TWiB

Johnny Lunchbucket
Apr 14 2020 08:06 PM

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

https://www.instagram.com/p/B---hwOpJZG/?igshid=kdjfemuzvoin

Edgy MD
Apr 14 2020 08:57 PM
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Torre should have been fired in the middle of that play.

G-Fafif
Apr 18 2020 11:22 AM
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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
Apr 25 2020 09:23 AM
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https://twitter.com/foxsportspr/status/1254032996803502080?s=21

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
Apr 25 2020 04:31 PM
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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
Apr 25 2020 06:36 PM
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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
Apr 26 2020 09:33 AM
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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
May 09 2020 11:36 AM
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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
May 09 2020 12:38 PM
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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
May 09 2020 04:16 PM
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The Last Day show was pretty good for latter day twibbness.

G-Fafif
May 30 2020 11:39 AM
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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.

https://twitter.com/dieterruehle/status/1266746864251965440?s=21

G-Fafif
Jun 17 2020 11:05 AM
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An episode from 2019.

You read that right.

https://youtu.be/jW9xHOyVLug

G-Fafif
Jul 11 2020 10:20 AM
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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
Jul 11 2020 10:47 AM
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sweet

Edgy MD
Jul 12 2020 09:08 AM
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Get me a clip of that Youngblood snag.

G-Fafif
Jul 12 2020 10:14 AM
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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/

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
Jul 12 2020 11:46 AM
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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
Jul 17 2020 07:31 PM
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TWiBfest! Four in a row from 11 AM to 1 PM Saturday 7/18 on FS1. Two from ‘82, two from ‘84.