Bill Bucker was the first baseman.
That one never gets old.
“Bless his heart, he’s got to be the sickest man in America!”
Best. Quote. Ever.
I’ll third this. I’m from Cleveland and I think ESPN has it in its contract that it has to show Jordans f*****g shot over Craig Ehlo every other day. That’s one of the many reasons I don’t watch so much ESPN anymore.
As as Cowboys fan, I’ve had enough of “The Catch.”
I will third this, as it’s the exact clip I came in to post.
I can’t stand the Leon Lett clips either, but it’s not only because I’m a Cowboys fan. It’s just that I know how it feels to start out doing something so right and have it turn around bite you in the arse. I felt so bad for him–the man, not the player–that I simply can’t bear to watch those replays, even after all these years.
How about the play from early in the decade, when Jeter flipped the ball to Posada to get one of the Giambis at home? ESPN was shoving that one down our throats for a while (even going so far as to trying to coin that “the play,” too), but they seem to have given it up recently. Maybe they realized that it wasn’t all that dramatic, especially since Giambi (whichever one it was) moves only slightly faster than the average rock.
I still laugh about it. They lost the game by a huge margin, but the play was hilarious (as was Lett’s brain freeze on that block field goal against Miami) - so whaddaya gonna do other than laugh about it ?
How about the NC State win with the final second tip in and Jimmy Valvano running out on the court? I don’t need to see it every commercial break every year in the NCAA Tournament…
Jeremy.
God damn that was a good play, though. Jeter shouldn’t have even been in that part of the field.
I hate seeing the black cat run in front of a Cubs’ on-deck batter in a 1969 game against the Mets. It’s meant to symbolize how the Cubs collapsed and the Mets overtook them in the standings on their way to winning the World Series. I wasn’t even born yet when this happened and I hate seeing it.
Yes.
I think that DKW is saying that he’s sick of seeing the Buckner play precisely because all those other things (the poor pitching, the Game 7, etc.) have been forgotten, and poor old Bill gets the blame for everything.