First late season collapse since 1969

Man, I miss getting to watch Harry and Steve Stone. I'm a life-long Cardinals fan who grew up in Arkansas, so I couldn't get many Cardinals games on television until my dad bought one of those old, huge satellite dishes. But, when I was home alone during the summer in the eighties, I watched the Cubs any time they played a day game.

16:42 UNBELIEVABLE JOHN LEE HOOKER pepsi commercial

Back when National TV games had great announcers.

Rain Delay starts. . August 29th 1989 2:44:05

I hated the cubs but loved kerry wood and mark prior to

LETS GO CINCINNATI REDS MACHINE BLEEDING OHIO GREATNESS BABY!!!!! BRING BACK THE '90s!

Enjoyed the game ...thank you....just so you know....when you do the header...in sports the home team is last...so it's The New York Yankees vs the Chicago Cubs ..not the other way...

Who’s here after looking at VLAD TV and Rex Chapman saying that Derrick Coleman was the best in his class?

Anyone notice that as sammy sosas knob on the bat got bigger, his offensive numbers plummeted? He got worse. It maybe a joke but he kinda did. The knob got bigger since the 99 season and he got worse

Jack Brickhouse 1948-1981 Harry Caray 1982-1997 Chip Caray 1998-2004 Len Kasper 2005-2019

the sosa at bat/ homer in the bottom of the 8th was such an incredible moment. that 2001 season was special. even though they didnt make the playoffs it was a hell of a ride.

than they started putting down hip hop music ...

at times. the yankees bullpen. was bad. in. 2003

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Thank you for uploading this. I was at this game on the Benton Harbor side. Its been decades since I lived in Michigan (grew up in BH) and lately I've fallen into a Rabbit Hole on YT watching every video I can about BH back in the 80's and 90's. Tiger Pride indeed!

2:54:50 strike?

With Oswalt winning today, it was his 20th win of the 2005 season. Oswalt also won 20 games in 2004. He won 19 games in 2002, and he could have won 20 games, but he lost his final start of the 2002 season.

Cubs catcher Michael Barrett hitting a home run off Oswalt in the fifth inning; these two players had drama with each other in 2004 a couple of times when Oswalt hit Barrett with a pitch on purpose

I cant believe Maddux was not able to hold on in this game and play spoiler. Since the Phillies won in game 162 against the Nationals, and had the Astros lost this game 162 against the Cubs, it would have been Phillies-Astros in a game 163 for the NL Wild Card on Monday October 03 in Philly

For the second consecutive season, the Astros clinch the NL Wild Card on game 162 at home. 2004 against the Rockies with the Giants chasing the Astros, and 2005 against the Cubs with the Phillies chasing the Astros In 2004, Astros were very disappointing, until their final 46 games when they went 36-10 to make the postseason. In 2005, the Astros offense was horrendous due to all the injuries to key players like Bagwell and Berkman and the departure of Beltran after 2004, and the Astros started the season 15 games under .500 with a record of 16-31. Astros got shut-out 17 times during the regular season and once during the postseason (game 4 of the 2005 World Series against the WSOX) Astros surprisingly turned their 2005 season around and became the second team in MLB history to make the postseason after being down 15+ games under .500 The first team to make the postseason after being down 15+ games under .500 were the 1914 Boston Braves, who were 16 games under .500, and then won the World Series when they swept the Philadelphia Athletics. The Miracle Braves Astros also made the World Series in 2005, but they got swept by the WSOX The Athletics this 2005 season were also 15 games under .500 (17-32) and they too almost made the postseason in 2005, but they struggled in September. Both in 2004 and 2005, the Astros were a SENSATIONAL HOME TEAM. In 2004, the Astros won 22 of their last 23 home games (including the postseason home games). In 2005, the Astros won an elite 53 home games in the regular season, as compared to a horrible 36-45 road record in 2005. Astros also won games 3 and 4 against the Braves in Houston. The Astros also won games 3 and 4 against the Cards. The Astros should have also won game 5 against the Cards had it not been for Lidge self-destruction Pujols home run. Astros did lose game 3 and game 4 against the WSOX, but that was because MLB ordered the Astros to play with the roof open in the World Series. Astros had SENSATIONAL homefield advantage in late 2004 and the whole 2005 season when the roof was closed.

Information regarding the Cubs offseason with player currently on their roster: - Today ends one of the greatest disappointment in baseball history = the 2004 Cubs. - Today ends the greatest Cubs era of all time (1998-2004). And yes, this 1998-2004 era was greater than their 2015-2020 era. - Sammy Sosa left today’s final game early, and this created tons of drama. And because of this and all the other past behaviors that the Cubs put up with Sosa, Sosa will be traded to Baltimore in the offseason. Dusty Baker was not happy that Sosa left early. Baker said Sosa was hurt and was not on the Cubs bench, and that he didn't arrive in the clubhouse until 70 minutes before the first pitch. Cubs will sign Jeromy Burnitz to replace Sosa at right field. - This was Matt Clement final season with the Cubs, as he will sign with the RSOX in the offseason. - This was Moises Alou final season with the Cubs, as he will sign with the Giants in the offseason. So Moises will once again play by a team managed by his father Felipe (just like their Expos days). - As for the Cubs TV guys = Chip Caray, the Cubs' TV play-by-play announcer the last seven years, is leaving for a similar job with the Braves, where he will join his father, Skip Caray. There was no immediate word if Cubs analyst Steve Stone, whose criticism of Baker led to a meeting with team officials this week, will be retained. (Stone also left the Cubs after the 2004 season).

I love the commercial's !!

Classic commercials for The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated. Love it.

Watching Harry Caray broadcast the Chicago Cubs is part of my late 80s & 90s childhood growing up in Deposit, New York watching on the superstation

1:30:54 Hahahaha 😂 1:31:49

I was there in left field. I thought Woody hit it out. Sure looked like it. At Wrigley would have been 10 rows deep.

1997 was worse they started 0-13. Harry dies in February 98.

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1:01:01 OMG, that was a BLAST by DuBois

Now why couldnt the Cubs hit like this against the Mets and last two games against the Reds

At 14:09, Clemens challenged Sosa with a 96 mph fastball. At 14:26, Clemens reached back and threw a 99 mph fastball by Sosa. At 1:10:14, Clemens hit 96 mph again and had Karros late. Clemens could throw 98 mph when he wanted in 2001 and even hit 100 mph that year in the ALDS. He still regularly hit 96-97 mph in 2002, but by 2003 Clemens pretty much always topped out at 94-95 mph in every other start except this one, although I saw him hit 96 mph as late as 2005 with Houston. But Torre definitely removed Roger prematurely in this game the way he was throwing.

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No national reporter in the pre season predicted the cardinals would finish higher than third. With the cubs getting Maddox, and astros getting Clemens & pettite, it seemed like a forgone conclusion the cubs and Astros would both make the playoffs. The Astros started off pretty bad, salvaged thr wild card. The cubs had a good team this year but were fighting high expectations that they just couldn’t match.

J.R. "Chumley" Reid. And Derrick Coleman looks like Jiminy Cricket.

I would like to know why can't an outfielder pick up a baseball following a base hit. It's inexcusable.

You think, for an all-star game like this, that they would have announced the whole rosters, not just the starters (or maybe they did, off camera).

This game is a cool cross-section of a lotta great 90s baseball stars

Do you have COL @ CHC 8/7/01? That was when Steve “Mongo” McMichael criticized Angel Hernandez, got kicked out of the ballpark, then one of the craziest walk offs in MLB history happened.

My friends and I would use that Pippin commercial line all the time. "Teeny little guys, aren't they." Usually when playing horse in the driveway.

The Cubs celebrated that wild card clincher like it was the World Series