Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
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Re: Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
I remember that regular season well & the playoffs fairly well, but the 87 WS, not so much - other than all home games were won and that dome sucked. First semester away at college - must have been binge drinking and trying to do other stuff.
About the only impression I have of game 7, was a weekend IIRC - I remember going into a friend's room drunk off my arse and seeing the Cardinals were about to lose - and was amused by how little I cared due to the state I was in.
.....just realized, I'm the reason the Cardinals lost!
About the only impression I have of game 7, was a weekend IIRC - I remember going into a friend's room drunk off my arse and seeing the Cardinals were about to lose - and was amused by how little I cared due to the state I was in.
.....just realized, I'm the reason the Cardinals lost!
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Re: Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
Domes need to be eliminated from baseball. Currently only Milwaukee, Houston, Tampa Bay and Toronto have domes that I can think of and all of them are retractable. Unless it's raining in those cities, the domes should be opened up. Baseball isn't meant to be played indoors.
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Re: Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
You forgot Arizona
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Re: Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
Also from 1987, evidently:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987 ... eerleaders
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987 ... eerleaders
Mike Ditka was on a roll Thursday. So were the Minnesota Vikings.
Viking General Manager Mike Lynn sent a pair of roller skates to Ditka, who promptly put them on and skated down the hallway of Bear headquarters in Lake Forest`s Halas Hall.
``He said something about me being too cheap to buy our cheerleaders roller skates,`` Lynn said. ``So I sent them with my good wishes, and I hope he wears them in our Rollerdome. I wanted to prove I wasn`t cheap.``
Ditka was impressed.
``Mike Lynn sprung for them. That might refute everything I`ve heard about him from his players,`` said the Bears` coach.
Ditka called the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome a ``Rollerdome`` on Monday, saying no dome is fit for any sport other than roller skating.
On Wednesday, Ditka said that the Viking cheerleaders should be outfitted with skates but that Lynn probably wouldn`t buy them.
On Thursday night, the cheerleaders were scheduled to get the skates at a press conference.
``Great idea. Only thing the dome is good for,`` Ditka repeated. He said he hadn`t decided whether to wear his roller skates to the game.
``We`ll probably have 10,000 show up in roller skates,`` Lynn said.
``Walter Payton called and wanted a pair, so I don`t know what this is going to come to.``
A rolling stop, no doubt.
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Re: Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
Vidor wrote:The '87 Twins are the actual correct answer for worst World Series winner of all time. What a joke that stadium was.
And worst fans as well. In the 80s and 90s the twin cities were a frontrunner's paradise. Not just the Twins either. The North Stars would draw 5,000 during the regular season and if they won a series or two in the playoffs the place was full.
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Re: Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
Mostly what I remember about the '87 WS was that I had dropped out of the U of I and was working at this [expletive] chain steak restaurant in Champaign- Mountain Jack's, I believe- and hardly got to see any of the series. [expletive].
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Re: Al Michaels: Twins piped in crowd noise during 87 WS
I was five. *shrugs*