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09-09-2003, 04:59 PM
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Here's a title to polarize opinion! Watching the YES Network last night, I noticed a plug for a 2 disc set of their six part documentary, due Sept 16.
Can't find details of any special features, although buy.com have posted the artwork here.
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09-09-2003, 09:44 PM
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I'd buy it, if it focuses at least 20 minutes on the greatest World Series of them all, 1960.
But somehow, I don't think it will.
(A long-suffering Pirates fan) |
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09-11-2003, 09:03 AM
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Can't let this pass......
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I just don't think long-suffering and Pirate fan go together, Glenn. Just my opinion.
Mike Frezon
(long suffering Red Sox fan)   
P.S. Damn Yankees!
P.P.S. In a lame attempt to keep this on-topic, I will admit that I've seen some of the YES network's documentary programming and find most of it to be well done. But you are right, I doubt there would be little, if ANY, mention of 1960.
There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!
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09-11-2003, 11:46 AM
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True Mike, Red Sox fans have suffered longer for sure. But I like your chances in the near term better than the Pirates. Unless you really believe in that curse.
As far as baseball-themed documentaries on DVD, I'd say I like them, but the reality is that I've still never sat down and watched all of the Ken Burns Baseball 10-disc set I bought awhile ago. Just never have the time/too many other things to watch.
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09-11-2003, 01:34 PM
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There's also the New York Yankees 100th Anniversary Collection of 6 World Series DVDs at shop.mlb.com. It's a box set with 1977, 78, 96, 98, 99, and 2000 World Series videos. It's expensive, especially after taxes and shipping, and the content is the same as the VHS tapes, but the set is must for any Yankees and DVD fan. |
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09-11-2003, 02:29 PM
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Jeez Richard. [HEAVY SARCASM] Thanks a million![/HEAVY SARCASM]
Why don't you also post a link to the "Curse of the Bambino" HBO special!
Nothing like keep a Sox fan down!
All kidding aside, it's tough for me to shy away from anything baseball. Even if it's about the Yankees that I despise so much. You also gave me a great gift idea for my brother.
Ralph
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09-12-2003, 03:59 PM
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I hear ya, Ralph!
I'm holding out big hopes for this set, after seeing the quality of some of the 'Yankeeography' programming on YES. It'll sit alongside Ken Burns and When It Was A Game Triple Play!
I must confess that I'm also looking forward to 'Bambino' -although for more honourable reasons than you may think. HBO usually do a pretty fine job of this sort of thing (61* was fantastic) and I imagine they'll treat the subject with respect whilst bringing out some of the self-effacing humour of Red Sox fans. As an Englishman (1966 and all that) I know the other side of sport only too well!
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09-12-2003, 05:32 PM
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If HBO is making a Babe Ruth movie, let us hope they do a better job then two of the three previous Ruth bio-pics. The John Goodman one stunk to high heaven, as did the infamous William Bendix one. The 1991 Stephen Lang TV-movie though was decent (with John Anderson reprising his "Eight Men Out" role as Judge Landis) and I'd like to see that get a DVD release (we could have done without Pete Rose's cameo as Ty Cobb though)
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09-12-2003, 07:44 PM
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Nothing like a discussion about the Yankees to bring the Red Sox fans out of the woodwork
This is the year! I can feel it! If the Patriots can win a Super Bowl, the Sox can sure as hell win a World Series.
"They screwed my grandfather,
they screwed my father,
and now they're screwing ME."
-Anonymous Red Sox Fan
Still, I might have to check out this DVD some time, just to deepen my angst. I am a sucker for baseball history anyway. |
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09-12-2003, 08:29 PM
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Yankee fans will always have the last laugh no matter what Boston does this season. 26 championships in the last 80 years is infinitely preferable to 1, even if Boston by a miracle were able to win this year.
What I would like to see just once is a documentary surrounding the sale of Ruth to the Yankees that gets the story right for a change. There has been far too much disinformation put out from Boston over the years telling a false story of how this came about and only in Glenn Stout's must-read "Red Sox Century" did the truth finally resurface. |
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09-12-2003, 10:38 PM
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Together on my shelf are:
Baseball: Ken Burns
The Life & Times of Hank Greenburg
Boston Red Sox: 100 Years of Baseball History 1901-2001
Along with all the obligatory baseball movies, of course.
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Yankee fans will always have the last laugh no matter what Boston does this season. 26 championships in the last 80 years is infinitely preferable to 1, even if Boston by a miracle were able to win this year.
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The tide will turn. The Red Sox won five world championships in the early part of the 20th century. They are about to start another dynasty.
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As far as baseball-themed documentaries on DVD, I'd say I like them, but the reality is that I've still never sat down and watched all of the Ken Burns Baseball 10-disc set I bought awhile ago. Just never have the time/too many other things to watch.
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That's what the off-season is for, Glenn! Too much baseball to watch from April to October. When November hits, crank up John Chancellor and co.!
There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!
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09-13-2003, 12:17 AM
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