right? i was 6 when that happened and i knew at the time how fucked it was!

And then worked the plate for Game 7.

cardinals fans are still bitching about Denkinger/ So funny. How did that 2015 NLDS ass kicking by the Cubs taste?

i think the other 19 N.L. Pennants more than make up for it. Besides, you Cub fans still blaming Bartman for the 2003 fiasco?

+bryanw91178 hsha. ya, and Ron Cey's clearly FOUL ball. Cubs fans among the top worst in MLB

Man you ain't kiddin

I thought the same thing as soon as this video started to play. Glad you said it!

I hear ya man. When a guy was full of piss and vinegar and a nice breeze would make the old trouser monster stand straight up lol. No internet tough guys back then either.Now we have agendas and people with a thorn up their ass thinking the world somehow owes them a favor. Simpler times indeed.

@@peteandrepete528 You sound like a guy that's not only strong and rugged in person, but quite virile as well. I hope you've found a way to tame that monster of yours. "It" must be an impressive sight. You really give off a groovy vibe.

Whenever you feel stressed, please say these words: "Dear God, thank you for my eyes, thank you for my ears, thank you for my hands, thank you for my feet, thank you for my heart....you are so good to me!" Gabe, focus on your blessings please, not your problems. I love you but God loves you way more.

Ok. When I was a kid Clemens came to see me in the hospital the day before I had heart surgery. He asked me if he could do anything and I asked him to come see me when it was over. Day after the surgery he showed up. The next year at spring training in winter haven my dad brought me to a game and Roger was signing autographs. I waited and when it was my turn he immediately recognized me and remembered my name. He asked my dad where we were sitting and after about the 5th inning an usher cake and let us know that Mr Clemens invited us to one of the outer fields. He spent about 30 minutes with me playing catch and teaching me how to throw pitches. I don’t doubt that he’s a hot head nor do I doubt your story. But he did so much more for me than I could ever expect. And I was far from the only one he did things like this for. We’re all flawed and at our worst moments but he taught me to give to people in need. I’ll always be thankful for that.

He's gotten a lil better. I think because he wants the Hall. I got a signed ball at a UT game.

Good for him.

Clemens when I met him was pure class giving fist pumps to everyone. Everyone has bad days I guess.

Never been a Clemens fan the rules were different for him compared to others. Mike Piazza should have charged the mound. None of the Yankees wanted to defend him throwing a piece of the broken bat at Piazza his excuse of saying "I thought it was the ball." Hello you throw a ball to first base not a runner.

Yes it does. Neither team won the series. Cincinnati won.

yeah it does how about the Indians

Alex Castro yes Sir. You said it correctly.

'04 ALCS had some big names too...Jeter, Rivera, Pettite, A-Rod, Sheffield, Posada, Schilling, Pedro, Papi, Manny, Damon, Varitek

That's a lot of steroids.

phil, very true

no cell phones

Who'd have thought we'd be saying that the 90's were "the good old days"?

Yea but today I can shop anything from my bed. That's easy...

And now Covid19. You're damn right

me too, it was a great location too.

did you see Rickey Henderson's stance? He had a tiny strike zone.

@@16rumpole yep that's why Rickey should easily be the all time walks leader and was for a while. But Barry Bonds stole it from him when he started being walked all the time after he used steroids.

I mean right over the plate.....Clemens must have said something really fucked up OR Terry Cooney is an asshole.

@@dukedematteo1995 the latter

Ben Richer hahahahahahahahah. Classic comment. Did you know he has a practice glove?

I didn't think idiotic comments like that by announcers went back as far as 1990. It's hard to believe Jim Gray actually got paid to deliver us absolutely useless nonsense like this.

Also, it takes the announcers almost two minutes to realize that Clemens had been ejected. So, they're not watching the action closely, and no one else in the back room saw it and told them in their ear what's going on. Everyone at home saw it, but the people making thousands of dollars to describe the action both do not see what's going on right in front of them.

I did NOT need to hear about Mike Gallego being a "leather freak."

CBS’ baseball production was a huge drop-off from NBC and even ABC. NBC’s Game of the Week was the best, esp. with Vin and Joe. Not exactly an original observation but NBC was so good at presenting baseball in the 80’s.

No doubt about it.

Ol boy

Let's just be glad Clemens didn't throw a bat at an umpire, or something like that. Early in his career or late in his career, Clemens was always a showboating hothead with an ego of eggshells.

There are plenty of day games in the postseason.

There are no day games in the LCS anymore. Such a shame.

You’re not the only one.

@@johndfw8680 Yes there are. Whenever there are two LCS games on the same day, one is a day game. I suppose it could be a late start like 5:00 if it's on the east coast, but there were day games @ Dodger Stadium last year. Just the World Series is always in prime time, as it should be.

I think during the CBS era, the day games started @ 3 ET, which would have been noon in Oakland.

Thanks DICK🤣

Even the umps look juiced ;)

I personally dont care, it made better baseball and if guys want to take the chance on harming their bodies to gain, hey go for it. Obviously I understand the reasons for not allowing it, but its just my personal opinion.

1990? Nah. It was just basically Canseco and maybe McGwire back then. It didn't become more wide spread until after the strike. So frustrating, all the MLB needed to do back then aside from the obvious of instituting random PED testing for everyone .....was at least looking into guys like Canseco that were obvious. Hell Boston fans were chanting "Steroids" at him, then he flexed to the crowd 🤣( Alpha move by the way) MLB shoulda looked into it and demanded a steroid test or something. They do that and the message would be clear....blatant steroid use won't be tolerated, and would fuck up your reputation and money. Instead they did nothing, and in effect there was no rule against steroids since no one was tested, investigated or even mildly rebuked out of the public eye. No one said or did anything; not the MLB, not the PA, not the fans, and not the media. PEDs were de facto greenlighted.....thats why I don't really blame 90s guys for using or curse them for their lack of "integrity"....rule isn't really a rule if there's absolutely zero enforcement nor a stigma against breaking it. The MLBPA didn't want random testing for recreational drugs bc everyone was doing blow and amphetamines back in the 80s and 90s

@@davidca96 I don't think any of the 90s users owe any1 an apology for anything. There was no testing, no oversight, no questions ever asked by the MLB. On top of that fans and media didn't care or said anything it's not really a rule if it's totally unenforced and unacknowledged by all parties involved

But remember Tony La Russa had no idea it was going on, you believe that you can be sold on anything.

lol true

That must have sucked for people who had to leave the house, and couldn't even turn on the game to see the score..

I hated that. You’d come in to watch the middle of the game and you know nothing. Love the intro music.

It ruined the game actually and led to the current average game time of over 3 hours.

They also thought the plate was 21” - 25” wide (it’s 17”).

@@mahasw777 especially if a guy named Greg Maddux or Tom Glavine pitched....

18"

No, the fans would have been ON the field.

The only time the fans go on the field at Fenway Park is after we won a World Series haven't you been paying attention lately when we won all those World Series and you didn't.

well no mistaking you are Irish as hell...wear that proudly

If it was Yank-Me stadium and this happened to the Yank-Me’s...the fans would have been shooting at the umpires.

Cooney wouldn’t have thrown Roger out at fenway

it would've been fun had he been pitching for the NYY at Yankees Stadium in a WS game. Now THERE's anarchy waiting to happen.

GOODNESS GRACIOUS I laugh hysterically everytime I think about that moment.

Burnin Embers Official Somehow he reminds me of Nolan Ryan.

you wanna laugh @@williamsanders2348 youtube to opie and anthony george Steinbrenner box

At least get it right. Fuckin idiot

RAWJAH

Jose rio kicked Dave Stewart's ass everytime. Lol

That ball 4 to Randolph was right over the plate....like directly over. See why he was pissed. Not an excuse for using foul language, but the ball was right over the plate.

The pitch before that was called a strike but looked high and in, Randolph looked back at Cooney on that one like wtf then took “ball 4” which was indeed a strike. Roger wasn’t looking too good so maybe he did jack his jaws for an ejection. Well he sure got it!

Manu Ginobilis Bald Spot not exactly. In 1998 ALDS Boston won Game 1 vs Cleveland, losing the series 3 games to 1. Total losing streak was only(!) 13 games, then another 5 game losing streak before game 3 the following year.

@@virolo1960 Great call. I totally spaced on the 98 team.

@@virolo1960True!!!

Roids

Take away the roids.... And let's talk,,,

If they were more focused, the A’s could have gotten more than the title they won in 1989.

@@veledajohnson1511 everybody was on roids.

you were close. Roy Steele nickname was "the voice of God".

I think he died like a week ago.

Vince Smith-Back in the day before expansion, a team had to win its league pennant to get to the postseason (World Series).

90

I don't miss those days at all. I'm a Jays fan, after the mid 90s when the Yankees and Red Sox started buying up all star teams, I knew in April my team wasn't making playoffs no matter how good they looked on paper. Lots of years in there when the Jays could have won the central or west, but were doomed to miss the playoffs in the east. An expanded playoff actually gives fans in most markets something to look forward to on any given year. It's far better for keeping an interest in the game.

Mark Cianfarani The Gibson home run definitely was a huge factor. Very dramatic, coming off the bench, barely able to walk. But Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser (not sure on the spelling) was just about unhittable in that Series also.

The Reds were a lot better team than people realized.

@@johnfitzpatrick3094 Th '88 Dodgers were, but the '90 Reds weren't that much better. Cincy should have won at least 100 in the NL West that year. Then they beat the "perennially striking-out in playoff games" Pirates. The A's had more of a mental edge in '89, after the '88 loss. In 1990, they seemingly took a nap for a week after sweeping Boston, and acted like the WS was over as soon as they arrived. Well, it was...

@@brianoneill7186, I agree with the last part, but the Reds also had stiff competition from the Dodgers and Giants. They also had a lights out bullpen.

@Kevin Michael Agreed. It was the last two games, where the Dodger starting lineup had been depleted by injuries, that were surprising, particularly Game4, when sloppiness and a couple of errors killed the A's. The Reds in 1990 were fortunate get the sweep, before the loss of Hatcher and Davis could hurt them too much.

Was it Dickingers fault Jack Clark dropped a pop up, was Dickingers fault Todd Worrell & Darrell Porter allowed wild pitch or passed ball, did Don Dickinger allow the game winning hit, did Don Dickinger get destroyed in Game 7 did Don Dickinger blow a 2 games to 0 lead or a 3 games to 1 lead???? No the Cardinals blew it & made Dickinger take the hit!!!!

Out of all of the pro sports in the U.S., the officiating is the worst in MLB.

Anthony Carr It was kind of you to then give your brooms to the Reds.

Ouch!

@@anthonycarr5514 Some of you Oakland dummies had mops, because they don't know the difference

José Hunter's EW&F Remixes Why the hate, Jose? If it’s remixes and such that you do, I would think a better attitude would probably help.

@@anthonycarr5514 Dude, it was a joke! Jeez, I'm not an angry person. But my biggest problem seems to be that I'm not as funny as I think I am. Actually, my profession is mathematician, not "remixer"

He beamed Piazza in the head during the regular season

Met fans will never get over that lmao.

And they never should (Even though I'm not a Mets' fan.). Clemens is a POS.

mrpatt1983 shouldn’t they be more mad that they lost the World Series that year?

Jay Stevens Why? Mets lost the World Series, I’d be more pissed about that then pussy Piazza doing nothing about Clemens

If my ace got chucked I would be upset. If I were Barrett, I would have laid a beating on the coach that pulled him back into the dugout. If I were the owner, I would have fired the coach on the spot.

Alex Sweet they were trying to rehabilitate his name in the media because he was getting death threats and had to quit umpiring. It didn’t work. Shows you how replay could have changed that guy’s life if they had allowed it back then

@@TheLocalLt doing his fucking job could've changed it too

So because he made a mistake in a game, he's not an expert?

John Stilwell I might agree, except for the fact that the only way to get to the clubhouse was a path that took one near to the crowd. But I think even the umpires realized they had gone too far. They let Joe Morgan get away with a lot, and they did nothing about all the stuff tossed onto the field. And the American League would never allow an ALCS game be decided on a forfeit, which is what your solution would have amounted to. No matter what Denkinger said, the fact is that ejections in the postseason are rare. When Earl Weaver (who else?) was ejected in a World Series game (late sixties or early seventies), it was the first ejection of a manager in a World Series since 1935! Again, not defending Roger, but the smarter reaction from the umpire (who had blown one of those two calls) would have been to go out, dust off the plate, and tell the catcher to get out to the mound, and tell Clemens that if he so much as glared at the ump, he would immediately be tossed. That would be his only warning. You might still have to eject him, but for the moment, it might have de-escalated the situation. Certainly the catcher would do everything he could to keep his starter in the game, and the fact is that fans want to see the best players (on both teams) playing in the biggest games.

John Stilwell Manager was already tossed

Or file a report after the game and get him penalized instead of wasting time on something that's irrelevant.

Yes it's become a major issue with Umpires that have over-inflated egos and think they can do whatever they want including tossing players if they disagree with a call. I have to side with the announcer here, he should issue a warning then if he continues eject him. Simular to what the do what a batter is hit by a pitch unless it is obvious that was what the pitcher was going for was to hit the batter.

This is the past. Lol.

This game was 31 years ago

What I meant to say was that quick triggers like this one wasn’t as common as they are today.

Jack Son Exactly, that call by Denkinger flipped the entire series on its ear.

Jack Son he had to quit umpiring due to death threats so they were trying to rehabilitate his name in the media so that people would forget about the call. It didn’t work and all it did was bring more attention. It’s such a shame because if replay had been allowed in 1985 it never would have happened

Charles Keller bro it’s the heat of the moment, it’s the playoffs, and it was a strike anyway. People don’t pay thousands and fly across the country to see an umpire, they pay to see Roger Clemens. If Clemens decides to sandbag, that’s on him, but the ump at least has to give him the chance. I don’t even think what Clemens was doing was a formal argument, he was basically saying “fuck you” from the mound. The ump clearly has very thin skin because there was no need to even acknowledge this behavior

Yes but Clemens was very stupid use your head getting ejected in a elimination playoff game you can't do that.

Nope. Gave em a strike. Threw the same exact pitch. Called it a ball. No consistancy for the hitter and the pitcher. Drives players nuts.

@@patrickgray5633 Umpire should’ve walked out and said “enough, any more and your ejected” but like most umpires they think they are the reason people show up to game. Just ask Joe West

CrociatoAzzurro Saw it live on television. I don't think anyone could forget something this surreal. This moment goes right alongside Tyson biting Holyfield in the annals of, "Huh?"

His fastballs did look flat that day

Malcolm Baldwin he wasn’t trying he knew they were gonna lose the series. He probably got ejected on purpose

Yep. He F Bombed the umpire multiple times. No warnings get out.

Kinda hard when fastballs directly over the plate are called balls about 7 times. Cooney was an asshole and Denkinger was an expert at blowing big calls himself.

Who won the game ?

The A's swept that series.

It's funny how most of the announcers were taking Clemens side at the time. Cooney must have been a known asshole.

Interesting to have him as commentator. Had I been him after 1985, I would have gone into exile

@John Mongani You mean two perfect pitches right over the plate? He should've been pissed. Terrible umpiring.

@@e2go the first one was borderline and called a strike. The second one was clearly a strike and called a ball so yeah Clemens had a strong case for calling the ump out.

And Oakland closer Dennis Eckersley was a former Red Sox starter

Typical Dick Stockton, who made every baseball game sound like Larry Bird was driving for a layup in crunch time.

Lmao I thought the same thing. When he was born, he was already fully vested with three networks.

Nah. He looks young, but his hairline is receding.

When men lose their hair, it usually happens in their 20s or 30s.

I remember when Bull Durham came out and they had ads all over the field. It was hilarious in the movie cause it was so off the wall. Now its reality

@@shannonhondo260 I stopped watching modern baseball because of the ads.

@@taekwondotime sports is all about the money nowadays and it sux. I havent watched football or basketball in 10 years, sucky products

@@shannonhondo260 Yeah it's definitely not what it used to be. The athletes might be better, but the sport has diminished and the emphasis on the game has diminished.

Very sharp! Glad you picked up he was there. I was at Fenway when John homered over the Green Monster, which was most likely his last Major League home run.

KHayes666 1984. When Temple played at NCAA regional in my hometown, I was playing Konami Track and Field at the local arcade. This big dude wearing Temple gear comes in with a couple of his teammates. Little did I know until the next day when he was behind the plate for the Owls that I went at it with John Marzano. He put on a home run clinic but didn't have much of a supporting cast. Michigan (who won the regional) was loaded. Some guy by the name of Barry Larkin put on an even bigger clinic. John Marzano was a cool dude. RIH.

That is what I read in Jeff Peralman's book about Clemens

@todd long hardly

Their strategy in 1990 was to show fewer playoff games in prime time, and pre-empt afternoon soap operas to promote their then-third place prime time shows. The ratings were bad all day!

@@brianoneill7186 I don't think it had to with ratings. MLB used to always have both league championship series going on the same day. In fact, one series would actually be two games in before the other series would even start, so this was not uncommon.

@@OliveOyl12590 Yes, but the 1990 League Championship Series had more day games scheduled than there had been in previous years, and TV deals. CBS set that schedule.

@@brianoneill7186 CBS also had the NFL, too. When NBC had both MLB and NFL, sometimes they'd have regional coverage weekends giving FOX or CBS, depending on who had the NFC coverage, the Sunday doubleheader for that weekend. HERE'S THE EDIT: During those weekends when NBC had MLB Championship games, ABC would probably have a west coast matchup on Monday Night Football and you'd see some of the AFC West teams hosting NFC teams on that Sunday to relieve NBC of having to worry about any late games during that time.

CBS' MLB coverage was a joke. They were on one Saturday then you didn't find them again for a month or two.

Lol, so true. The only ones I can name are the worst of the bunch. Angel Hernandez, Joe West, Bob Davidson, CB Bucknor, etc

Why??

I always remember the name of Rocky Roe because when I was a kid I genuinely thought his name was Rocky Road and that the ice cream was named after him.

The umpire was one of the reasons why I fell in love with the baseball as a kid.. it was something about how imposing the figure was behind the plate especially on the strike three call i still appreciate good animated umpire to this day

and then Jose and The A's swept the Red Sox.

@@tomgoode3658 lol I'm not a Sox fan. Orange and Black all the way!;-)

@@mikesmith-pj7xz I'm a Red Sox Lifer since 1975. Sox looked like SD Jones VS King Kong Bundy both times they were swept by The A's.

@@tomgoode3658 I feel your pain. Those A's were a beast. My Giants got whooped by the A's:-(

Meanwhile Roger was jacked.

the corked bats only worked for one season....lol.

@@johnmongani5223 yeah I'm sure your right.

@@alanbelcher6568 I was just joking and I'm an A's fan so definitely some sour grapes from how that series went down. Especially game 2 that the A's had won except for Billy Hatcher's super human performance and Canseco's gaff on that fly ball twisting in the wind that went for a triple......ugh. And of course the A's were much higher on the cheating scale with the PED's compared to Sabo's corked bat. But it was kind of strange that Red's team was never to be seen again. Great bullpen, a lot of players in their prime and a solid manager.

@@johnmongani5223 oh I didn't take too much offense.I have pretty good humor when it comes to the reds. ( I got to have or I would be crying all the time.) Lol and I was only 8 years old when the 1990 world series took place so I honestly only remember that we won.. my best friend was a die hard A's fan so I'm used to the jokes . Thanks for having a intelligent conversation with me and not just calling names like some people do.

The Coliseum was regarded as one of the better ballparks then. It went to shit when the Raiders came back.

That is Tony diverting attention off his team. The guy is the greatest manager of the steroid era.

Joe Torre was like that as well.

@@jimmyjam209 1990 is not the "steroid era". Steroid era is kind of a myth in the sense that steroids wasn't the reason the league hit alot of HRS....they juiced the ball in 93/94 and HRS stayed around the same rate for 20 yrs after. Baseball in 1991 and 1992 was a different game.

​@jimmyjam209 yeah he also said he had no idea his guys were juicing you believe that you can be sold on anything in the world.

Sadly that would be another 14 year wait.

Autodidact2 plus everyone should have already known his name from his blown call in 1985

And 1975 wasn’t his first playoff assignment. 1972 ALCS was.

He's big here. Bigger than the other players by far.

I was sitting in the bleachers and was also really mad. I paid to see a pitchers dual between Dave Stewart and Clemens and a butt hurt umpire ruined that.

Maybe he did, but what happened to the Cards in the LAST game of the series? They sucked rocks BIG TIME. Guess the Card's didn't think they should have to actually PLAY the last game, did they. Seems they were WRONG, weren't they.......

The AL East was awful that season. It was the AL West in 1990 that had some teams that were World Series contenders (White Sox for example).

Doesn't matter Clemens was way outta line.

Yes he was.

Cooney was not a good umpire and I believe that the AL retired him the following season.

@@METALITHrevetments Cooney worked until mid-1992. He had bad knees and was hit by a line drive while working third base. That injured his knee and forced him to retire at age 59. He was a state correctional officer before he became an umpire.

Antonio Acevedo Marty Barrett was going to get thrown out also, the coach was trying to help the Red Sox.