At the start of our open house today, I was flipping through the channels and stumbled across “This Week in Baseball”. I remember in the days before ESPN and Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, TWIB was must see TV. Mainly to see if the Twins made any of the highlights or there was a feature about any of them.
Lately, TWIB has been much harder to find on the air, as it didn’t have a particular time slot, with the assorted Saturday informercials about growing more hair or swindling people out of cash.
Since I found it, I decided to watch for the first time in ages.
Today’s episode was the first of their 30th season on the air. One of the features was a flashback to 18 years ago and one of my favorite stories they ever did, Major League Baseball going to aluminum bats and the players reaction to the news.
The thing that struck me was the aluminum bat all the players were holding was a Worth Tennessee Thumper. Thinking back on it, I remember Worth bats to be sub-par when compared to Easton’s, which is still the case.
I guess I just can’t believe it was that long ago the feature aired and not coincidentally on April 1. Overall, I was somewhat disappointed with the episode as there weren’t any TWIB notes from around the league or even player features. It was a string of highlights and bloopers mixed together from the past 30 years and a small recap on last year’s World Series, handed to the St. Louis Cardinals by the Detroit Tigers pitching staff throwing the ball into the outfield on numerous occasions. The other block of time was Randy and Jason Sklar (Cheap Seats) going over their favorite moments from 2006. Whoopee! The one bright spot was some players discussing what being clutch is. But in this era of over-inflated hitters and weak pitching, it’s tough for these guys not to be clutch. At least they didn’t try to lump A-Rod into the category of clutch players with Jeter, Big Papi and for some reason Luis Gonzalez and his bloop single to win the World Series.
That’s all for now. I’ll have more later on the Olichwier Adult Easter Egg hunt and the ensuing fights that is sure to occur. Happy Easter.
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Not what is used to be????????? Kind of like your blog, the internet used to be a place for free speech and people to express themselves. Now the administrator of this blog is deleting comments!!! I wish I had a brother.
"Not what it used to be"??????????? The internet used to be a place for people to write what they want and express themselves. Now the almighty administrator of this blog is deleting comments and eliminating peoples 1st Ammendment rights!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had a brother.
Easter Egg hunts and ensuing fights... sounds like an Olichwier tradition.
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TWIB certainly changed when Mel Allen died. I always loved the "How 'bout That?" section, which ESPN stole and called Web Gems and/or Plays of the Week. The website for the show is http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/video/twib/index.jsp
I think Pete needs to get his own blog...he's getting waaaaaay too much air time here...
Looks like Pete doesn't have enough to do at work.
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