Rewind: Braves-Marlins '97 NLCS Game 5 with Brian Wright - Remember That Game

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Originally aired October 2023. Brian Wright (MLB.com, New York Mets All-Time All-Stars, Mets in 10s) joins Thomas Emerick to resurface this NL East showdown in the 1997 National League Championship Series between the Atlanta Braves and the recently non-existent Florida Marlins. We got Liván Hernández, Greg Maddux, and a big strike zone for left-handed hitters. Hear why this was the most shocking league championship series round to that point, when quantifying via the betting markets for every series since they started playing this round back in 1969 — No. 1 by a mile. In the time since, only 2010 tops it. Even this year's underdogs heading to the World Series in the Texas Ranger and Arizona Diamondbacks didn't knock off nearly as big of favorites in terms of combined odds, as with Florida toppling Atlanta and Cleveland upsetting Baltimore one riveting week back in '97. And it really starts rolling Sunday in Miami with Game 5. This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist. I’m your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/remember-that-game/id1493587677 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/61AZFN2XvBB8ZSjql0gtfk "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More on Braves-Marlins Game 5 from the 1997 NLCS: Box score: Marlins 2, Braves 1 (Pro Baseball Reference) Full game broadcast (YouTube) SportsCenter highlights for the full series (YouTube) Florida Marlins 1997 stats (Pro Baseball Reference) Marlins celebrate anniversary of '97 championship season (MLB.com) HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest MLB.com Contributor and Mets Book Author Brian Wright (@BrianWright86) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and get on your way to being your best self. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2023" at the time of purchase. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off your first purchase. SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game. Email: RotoVizRadio@gmail.com Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	But he proceeds to, you know, keep, keep just pounding on the outside corner.
0:07.7	And I'm sure Charles Johnson were like, okay, you know, we're going to set up out here.
0:11.7	If you're going to call it, we're going to throw it out here.
0:16.9	It's October 97, Braves at Marlins.
0:20.4	This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey
0:24.5	and may chart the path of the zeitgeist.
0:27.7	I'm your host Thomas Emerick, and my guest is Brian Wright.
0:31.5	You may have seen his gamers on MLB.com and got some pretty great blurbs on your Mets book,
0:36.9	including from Tom Verducci and your Mets
0:39.7	were on the sideline for game five of the NLCS here as your NL East mates in the Braves
0:46.8	and recently non-existent Marlins duke it out were you thinking hey go Marlins take down the
0:54.0	fond in 90s braves,
0:55.4	because this could be us, this could be the Mets someday soon.
0:59.4	I think if this was 2023 and I was, you know, the age I am now,
1:04.5	having watched the Mets for like 30 years about a championship,
1:08.6	seeing a team in their fifth season go for a championship, I would be very jaded
1:14.1	and very upset. Back in 1997, the Braves, you know, were still, were incredibly annoying,
1:23.2	always winning, always beating the Mets. I mean, a lot of teams were beating the Mets,
1:27.7	except, you know, 97 they got better mean, a lot of teams were beating the Mets, except,
1:33.0	you know, 97 they got better. But the Marlins were, despite the fact, and we'll get into this, despite the fact that they were really trying to buy the World Series. They were, in my
1:37.1	mind, very likable, mainly because they were going up against the vaunted Braves team that
1:42.9	had won every division, at least that I had seen, the
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