1985 Royals film The thrill of it all
 

Nice memories here for those old enough to remember.

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We had this on VHS when I was a kid. I wore this tape out I watched it so much.

Love that video. I had a VHS copy of it as a kid. I think the Royals gave away a DVD copy of it at a game to mark the 20 year anniversary. Since I couldn't go to the game, I bought a copy off ebay and forced anyone who came over to watch it.

I remember this! We actually had it on Beta. :)

Ohhhhh Penz


You magnificent bastard. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing this in several years.

8 games out at the break..

Have to go through my old scorecards but I saw 32 games that summer. And all of those September games against the Angels.
They were a damn good squad too.

Same here. We also had a VHS with an Al Michaels narrated feature of the ‘85 World Series.

My rotation as a young chap was The Thrill of it All, Super Duper Baseball Bloopers, The Natural, Ghostbusters, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, and Flight of the Navigator. ROFL

Shee-it--would be something to transport back to early childhood for a day or two.

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One of my fondest memories remains sitting in my dorm room at Mizzou listening to that Angels series on the radio the last week of the season, with Brett going on one of his greatest tears. I still remember a Fred White call of one of his home runs, where Fred's voice cracked with emotion when he said "Gone!"

Brett should've been AL MVP that year, not Mattingly.

And Brett had a grade 1 hamstring pull. And the Angels lineup had

Carew
DeCinces
Grich
Downing
Devon White
Reggie
Pettis

Their pitching was bad ass

Candelaria
Tommy john
Don Sutton
Mike Witt
Geoff Zahn
Donnie Moore (yourself - Cp Lexicon) eek

Although one never knows where he would have been in 1985, imagine that lineup with Lyman Bostock had he not been murdered in 1978.

That guy was a tremendous player.

That video brings back memories. Love the Karate Kid theme associated with Brett. Also a great reminder of just how good and impactful he was to the Royals and KC sports. Also love thinking how KC kept the Angels from the possibility of winning two World Series in their history.

Include in that what can only be described as a tragic loss in the ALCS (one strike away in game 5) before Dave Henderson became a temporary household name with that 2 out, 2 strike HR off Donnie Moore in the top of the 9th. (and Dave Henderson, going down the 1st base line, leaped so high as the ball went towards LF, that when he came down, he sprained his ankle.

Donnie Moore never recovered mentally.

I saw Donnie Moore in spring training with the Royals in Baseball City, FL in 1989, he was a non-roster invitee IIRC. Moore was warming up in the bullpen and pitching coach Frank Funk was walking down the first base line toward us and I asked him "Is that Donnie Moore down there?" And he just nodded.

A few months later, Donnie killed himself.

Yea, Donnie Moore is a study in tragedy. That game wrecked his life.

For fun, I had to go find the highlights to that game. Totally forgot that Dave Henderson, in the bottom half of the 8th, had a fly ball n his glove, then he hit the fence, dislodging the ball, allowing it to be a 2 run HR for Bobby Grich.

And just before Hondo’s HR, Don Baylor hit a 2 run shot to get them within 1.
That was a crazy, crazy game.

My mom gave me a photo album a few years ago from the 1985 WS parade. It's crazy how close the fans were able to get to the cars and players.

Steve Balboni, George Brett, Dan Quisenberry, Lonnie Smith

Game 6 hero Dane Iorge, Willie Wilson, Hal McRae

On your head St Louis

Dart, those are some all time photos. All that confetti started a parade car on fire during the parade. What a great day that was.

Also, at the 16:22 mark, Doyle Alexander gave up the run scoring 2b to Buddy Biancalana and Alexander was pissed. He felt he struck out Sundberg on a 3-2 pitch that HP umpire Darryl Cousins called a ball resulting in a walk.

Said to Cousins, "Jesus Christ, "****ing blind idiot".

And Bob Costas said as Biancalana made contact and the ball was headed to the gap:

"Buddy Biancalana hits into right center and Hello Buddy Biancalana"!!!


Great days.

I'm going to have to find that clip because Doyle Alexander was mad AF. he barked all the way to the dugout.

Costas and Tony Kubek were on the call for NBC.

I get a kick out of Balboni. The guy looks just like my dad did in 1985.