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2001 World Series - Arizona Diamondbacks vs. New York Yankees Reviews
Downfall of the arrogant morons!
During The 2001 season, I wanted to see someone else win besides those damn Yankees and I wanted to see The Mariners win it all because it would have been pretty cool if the team with the best record in baseball could cap their season with a championship. But no The Piece Of Junk Yankees had to ruin it and go to The World Series again. I was really pissed off and wanted to see them get knocked off their pedestal by The Diamondbacks. Games 1 and 2 were great because Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson pitched those 2 games and they shut down The Yankees and got great run support from the offense. They were throttling The Yankees through 2 games. But then The Yankees won the next 3 games and I thought oh great here we go again. Then Game 6 Johnson shut them down and The Diamondbacks really throttled them leading up to the dramatic Game 7. It was a classic pitchers duel between Schilling and Roger Clemens. The Diamondbacks had multiple chances of taking control of the game but couldn't capatalize. They had a 1-0 lead but they blew it with bad base running and keeping Schilling in a little too long as he gave up 2 runs. The Yankees had the lead and I thought great 4 in a row for those gluttons. The Diamondbacks were able to shut down The Yankees thanks to Miguel Bautista and Johnson who was pitching on 1 day's rest. However they couldn't get anything going before the bottom of the 9th and by the time the 9th inning came along, I went to bed to spare myself the torture of seeing the jerks from New York celebrate again. But boy did I miss a great finish. My dad knocks on my door and says hey The Diamondbacks won and I go downstairs and I was over-joyed by the replays being shown. Tony Womack drove in the tying run off of Marianno Rivera and Luis Gonzalez drove in the winning run with a bloop base hit off of Rivera. It was great. I loved seeing that jerk Derek Jeter get his ass handed to him in The World Series for once and I loved not seeing a 5th World Series championship for The Yankees in 6 years. The 2001 World Series was perfect theatre for baseball and it was great to see someone other than The Yankees win it all!
Easily the greatest sports highlight DVD I've seen
The genre of sports highlight DVD is a very subjective and, most times, very unsatisfying one. Sports highlight videos, in almost every circumstance, are created just to capitalize on a recent sporting event. In most situations, the quality of the video reflects the rush to cash in on the moment. There are a couple of sporting events near and dear to my heart: the 1998 home run chase between Sosa and McGwire [before the steroid scandal sullied the memory] and Maryland's 2002 Men's basketball championship. I rushed out to buy their highlight videos when they first became available, but was sorely disappointed. Neither of these videos managed capture the thrill and emotion of the events. The 1998 home run chased completely glossed over the excitement of that night that Mark McGwire hit #62 and didn't even really do justice to him hitting #70. The 2002 Maryland championship video was basically 15% Maryland highlights and 85% rapid clips of games throughout the tournament, which were so jerkily edited that you hardly knew which teams where playing in the highlights. Even the Maryland highlights did nothing to capture the emotion of this star-crossed team winning its first National Title. Sadly, this is symptomatic of most sports highlight DVDs. None seem to get that the reason most people buy these videos is so that they can get back in touch with the emotion they felt when they watched the actual event live. These videos are far too perfunctory to get or understand that feeling. Fortunately, for sports fans, there is a video that DOES get it. That's the 2001 World Series highlight DVD.
The classic fall face off between the three-time World Champion New York Yankees and the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks was a series tailor-made for a wonderful highlight video. Yet, far too often, even a sporting event that one would think couldn't be messed up, ends up being screwed up by these money-grubbing editors (calling them directors would be an insult to directors). Fortunately, the editors that crafted this DVD seemed to know what they were doing.
Never have I seen a sporting video that could capture the emotion of the teams, the fans, and an entire nation, the way this one can. In many ways it was crucial for this series to be great and for this DVD to be great. The horrific events of 9/11 shattered a nation and the people of this country needed something to divert their attention, however briefly, from the grief of this terrible terrorist attack. This series did an astounding job of that. It provided drama, heroics, and spectacular performances. Basically, it provided a baseball-scale version of the very traits that the people of the United States had been exhibiting for the previous one and a half months. The fact that the New York Yankees were involved in this series only enhanced its significance. Though the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit in three locations, New York will always be most associated that day because of the massive loss of life and terrible images of planes flying into the World Trade Center buildings and those buildings collapsing. New York needed the Yankees more than they ever have and more than any city has ever needed a team. The Yankees delivered by producing the most electrifying post-season run in recent memory, with a dramatic comeback over Oakland and a stunning domination of the record-setting Seattle Mariners and some of the most amazing comebacks in World Series history against Arizona. In fact, the only team to have a more spectacular post-season run than the 2001 Yankees, was the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks, which dramatically won their first round series in the final at bat against St. Louis and blowing past perpetually contender Atlanta to reach the World Series. Their ability to persevere the withering comebacks of the Yankees and win the World Series and win the whole deal with an amazing comeback of their own is the stuff of legend. Coming back in 9th inning of Game 7 to defeat the greatest relief pitcher in baseball history is a climax that can never be topped.
This highlight DVD captures all every single drop of drama, emotion, and significance that this series contained. Re-watching this DVD 4 years after the event still makes it seem as fresh and as exciting as when it first happened. If more sports DVDs were like this, then maybe it wouldn't be such a maligned genre.
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