Thanks for the flashback, Alex.

Damn firewall - I can't get YouTube at work. I'll have to check the clips later.

Odd Couple, Honeymooners, Twilight Zone, Popeye, Little Rascals, Yule Log, St. Pat's Parade, and of course, Yanks baseball.

Pretty much everything I know I learned on 11 Alive. Heh.

Anyone remember that?

I recently was able to get my hands on lots of original broadcast classic baseball games, more than a few of which were orginally aired on WPIX. In addition to enjoying the Scotter and Bill White, watching the commericials is really a treat.

Another gem on youtube is the 1987 Yankee promo, which uses the intro to Bon Jovi's "Living On A Prayer" with lots of great footage of Winfield swinging from his heals, Donnie lacing line drives, and Rickey stealing second.

I smell Spring Training Trade blockbuster...

"A New York tabloid reporter told Santana that Yankees fans already are abuzz about the possibility of him landing in New York when he is slated to become a free agent after next season.

Santana said he is waiting to begin talks with the Twins on a contract extension. Negotiations are expected to begin sometime this month."

My birthday is the 19th, Cash and I've been calling this one for 2 years now.... Johan my Johan...

9 i'd love to watch some of those old games. were they online? (i assume that they weren't, but i thought i'd give it a shot...)

also, for anyone interested in watching today's spring training game against the tigers, it is on ESPN at 1:15. i am at work, so i don't have access to a TV. i did some searching and found that ESPN is streaming on a couple of sites. (that player from last season is out of commission.)

watch it at either of these places:
http://chooseandwatch.com

http://channelchooser.com

a heads up, there seems to be some adult themed links on the pages, so click carefully at work.

enjoy.

If you are looking for classic games online, MLB.com has a nice selection (some even include a few commercials). I paid $14.95 for access to the library for the entire off season and it was well worth it.

...also, kei igawa is pitching today.

quest!

WPIX could have done nothing but the Yule Log and they'd have to get respect. I got to see it in HD last year. Forget sports in HD. HD Yule Log will change your life.

WPIX blooper reel, probably not funny unless you lived in or around NYC in the 80s:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Kfqp7wSrkc

Oh ... thank you thank you thank you!

I interviewed Jerry Girard during my senior year in high school for a journalism course. I was already taller than him. Nice guy ... gave me a tour of the studio (it was tiny! .... the camera angles they used made it seem MUCH bigger). Saw Steve Bosh ... he didn't smile the entire time I was there.

Drat ... I miss Jerry ...

Remember being at the game. Fans threw the bars on the field. Took mine home. Never ate it. Three years later, when I was moving, I found the bar in the back of my sweatshirt drawer. Never did taste the taste.

"I was reminded that when I strike out a billion people in China don't care."

don't forget tvuplayer

www.tvunetworks.com/download.htm?id=rds_us

"Not in front of the men, Jane."

and they had carried a syndicated version of the "Beat the Clock" game show which I used to watch all the time ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Clock_%281969%29

Y.A.N.K.E.E.S.
Here come the YANKEES
Let's get behind and cheer the YANKEES
They're gonna learn to fear the YANKEES
Everyone knows they play to win, cause

They're the New York YANKEES
Show them today why your the YANKEES
No other way when your the YANKEES
Wadda ya say we win a brand, new, ballgame

We're gonna shout when ya powder the ball
We're gonna scream, "put it over the wall"
The other teams gonna know what it means to play the Y.A.N.K.E.E.S
We love the Yankees

Shout it out loud , We Love The YANKEES
We're really proud of our YANKEES
And we're gonna win today
2, 3, 4, Hit, Run, Fight, Score, Go! Go! Go!

We're gonna shout when ya powder the ball
We're gonna scream "put it over the wall yo"
The other teams gonna know what it means to play the Y.A.N.K.E.E.S
We love the Yankees

Shout it out loud, We Love The YANKEES
We're really proud of our YANKEES
And we're gonna win today

Y.A.N.K.E.E.S. Yes
Y.A.N.K.E.E.S. Yes

They didn't play the whole thing cause that takes about an hour and a half. The arrangement, if you can call it that, had a sort of Mitch Miller schmaltzyness to it. Does anyone remember that?

And who could forget the WPIX editorials? I couldn't recall what any of them were about, but was conditioned to wait for the line: "What's your opinion? We'd like to know."

26 Dang, I didn't know there were lyrics beyond the first stanza. Schmaltztastic!

I hate to say it, but the Yankees song was kind of ripped off from the Mets song, which was basically superior...even if it did lend itself too easily to parody:

Eat the Mets, eat the Mets,
Step right up and beat the Mets...

WPIX was also famous for the many post-news editorials from 1969 to 1995 that were "anchored" by Richard N. Hughes, Vice President of News Operations. His editorials ended with the legendary tagline, "What's your opinion? We'd like to know."

Yeah, the Mets parody varied from neighborhood to neighborhood.

"Coz the Mets are really scratching their balls,
Chasin' those home runs over the wall.
East side, West side, everybody's comin' down
to beat the M-E-T-S METS of New York town!"

Even if you liked the Mets you had to love that one.

And yes, 6, the did use the Twin Towers to represent channel 11. I remember they had a series of commercials of some guy trying to figure out what the station could use. I think in one he'd be lost in thought, leaning back in his office with the twin towers right outside. I'd yell at the TV "use the towers, idiots!".

Thanks for the memories!

i liked the 2nd wave of Reggie bars better, from the 90's, after reggie day at the stadium. iirc, the 1st ones had caramel, which i didn't like but the next ones were peanut butter, which ruled! i bought them by the box...

the rajun cajun is talkin' on espn right now! this is sooo cool! an actual yankees game! can't wait to watch quest and mariano, too... : )

Igawa a little nervous?

Sheff...

Quest is leaving the ball up- he's thrown a couple of good breaking balls, but the rest has been all over the place.

http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_beta.htm

43 TVU works great on the PC, there is no Mac client.

Igawa has a nice change up.

Just missed on a few pitches as he's trying to stay inside on righties.

One thing I like about him so far is his calm demeanor even as things are not going his way.

"He walked 18... a league record. He struck out 18... also a league record. He hit the announcer twice, and the bull mascot- also... league records."

Kei "Nuke" Igawa?

He's got more than enough ability to be a # 4, and to be honest I already trust him a lot more than I ever will with Pavano.

Jim Woods worked with Mel Allen. In 1954, Red Barber joined the Yankee broadcast team after being fired by O'malley for not being a homer. He was replaced on WOR-9 by Vince Scully.

In 1955, Phil, the Scooter who won an MVP award in 1950, was let go after 31 gaems. He became the first Yankee player, broadcaster in 1957.

Barber, no homer he, stayed on until 1966, a year the Yankees didn't do very well. He was fired after ordering the camera crew to pan the stadium to show that under 500 fans were present for a game which the Yankees had announced attendance of 67,000.

You can also set the buffer higher manually if you need to do it in the same options screen.

Hope that helps.

OK .... I had to go to B-R.COM for the statgeek fix:

Since 1957, there have been 3 instances of a starting pitcher walking AND striking out at least 11 batters in the same game

http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/SZzf

don't the yanks know this is spring training and not the ALDS?

sheff has gotta be pissed for getting nailed.

The more things change . . .

Whew, TV seemed to be a lot more responsible back then when it didn't need to be.

Speaking of responsibility (or the lack thereof), who should we smack for that cocaine-laced Meow-Mix disco version of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame?"

"Extend him. Exxxtend him. Extend HIM."

Ralph should have retired 20 years ago.

I'd like to be 10 up on Boston and Toronto by the end of May, Mr. Torre. Please don't wear out Scott Proctor by then. Thank you, signed Joe.

Now that ST has started, I'm still not excited enough to get in baseball frenzy mode. All the media hype conjecturing a season of turmoil has tempered my enthusiasm somewhat. Honestly, a good self-imposed media blackout will reinvigorate my pure joy for baseball. Later, all >;)

Seeya-seeya,
Hope you had a good-good time,
Bah-dum,
Hope you had a good-good morning,
Hmm-hmm,
Hope we get to see you again...

(whistle-whistle), another verse with slightly different words.

Sigh. Alex, tomorrow, you should do a retrospect with WNEW (Ch. 5), especially Saturday Afternoon Drive-In... hmm, that had a cool sax, too...

beat me to it .... nice to know I wasn't the only one who watched that back in the day

http://tinyurl.com/2u6jzt

83 You know Carol & Paula are still performing, right? One of my coworkers took his kid to see them last year.

87 "The Electric Company" DVD has some rude outtakes that I've got to check out, too.

You have to love Rita Moreno in that cast. Also Morgan Freeman as "Easy Reader" was always killer following the Spiderman skits with the dialogue in a bubble above his head. Joan Rivers was the narrator for Letterman, and Letterman himself was Gene Wilder. Crazy!

http://tinyurl.com/4spxp (with vocals)
http://tinyurl.com/2symjw (instrumental)

31 And just for good measure, here's Meet the Mets: http://tinyurl.com/yezsq9