World Series DVD Review
The World Series DVD came out yesterday, and like most good members of Red Sox Nation I picked it up and watched it last night. Here’s a quick review after one viewing.
First I want to say that I watched the first 45 minutes while doing my workout on my elliptical machine. I usually get to right around 7 miles, give or take a tenth or 2, in that time. While watching the DVD, I actually got up to eight. Hmm…. Nothing like a little World Series title to get your adrenaline pumping a little harder.
Anyway, despite the adrenaline thing, I was a little disappointed overall. I realize it was a World Series video but I wanted to see more. More of the season highlights, more of the ALCS highlights, more of the rivalry highlights, more of the victory celebration and rolling rally highlights, hell even more of the World Series highlights. For 90 minutes there sure didn’t seem to be enough of any of that.
I was left trying to figure out what the heck I just spent 90 minutes watching, because it seemed like they skimped on some of the good stuff. What I saw I liked, I just wanted to see more.
Dennis Leary did a fine job narrating. I read somewhere that he was honored to do it, but he told MLB up front not to expect him to be his crazy self because he didn’t want to take anything away from the team and what they accomplished. He was true to his word and was excellent. And of course, there were a few Leary moments, but they worked and only added to the experience. My favorite quote: just before Ortiz deposited one into the bullpen to end game 4 of the ALCS, “The game went on for close to 5 hours, and you can only face Big Papi so many times, without getting a spanking”.
There was some great additional footage. My favorite part was the “Post Season Pre-Game Sound”. It starts off with Timlin and Embree shagging fly balls in Yankee Stadium before Game One. It was great stuff.
Timlin telling Embree that he enjoys playing these guys and how he went up to Mattingly and said, “you know what’s the best thing about this lineup? You’re not in it”.
Then as Burks comes to the plate Timlin says “that’s one of the reasons I wanna win it right there”. Embree says, “I wanna see him cry”.
Millar on the field at Fenway before game 4 of the ALCS telling Francona as he’s worrying about Schilling’s ankle, “screw the ankle, we gotta get to the ankle game”.
Then running around the field telling anyone, everyone, and no one, “don’t count us out”.
Finally, standing in front of the dugout telling all the fans, “we’ll be all right. We just don’t make it easy on ourselves. This is the way we like it, down and out and then, POW! Sox Nation’ll take over.
There were a couple of good stories in “The Storytellers and a few other good highlights.
One of my favorite moments was seeing Schilling and Wakefield at different times during the DVD, hugging Pesky during the WS victory celebration, Schilling planting a big wet one right on his cheek.
The DVD was certainly enjoyable but there was something missing. It just wasn’t as climactic as it could have been. Nothing will ever be as climactic as witnessing it for the first time, but I wanted to get close to that feeling again while watching this and it just didn’t happen. I think it was possible.
We needed more of the storied history, more of the regular season heroics, more of the post-season grit and guts (particularly in the ALCS with their backs against the wall), more of “The Nation”, and more of what this city was like afterward.
I’ll certainly watch it again, and probably again and again. It looks as though NESN now has it’s own version out. Hopefully they’ll do a better job with it, although it’s actually shorter by about 10 minutes.
Maybe one of these days someone will come out with the one that really captures it all. I gotta hope for something right? I no longer have to hope for the Red Sox to finally win a World Series.
First I want to say that I watched the first 45 minutes while doing my workout on my elliptical machine. I usually get to right around 7 miles, give or take a tenth or 2, in that time. While watching the DVD, I actually got up to eight. Hmm…. Nothing like a little World Series title to get your adrenaline pumping a little harder.
Anyway, despite the adrenaline thing, I was a little disappointed overall. I realize it was a World Series video but I wanted to see more. More of the season highlights, more of the ALCS highlights, more of the rivalry highlights, more of the victory celebration and rolling rally highlights, hell even more of the World Series highlights. For 90 minutes there sure didn’t seem to be enough of any of that.
I was left trying to figure out what the heck I just spent 90 minutes watching, because it seemed like they skimped on some of the good stuff. What I saw I liked, I just wanted to see more.
Dennis Leary did a fine job narrating. I read somewhere that he was honored to do it, but he told MLB up front not to expect him to be his crazy self because he didn’t want to take anything away from the team and what they accomplished. He was true to his word and was excellent. And of course, there were a few Leary moments, but they worked and only added to the experience. My favorite quote: just before Ortiz deposited one into the bullpen to end game 4 of the ALCS, “The game went on for close to 5 hours, and you can only face Big Papi so many times, without getting a spanking”.
There was some great additional footage. My favorite part was the “Post Season Pre-Game Sound”. It starts off with Timlin and Embree shagging fly balls in Yankee Stadium before Game One. It was great stuff.
Timlin telling Embree that he enjoys playing these guys and how he went up to Mattingly and said, “you know what’s the best thing about this lineup? You’re not in it”.
Then as Burks comes to the plate Timlin says “that’s one of the reasons I wanna win it right there”. Embree says, “I wanna see him cry”.
Millar on the field at Fenway before game 4 of the ALCS telling Francona as he’s worrying about Schilling’s ankle, “screw the ankle, we gotta get to the ankle game”.
Then running around the field telling anyone, everyone, and no one, “don’t count us out”.
Finally, standing in front of the dugout telling all the fans, “we’ll be all right. We just don’t make it easy on ourselves. This is the way we like it, down and out and then, POW! Sox Nation’ll take over.
There were a couple of good stories in “The Storytellers and a few other good highlights.
One of my favorite moments was seeing Schilling and Wakefield at different times during the DVD, hugging Pesky during the WS victory celebration, Schilling planting a big wet one right on his cheek.
The DVD was certainly enjoyable but there was something missing. It just wasn’t as climactic as it could have been. Nothing will ever be as climactic as witnessing it for the first time, but I wanted to get close to that feeling again while watching this and it just didn’t happen. I think it was possible.
We needed more of the storied history, more of the regular season heroics, more of the post-season grit and guts (particularly in the ALCS with their backs against the wall), more of “The Nation”, and more of what this city was like afterward.
I’ll certainly watch it again, and probably again and again. It looks as though NESN now has it’s own version out. Hopefully they’ll do a better job with it, although it’s actually shorter by about 10 minutes.
Maybe one of these days someone will come out with the one that really captures it all. I gotta hope for something right? I no longer have to hope for the Red Sox to finally win a World Series.
posted by Bob at 11/24/2004 03:59:00 PM
1 Comments:
In regards to your second paragraph, you are correct. MLB covers both teams equally during all the playoff rounds, then as each team loses, the footage of that team hits the scrap heap.
My problem is, there's a lot of good footage of the winning team that seems to have hit the scrap heap as well, which is too bad.
Just would have liked to have seen more, that's all.
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