The Bronx is Burning, real-life version

Yeah, the players look ... like real people. That's always the first thing that hits me when I watch a game from 20-30 years ago.

 

It's also kind of nice to watch a baseball game without so much clutter on the screen and all the other annoying bells and whistles in a Fox telecast.

 

Maybe they'll throw in a FrankTV promo, you know, just to make the time warp a little less jarring.

 

And a Guiseppe Franco commercial.

 

Check Garvey's reaction when Reggie hits No. 3 .. if you can see it.

 

Anybody else think Yankee Stadium was on fire when you read this thread title?

 

Next thing you know, it's chaos. And i can tell you this: Chaos does not work for the New York Yankees. Not as long as I'm running the show.

 

No.

 

I figured it was just another Torre-Rodriguez-Steinbrenner thread.

 

Put this on the DVR and watching it now. Amazing to me that crowd control was so awful that Reggie had the game stopped in the 9th so he could get a helmet to play right field. Hell, I felt for his safety, 30 years later.

 

And don't forget, Reggie hit a homer in his first at-bat of the '78 season, for five in a row. That was the Day it Rained Reggie Bars at Yankee Stadium.

There was only a token police presence at Game 6, when the city and Yanks argued about who should pay for services rendered, or so I remember.

 

Sparky Lyle said they tasted like mustard.