland. Their track record of choking is truly astounding.

Omar is one of the greatest of all time

I don't follow baseball much since my hometown Expos left but I love these videos so much!

i was waiting for this one!

great stuff

"Guess what I have behind my back..... Yeah, it was a baseball, good guess." LMFAO

You're opening lines always cracks me up 😂

Jose Bautista and Darren O'Day/Orioles deserve one of these. Probably started When Bautista hit a dinger off of O'Day as a Texas Ranger in 2010-2011 and lasted until 2017. You guys can also do one on the Jays vs Texas Rangers from 2015 to 2016 which resulted in some memorable brawls and eliminations in the playoffs.

Love this video series.

Welcome back.

Jose mourinho Vs Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho Vs Arsene Wenger, Wenger Vs Sir Alex Ferguson , Lane Kiffin V Tennessee

The Cleveland Indians as a team name and club wasn't racist change my mind

thanks and best regards from venezuela. I still watch that game 7 and crry :(((((

I just wanted to tell yall i really enjoy this series

Wow great video!

Omar trying to cover for Mesa by saying something probably got lost in translation when he said he was gonna kill him is so funny

This might actually be my favourite beef history.

Good video

Dude is 6" taller and 50+ lbs heavier, and yet it turns out Mesa's the little man in the feud. One of these guys is one of the most loved Indians ever and will be in the HoF soon. The other? Forever known as the guy who blew the '97 series.

1:44 “lol what is this object I’m holding” lmao

SB Nation, is, far and away, the best sports channel on KZfaq/sports website

I’m still pissed at Jose Mesa to this day

WE LIKE SPORTS AND WE DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS

Jose Mourinho Vs Pep Guardiola

So... Mesa hit him twice? Hatfields and McCoys this ain't.

Does anyone know where I can find the song/piece with the violin that plays for the first minute or so of this video?

Do Sherman and Crabtree

I mean, the little graphic at 0:36 shows that Mesa pitched a 3.1 inning save the game before, so shouldnt be too hard on him for blowing game 7.

Honestly, that blown save deserves a deep Rewind

Mesa shouldn’t have taken that scrimmage home run celebration personal but I understand why he did. Vizquel shouldn’t have said that about Mesa on his book either, you win and lose as a team, he implied Mesa was the responsible for the loss. Both acted a bit overboard and extra.

Welcome to another college football Saturday.

Mate, have you done Jordan vs Krause yet?

Molina/STL vs. Brandon Phillips.

What this video misses is Mesa versus Charles Johnson, perhaps the most critical AB of the series. Mesa had him down 1-2, and Johnson singled to right to put runners on the corners. If that doesn’t happen, Cleveland probably wins the World Series and there’s no beef.

In this day and age when there is video of everything you force your viewers to watch you speak into a mic and read press clippings as you ramble on about what ifs.

The subtitles are hilarious😂

As a Phillies fan I remember Jose Mesa very well. He was with the team well before their 5 straight division titles which brought them a championship. However he was there right as they were getting competitive again after years of bottom feeding. Those were some fun teams. He actually did come back to the team when they won thier first division title in 2007 but he wasn't a closer anymore and was well past his prime by then.

In a 2006 ESPN article, Tim Kurkjian wrote about the baseball beanball. A Hard Game Played By Hard Men. Loved it. It really made clear the old-school revenge culture of the beanball.

I like the “weight classes” reference especially.

could this guy keep doing the rewind videos too, please?

It’s crazy some of these baseball beefs Cleveland is always mentioned

Lmao @ the guess what I have behind my back pic

I’m watching this video dying laughing

Mesa prepping to throw one at the host’s back.

Huge tribe fan and I hate Mesa cuz he blew the 97 world series but it wouldn't have mattered cuz the whole team was on PEDS

Need more baseball beef histories

Glad this video is here. What almost nobody knows is why vizquel is so mad at Mesa. Back in the 90's I worked with this girl who said she was a Indians groupie. Nobody believed her. She said we should meet her up at the bar and she will show us. To our surprise Mesa walks in with a few other players. Mesa would get so drunk and out of hand. Other players would have a few and leave, not Mesa. Mesa did this every night. He acted like he didn't care about baseball. With all eyes on Cleveland at the time, why would you even think about being in a bar. That's the reason Vizquel was so pissed. Mesa was just a drunk and losing the game, was the last straw. Who can blame him. Other players were pissed, but not many would show it or talk about it. As a fan and knowing what really went on, I'm still pissed to this day. I can't even begin to think how all the other players felt. I probably would have killed the guy.

Mid 90s Indians were a powerhouse that is still underrated.

You should do the McDavid vs Manning beef, cause that is pretty interesting

‘The entire colts organization’ vs. the ‘New England patriots’

When is SB Nation going to do a piece on Jim Bouton?

As a Mariners fan...this is pretty funny lol I watched Mesa blow alota games

If you want to update this, there is a podcast where Mesa is talking about this

I wish that more pitchers had that level of follow through.

To understand we need to rewind, baseball was invented in 1839.

Mike Ditka vs Buddy Ryan

More hockey team beefs, Calgary and Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto, Montreal and Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburg

Madison Bumgartner and Yasiel Puig

deep rewind of the rigged nba game. 2002 kings lakers

I just wanna see more nba beef

Gotta do Draymond vs Tristian soon

That was a dumb comment about the Indians logo

7:02 Rest in Pitches, my dude.

Do a beef history on Angus!

Do one on the history of beef jerky

I was looking for beef hysterectomy. I'll see myself out.

Could you at least please include some footage..

Aikman vs Skip Bayless

Wow..the little captions are REALLY bad. I honestly thought SB Nation was above this.

You should look at AMA supercross, there's a lottttt of beef there, James Stewart and Chad reed, Ryan Villapoto and the Allessi's, James stewart and Ricky Carmichael, and so on

I know you don't do too many on soccer but Roy Keane vs Patrick Vieira is one of the greatest competitive beefs ever. Exists purely on the basis of two phenomenal players playing for the two main competitors for the title, who wouldn't take any bs. It's a beef that defined an era in soccer

I think "Notre Dame vs Miami (FL)" Beef History would be fun!

I had never considered Beeves to be the plural of Beef until watching the end of this video.

I would love to see a Habs Bruins beef history

I don't care for baseball or baseball beef. I will still watch only because I like watching vids about beef.

but no footage of the at bats?

You could do Odell Beckham Jr vs the kicking net

As a Tribe fan, I'll never forget that 9th inning. So close, so close... but hey... that's what makes sports great right? The drama.

Could you do a beef history on Jeff Kent and Barry Bonds?

Yoyoyo you should do a beef history about Shaq and Javale McGee. There's some really funny stuff going on with them, and why the beef ended is hilarious

Do 2011 Rays Game 162 rewinder!

I want to see the beef history of Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland

He blew it but in game six he threw 3.1 innings as a closer!!!! That’s too much for a reliever.

I gotta say, I understand Mesa's side. I mean it shouldn't have gone on for so long but when you have something like being the sole reason you don't have a championship in your book and people are goofing about it...I'd throw things at people too.

The narrator talks to me like I’m stupid