From Marty Barrett to Billy Bucks

Apparently the people at Prime Time Sports were talking about blogging tonight, and even, poor dears, this blog in particular, according to an e-mail from a friend of mine -- perhaps a transcript or a stream will clear up the mystery some day soon on their podcasts page.
There's only thing one thing duller than bloggers talking about blogging: the mainstream media talking about blogging.
Here's a newsflash: it's all storytelling, in a slightly different skin. A newspaper, a magazine, a weblog, a podcast -- the same. And sometimes, better. Or at least, transformed.
You don't believe me? Check this out -- the best story on the net in at least the last day or so. Even if it's almost 20 years old. Sort of. You know what I mean, even if PTS (apparently) doesn't. Outstanding.

Comments

[Carla]

That video is absolutely brilliant. LMAO!

[j-rich]

I have the game on videotape, albeit on Beta. (The poor machine which cost around $1,200 in 1984 went to the cottage at the end of the Beta era and is now part of the Grey County landfill). I haven't seen it in seven or 8 years but I've watched the 10th inning about two dozen times. Funny, but every time I'm astonished how the Sox blew this game.

It's hard to know where to begin with the blame game in this. ( I remember staying up and watching it. It was around midnight when Knight scored and I promptly woke everyone in the house with my screaming at Buckner).

Schiraldi. There's a classic deer in the headlights closeup of him after Carter started things off with two out. You just knew the guy was going to choke.

Bob Stanley. Lumbering in from the bullpen is the only way to describe this guy. He couldn't throw strikes but he wasn't wild enough to actually hit Mookie.

Rich Gedman. There's a school of thought that the Mookie Pitch was not a WP but a passed ball. After countless replays, I'm convinced of two things; either call is correct and Gedman should have blocked that.

Buckner was the goat but it started with Calvin S. He's the guy who deserves the horns.

The Patrick Lalime of pitchers.

[cy]

I watched that 10th inning in a house in Bermuda, with a tropical storm blowing water sideways through the cracks in the front door. It seemed fitting, way it turned out.
I'm with you JR. The pitching was atrocious.
Having said all that, what a job putting this thing together. To hear Scully's voice, virtually handing the World Series to Boston, over top of what's going on the screen is pretty cool.