Happy 20 Year Anniversary!

[TRM]

20 years ago to this day, the most iconic moment in Blue Jays history, Tom Cheek's life and many other Blue Jays related superlatives occurred.

 

 

While I was only a wee lad of one month, rewatching the moment of Joe rounding the bases, and the noise that the Skydome was making never fails to give me goosebumps.

 

For those who watched it live (or even better were there), what was it like? My uncle was on the first base line, and said it was almost as if a plan was taking off inside the dome.

 

No matter how disappointing this season was, at least no one but Mazeroski and Pirates fans can say they have had anything like this. Flags fly forever.

[Olerud363]

20 years ago to this day, the most iconic moment in Blue Jays history, Tom Cheek's life and many other Blue Jays related superlatives occurred.

 

 

While I was only a wee lad of one month, rewatching the moment of Joe rounding the bases, and the noise that the Skydome was making never fails to give me goosebumps.

 

For those who watched it live (or even better were there), what was it like? My uncle was on the first base line, and said it was almost as if a plan was taking off inside the dome.

 

No matter how disappointing this season was, at least no one but Mazeroski and Pirates fans can say they have had anything like this. Flags fly forever.

 

It was exciting... but not as exciting as you would think.

 

As the inning developed it became obvious that Mitch Williams didn't have it... if it wasn't Joe hitting the homer, it would of been Alfredo Griffin hitting a triple (he had pinch run for Olerud earlier) or Mitch walking the winning run in... it seemed obvious they were going to win when Molitor got on.

 

It was the end of an era. Bitter sweet. I was 18... so it was also the end of highschool for me... things were never the same after that moment.

 

It was the end of a long series of improbable wins, from the 10-0 "comeback" against Boston, to a grand slam by Winfield in Seattle one late night, to Alomar tying the game against Eckersly, to Sprague... by the time Carter hit that grandslam we'd allready seen so many improbable victories.

 

I've said this before, so I'm repeating myself... standing on young street that night we didn't think this was "once in a lifetime", we thought it would last forever, Olerud was 24, Alomar was 25, Hentgen and Guzman were about 25, looked great.... Delgado, Green, Gonzales were baseball America super-prospects. There was no reason to think it would ever end, or atleast that it would end that night.

 

Great times... but that night seems bittersweet... the end of an era.

[Angrioter]

20 years ago to this day, the most iconic moment in Blue Jays history, Tom Cheek's life and many other Blue Jays related superlatives occurred.

 

 

While I was only a wee lad of one month, rewatching the moment of Joe rounding the bases, and the noise that the Skydome was making never fails to give me goosebumps.

 

For those who watched it live (or even better were there), what was it like? My uncle was on the first base line, and said it was almost as if a plan was taking off inside the dome.

 

No matter how disappointing this season was, at least no one but Mazeroski and Pirates fans can say they have had anything like this. Flags fly forever.

 

I wanna cry like a Magdalena.

[Errorcebia]

Still living in the past while this organization goes to s***

[GD]

I wasn't existent

[Angrioter]

I was 3 years old. : (

 

I was ~10 years old

[havok24]

My birth-year didn't even have a World Series

 

You're a 94? s*** you kiddies are young.

[GeorgiaPeach]

It was exciting... but not as exciting as you would think.

 

As the inning developed it became obvious that Mitch Williams didn't have it... if it wasn't Joe hitting the homer, it would of been Alfredo Griffin hitting a triple (he had pinch run for Olerud earlier) or Mitch walking the winning run in... it seemed obvious they were going to win when Molitor got on.

 

It was the end of an era. Bitter sweet. I was 18... so it was also the end of highschool for me... things were never the same after that moment.

 

It was the end of a long series of improbable wins, from the 10-0 "comeback" against Boston, to a grand slam by Winfield in Seattle one late night, to Alomar tying the game against Eckersly, to Sprague... by the time Carter hit that grandslam we'd allready seen so many improbable victories.

 

I've said this before, so I'm repeating myself... standing on young street that night we didn't think this was "once in a lifetime", we thought it would last forever, Olerud was 24, Alomar was 25, Hentgen and Guzman were about 25, looked great.... Delgado, Green, Gonzales were baseball America super-prospects. There was no reason to think it would ever end, or atleast that it would end that night.

 

Great times... but that night seems bittersweet... the end of an era.

 

Was this copied from Bill James books?

[Atothe]

I was 5, didn't know of their existence yet

[G-Snarls]

OK, I'm old enough to remember.

 

1992 I was in grade 12, huge Jays fan, got pissed drunk at friends house and ran around the streets of Fredericton after the win in my John Olerud jersey with 5-6 other guys. Was beyond exciting.

 

1993 I was with my girldlfriend in a hotel in Halifax. Even though we'd watched a ton of games together (she liked Robbie Alomar) we somehow decided to watch a movie that night. After the movie we flipped to the game about 5 minutes before Joe Carter hit that home run. It was surreal.

 

Anyway, for those too young to remember or born post 1993, it was pretty fantastic. Proud to be a fan. Great teams. No problem attracting free agents. Full house all the time (I used to go to Toronto almost every summer for a few games and still do)

 

I hope we get to see something like it in the next 5 years. Until late April I thought we were headed that way too. Now not so sure.

[SAAviour]

I was 16 and I remember telling my dad who is also a huge fan that the jays will dominate forever and nothing can stop them and we get 4 million a game so we will forever be a powerhouse. I'll always remember him saying, this is baseball and there will be a time when we are the worst team in the league and a long stretch of years where we are a horrible team and there's a good chance we'll never witness another World Series in our lifetime, he said you just never know with baseball.

 

I laughed him off........

[GD]

I was 16 and I remember telling my dad who is also a huge fan that the jays will dominate forever and nothing can stop them and we get 4 million a game so we will forever be a powerhouse.

 

Dream big.

[SAAviour]

Haha I was 16, guess I couldn't count!

[G-Snarls]

Are you nuts, whatever man? I've never even came close to being that excited in my life again, No one listen to this cripe, the guy's wet blanketing the most unbelievable time in Blue Jays history, give me a f***ing break.

 

Seriously. Even for the 2-3 years after the 2 World Series wins you still felt excited. And I didn't even live in Toronto. It was nationwide. Great times indeed. I always called Pat Gillick my "favorite Blue Jay".

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Was this copied from Bill James books?

 

Guy lives in Toronto and called Yonge St: "Young street".

 

Just lol

 

He's a mouthbreather. Nothing to see here.

[Olerud363]

Are you nuts, whatever man? I've never even came close to being that excited in my life again, No one listen to this cripe, the guy's wet blanketing the most unbelievable time in Blue Jays history, give me a f***ing break.

 

Calm down. All I was trying to do was put it in perspective. Of course it was exciting. All I meant was that the Carter homerun occurred as the final great moment, in a long series of great moments.

 

A lot of people were more excited about the Alomar homerun, and the Sprague homerun in 92. A lot of people were more excited when Maldanado caught the flyball to get them to the 92 world series.

Some people were more excited when George Bell caught the flyball to beat the Yanks in 85. Or for game 6 in Atlanta in 92.

 

For me I was probably most excited when Moseby hit it off the wall to beat Baltimore in the last series of 89 (first pennant race as a fan). They actually won the division the next day, but that Friday game was incredible.

[Olerud363]

1992 I was in grade 12, huge Jays fan, got pissed drunk at friends house and ran around the streets of Fredericton after the win in my John Olerud jersey with 5-6 other guys. Was beyond exciting.

 

1993 I was with my girldlfriend in a hotel in Halifax. Even though we'd watched a ton of games together (she liked Robbie Alomar) we somehow decided to watch a movie that night. After the movie we flipped to the game about 5 minutes before Joe Carter hit that home run. It was surreal.

 

 

Exactly my point when I said "not as exciting as one would think." And again not to say it wasn't exciting. Just that these things were expected by then.

 

I don't think you would of watched a movie in 92... even if the girlfriend was there that night.

 

And do the kids on here even know who Mitch Williams was?? Do they know about the 15-14 game??

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Blue Jays 3 0 4 0 0 2 0 6 0 15 18 0

Phillies 4 2 0 1 5 1 1 0 0 14 14 0

 

That's right 6 in the 8th... losing pitcher Mitch Williams. The guy had bad control... and was awful late fall of 93, and had allready blown game 4 badly. As soon as my friends and I saw Mitch pitch to the first couple of batters we knew that game 6 was over.

 

To put that in persepective think of Alomar hitting the homer off of Eckersley... Eckersley was historical in 92. The MVP.