PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - The Platinum Anniversary

Episode Date: October 27, 2021

On this episode, Derek is joined once again by Darrell Johnson to chat about game one of the 2021 World Series and to reminisce about where they were on this day 20 years ago during game one of the D-backs' only World Series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello and welcome to the PHNX DBAX podcast right here on PHNX. My name is Derek Montia, known around these parts officially as the mayor of PHNX. And of course, we are thrilled to have you guys here, and we are brought to you by the Draft King's Sportsbook app. Go download the Draft King's Sportsbook app now. Use our code of PHNX. And simply for betting $5 on any NFL team to win, you will get $200 in free bets instantly as long as that team gets the job done. and I have faith in our Arizona Cardinals, but as far as betting on them,

I'm not sure if I would stake my $200 in free bets on this particular Thursday night game. So, you know, if you might maybe want to find a little bit more of a sure thing, I might recommend going in that direction. Jesse Friedman is still not here. I have no idea where he is. I don't know what he's doing. He's just left me, and I am doing my best to just talk to people

that I like to talk to when Jesse's not here. So today I am joined by my friend, my pal. It's Daryl Johnson, Arizona Diamondbacks historian. Not official, but that's what I'm calling you from now on, because you know more at times about Arizona Diamondbacks than most people I know, simply because you've experienced so much of it. Well, that's very kind of you to say. But before we get into all that, I just want to say that you and I, we got beef.

Oh, let's hear it. Whoa, what's going on? Okay. All right. So it's one thing that you start the podcast with Hello and Welcome and you finish with Remember Kids. Like I can't claim ownership of Hello and Welcome. But yesterday, you play a game called Murdered Murderer or Momerer without even mentioning Roman, Rowan, Stroman or Owens. I tell everybody about that game.

Or what about Mickey, Nicky, Becky, or Shecky? Come on. I know, Darrell over here is our resident game master over at, over at our pre-year. pro wrestling podcast that I'm going to, you know, plug right now at the steel cage.com. Darrell has been not only instrumental in my podcasting career, but he is by far the best podcast game host that there is in the land, folks, in the land. I'm not just talking about just recreationally at an amateur level. I'm talking about number one ranked pro status as far as games are concerned.

And this off season, we got to get you to come in here and show. the people what you can do as far as some of the games. I can't wait to probably get completely destroyed by Jesse and anything involving knowledge in any way, shape, or form. But hopefully I can get them on one of those type games, you know? Yeah, well, I just saw a golden opportunity

to accuse you rightfully of gimmick infringement. And I had to take it. I will 100% confess to it. I still everything from Darrell over here. And I have no problem admitting it because, again, you're such a great podcast host. And I've always enjoyed doing these shows with you.

Most importantly, I've enjoyed talking baseball with you. You are my most knowledgeable baseball friend. And I know that you've been watching the World Series, as have I. We had a very intriguing game one. I don't think, well, I guess historically it went the way that you would think for it to go. But man, did we have some drama in game? Yeah, it was a very, exciting, interesting game that lasted four and a half hours and was decided after three

pitches. Yeah, man, baseball's too long, isn't it? Yeah, well, you know, like, Solair hits that home run on the third pitch of the game, and I know it's completely illogical, but this is the kind of baseball fan I am. I thought, oh, man, there's no way Houston's going to recover from that. That was a solo shot, right? It was a one. It was a solo shot. It was one to nothing. Yeah. One to nothing. But of course, they scored five in the first two innings and never looked back.

So I was kind of right. You were. And at times I know exactly, I know exactly what you're talking about because it's the way I feel about the Diamondbacks, especially this past season, right? There was just something about it that I've been present when the team would put up a fight. And when I didn't have the same feeling of, I guess, lethargy when it came to them have mounting a comeback or whatever. It seemed like this Arizona Diamondbacks team,

the minute that it got behind, the air was let out of their balloon, they were done, and it, you know, there was no, it seemed like there was no hope. Now, mind you,

they only won, you know, a handful of games. So it's not like I can really say I saw a lot of wins in any way. 52. Yeah, 52. Yeah.

But I will say that they, they didn't, they had that same thing. of what you're referencing, right? Just that kind of sense of once the opposing team got ahead, it was over. And I know what you're saying. The Astros in the entire history, or at least of them going to the World Series as of late, are 0 and 4 in game ones of the World Series.

So obviously the Astros did what they do in these games. But I think the biggest story for me was Charlie Morton breaking his leg. and still striking out two batters. I don't even know when or how it happened because, like, I was on the comebacker. I was, I was, oh, so it was a batted ball that got him? Yeah, I guess. Well, that's what they're saying. I mean, at the time that was, that was where the injury problem started,

and then he got two more outs before exiting the game. Okay, yeah, because I was just, I just went back to the last pitch he had. It was just like, okay, well, he's hurting. I guess he, you can break your. your leg throwing a ball. Must have twisted himself up real fierce there. Yeah. You know.

Definitely. But, but just, but man, yeah, that's pretty impressive. It's legendary to think that this man might have gotten three outs with a broken leg in the World Series.

I mean, that just puts him right up. You know, obviously, if this happened in any baseball game at any time, it would be some crazy shit. But for it to happen in the World Series, I think moves,

moves it up, you know, it's devastating to the Braves who have had so many of their star. And I mean, their top star players go down this season due to injury. But the Astros have experienced the same thing. You know, I think all the teams and the playoffs went through this with not just injuries, but major injuries to, you know, a big, big part of their rotation and their lineup. Yeah, but it's been just that sort of year for the Braves, a next guy up kind of mentality.

where whoever they got, whoever they can grab is going to contribute, and their bullpen held on to that game the whole way. Yeah, and their bullpen has been incredible. And to be honest, I'm pretty impressed with what the Astros have continued to do as well. I don't, you know, obviously they won the first game, but I think when I look at what the Astros have gone through and the way that they've had that same next man step-up mentality in the playoffs as well with their starting rotation and such.

It's, yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty incredible what these teams are able to do. I mean, obviously, you have a deep team for that reason, but, man, it's just, it's incredible that they are getting so many people to step up in the absence of these stars. Yeah, I'm just kind of jealous and mad that I can see, you know, four different middle relievers for Atlanta come out and just pitch lights out baseball. I didn't think these pitchers existed. But here's Tyler Batsick, throw a 98-mile-hour fastballs and these slow curves that go like 83 or something like that.

There are middle relievers that do that? Not to mention the fact that, yeah, when you look at the Arizona Diamondbacks rotation and how little they were able to get out of pitchers, you know? I mean, like I really like, I think his name is Brent Strom, the pitching coach for the Astros, I like listening to him. The guy just sounds like a teacher. You know what I mean? It doesn't sound like you're listening to someone who's a coach or who's, you know, who knows more than you. He just sounded like an excellent mentor. And I can only imagine

being a young player under a guy like this. He definitely seemed very patient and very knowledgeable, but he just, I don't know, he didn't seem to come off as a coach, you know. He definitely came off as, as more of a mentor. And at times, I think that's something the Arizona Diamondbacks need out of a pitching coach. You know, they have so many young guys coming up. They're going to need somebody that's more of a mentor and a teacher rather than being a coach. I'm not sure if Matt Hurges is the right man for the job. I don't think he was.

I think that his past makes me question even making him a coach, you know, some of the connections he had to scandals and such. I just don't know if that's the best option when it comes to a mentor over, you know, the future of this ball club. But again, that's just because I'm always thinking about the Arizona Diamondbacks at all times and how everything is about them. Braves, interestingly enough, have the worst winning percentage for, or tied for the worst winning percentage of any team that has won game one more than once in the playoffs. They've gone two and four after winning game one over the last couple of series. another interesting fact. Wait. Wait, explain that. Wait, what's, how does that work? So they, the, the, the, the, the, basically the Braves have, you know, they, they have only gone two and four after winning game one, which is really weird. But now that's because they won this just in recent history.

That's just in this, yeah, that's just in this, well, no, it's in this playoffs. Because, this playoffs. They won the game, oh, and because they won game one in the last series and they won game one. and they won game one in this series. So it's basically the fact that after game one, the Braves tend to let the opposing team back into it. Do you mean that's just in game two? Because the Braves won their previous series. Yes.

No, no, no. I'm just, well, they've only won two game one. So this is more of the entire playoffs because they've had this is their third series. So they're really just counting this game one. They've only won one other game one. But these are just, these are really, These are what Jesse would call Derek's ridiculous stats because it's such a small sample size that it's really meaningless.

But basically, it votes well for the Astros to come back into it because the Braves have in the series, they have jumped out to an early lead, but they have let the opposing teams get back into these. Well, I mean, I'm with the hypothetical Jesse that, yeah, that stat means almost nothing. It means nothing. But I. How about this one? How about this one? The Astro to right handers last night. last night, Altube, Bregman, and Correa were 0 for 12 with six strikeouts. Those are their

guys, right? Well, that's just interesting. A bad day for them, a good pitching day for Atlanta. I mean, but going back to what you were saying about how things might bode well for the Astros based on that weird stat. I mean, yeah, I expect them to come back and win tonight, most likely just because, I mean, Houston's a tough place to play in. And I'm sure the Braves, even if they lose game two to head back to Atlanta, splitting the series still having, or, you know, basically they've taken home field advantage now. Correct. I'm sure that would be acceptable to both teams.

Although personally, I'd like to see Atlanta just, you know, just run the table. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody likes Houston outside of Houston, I feel like. And I mean, rightfully so. I will never, I find it interesting, but I'm not surprised at all in any way that Houston is going to continue to wear this scarlet letter of sort, you know, this this reputation hit for a long time, no matter what they do. And let's not focus on the negative, though. Let's focus on the positive. Everyone's grandma was a brave, fan back in the 90s because of TBS. That's true. That's right. Even we were before we had a team. I know I was. I just, I watched them because they were good and because, yes, I got them on my TV all the time.

So by the way, the Astros have an early lead now in the first up one nothing on the Braves in tonight's game. So it's over. Yep, it's over. As far as Daryl Johnson's logic is concerned, it's over. The Braves were one and a half. run favorites in this one. So again, pretty close.

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I'm writing a little piece over on go-PhNX.com about today being a very special anniversary for the Arizona Diamondbacks. 20 years ago today was game one of the Arizona Diamondbacks only World Series appearance. So I'm just going to get a little reminiscent on there and talk about some of my experience. You have the right guest for this. Yes, yes, we do. And of course, you can read that article once it's up over on GoPHNX by becoming a member, either an annual membership, which will get you a free shirt over on phnxlocker.com,

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more about your guys' thoughts on some of the best names, nicknames in Dax history. But yes, Darrell, I brought you on because I know so much about your time as a Dax fan. And I know how special this game was to you personally. October 27th, 2001, Bob, Bank One Ballpark, almost 50,000 people in attendance. And the Arizona Diamondbacks, absolutely. smoked the New York Yankees in game one of their first world series, and a nine to one victory. I remember it well. I have a question for you, Derek.

Did you happen to get in the paper as a result of just having watched this game? I did not get in the newspaper by watching this game. No, no. Did you, Darrell? I did. So the story is, I was going to the U of A. So I was in Tucson and my brother Eric was visiting. It was like family weekend and our football team was playing USC.

But, you know, game one of the World Series. So we tailgated before the football game, showed up, watched the first half, left at halftime, rushed back to my dorm to watch the game. And just right before the game was starting, some, you know, some kid, some college kid walks in. He's like, hey, you guys watching the World Series? something. And we're like, yeah, and he explained that he's doing a thing for the Arizona Republic where they would go to different places throughout Arizona and just sort of describe people. So like one one inning, like they had different, I think they had nine different

places to represent each inning. And so they would describe what the first inning was like from, you know, the state prison. And the seventh inning was from a U of a dorm room. And I guess what the guy, the reporter, was explaining. He was just, yeah, I got this assignment. I was walking around, and outside my dorm room, there were a bunch of signs for a haunted house that our dorm mates were doing. So he just sort of wandered in, and all these people in the lobby were like putting together crafts and watching the football game, watching the USC game.

And he just, you know, talks to, I think, my RA or something. And he's like, is anybody watching, you know, the World Series in this dorm? And the RA just said, oh, go down to Daryl's room. He's always watching the DeMax game. And so it was me, my brother, my college roommate and his girlfriend, and some guy who was doing a thing for the Arizona Republic, describing us watching the game in my dorm room. That's really weird.

Did he, like, quote you in some? or was it just a description of what was wrong? As is the case with my brother, who is very much just like an older version of yourself, I think he got the quote because we had the seventh inning, and so, you know, this was just after 9-11, and so George W. Bush made some sort of announcement, you know, before God bless America or something like that.

And then as part of it, part of the article, I think it said something like, And then in a deadpan George W. Bush impersonation, Eric says, and go D.BACs. So that was, that was his quote. Because, yeah, he said, like, you know, God bless you all. God bless America. And go DMAX is what my brother said. Oh, that's funny.

Yeah. Yeah, I remember. So he got the good quote. I remember being stuck at work late and not getting to watch the game, not thinking I was going to get to watch the game and being very, very, very, upset about it and then somehow all the cards aligned for me to make it to a bar right in time to what were you doing working that late on a Saturday well uh I was a veterinary technician at the time and our hospital was actually uh open on Saturdays only not Sundays but work was work on Saturdays

and it was what was worse about it was it was like a random rotation as to who worked on Saturdays and I just so happen to draw that particular card. Not to mention, we weren't open that late. It was one of those, you know, it was just one of those nights where, unfortunately, at an animal hospital, you don't necessarily, you know, you can't just decide it's time to close up and go some days.

Some days you have, you know, animals there that came in as kind of like an emergency situation. And, you know, we have to stay late. Obviously, we can't just to say, hey, it's time for us to close. You need to take your dog and get out of your kind of deal, right? So, and I remember. Sorry for the broken leg.

We have, yeah. Yeah, you got to go. You got to go. I have stuff to do. So I remember I started watching some of like the pregame stuff in, in a break room. And then eventually got around to, you know, like I said, making it, making it out just in time. I remember the like little terrible dive bar I arrived to all by myself was like, you know, just, it was just perfect. I had one scene for me.

I got my beer. It was great. And then I watched every other game with my girlfriend at her place with her, my now wife, you know, Jen, with her roommates and such. And so like the one thing I just remember was I was really happy. It was the Yankees and the Diamondbacks. The Yankees, I felt, you know, a lot of not only was I brought up a Yankees fan as a young man because of my, it was, it's an obligation.

When you're Puerto Rican, you kind of have to root for the Yankees. And so it was, or the Pittsburgh Pirates, that's the two teams you're allowed to root for. Why the pirate? Oh, Roberta Clemente. Roberto Clemente, right. Yeah. So I remember like just being like, all right, well, you know, kind of feeling that like we all did, right? It was a terrible year. And I was feeling that pride for the Yankees.

And, you know, obviously it was our Diamondbacks, right? So like it was a win-win for me as far as I was concerned. No matter who won the World Series, I, you know, I was going to be happy. And then I just remember watching this game and watching Kurt Schilling lead us to this ass kicking over the Yankees. And I couldn't believe it. Like at first, I think the game was tied after one inning. You know, like you said, we jumped out to a, or they jumped out to a one run lead, I believe in the first, if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, we jumped out. Who was the Yankee starter? Was this petted or was this? I think it was Mike Musina. Messina, that's right. That's right. Yeah, we just jumped on Musina. Right. And I remember we, like, it seems surreal after that point when they just started, because it was like the next couple of innings were just run after run after run.

I mean, looking back at the stats, I'm actually really impressed because almost every D-BACs player, hitter, except for Womack and Schilling, had hits. And every player that had a hit had an RBI except Reggie Sanders. So it was a really, it was like a really well spread out performance, you know, offensively. And I think there were no home runs home runs in the game. No, I don't think there were. Right. Yeah.

It was. And same with the same with game six, 15 to two. We had no home runs in that game. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was such a decisive win. If I remember right. Even when you look back at the games, the Yankees won, it was, it was games that we

blew late because we were in Yankee Stadium and, Young Kim, you know, wasn't that guy. And honestly, I think the whole time we were just, once, any time they started coming back, it was immediately like, oh, shit, here they come, you know, like. And I felt like that was the way the team even felt, right? But I'm not going to. I know how Red Sox fans feel, because this was before the Red Sox became the villains

of the world. Sure. And they had just been beaten down for 80 some years. Yes. And it was like, it was like, oh, yeah, here come the Yankees. you know, shit, man. Like, I can't believe they're doing this to us. I remember how I rate I got, right?

So, like, my point being, as a fan that thought I was getting my cake and eating it too by both of these teams being there, I soon found out that I didn't want that New York cake anymore, you know? Like, I was so angry about the Diamondbacks blowing it. I think, though, that it was like this win for me in the first game set a very, high expectation that the Diamondbacks were going to win the World Series. You know, much like what you were saying about last night after the first run scored, right? It was just such a decisive win that you couldn't convince me otherwise that they weren't going

to go on to win. And they did, but it ended up being, you know, obviously. Way closer than I'd prefer. Way closer. And I mean, historically, one of the best World Series that has ever been played. Yeah. Well, no question. I mean, that World Series, I think is still top five on most people's lists, just historically. Like, they have, you know, what, 86 is probably up there. 1960, when the pirates won on a bottom of the ninth home run over the Yankees. That's got to be up there. 1991 with the twins.

Yeah, that was. That was incredible. It was a Jack Morris pitching 10 scoreless innings to win game seven. like that that's incredible but 2001 has to be definitely top 10 maybe top five all time just because well and and we'll always feel different about it too right well yeah well and it's it's one of those where the debacks won their first three games so decisively and the yankees had to squeak by in their three games that like when we were entering the buy bottom of the night, I was just feeling sick thinking, this is like such an injustice.

Yeah. What travesty this is. We outscored them by a billion runs and we're going to lose this series. Can we get some aggregate scoring in baseball or something? This doesn't seem fair. Yeah. No, I'm going to be 100, man. But at least it ended up going the way it did.

And now we can look back and smile. And I just can't believe it was 20 years ago. I can't believe here we are yet again with another strange situation. causing us to have a World Series that could possibly spill into November. Because we're not going to get to talk about too many World Series games falling on the anniversary of this DeBax Yankees series with everything that happened that year. So it's definitely incredible.

I mean, we very well might because, you know, 9-11 gave a lot of people excuses to do things they never had before. And, you know, now every Super Bowl is in February. Yeah. Yeah. So the World Series has just pushed back a little later anyway. Just so. Yeah. We'll be seeing more November baseball in the future, I'm sure. Yeah, you're probably right. But there's just so much going on. The most important thing, though, Darrell, is no matter if it's going to end up being a four-game sweep or a seven-game exciting series, both of these teams want to make sure that they keep both their outfield and

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at where you will get $200 in free bets if you bet $5 on any NFL team to win and they win that game. And there, I alluded to it earlier, but today we talked on the Phoenix Sports Show about the best nicknames in Arizona sports history and I gave my best

nicknames in DBAX history. Obviously we narrowed it down to one and my one greatest nickname in DBAX history was obviously the big unit, Randy Johnson. Yeah, well, I don't know. That's not something that we would really use in conversation.

That's more of a broadcaster's newspaper writer sort of nickname. Okay. You know, I would just refer to him as Randy or RJ, you know. Right. But it's also sexual innuendo, Darrell. It's also sexual innuendo. It's the complete package. Ah, I did it again.

Okay. But no, who, who, what nicknames are you a fan of? I couldn't find that many good ones in DeBax history, to be honest. Well, that's mostly because in the Bob Brenley era, his way of nicknaming was just giving people's initials. Yes, yes. But I'm a fan of freight train, of course. Yeah, a great nickname. Absolutely.

But mine has got to be, well, Gonzo. And secondarily, Gonzo's other. nickname was Mr. Montia, the mayor of Bob. That is right. He was the mayor of Bob because, like, he knew the concession stand workers' names. Yes. He remembered, look it, I'm going to tell you this, and this is a personal story, and I talk about how much I like people just because they're nice to me all the time on this show.

As a matter of fact, that's, I mean, if you look at the John Mulaney bit about why his wife called him the mayor of nothing. It's the exact same reason why Brian Gregston gave me the nickname of the mayor. It's because I want to be liked so much by everybody. And I will say that Luis Gonzalez not only knew me or knows me when he sees me around Chase Field by name, even if I don't have my press badge on, but one day, that beautiful, beautiful man let me cut in line in front of him at Dutch Brothers. Now, I can't tell you how much that means to me. If you've been following me on Twitter for a while. You probably can guess how much that means to me. But let me tell you, when Gonzo, the man, the hero, the legend, the guy that hit the single

in this world series that we've been talking about, let's me cut in line in front of him. Like, I deserve that in some way. It just shows you he earned the nickname. He really did. I would like to briefly expand this to the other sports. I know we're strictly baseball, but I just, nothing will beat Thunder Dan. Thunder Dan is such a good name. Thunder Dan is number one. We talked today about how a lot of people, because he's remembered for his three-point shooting, people don't remember him just dunking on fools when he was a little bit,

a little bit younger, right? And I mean, that's where that Thunder, Thunder Dan nickname originally came from. That and them thighs, baby. Them thighs and them little Phoenix Sun shorts. Oh, yeah, man. but it's an absolute great time talking about Arizona sports because I love these teams. So many of the nicknames when we brought them up,

brought back so many memories from stat. A lot of my favorite ones were on the Suns personally, just because the Suns always had such great nicknames, and they always became like so much more than that. The Suns have Al McCoy. That's why they have such great nicknames. Good old socks and, you know, Charles and all that stuff. I still love the round.

Mount of rebound is still, I love that one. But anyway, and I love you guys. Thank you again so much for joining us. You can follow us on Twitter. I, of course, am at Cap underscore Caveman with a K. You can get Darrell at Zazimplop, that ZA, ZZZUM, PLOP. But of course, all roads lead to at P-HNX underscore Sports, and that's on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

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platinum it's platinum okay according to the internet i don't know i looked it up but it's it's the modern day the traditional one was china uh okay that that makes more sense because platinum is more valuable than gold or silver. I thought platinum would be like 60 years or something. Yeah, no. Modern day people have no idea how to rank this stuff. They just throw stuff out there. It's platinum.

We made it to 20. So, I mean, that's probably the greatest anniversary. Yeah, we'll go China. It's the China. Porcelain anniversary. Porcelain anniversary. But we thank you guys again so much for watching. And Darrell, remember kids?

Baseball's fun, but it's so much more fun when you bet on it. Remember kids? stole my gimmick.