@NYC Rebel you see this sh*t?
During the 2001 World Series, Buck and his FOX team convinced former broadcast colleague turned Arizona Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly to wear a mic in the dugout. This was a new wrinkle and Brenly agreed, so long as it wasn't a live segment. So it's Game Four, Halloween in the Bronx, and the Diamondbacks are up 2-1 in the World Series. Schilling, pitching spectacularly on three days' rest, gives up just three hits and one run over seven, while striking out nine.
Thanks to the new in-dugout technology, the whole baseball-watching universe gets to hear the conversation as Brenly lifts his soon-to-be co-MVP. (A move Buck says during the broadcast that he doesn't agree with.) Brenly says "that's enough." Schilling retorts "I'm alright! I'm all right!" Brenly makes the decision that 88 pitches is plenty because "We've got BK [Byung-Hyun Kim] locked and loaded for the last six outs." Here's how it played out during the game:
But the exchange between Brenly and Schilling was all bullshyt.
Here's the goods, excerpted from Joe Buck's Lucky b*stard:
"It was great theater. It belonged on Broadway.
Here is what we didn't know. Earlier in that inning, Schilling had told his catcher, Damian Miller, that he was running out of gas: 'Whatever happens, this is my last inning. Don't let him put me back out there again.' Naturally, Miller told Brenly.
But Schilling could see the microphone on Brenly's uniform. He knew he would look better if he begged to keep pitching on national television. So he asked Brenly to keep him the game...They both knew he was coming out."
If you don't recall, the first ever November World Series game ended in the tenth on a Derek Jeter home run off Kim, after he'd coughed one up to Tino Martinez in the ninth. Back to Buck's story:
"Brenly got lots of heat for pulling Schilling against his will—the whole country had heard Schilling protest in the dugout. But Brenly couldn't call out one of his aces for being a glory hound. He had to take the heat, and he did—with a great sense of humor.
'You fukking guys,' [Brenly] said with a laugh the next time we saw him. 'You made me look like the bad guy. Never again!' he thought it was hilarious."
It was hilarious, but the joke isn't on Bob Brenly. We see you, Top-Step. Now what about that sock?
Curt Schilling Begged Bob Brenly to Keep him in Game 4 of '01 World Series Because He Knew Brenly Was Mic'd | VICE Sports
During the 2001 World Series, Buck and his FOX team convinced former broadcast colleague turned Arizona Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly to wear a mic in the dugout. This was a new wrinkle and Brenly agreed, so long as it wasn't a live segment. So it's Game Four, Halloween in the Bronx, and the Diamondbacks are up 2-1 in the World Series. Schilling, pitching spectacularly on three days' rest, gives up just three hits and one run over seven, while striking out nine.
Thanks to the new in-dugout technology, the whole baseball-watching universe gets to hear the conversation as Brenly lifts his soon-to-be co-MVP. (A move Buck says during the broadcast that he doesn't agree with.) Brenly says "that's enough." Schilling retorts "I'm alright! I'm all right!" Brenly makes the decision that 88 pitches is plenty because "We've got BK [Byung-Hyun Kim] locked and loaded for the last six outs." Here's how it played out during the game:
But the exchange between Brenly and Schilling was all bullshyt.
Here's the goods, excerpted from Joe Buck's Lucky b*stard:
"It was great theater. It belonged on Broadway.
Here is what we didn't know. Earlier in that inning, Schilling had told his catcher, Damian Miller, that he was running out of gas: 'Whatever happens, this is my last inning. Don't let him put me back out there again.' Naturally, Miller told Brenly.
But Schilling could see the microphone on Brenly's uniform. He knew he would look better if he begged to keep pitching on national television. So he asked Brenly to keep him the game...They both knew he was coming out."
If you don't recall, the first ever November World Series game ended in the tenth on a Derek Jeter home run off Kim, after he'd coughed one up to Tino Martinez in the ninth. Back to Buck's story:
"Brenly got lots of heat for pulling Schilling against his will—the whole country had heard Schilling protest in the dugout. But Brenly couldn't call out one of his aces for being a glory hound. He had to take the heat, and he did—with a great sense of humor.
'You fukking guys,' [Brenly] said with a laugh the next time we saw him. 'You made me look like the bad guy. Never again!' he thought it was hilarious."
It was hilarious, but the joke isn't on Bob Brenly. We see you, Top-Step. Now what about that sock?
Curt Schilling Begged Bob Brenly to Keep him in Game 4 of '01 World Series Because He Knew Brenly Was Mic'd | VICE Sports
