Baltimore Orioles: ‘Are 1983 MLB World Series Champions’

Source:Press Box– the 1983 MLB World Series Champion Baltimore Orioles.

“This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Baltimore Orioles winning the 1983 World Series, the last time the Orioles won it all.

For me, 1983 was the most special season imaginable. It was the first season I had my own Saturday and Sunday postgame radio show on WFBR, which held the rights to Orioles games. To be in that spot and tap into the amazing current of electricity that existed in our community back then was almost magical.

In fact, during the early seasons of my show, I was downright cocky at times. A short anecdote might help explain just how “baseball-entitled” some of us felt back in the real era of Orioles magic.

One day during the 1984 season, I distinctly remember doing a score update and I got to the Cleveland Indians score. It must have been late May or early June, and the Indians were losing a game and already well out of first place.”

From Press Box

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CBS Sports: MLB 1993-World Series-Game 6-Philadelphia Phillies @ Toronto Blue Jays: Joe Carter’s HR

Source:Dominick Clafin– “Touch em all Joe, you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life!” From Canadian sportscaster Tom Cheek, who called the 1993 MLB World Series for Canada.

You can also see this post at The New Democrat , on WordPress.

“This is the highlight video of the 1993 World Series game 6 where joe carter hit the game winning homer to win their second straight World Series.”

From Dominick Clafin

“Here it is! The epic World Series-ending Game 6 matchup between the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Philadelphia Phillies.

With the Blue Jays down 6-5 in the bottom of the 9th, Joe Carter hits a World Series-winning 3-Run Homerun! One of the most incredible moments in baseball history!

Series MVP: Paul Molitor

Music: “Hearts of Courage” by Two Steps From Hell.”

Source:Sky Domed– “Touch em all Joe, you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life!” From Canadian sportscaster Tom Cheek, who called the 1993 MLB World Series for Canada.

From Sky Domed

This is what game 6 of this World Series was all about: the Phillies playing for their season and just for the opportunity to get to game 7 to have another opportunity to win the 1993 World Series. The Blues Jays, playing to defend their 1993 MLB World Series Championship. And win this World Series so they don’t have to play a game 7 and risk losing this World Series. And that is what made this game so great. Because the Phillies had to win it and did their best to do so.

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Best of World Boxing: ‘Rivals- Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier’

Source:Best of World Boxing– Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier.

“Profile on the greatest rivalry in Boxing.”

From Best of World Boxing 

I realize football is very different from boxing, but the great NFL analyst John Madden once had a great quote about rivalries and what you need for a rivalry to even be a rivalry, let alone a great rivalry. And he was talking about the great rivalry between his Oakland Raiders and the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, the two best franchises in American Football Conference, if not the entire NFL in the 1970s.

What Coach Madden said for a rivalry to be great (and I’m paraphrasing) the two teams involved have to be good at the same time once the rivalry starts and then have to be good after that. Their games have to matter, to be important, to be well-played, and close.

What made the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier rivalry a great rivalry in the 1970s, was not only did they hate each other (even though secretly they respected each other) but they were not just good, or real good, or even great, but they were the two best heavyweight fighters in boxing in the 1970s. That’s why they had those three great fights against each other from 1971-75.

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JS Milla: MLB 1981- ‘The Montreal Expos Win A Playoff Series!’

Source:JS Milla– The Montreal Expos, winning their only playoff series ever.

Source:The Daily Times

“Let’s say it now: The Montreal Expos were winners. True, they never won a pennant, and they never got to play in the Serie Mondiale thanks to an errant fastball in 1981 and a called (player’s) strike in 1994. But the Expos won a heckuva lot of games in the 80s and even the 90s. And they even won a playoff series—the 1981 National League Division Series—thanks to some terrific pitching from Steve “Cy” Rogers, who beat Steve “Lefty” Carlton twice in one week, giving up one run in 17 2/3 innings of work.

If Major League Baseball had introduced the modern wildcard playoff format in the 1970s, you would have seen half-a-dozen additional playoff appearances from the Expos…and perhaps more celebrations like this one from October 11, 1981.”

From JS Milla

The Montreal Expos winning a playoff series in the expanded MLB playoff format in 1981. The Montreal Expos were winners in the late 1970s and into the 1980s, and to a certain extent in the early 1990s. And this guy is right that if the wildcard was around back then and you have 5 teams from each league make the playoffs every year. the Expos would’ve made several more playoff appearances in the 1980s.

But that could be said for a lot of other MLB franchises: the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, etc. So I don’t think that alone makes the Expos special.

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