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Fire up the DVD player

Originally posted by ESPN Page 2-Bill Simmons

By Bill Simmons

ESPN Page 2

 

You probably noticed the trailer for the animated series by now, which premieres on next Wednesday on ESPN.com and then runs for the next 12 Thursdays. I don't want to give anything away here, other than that we spent an inordinate amount of time working on this project over the past few months. John Papanek and I came up with the idea; I created the characters and wrote the cartoons; a company called Funny Garbage (of "Crank Yankers" fame) did the animation. Please reserve your final judgements until you watch a few of them. That's all I'm asking.

 

 

I spent yesterday afternoon watching an advance copy of MLB's official 2004 World Series DVD, which arrives in stores next week and definitely should have been called "Hell Freezes Over." If you're a Red Sox fan, it's a fantastic way to spend two hours. Obviously. I wish they hadn't spent so much time rehashing the Curse stuff and more time showing clips from the season, and they spent too much time on the World Series games and not enough time on the Yankees series ... but overall, it was still the highlight of my month.

 

 

Everyday is October with the Red Sox DVD in hand.

Some of the moments that stood out for me:

 

 

-Schilling giving his "To the best Red Sox team EVER!" toast after they won the World Series, with everyone screaming and pouring champagne on one another. That's right up there with "For Granny, for Nate ... for Caretaker," "You're the best ballplayer I ever had ... and you're the best (expletive) hitter I've ever seen" and "I love you guys" in my book. What a moment.

 

 

-On the DVD extras, there's an extended clip of Kevin Millar before Game 4 of the ALCs, telling everyone who will listen that they're still in this thing - variation after variation of the "If we win today, we have Pedro going tomorrow, and Schill in Game 6, and then anything can happen in a Game 7" routine. It's incredible to watch after the fact. At least until you remember that he's completely insane.

 

 

-Also on the DVD extras, an extended clip of Timlin and Embree shooting the shiznit in the outfield before the Yankee series. Beyond goofy. I'm at least 80% positive that Timlin also played Jame Gumb in "Silence of the Lambs."

 

 

-Every scene with Orlando Cabrera. He's the breakout comedy star of this thing, like a Colombian version of Flava Flav. I went from hoping the Sox would re-sign him to praying that they would re-sign him AND give him his own reality show.

 

 

-The post-World Series celebration is fantastic -- from Schilling pouring beer on Johnny Pesky, to Cabrera bringing the trophy back onto the field for the Sox fans who stuck around in St. Louis, to everyone waiting at Logan Airport for the boys to return home. It almost got a little dusty in the Sports Guy Mansion a few times. Almost. They did a really nice job with this part.

 

 

-Every scene from every champagne celebration. I think this should be its own DVD: "Best Champagne Celebrations." I think this is the real reason we're all so jealous of athletes - no other walk of life offers the chance to prevail in something, then spend the next hour with your buddies spraying champagne on each other and acting like idiots. We should be able to bid on this on eBay.

 

 

-During the season recap, there's a surreal Nomar montage with Nomar posing in various parts of Fenway, followed by the narrator saying something like "There was one order of business left: The trading of a Boston icon." The camera angles put the weight of that trade in perspective ... it's hard to explain. You have to see it.

 

 

Note: Apparently the Red Sox have their own DVD coming out as well -- I'm hoping that one features more clips from the season and the other two playoff series. But this wasn't a bad start.

 

 

Additional note: When I was watching the DVD, I couldn't help but compare it to some of my favorite Celtics shows from the 80's, back when NBA Entertainment would produce those elaborate season recaps for the champion every season. Recently they released a DVD set called "Ultimate Celtics," which features complete telecasts of 7 of the great games in Celtics history, as well as a number of documentaries and shows about the team ... including their four "recap" shows from the 80's. When I plowed through the DVD last week, I was delighted to find my favorite NBA Entertainment moment of all-time -- from the '87 recap, when a banged-up Celtics team limps into a seventh game against the hated Pistons.

 

 

Here's what happens: Out of nowhere, they start showing scenes of Boston and the empty Garden, interspersed with Johnny Most's play-by-play and the instrumental beginning of Elton's John song "Funeral for a Friend." And it keeps going... and it keeps going ... and the narrator is rambling about the heart of the team ... and the game starts just as the piano part of the song kicks in...and everything leads to a minute-long sequence in the fourth quarter, the key sequence of the game, when the Celts missed something like 6 shots and kept crashing the offensive boards, culminating in Ainge's back-breaking three as the song crests. I'm telling you, it's an amazing piece of work. My favorite moment in any of these shows.

 

 

Seventeen years later, it still holds up. And as much as I enjoyed this Red Sox DVD, there wasn't a single moment in there that totally stood out for me like that. Look, those World Series games were great. No question about it. But fifty years from now, I'll be telling my grandkids about those four Yankee games ... and the DVD didn't totally capture them. There was a "Funeral for a Friend"-style moment in there somewhere. They just didn't make it happen.

 

 

With that said, I'm still planning on watching the DVD at least 25 more times this winter. My final rating? 33 out of 10.

 

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Is anyone going to, or thinking of buying it?

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Originally posted by BDD

Nomar Booed at Boston World Series DVD Premiere

 

But mark us down for supporting making a one-year offer to Nomar to play shortstop for the Red Sox. 2005: Let's Win One With Nomie.

 

Anyone at the premire? I probably would have booed him also.

 

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BDD's other suggestion of re-signing Nomar to a 1-year deal is interesting to me. Could work out for both parties, although I imagine Nomar won't want to come, and the team wouldn't sign him.

 

BUT, if Nomar wanted 1 year to prove he can be an elite player again, AND the Red Sox need a 1 year stopgap for Ramirez..... it would seem to be a match.

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I've thought about that, but I'm sure it would never happen...

 

That's the one thing about this year that is kind of a bummer. I wish we could have won the WS with Nomar. :(

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Ok, so I watched it, and it was great. I wish they would have done more with the ALCS though, as that was just as great as sweeping the Cards. But, I have yet to see the NESN dvd, so I cant compare them, and say which one I reccomend. But, I definitely think this one is great, and is worth the cost. Im pretty sure the NESN one covers the whole season too... so yeah

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