Brewers Classics

[Jimbo]

FS Wisconsin is replaying the 1982 ALCS this week.

 

Game 3-

After 38 years, my first chance to watch the game. It was played on a Friday afternoon and I was in eleventh grade. No smart phones or social media, so no way to follow live this elimination game. The infamous fan-interference HR was the first pitch of the eight inning. Everyone talks how it almost cost them the game, but reality was the score was already 5-0 in the eight. I was completely unaware that Rollie Fingers was still on the active roster. He was warming up in the bullpen in the ninth. I thought he was shutdown the first week of September. Don Sutton had a nasty curveball. It's kinda nice to go back and watch this now that I have a better appreciation of the game.

 

Game 4-

Broadcast on Friday night.

[rickh150]

FS Wisconsin is replaying the 1982 ALCS this week.

 

Game 3-

After 38 years, my first chance to watch the game. It was played on a Friday afternoon and I was in eleventh grade. No smart phones or social media, so no way to follow live this elimination game. The infamous fan-interference HR was the first pitch of the eight inning. Everyone talks how it almost cost them the game, but reality was the score was already 5-0 in the eight. I was completely unaware that Rollie Fingers was still on the active roster. He was warming up in the bullpen in the ninth. I thought he was shutdown the first week of September. Don Sutton had a nasty curveball. It's kinda nice to go back and watch this now that I have a better appreciation of the game.

 

Game 4-

Broadcast on Friday night.

 

https://www.brewcrewball.com/2020/3/14/21180092/a-collection-of-classic-brewers-games-to-watch-if-you-are-missing

[PinaMadness]

I'm going to go in a different direction. One of the greatest bench clearing brawls in baseball history.

 

https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/brew-crew-confidential/fight-remembering-one-biggest-brawls-brewers-history/

 

The video just so happened to come up in my youtube recommendations and I thought I'd post it here.

[AKCheesehead]

Is fsn showing 87 Easter Sunday today?

[BrewCrewForever]

Is fsn showing 87 Easter Sunday today?

 

Nope, I guess there is no full footage of the game. Brewers didn't broadcast hardly any home games on TV back then, mostly just road games on Channel 18. But there is the last three innings from the Rangers broadcast here:

[GAME05]

It would be fun to have an in-game chat while a classic Brewers game were on the air.

[jerichoholicninja]

I'm going to go in a different direction. One of the greatest bench clearing brawls in baseball history.

 

https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/brew-crew-confidential/fight-remembering-one-biggest-brawls-brewers-history/

 

The video just so happened to come up in my youtube recommendations and I thought I'd post it here.

 

Good fight. I can't ever recall training staff involved in an field brawl but it had that too.

 

Watched some of the 1982 game against the Angels yesterday. Wow has the game changed. It was like watching a summer amateur adult league. Toothpick limbs, horrible pitching and swing mechanics, barely an athlete on the field. Even bottom barrel players today are miles better than pretty much everyone except the superstars from just a few decades ago.

[rickh150]

I'm going to go in a different direction. One of the greatest bench clearing brawls in baseball history.

 

https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/brew-crew-confidential/fight-remembering-one-biggest-brawls-brewers-history/

 

The video just so happened to come up in my youtube recommendations and I thought I'd post it here.

 

Good fight. I can't ever recall training staff involved in an field brawl but it had that too.

 

Watched some of the 1982 game against the Angels yesterday. Wow has the game changed. It was like watching a summer amateur adult league. Toothpick limbs, horrible pitching and swing mechanics, barely an athlete on the field. Even bottom barrel players today are miles better than pretty much everyone except the superstars from just a few decades ago.

 

 

I remember when Yount talked about this topic on air during a telecast. He wasn't sure how he'd bat against 94, 95 mph on a regular basis like today's batter. I think he mentioned that he'd batting in the low .200's. I can't find this anywhere but maybe someone else here recalls that in game conversation with Bill and Brian.

[rickh150]

When I watched the Brewers WS Game 7, it was odd watching all of these soft tossers pitch for us after seeing high heat so often today.... Vuc, McClure, Caldwell. Did any of them touch 90?

[pitchleague]

MLB Network just finished airing game 2 of the '82 Series and just started airing game 7 of the same series.

 

Shows you how much I need a baseball fix, as I watch a pair of guaranteed losses.

 

 

(The production values are absolutely awful compared to even 20 years ago!)

[DHonks]

I'm going to go in a different direction. One of the greatest bench clearing brawls in baseball history.

 

https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/brew-crew-confidential/fight-remembering-one-biggest-brawls-brewers-history/

 

The video just so happened to come up in my youtube recommendations and I thought I'd post it here.

 

I always remember the Brewers-As brawl with Edwin Nunez clawing Surhoff.

 

Who was it that Rob Dibble threw at like a week before we acquired him? Listach?

[Zad Fnark]

Didn't realize the Cards had astroturf back then.

[Jimbo]

Watched some of the 1982 game against the Angels yesterday. Wow has the game changed. It was like watching a summer amateur adult league. Toothpick limbs, horrible pitching and swing mechanics, barely an athlete on the field. Even bottom barrel players today are miles better than pretty much everyone except the superstars from just a few decades ago.

 

Strength training. Didn't take off until the 80's. Yount and Soderbloom were pioneers when they did the Nautilas thing prior to the 1979 season.

 

With mechanics, now you video analysis and such that wasn't around or thought of back then.

[AKCheesehead]

I'm going to go in a different direction. One of the greatest bench clearing brawls in baseball history.

 

https://shepherdexpress.com/sports/brew-crew-confidential/fight-remembering-one-biggest-brawls-brewers-history/

 

The video just so happened to come up in my youtube recommendations and I thought I'd post it here.

 

I always remember the Brewers-As brawl with Edwin Nunez clawing Surhoff.

 

Who was it that Rob Dibble threw at like a week before we acquired him? Listach?

 

I think it was indeed Listach. I remember he got suspended and served that suspension once he was a Brewer.

[BrewCrewForever]

So today FS Wisconsin is supposed to show the Brewers vs Blue Jays game from August of 92' when they had 31 hits and 22 runs. Originally I saw it at 7pm CST, then I saw on Brewers Twitter account the other day it was now at 12pm CST today. But I don't see either on my YouTube TV channel guide. Hope it still is going to be shown. Been wanting to see that game again for years.

[BrewCrewForever]

Ope, looks like I am now seeing it airing at 7pm tonight.

[AKCheesehead]

Thanks for the heads up, BCF. I'll call my folks and have Dad DVR that one. I've never seen that game, but in '92 Dad and I listened to it on a portable radio while fishing in Vilas county.

[BrewCrewForever]

Yeah, I remember some of the game as I was 10 yo at the time. Been wanting to see the whole thing for years, could never find it on YouTube or anywhere. This isn't quite the Holy Grail, but for me it's close as far as any Brewers broadcast goes.

[markedman5]

So today FS Wisconsin is supposed to show the Brewers vs Blue Jays game from August of 92' when they had 31 hits and 22 runs. Originally I saw it at 7pm CST, then I saw on Brewers Twitter account the other day it was now at 12pm CST today. But I don't see either on my YouTube TV channel guide. Hope it still is going to be shown. Been wanting to see that game again for years.

 

I was at this game.......so much fun!

[JohnBriggs12]

Didn't realize the Cards had astroturf back then.

 

About half the NL had turf in those days. It was a different game.

[JohnBriggs12]

When I watched the Brewers WS Game 7, it was odd watching all of these soft tossers pitch for us after seeing high heat so often today.... Vuc, McClure, Caldwell. Did any of them touch 90?

 

McClure topped 90 when he was strictly relieving. He threw pretty hard for the times. After he became a starter he was right around 90. Vuke was pitching with a tendon tear in his elbow towards the end of 82. What now would put a pitcher out with TJ, some guys pitched through because he was so adept at changing speeds on his fastball he could still fool hitters. I've never seen anyone since then be able to do that. Caldwell was the toughest hombre in the league. Wasn't afraid of anything or anybody. He got under Reggie Jackson's skin many times by backing him off the plate and then getting him on soft breaking pitches away. I think Caldwell could still pitch today. Jim Slaton was a relatively hard thrower early in his career, but he became a painter and had tremendous command away. Unlike today's game, guys threw more breaking pitches for strikes because hitters could lay off the stuff off the plate with two strikes unlike in today's game where they are so geared for upper 90's stuff. The lefty reliever who was a Brewer several years later that had real gas was Ray Searage, the long time Pirate pitching coach. Of course Plesac could get it up there too in his early years.

[BrewCrewForever]

Enjoyed the Sheets 18 K game the other night. CC's "one" hitter game tonight. Sunday night Rickie and Prince 1st HR game. Really loving these.

[jerichoholicninja]

Not sure where exactly to put this but I stumbled on this article about Ben Sheets from 2014.

 

https://tht.fangraphs.com/the-unseen-magic-of-ben-sheets/

 

It's a shame he played on some of the worst teams ever assembled and then turned into glass or else he'd probably be in the discussion as one of the greatest Brewers ever. A couple years ago I mentioned his name to my high school players at practice and no one knew who he was, much to my chagrin and anger. He struck out everyone, walked no one, and had a personality that made him hard to dislike. He's still my all time favorite player and my son is named after him (don't tell his mother that though).

[Vgmastr]

Very cool to see Rickie's and Prince's first HR game, because I was actually at that one. Bonus is a newly drafted and signed Braun in the booth for a half inning. That said, Daron Sutton and Bob Brainerd are like nails on a chalkboard, good lord were they both just awful.

[rickh150]

When I watched the Brewers WS Game 7, it was odd watching all of these soft tossers pitch for us after seeing high heat so often today.... Vuc, McClure, Caldwell. Did any of them touch 90?

 

McClure topped 90 when he was strictly relieving. He threw pretty hard for the times. After he became a starter he was right around 90. Vuke was pitching with a tendon tear in his elbow towards the end of 82. What now would put a pitcher out with TJ, some guys pitched through because he was so adept at changing speeds on his fastball he could still fool hitters. I've never seen anyone since then be able to do that. Caldwell was the toughest hombre in the league. Wasn't afraid of anything or anybody. He got under Reggie Jackson's skin many times by backing him off the plate and then getting him on soft breaking pitches away. I think Caldwell could still pitch today. Jim Slaton was a relatively hard thrower early in his career, but he became a painter and had tremendous command away. Unlike today's game, guys threw more breaking pitches for strikes because hitters could lay off the stuff off the plate with two strikes unlike in today's game where they are so geared for upper 90's stuff. The lefty reliever who was a Brewer several years later that had real gas was Ray Searage, the long time Pirate pitching coach. Of course Plesac could get it up there too in his early years.

 

In the 80's, I remember being somewhat in awe at a pitcher that could hit above 90 mph.... most didn't or couldn't.