Revisiting the Bizarre Season of Pandemic Baseball
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
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2020 will easily go down as the most unique season in MLB history, so a revisit to its quirks becomes a must the more time passes...
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The moment you realize the Covid season was 4 years ago…
Ngl felt like year before last ik its a diff of a year but it feels like 2020 and 21 was just blurry
2024 (for me) is the first year that doesn’t feel like an addendum to 2020.
@@nicholasaustin2717it feels like such a slow gradual change back to “normalcy” it’s weird to explain
Matt Damon ages
@@Unknown_unknown19you’re not the only one. Feels like those two years got mixed together in my memories somehow
So that season was emotional to me. My uncle, who took me to my first ever baseball game, passed away that year. The last thing he EVER told me was “Do you wanna go to dodgers open day”. For the dodgers to win that season made me the happiest person in the world. RIP unc.
even though I'm a rays fan I'm happy for you! RIP unc.
This is why I get pissed when people call the Dodgers WS from 2020 “not a real ring”
So many things happened that people aren’t aware of. A friend of mine lost their grandfather the year after the Astros cheated the 2017 WS. We didn’t get a parade, or really celebrate the championship like a normal team would.
@@MrZachtheKingsfan2020 ** Covid Champs **
@@MrZachtheKingsfanNow you see how us Astros fans feel.
@@joelcrenwelge3889we didn’t cheat
you forgot to mention the SF Giants played a game with an eery dark Orange clouded sky cause of the California Wildfires that that smoked filled the entire state
And into Southern NV
Their fires were so wild ….
That it made Las Vegas sky’s orange & smoky
That was some wild fires
Not the “Meet the Graham’s” beat for Braves vs. Dodgers…
Hi, Braves fan, that was cold and painful. Do not like thinking about 2020 😂
@@glaceo_o229 hey, at least we’ve got 2021 to look back on fondly
I hope drake was watching this having a good day until the 25th minute
it's kinda of a shame that no one hit .400 in 2020, probably the closest shot anyone would ever have to do it, just one really hot start from a contact first hitter, and we could be talking about an even weirder record, that one random player who in 60 games managed to do what Ted Williams was the last player to do. It would definitly be a unticlimatic fact for the future. Instead of "Ted Williams (the Legend, the HOF, the American War Hero) was the last player to ever hit .400 in a full season", we could've instead had something like" Donovan Solano or Raimel Tapia (I choose one of these two because they were the two least recognizable players to finish in the top 10 of batting average in 2020) was the last player to hit .400 in a full season", so much more interesting.
It is really interesting that nobody capitalized on it being the shortened season for breaking a multitude of records. A video researching & theorizing why nobody was able to would be interesting to see.
Fr I remember Charlie Blackmon was pretty close I think he bat .400 for a little while
The Dodgers did get the 6th best winning percentage all time, even higher than the 116 win mariners.
The AL and NL championship series went crazy that year 🔥
crazy to think how many past season playoff pictures would have been if they started in July rather than October
It's crazy that Randy Arozarena did all that in 2020 with the Rays and, even though he played a handful of games for the Cardinals in 2019 (even the postseason), he still qualified for ROY, and won, in 2021. Lol.
The next year was arguably even better! I think you need to make a video about the 2021 braves. They did choke in the playoffs in 2020, but in 2021 they could barely get above .500 for a majority of the season AND they lost Acuna for the season, but they were able to come back and get their revenge against the dodgers and win the World Series
That trade deadline will go down in history
Tbh only the braves fans enjoying 2021 then 2020 I feel like everyone has great memories of 2020 baseball like a “division rivals LDS IS CRAZY AWESOME”and I damn near forgot 2021 baseball also a 3-1 choke is a 3-1 choke you still a “2020 chocker” aka the season many “younger baseball fans” and some older ones like me have fond memories of
Baseball is so fluky. That Braves team was by far the worst of the last 7 years… and of course they’re the team that won a ring
@@gnielsen07that’s sports, man
Heard that meet the Grahams addition at the end 😂
taking full advantage on the lift on copyright claims
biggest postseason ever, that braves chokejob stil the most memorable postseason series of recent years.
As a Dodger fan, the 2020 season is both memorable and sad. I agree that I don't want it to ever happen again, as in I do not want a pandemic like that to ever happen again. The biggest fear during that time, wasn't getting covid for me. The biggest fear was having no baseball for a whole year. I was ecstatic when I found out that baseball was returning. I remember exactly where I was when that moment happened. In a year, where no one was having fun, and the world was at a standstill. The only saving grace, was that baseball was returning.
I know the discourse around what other fans say about the 2020 season, I hate it as well. I cherish that championship because so many Dodgers are no longer on the team now. I couldn't imagine how terrible it would have been, seeing Joc Pederson, Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager win a World Series with another team. Even worse if I saw Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner, or Kenley Jansen not ever win a World Series. I am glad it happened when it did. I believe the main reason the Dodgers won, and came back from a 3-1 lead in the NLCS was because they were motivated. Not motivated in the traditional sense, but motivated by the Astros sign stealing scandal. The 2020 Dodgers had a ton of 2017 players still on the team. The players were pissed, and I saw how different they were on the field and even in interviews. The Dodgers - Astros regular season series was heated as well, with the infamous Joe Kelly and Carlos Correa beef. I could have only imagined, what that 2020 World Series would have been like. The Dodgers were motivated by the scandal to win in 2020, I truly believe that it wouldn't have mattered if the season was 162 or not. No one was beating the Dodgers in 2020. (Except the Rockies that won the only series against them that year) Braves blowing a 3-1 lead and that embarrassment motivated them in 2021, and the Astros were motivated in 2022 with their embarrassment of losing so much in the World Series. These aren't facts, but they show how much an embarrassment can affect a team the following season. I refuse to believe all of these are just coincidental, and not a factor in a team winning a title.
The 2020 Dodgers were one of the best teams, in the worst year possible. This year brings bad memories and happy memories too, i remember where i was when the Astros were caught cheating. I remember where I was when the season was suspended, I remember where I was when the season was brought back, I remember where I was when the Dodgers won the World Series. People may say that it was a easy season because it was 60 games, i beg to differ. The 2020 season was the most difficult season in baseball history. Not mentioning the covid precautions and restrictions in MLB, but there were no breaks. If your team slumped, it meant the end of the season and all postseason hopes. Those 60 games (including doubleheaders) were all a sludge. Everyday, needing to play your best and win as many as you can, because one loss meant as much as 15. If your team was one of the lucky 16, then you had a postseason which featured the first ever Wild Card Series. At the time, it was an extra 2-3 games in the postseason. If you happened to win, there was a LDS that had 5 straight games, and a LCS that had 7 straight games with NO days off. "You swept your opponent in the NLDS/ALDS, that's great." "Now, its just a 7 game series with no days off. Hopefully you sweep them too." "Oooooo both series went all 7 games." That was brutal and I don't think any other postseason series in history, will be more brutal than a 7 game LCS with no rest. That put every team to the test, only the best and team with the highest durability would pull through. The 16 team postseason was fun, but I do not ever want it expanded to that ever again. I would prefer to let it stay in the 2020 season. Keeping some of the things that stayed; like the ghost runner, universal DH, Wild Card Series, and other changes tried during that season. The 2020 season, will go down as the most difficult and unique season of baseball to ever be played. That is how it should be remembered, and how it should be never recreated. Leave it to the pages of history, since we all lived through what future generations will talk about. Whenever a "weird baseball video" gets created or watched in lets say the year 2046.
Ain’t no way meet the grahams in this lol
Meet the Grahams 😭
Gonna need that Meet The Grahams beat over more baseball compilations
If I'm being honest. Players "leveraging" their platforms is the most annoying thing. Most of them are morons whether they agree with me or not I don't give a shit.
I watch sports to escape from the never ending onslaught of reality not get lectures on life from guys that play games for a living.
This goes for all the sports
Ima Mets fan and I was disappointed with our season. I loved everything else, though it was so much fun man.
I’m glad the Mets couldn’t prevail even in a shortened season 😂 the way the Braves lost to the Dodgers in the NLCS made me start watching baseball again I was mad af we gave up a 3-1 series lead I couldn’t believe it
I vaguely remember this season, where the Red Sox possibly had the worst starting rotation I’ve ever seen.
I was Texas Rangers spring Training in 2020 on the first week of March I was cut and then a week later Covid shut down it was bizarre. But it did change my life of what I’m looking for.
as a reds fan i'm all in for another season like this. a historically dominant pitcher destroying everyone AND a playoff spot?! heck yeah!
I like how you sampled the instrumentals from Meet the Grahams, lol much respect
What happened to Bauer post 2021 is complete BS. What they did to him is disgusting. Imagine working that hard your entire life just to have it all taken away for something you didn't do. Pretty F'ed up
i hope dom smith knows he's a hero and has done more than his part just by existing
How fitting was it to put an instrumental version of last Christmas by Wham! knowing the fact that so many people tuned to Christmas movies and Christmas music to get away from the pandemic and every day news of everyone dying because of COVID-19
The Fantano “meet the grahams” reaction kills me. Lol
A short season at a time that watching sports is the only thing to do was truly special. I think I can remember every single horrible moment of that Mets season, yet I almost miss it somehow
the thing for me as a Nats fan was finally winning it all but not being able to properly celebrate it
I'm not even an MLB fan, you just make great vids mate.
2020 was awful on almost all accounts. Glad it's over, I never want to see something like it again.
I know many aren’t gonna agree with this cause it’s “cool” to hate Joe Buck but hearing clips of his calls during these playoffs makes me miss him calling baseball. Dodger lover Joe Davis just doesn’t do it for me
Definitely had a chance to mention the Mets hitting a walk off home run at Yankee Stadium… what a season
It was a wild season and the only thing that it confirmed to me was that the dodgers special when you look at the following season like the rays benefit from it when it came to the injury bug both of these teams pitching staffs are afflicted with
Two things:
1- I think Bieber should’ve won MVP
2- the dodgers did have an advantage in that they got to play in the Rangers stadium in the regular season and thought the entire playoffs, meaning that they had a familiarity with the park more than anyone besides the Rangers
“Oakland A’s want cardboard fans in stands.”
That could have been from 2020 or 2024.
It made me wear my Dodger hat every day instead of wearing other hats. It's a thing I have continued to do ever since. I only wear Dodger hats regardless of time of year.
If the Braves had any other legit starting pitchers in the 2020 playoffs beyond Fried and Anderson, they would have wrapped that series up and won the World Series. They had to heavily rely on their bullpen because Cole Hamels basically disappeared after signing a contract, and Mike Soroka tore his Achilles at a point when he looked every bit of an ace as Fried.
Did you have the instrumental of Mac Millers polo jeans at 15:30? 😂
Oh the year the Dodgers won. At least some happiness in the hardest times.
This is a top tier guy
Game 4 was one of the wildest endings I’ve ever watched. I thought for sure Rays were gonna come back and win.
all i gotta really say is that the fact blue jays made it to the playoffs was the worst thing that could’ve happened considering how things are now
I will say it got me back into baseball to an extent. When the Marlins sold a lot of my favorite players (Yelich, Stanton, Marisnick), I didn't want to watch as much. But this season started out with drama and a solid push to the postseason.
But definitely don't want that again.
Lol, imagine being me, 9 years old in 97, wake up one day after the marlins world's series and all my favorite players were just gone. Moises alou was the one that devastated me. He was their guy for the playoffs that title run. Check out a documentary on the 97 marlins , there's a 30 minute one . One of the best ws ever. Like 2016, the Indians are on the losing end of 2 amazing world series matchups going 7 games... anyways, my 9 year old emotional self never forgave the team for parting with all of them. If I remember right they got rid of 5 members of the lineup and 2 starting pitchers, maybe 3, and the closer. Never seen such a thing from a title team before that.
Just Randomly hear Last Christmas in the background 4:37 lmao
the kendrick instrumental was so fire
I love the video but you don’t mention how insanely good Corey seager was that whole year and more in the playoffs. I’m just curious if there’s any reason why that is because there were little to no mention of seager
It was awful in every way possible
Outside of the NLWCS vs. MIA good as a Cubs fan
The Fantano clip is crazy
However, the end of the season was amazing!
It was weird, and as a Twins fan (I’m not alone in feeling this) I don’t consider it a real season. They played a much shorter sked, mostly w/o fans, and had an extended tournament at the end. Which is kinda what the whole season felt like!
Wasn’t as gross as the NHL’s tarp on the seats during the PLAYOFFS🫣
Having an under .500 team almost make the world series would have been hilarious
Cespedes just kinda fucked off didn't he?
SCAMDEMIC
as a rangers fan thank GOD this season lasted 60 games
Worst part of my life 😢
Ok maybe the dodgers win it in a full season anyway but I know Kershaw doesn’t go 4-1 with a 2.93 era in the playoffs after a full regular season
Nah 2020 is still a Mickey Mouse year.
Cry about it still counts 😂😂
@@ViruszPlayz.5822Mickey mouse championship. Glad the Braves showed you a Real champion the next year. Matzek dropping his dick all down betts throat.
I don't care if it was a shortened season, to finally see the dodgers win the world series i cried as a grown ass man. I've waited my entire life to see them win after all these years of dissapointment.
Looking back it’s so stupid they didn’t allow fans back then
I don’t count this either LA teams wins that year I’m sorry dodgers and lakers
I know people want to say that there is an asterisk, but it is considered an official MLB season and the players played like the championship mattered. So, it does count and I want to point this out that no one was beating that Dodgers team, even if the season was a normal 162-game season.
I didn’t watch much of it the fans make the game you gotta have fans at a game for it to be good or watchable
Although 2020 is a really hard year for many people in America, I really do miss the emptiness in the stands.
Why?
2020 is how I became a fan of baseball. Growing up my family would only watch basketball and football.
Dear Adonis, the 2020 season was weird, let me be honest.
You can't forget the Orioles scoreboard operator requesting a Pizza to be delivered to the ballpark during a ran delay.
Funniest part of the NLCS that year was that before Braves loss against the Dodgers, teams that were up 2-0 in the NLCS have peviously won their series 28-3
what about the astros being the second team to ever force a game 7 after being down 3-0, the other being the 2004 red sox
ATL is never living down that 28-3 curse
stas dont predict the future. analytics doesnt enhance sports. kirk gibsons walk off home run in 88 wasnt a variable analytics could have predicted. cant predict real life
Shhhh. We got em the next year though.
@@davidtran2026at this point, no we’re not. Not until the Falcons win the Super Bowl (ain’t happening soon).
For some reason I want to start writing a letter to Adonis Graham starting at 25:31
Good to know which side of the beef you guys picked 😂
There were 2 sides?
Hard to believe it's been four years already......never forget the stands full of cardboard cutouts
Wont be four years until July 1st of 2024.
It really is weird. I still remember my mom calling me after the very first state of emergency, and I was like, “Do I have to go to work tomorrow?” Lol time flies.
I want to forget everything between 2020 and 2022 or so
2020 was the year MLB on Fox brought back its classic theme song from 1996
I grew up outside of DC and was a Nats fan since day 1. I moved to South Carolina in 2013, but swore that if my Nats ever won a WS I would drive up to DC the next year for Opening Day. I bought Opening Day tickets the day before the season got suspended. RIP
Those 2020 Mets sure were elite, they just weren’t clutch. Somebody should make a video about them…
Also the "as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a homerun" was born too lol
I hate the discourse too with the 2020 season and how it didn't count and you said it perfectly. Every team and EVERY player agreed to the terms and played it like a real season. 2020 playoffs were also really fun and entertaining! I was really happy we at least got baseball that year.
I agree. Notice not a single person said it was Mickey Mouse BEFORE the season played out. People were just super salty it was the dodgers on top. To play the entire post season stretch without your home fans is crazy!
Also, if we’re putting World Series in a “Mickey Mouse” category, what about 2017 and 2018- two WS “winners” who were cheating? What about every WS winner pre-Jackie Robinson? What about all WS winners during the reserve clause era? What about the 1919 Reds since it was the white Sox who threw the series?
Point is- people love to say “Mickey mouse” when it’s convenient for them
Actually the MLBPA and Owners never agreed to a return-to-play deal. Rob Manfred imposed a 60 game season after owners voted unanimously to grant Manfred the power to implement a season. The players wanted more games while the owners wanted less since they weren't making money off ticket sales and didn't want to pay players for more games.
@@mascwalt Point still stands. Players played like every game mattered and at the end of the day could’ve opted-out. 🤷♂️ However, I do understand what you’re coming from.
Honestly I think a lot of the online discourse is just trolling from other fanbases who don't like or are rivals with the Dodgers. When I talk to most baseball fans individually in a normal setting, they agree with exactly what SRS said, almost to a person
What I loved was that once we got to playoff time we pretty much had every team involved at virtually full strength, injuries at a minimum. Every team had there best players out there at mid season form. I get that baseball is a game of who can outlast who now a days. But I rather see each team go out their playing as close to 100% with all of their players healthy and ready to fight to the death.
The 2020 MLB season was a fever dream.
Now, let's never speak of it again.
I cant believe Im saying this, but I think MLB handled this as well as they could. Which is funny, cause I cant think of a single other thing that I think they've done well at lately. But with Covid, they made it work somehow, and nothing horrible happened, so they get credit for that.
Why we even bothered amazes me. The persistence and dedication to making this shitshow happen was impressive, you must admit. Dodger fans are sure glad we did though.
Yeah the season was awful and pointless in hindsight. I was locked in during the season though because there was literally nothing else.
This was the year that ended up getting me in to baseball in the first place due to all of the nothing that was going on during the pandemic. I needed something to keep my mind occupied, then I saw the score notification for the Padres-Diamondbacks season opener on my phone. Decided to tune in during the 7th inning, and got hooked on the baseball I saw. 2020 was wild shit, and there was plenty I forgot about during this time that you (thankfully) brought back up. I had no idea that Dinelson Lamet was a shooting star that faded away as soon as he appeared-I just genuinely thought he was one of the best pitchers in all of MLB. Slam Diego was also probably the funniest baseball moment I had ever witnessed (wish I was there for Slamarena the following year, though). Definitely the most optimistic I've ever seen the fanbase, before the very next year immediately broke them. Still pretty sure we're broken given our reaction to literally any loss we take or cold streak the team/a player goes on. Regardless, fun baseball season that I never want to happen again.
Also, I think Dominic Smith might be one of my new favorite baseball players. Mad respect for him to speak out against injustice and police brutality, and use his platform for good in that time. Seems like a great dude.
The A’s win their division this season was a 8/10
The players getting on their knees to worship at the alter of BLM was hilarious
I think one of my favorite parts from the 2020 season was not from the games being played, but from the MLB opening day at home where MLB streamed classic games on TH-cam. Everyone commenting like it was happening in real time, it was a great experience that I’m not sure we’ll get again.
dinelson lametters stand up
Mickey Mouse ass World Series
Surprised you didnt mention Blake Snell and World Series Game 6
The thing about the Mets in 2020: we know that they had terrible sequencing luck, such that their offense didn’t actually score as many runs as would have been expected. But Citi Field played really weird that season, in that it suddenly became a hitter’s haven-something it hadn’t been before and hasn’t been since. The fact that it briefly turned into a hitter’s park helped the offense, obviously, but it had a knock-on effect, which is that it turned their already questionable pitching staff into hot garbage. Syndergaard’s UCL went _asplode_ that spring before the pandemic started, then Stroman opted out after it started, leaving the Mets with Jake and…??? Rookie David Peterson mostly managed to stay on luck’s good side (and boy, was he lucky), but when you’re relying on guys like Rick Porcello, Michael Wacha before he rediscovered his changeup, and a hastily reconverted-to-starting Seth Lugo, in a park that suddenly hates pitchers, things are going to go sideways. (Jake-when healthy-would be brilliant in Coors with the wind blowing out, but he’s Jake. _Ghar waapas aaja, bhaiyya! Please, ghar waapas aaja!_ 😢)
I have a fond memory from that year of Kyle Lewis taking advantage of a smaller sample size to win the AL ROY. I was actually glad to see my Mariners miss the playoffs that year, because it would have felt a little cheap to me for that drought to end only because over half the league got in. I will always remember the "underdog" Rays taking down two juggernauts to reach the Series, like you pointed out. That season is one I will never forget, and one that I agree shouldn't be lessened (apart from possibly the records set in a smaller sample size). The Dodger's won a legitimate title because all the teams were, as you pointed out, put into the same situation in 2020.
That man was really crying about how it’s not fair and not getting opportunities when he’s a major league ball player….
The dodgers World Series run was crazy and it made me the happiest person ever
5:07 *quack!* Perfectly timed
What a complete embarrassment for the sport.
Okay hot take and I’m gonna get flamed for it but whatever, I hated this season not only because my cubs lost in the playoffs and KB just wasn’t himself and hasn’t been since, but because of all the politics surrounding it I never have liked politics and always stay out of them and I am a strong believer that you can have your own opinion and I will respect it but I don’t think politics have a place in sports because sports are something that bring us together and politics just drive us apart, but I also hate the dodgers so that really ruined the season go me as well.
Yeah, my Giants were on a winning streak when the Jacob Blake fiasco happened. The Dodgers wanted to not play, and the Giants agreed to not. Could've had a free win. The team missed the playoffs on a tiebreaker. Really could've used that extra win! On top of that blowing multi run 9th inning leads back to back to the rival A's was a backbreaker as well.
I wouldn't call it baseball. Instead, I call it assball. A port manto of a word banned by youtube and baseball
The only thing I love about the 2020 season is that the Dodgers won, and no one cares.
2020 was a complete clusterfuck. That's all I do know..
Revisiting the worst year of my life
Really wonder why Miami had a corona explosion hmmmm weird😂
"I often myself wear two masks.”
- Anthony Fauci
appreciate the 2003 clone wars music