TWiB

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Fox sports1 is showing random episodes of This Week in Baseball and I'm DVRing the everliving fuck out of them.



From August 1981. Earlier in this show, they highlighted how the Mets won this serries in Cincinnati, beating the Seav

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[Edgy MD]

Torre should have been fired in the middle of that play.

[G-Fafif]

This week's episodes, from June and August of 1983, have featured:

—A salute to Bill Buckner and his defense

—Rusty Staub pinch-singling in Bob Bailor for a game-winner while maintaining his shirt

—The Mets on an 11-3 tear (Tom Seaver gains his first win in a month; career W 271)



Reairing the June ep at 7 AM ET Sunday on FS1.

[G-Fafif]

April 1985! August 1986! High probability of prime Mets content.



Friday evening's “TWIB” featured the 1984 Mets in the Traditional Opener at Cincy. Darryl stole a homer at the wall and launched one himself. Otherwise it was Red and whoopass all over, Mike Torrez getting rocked like a hurricane.

[Edgy MD]

I'm probably misremembering, but I seem to recall Strawberry homering on opening day, like, five years in a row, including hitting the inflatable roof in Montreal on the first day it was there.

[G-Fafif]

Darryl's OD HRs came in 1984, 1987 and 1988 (2).



The April 17, 1985, TWIB led with the Mets first-weekend sweep of the Reds, predicting more big things for Bruce Berenyi. Mrs. Fafif noticed Berenyi and rookie reliever Roger McDowell have since had their numbers retired.

[Willets Point]

Who in the wide world of sports would have any interest in watching the 1998 World Series? I think even Yankees fans would find that boring.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I hafta say, TWIB got worse as it got older, relying more on interviews and less on writing. Gimme 82 or 83 over 86-87

[G-Fafif]

They showed a splendid “last day of the season” episode from October 7, 1987, last week, featuring the Tigers topping the Jays for the division (while the Twins watched intently for their playoff opponent from their clubhouse) and Reggie Jackson calling it a career at Comiskey, with peeks from all over the majors of players and umps saying goodbye for winter. Really, it could have served as a poignant series finale.



This week we saw John Fogerty hosting a profile of Bob Gibson 20 years after his 1.12 season of 1968. However well-intentioned (or aspirationally slick) stuff like that didn't have the same snap as what we remember TWIB fondly for.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The Last Day show was pretty good for latter day twibbness.

[G-Fafif]

FS1 seems to have abandoned its moral obligation to air “TWIB” now that it can fill its weekend with car reading and German soccer, but this makes for a nice coda to the show's revival.

[G-Fafif]

An episode from 2019.

You read that right.



https://youtu.be/jW9xHOyVLughttps://youtu.be/jW9xHOyVLug

[G-Fafif]

After disappearing from FS1, TWIB has returned. A block of three 1978 eps aired earlier this week (Joel Youngblood made a catch vs LA Mel Allen compared to Ron Swoboda's) and this Friday 7/17 at 5 PM will be a pair of September 1981 installments with at least a little second-season Mets Magic hopefully included.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

sweet

[Edgy MD]

Get me a clip of that Youngblood snag.

[G-Fafif]

August 20, 1978. An overcast Sunday afternoon in New York. Irritating 5-4 loss Skip Lockwood let get away after Craig Swan struck out 10 Dodgers in 8+ innings. Elliott Maddox's four hits also wound up going for a losing cause.



The Happy Days softball team played the Met wives and various ringers pregame, while in the Dodger clubhouse two other big LA stars, Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, went at it. All this during a citywide newspaper strike. But read about in the Post from another city.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1978/08/21/dodgers-fight-then-beat-mets/f4a22ed5-bdcc-4943-96a0-2fa2ff38a93d/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1978/08/21/dodgers-fight-then-beat-mets/f4a22ed5-bdcc-4943-96a0-2fa2ff38a93d/



Into all this comes a flying Joel Youngblood robbing Davey Lopes. About the best you could hope from those sinking-fast second-half ‘78 Mets.

[Edgy MD]

Garvey may have been a big old phony, but there was nothing fake about those forearms, and I'd hate to be on the wrong side of them.

[G-Fafif]

TWiBfest! Four in a row from 11 AM to 1 PM Saturday 7/18 on FS1. Two from ‘82, two from ‘84.