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Post by rizzuto on Mar 17, 2020 18:34:08 GMT -5
It was fun to hear Howard Cosell and Keith Jackson again. I no longer have it, but I once had super-imposed my voice on tape in that game as a third announcer, and thought I did a pretty good job of fitting in...I recall playing part of it for some people and they were surprised to find out that it was me, and not an actual broadcaster...The only line I remember distinctly was a fan-boy line when Rick Monday hit a deep drive that came up short and was caught when I said “Rick Monday is just not Reggie Jackson”. I was a bit ashamed of that one... I’m pretty sure it was done on 8-track tape... I'd pay good money to hear you announce a game.  |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 17, 2020 18:35:20 GMT -5
I'd pay good money to hear you announce a game.  |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 17, 2020 18:36:15 GMT -5
I'd pay good money to hear you announce a game. If I could just find that damned tape. And if I could, if you could just find an 8-track player. And if the tape doesn’t have dry rot. What surprised me was that my voice was fine for announcing. Since we don’t hear our own voices the way others do, I figured it wouldn’t be a good fit. Back then there were so few Paul O’Neill / David Cone types out there. Most announcers had the deep, rich voices. Also, purely by luck, the mic I used provided the proper volume so that it was in key with the actual broadcast crew. You’d be disappointed though. I did the entire thing straight. No comic interjections. Sports weren’t done that way back then. Dang. 1977. I was 23 years old. Should have sent that tape in. Maybe I could have wound up being a third for Jawn and Suzan...”It’s a blast to Monte Carlo for Giancarlo”! “Oh Leyon, youwaw so cwevah”... You missed your true calling, inger! |
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Post by inger on Mar 17, 2020 19:14:36 GMT -5
If I could just find that damned tape. And if I could, if you could just find an 8-track player. And if the tape doesn’t have dry rot. What surprised me was that my voice was fine for announcing. Since we don’t hear our own voices the way others do, I figured it wouldn’t be a good fit. Back then there were so few Paul O’Neill / David Cone types out there. Most announcers had the deep, rich voices. Also, purely by luck, the mic I used provided the proper volume so that it was in key with the actual broadcast crew. You’d be disappointed though. I did the entire thing straight. No comic interjections. Sports weren’t done that way back then. Dang. 1977. I was 23 years old. Should have sent that tape in. Maybe I could have wound up being a third for Jawn and Suzan...”It’s a blast to Monte Carlo for Giancarlo”! “Oh Leyon, youwaw so cwevah”... You missed your true calling, inger! My real secret desire was to have a talk show. I felt what Johnny Carson did was brilliant. I’d have to give him a lot of credit for teaching me the value of a quick, unrehearsed one-liner. Add on the fact that he had some very funny guests as well and it was a toxic mix for me. Because my mother had a part-time job that she worked at night and my brother would drive her to work and help her I was left at home to watch my younger sister when I was 10 years old and for several years. I would stay up and watch The Tonight Show. As time went on, I would watch all the way to 1:00 AM. I valued it much more than sleep or school the next day. Since most of the kids were sent to bed by their parents, I had a lot of fresh material to keep my buddies laughing, and even some of the teachers. Yes, I was a joke thief, but a proud one. As time went on, I was able to add in more and more of my own material. I used to write funny, often double-entendre material on index cards and pass them around the room. Once in a while a teacher would intercept them. I recall a very somber math teacher that caught me writing one of them. He had snuck up behind me and simply plucked it away. I figured that was it. Suspension coming. I watched him read it while we were taking a test. He suppressed a grin. At the end of the class he returned it to me. He said “Funny stuff Leon, but don’t tell anybody I said so. Be careful. Some of us would have you hung for this kind of thing”. Man, I had always hated his class until then...Mr. Shingler, I salute you! |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 17, 2020 19:24:02 GMT -5
You missed your true calling, inger! My real secret desire was to have a talk show. I felt what Johnny Carson did was brilliant. I’d have to give him a lot of credit for teaching me the value of a quick, unrehearsed one-liner. Add on the fact that he had some very funny guests as well and it was a toxic mix for me. Because my mother had a part-time job that she worked at night and my brother would drive her to work and help her I was left at home to watch my younger sister when I was 10 years old and for several years. I would stay up and watch The Tonight Show. As time went on, I would watch all the way to 1:00 AM. I valued it much more than sleep or school the next day. Since most of the kids were sent to bed by their parents, I had a lot of fresh material to keep my buddies laughing, and even some of the teachers. Yes, I was a joke thief, but a proud one. As time went on, I was able to add in more and more of my own material. I used to write funny, often double-entendre material on index cards and pass them around the room. Once in a while a teacher would intercept them. I recall a very somber math teacher that caught me writing one of them. He had snuck up behind me and simply plucked it away. I figured that was it. Suspension coming. I watched him read it while we were taking a test. He suppressed a grin. At the end of the class he returned it to me. He said “Funny stuff Leon, but don’t tell anybody I said so. Be careful. Some of us would have you hung for this kind of thing”. Man, I had always hated his class until then...Mr. Shingler, I salute you! Hahaha, that's a funny story inger. I think you would have made a great talk show host. |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 18, 2020 0:25:51 GMT -5
It can still happen!
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Post by kaybli on Mar 18, 2020 0:37:11 GMT -5
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Post by sierchio on Mar 18, 2020 7:43:18 GMT -5
Hey inger. Too bad you weren't born in the YouTube era.. instead of being a talk show host, you could've became an internet personality, a YouTube star
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Post by kaybli on Mar 19, 2020 23:31:10 GMT -5
2001 World Series 9th inning game tying HRs in Games 4 and 5:
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Post by inger on Mar 19, 2020 23:43:24 GMT -5
2001 World Series 9th inning game tying HRs in Games 4 and 5:
So many grand memories. The back to back failures of Byung Hyun Kim, Don Zimmer bouncing around like a little kid in the dugout. Womack’s back to the camera as he goes out to comfort Kim. A great moment by Scotty B., not always known for his bat... |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 19, 2020 23:51:35 GMT -5
2001 World Series 9th inning game tying HRs in Games 4 and 5:
Brosius could turn on a fastball, hard to get one by him. Just ask Hoffman in the 1998 WS in San Diego! This series, more than any other, was tough to get over. After 9/11, the comebacks, taking a lead in game seven, Mo on the mound...if only it hadn’t started to rain or Torre had not brought the infield in for Luis Gonzalez... |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 20, 2020 0:30:01 GMT -5
You said it inger and rizzuto. The loss in Game 7 was probably the toughest loss for the Yankees I've seen after 9/11 and the two comebacks in the bottom of the 9th inning with 2 outs.
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Post by sierchio on Mar 20, 2020 18:14:37 GMT -5
@ 32 seconds of the Tino homer, my brain got confused (it's been a long two days) and I thought that Shane Spenser was the Red Thunder
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Post by kaybli on Mar 21, 2020 18:56:18 GMT -5
Oh, hang on to the roof!:
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 21, 2020 19:01:05 GMT -5
Oh, hang on to the roof!:
Mattingly's final HR!!! |
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