I'm freaking sick. SICK. It's one thing to lose. It's another to have victory snatched by the jaws of defeat. Despondent..But by morning I'll be ready to ride shotgun on the Blue Bus like Dirty Harry through the retail window.
@@jonnydanger7181 for me moreso 2018 and 2019. I get the 2004, but unlike this team, 2004 was a group of unlikeable jerks, between the yelling media, threatening Stone and Caray, etc. Plus they were underachievers whereas this team is still overachieving and filled with likeable dudes. In 2018 those heartbreaker games like #163 with Brewers and the WC game vs. CO. Or 2019 when we had it in hand but Kimbrel couldn't get a save for anything, and we blew it all in that end of year Cardinals series. Ugh.
@@joeblough261 yep you are right about that. Kent Merker in 2004 calling the broadcast booth crying while Sammy skipped out on his team the last day. We Cubs fans have been through agony 1984 and 2003 were the most heartbreaking for me!
I was there! I was a Mets fan studying in Wisconsin at the time. May have been obsessive, but I taped the game (98 technology) I believe on two different VCRs. When I got home and played it back, the Cubs TV play by play guy (Chip Carray?) said, "It's a time game, no three runs will score. The Brewers win." Absolute shock.
Thank you so much for posting this! I'm trying to introduce my little cousins to Ron Santo, and this is essential. I've corrupted them into Cubs fans, and Santo's passion was so much of my childhood.
Nope shooter bailed us out the tie breaker game. Memory serves it was the Braves who swept us in the divisional series. Brown catches and maybe we lose in 4 games instead of 3. No where near Durham and Gonzalez in terms of consequence.
That was against the Yankees. Much worse. I was there rooting for the Brew Crew to help the Mets get the WC. Audience was 75% Cubs fans who went nuts when Sammy hit 65 & 66. One of the greatest memories for a game I was in attendance.
I was cleaning me gutters that Sunday listening on the radio. Couldn’t believe it. The day before me son was born. He was born during game 163 vs. SF. For the record I’m a White Sox fan but not a Cubs hater.
Sept. 23, 1998. A Wednesday in Milwaukee, the final week of the regular season. Cubs were in a tight race with the Mets and Giants at this point for the wild card and eventually ended up getting in, but this looked at the time like one of those losses that could have kept them out of the playoffs entirely.
This will be viewed another 20,000 times this week thanks to Seiya Suzuki alligator arming that fly ball last night that should have stranded two runners. Seriously, how does a major leagu outfielder just whiff on a ball like that when their postseason is riding on it?
I was a White Sox fan and remember that. I never liked Santo because he was too much a homer. I couldn't believe he missed it but Santo went on I believe after. Thanks.
And Hawk wasn't a homer? Nothing against the guy, and I enjoyed Hawk's broadcasts, but he was the play-by-play guy who had to be held back by Stone. At least Ronnie was the color commentator with straight man Pat to keep the ship going.
WSox fan and Cub hater here, yet I respect Santo, like Buffone, they just eanted the teams to do well, no bitterness like a lot of former Bears(Butkus, Sayers, Marshall...) Also Hawk terrible in so many ways, a real Ahole
Who cares if they are ‘homers’ anyhow ? They are hired by the team. It’s not like they are a news organization who has to be ‘neutral’ in every way. Vin Scully was a homer. Harry Carey was a homer. I WANT my everyday announcer to be a homer.
Santo sounded like me when I accidentally over-microwaved the last Hot Pocket.
Vidal Rosa lmfao
I laughed way too hard at this. Kudos to you
much worse than a bad loss IMO
Hahahaha
One of the greatest broadcaster calls in Chicago sports history.
No doubt!
Ron Santo was the ultimate fan
Reminded me of Doug Buffone for the Bears. Not mean or bitter, just wanted team success
Nearly 25 years to the day, it happened again to the Cubs. In a tight Wild Card race. Unbelievable.
I'm freaking sick. SICK. It's one thing to lose. It's another to have victory snatched by the jaws of defeat. Despondent..But by morning I'll be ready to ride shotgun on the Blue Bus like Dirty Harry through the retail window.
Was the first thing I thought of when Seoul whiffed 😭
@@joeblough261this teams reminding me of 2004 right now the way they chocked away the last week.
@@jonnydanger7181 for me moreso 2018 and 2019. I get the 2004, but unlike this team, 2004 was a group of unlikeable jerks, between the yelling media, threatening Stone and Caray, etc. Plus they were underachievers whereas this team is still overachieving and filled with likeable dudes. In 2018 those heartbreaker games like #163 with Brewers and the WC game vs. CO. Or 2019 when we had it in hand but Kimbrel couldn't get a save for anything, and we blew it all in that end of year Cardinals series. Ugh.
@@joeblough261 yep you are right about that. Kent Merker in 2004 calling the broadcast booth crying while Sammy skipped out on his team the last day. We Cubs fans have been through agony 1984 and 2003 were the most heartbreaking for me!
Who else is here after Suzuki did the same thing against Atlanta
Yep. Eerily similar
@@sethmick847125 years later. So eerie
...and now Ian Happ😂
Finally this is on TH-cam. Been searching for it for years. Greatest Cubs call of all time.
2016?
As if the brewers plan on winning anything in the near century.
Greatest call? No... It is NOT!
God love you, Ron Santo.
I was there! I was a Mets fan studying in Wisconsin at the time. May have been obsessive, but I taped the game (98 technology) I believe on two different VCRs. When I got home and played it back, the Cubs TV play by play guy (Chip Carray?) said, "It's a time game, no three runs will score. The Brewers win." Absolute shock.
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Here's the TV call, I guess it was Steve Stone who said, "it's a tie game."
Eighteen years later, it’s just a crazy memory and all is well.
Whose watching this after seiya dropped the ball last night?
I love Ron Santo
We hear you Ron. Suzuki dropped the ball! Oh no!
Neutrality is overrated, I love this
This video clip is long overdue on TH-cam ,thanks for the upload 🤙
You can thank Zach for uploading this video.
God I will never forget that
I've put this pain behind for several years. Thank you Zach for letting it resurface. LOL
Ron Santo is me when my mom steals my phone
Men of culture here to torture ourselves for the rest of the evening and potentially the entire offseason with this loss
I bet Bob Uecker is in the other booth laughing his ass off and throwing up middle fingers to Pat and Ron while doing cart wheels and back flips...
Needed Ron here for Suzuki today
Seiya suzuki brought me here
Thank you so much for posting this! I'm trying to introduce my little cousins to Ron Santo, and this is essential. I've corrupted them into Cubs fans, and Santo's passion was so much of my childhood.
Santo was a great baseball player but very likely the worst radio commentator of all time without a close second
Oh, Come on---- Hawk Harrelson was the worst, most biased announcer ever to hit the airwaves!!!!!
This Santos call reminds me of John Carney's missed PAT with the OH NO
I still have the sports page clipping from the next morning. "Hey Hey...Holey Mitt!"
Last night, when Suzuki dropped the ball, I sounded like Ron Santo. The Cubs are cursed!
Me too! As soon as the words left my lips, I realized I had just channeled poor old Ronnie! It was eerie.
Looks more like he batted the ball away🤔
Cloudy day and that’s a routine fly out. Watch his route before he runs up to the ball
One of the most Cub things to ever Cubbed.
Had to come back to this after last night. Although the blame should be on the bullpen, not Seiya
bestwatchedatdoublespeed
Seiya Suzuki says hold my beer
And that, my friends, is the third most costly error in Cubs history.
Durham, Gonzalez, Brown?
@@easyto Try Bill Buckner.
@@stevetevin6504 what error as a cub are you referring to?
At the end of the day it didnt cost them anything lol
Nope shooter bailed us out the tie breaker game.
Memory serves it was the Braves who swept us in the divisional series. Brown catches and maybe we lose in 4 games instead of 3.
No where near Durham and Gonzalez in terms of consequence.
And Mets fans think the Luis Castillo dropped ball was bad.......
That was against the Yankees. Much worse.
I was there rooting for the Brew Crew to help the Mets get the WC. Audience was 75% Cubs fans who went nuts when Sammy hit 65 & 66. One of the greatest memories for a game I was in attendance.
Brant Brown was never the same either. He was a decent young player coming along in his development and then......this happened.
I can still remember exactly where I was when this happened.
I was cleaning me gutters that Sunday listening on the radio. Couldn’t believe it. The day before me son was born.
He was born during game 163 vs. SF.
For the record I’m a White Sox fan but not a Cubs hater.
Just lived through this again last night with Suzuki. It’s tough being a Cubs fan
We are true Cubs fans if you know this clip and remember Ronnie's squeal!
Im sorry lol Go Braves
Classic Santo
I came to this video after Suzuki dropped the ball on 9-26-23. Braves won 7-6 because of it. Very similar
Ron Santo's "oh no!"
This is just like a little league game but it happens in the outfield
Do you have the radio broadcast of the full game?
This error by Brown occurred on the 90th-year anniversary of the Merkle bonehead-play.
Ian Happ brought me here😂
I was there. Go Brewers
Poor old Ron Santo.
Lost it in the sun
Had brown caught the ball, cubs clinch the wild card instead had to play a one game playoff against the giants
which they won because of Gary freaking Gaetti, I remember that game, I think everyone's blood pressure was up those several days.
Here 25 years later after Suzuki did this same exact thing in a playoff race during last week of the season.
OH NO
That play was normal for the cubbies until they won the world series
😂
No quite equal to the saints announcer for river city relay
And tonight it was Seiya Suzuki
Wtf is Brant Brown doing these days anyway?
Just got hired to be the hitting coach of the Marlins, actually.
In a support group with Steve Bartman and a very old cat
When was this game ?
CTG85 September 1998
September 1998. The Cubs had a 7-0 lead at one point and Sammy had hit 2 home runs. This was the Brewers' second year as a National League team.
Sept. 23, 1998. A Wednesday in Milwaukee, the final week of the regular season. Cubs were in a tight race with the Mets and Giants at this point for the wild card and eventually ended up getting in, but this looked at the time like one of those losses that could have kept them out of the playoffs entirely.
Nooooooooooo!!
Now, Suzuki has entered the chat..
"Seiya Suzuki" means "Brandt Brown" in Japanese.
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This will be viewed another 20,000 times this week thanks to Seiya Suzuki alligator arming that fly ball last night that should have stranded two runners. Seriously, how does a major leagu outfielder just whiff on a ball like that when their postseason is riding on it?
Seiya Suzuki did it!
I was a White Sox fan and remember that. I never liked Santo because he was too much a homer. I couldn't believe he missed it but Santo went on I believe after. Thanks.
And Hawk wasn't a homer? Nothing against the guy, and I enjoyed Hawk's broadcasts, but he was the play-by-play guy who had to be held back by Stone. At least Ronnie was the color commentator with straight man Pat to keep the ship going.
WSox fan and Cub hater here, yet I respect Santo, like Buffone, they just eanted the teams to do well, no bitterness like a lot of former Bears(Butkus, Sayers, Marshall...) Also Hawk terrible in so many ways, a real Ahole
Who cares if they are ‘homers’ anyhow ? They are hired by the team. It’s not like they are a news organization who has to be ‘neutral’ in every way. Vin Scully was a homer. Harry Carey was a homer. I WANT my everyday announcer to be a homer.