May 04 2008 03:50 PM
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Looking for help from true diehard Mets fans
| mario25 May 04 2008 06:42 AM |
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After searching the internet, contacting WWOR-TV and the Mets themselves I am referring to a source where I probably should have started first of all. I am looking for any copies of Mets games from the 1978-1979 seasons. I know they were awful years but I am fond of those years because that was when I first became a Mets/baseball fan/addict. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I just wanted to say this is the best forum for the Mets hands down...thanks Mario
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| AG/DC May 04 2008 12:14 PM |
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It's tough. The mets or WOR or SNY is sitting on that stuff. You assume a lot of it is in a vault somwhere, but who knows for sure what is lost.
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| mario25 May 04 2008 12:17 PM |
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I appreciate the tip, I will try to send him a note. I was hoping maybe someone had some old Mets vhs tapes laying around or in storage etc.... thanks
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| Kong76 May 04 2008 03:10 PM |
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All my tapes from those years are on betamax.
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| themetfairy May 04 2008 03:17 PM |
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR]Wikipedia's History of the VCR[/url]
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| Kong76 May 04 2008 03:38 PM |
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I actually looked at that before I posted, just because JVC invented it some
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| themetfairy May 04 2008 03:44 PM |
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My parents got their first VCR around the time I went to college, which was 1979. IIRC they weren't the first on the block to get one, but it was fairly new technology at the time.
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| Kong76 May 04 2008 03:50 PM |
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| Benjamin Grimm May 04 2008 03:52 PM |
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We got our first VCR for Christmas in 1981. (Just about five weeks before David Letterman debuted. Very providential timing!) We were the first family we knew who had one. At that time, it was a major investment; ours cost almost $1,000! I still have that VCR. It's been a long time since it's been used, of course, but I'm keeping it as a novelty/collectible.
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| themetfairy May 04 2008 04:05 PM |
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Top loading, of course. Hold onto it. There's a collectible market for that kind of thing. On a semi-related note (since this thread is already far flung from Mario's original request), in Switzerland last summer we visited the [url=http://www.museedujeu.com/site/index.php?lang=french]Museum of Games[/url] (my apologies - I can't get the English version of the site to work), and my older son was absolutely thrilled with the display of old video games. They had Atari games like Pong on display, and he was in heaven!
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| DocTee May 04 2008 04:31 PM |
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The Museum of Television and Radio has thousands of shows, sporting events, etc-- but only those that are historically or culturally significant. There are lots of old super bowls, playoff games, etc- but I doubt the 78-79 Mets would qualify- the best thing about those tapes is that many of them include vintage commercials, including ones touting tobacco products.
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| Willets Point May 04 2008 07:32 PM |
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My family didn't have a VCR until 1984 (we were always late adapters). I think I taped only two games: Game 7 of the 1986 WS and Tom Seaver Day in 1988. I think they're both long gone.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 04 2008 08:20 PM |
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Already looked there. Zip. I had the same request -- unremarkable games from the past. They looked at me like I was crazy.
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| SteveJRogers May 04 2008 08:42 PM |
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My family had a VCR right around the early 1980s, but it wasn't the best quality. I tried to tape 1986 postseason games, but nothing came out. I was successful in recording a 1987 ST game off of SportsChannel, but that must have been long since taped over.
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| SteveJRogers May 04 2008 08:44 PM |
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Back on topic, sort of, the oldest Met game I have on tape is the 1999 Wild Card Play-In and since I've only recorded postseason action. The only Met postseason game since that I don't have on tape is Game 6 of the 2006 NLCS.
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| SteveJRogers May 04 2008 09:23 PM |
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FWIW, despite Breenie saying the ceremony would be shown "in it's entirety" it was definitely chopped up to fit the one hour block. Annoying cuts include cutting Murph off as he was going on about someone who was sending well wishes to Tom despite not being there at Shea (no recall of who it was, Ryan?). They did get Seaver's speech and the tribute song in though.
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| AG/DC May 04 2008 09:24 PM |
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Czech Mercir and Smid were the winners. We were just coming off a decade of absolutely ridiculous dominance of McEnroe and Fleming in the doubles, that pretty much helped us dominated Davis Cup also. When Arthur Ashe chose buddies and fellow old guys Stan Smith and Bob Lutz (also a successful, highly ranked team) to play Davis Cup doubles, he confessed to Smith that folks thought he was crazy. "You are," Smith replied. "But I thought this way we can keep him fresh for second singles." "You wouldn't need him for second singles. Listen, Arthur, who's the best doubles team in the world?" "McEnroe and Fleming." "Who's the second-best?" "You and Bob?" "No. McEnroe and anybody else."
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| SteveJRogers May 04 2008 09:45 PM |
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What I mean is, that they probably only were allotted to go to 11:30 that particular evening, with no live action (Edgy, you recall what the date was for that match?) they had to get the tennis stuff in that 2 hour prime-time block, throw the rebroadcast of the horse racing show and call it a night. So they just couldn't get the actual full length Seaver ceremony without going long on their broadcast evening.
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| SteveJRogers May 04 2008 10:04 PM |
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Speaking of which, I did manage to get that entire night's programing on this tape (they had a card listing the next evening's programing which included the '88 NL East Clincher, so I'm thinking I may have that somewhere as well) and at promptly 11:34 the Sports Tracker returns, and it appears some college hoop action has been added to the rotation!
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