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On Thursday's edition of Felger and Mazz, the guys did another edition of Mazz's Tiers. This week Mazz tiered the most memorable brainlocks in sports.
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01:22Okay. What's this week's subject, Maz?
01:24Okay, so in the wake of the Red Sox inability to catch a strike,
01:30we decided to, because there were some really stupid mistakes there,
01:33it triggered a tangential thought, which in my mind is most memorable,
01:39what I would call, brain locks or breakdowns.
01:44Okay?
01:45Boners.
01:45Yeah, yeah.
01:46But when I say that, I don't, there's got to be a mental component to it.
01:50It's not a physical mistake, it's a mental mistake.
01:52Right, it's decision-making.
01:53Got it.
01:54It's just sort of, just brain locks.
01:56Decision-making.
01:57What were you possibly thinking?
01:59For the most part, there's a little bit of latitude in there
02:01which we'll get to momentarily, as there always are in the tiers.
02:05But we'll start with tier three.
02:06Some of these should be pretty apparent.
02:08And again, they're memorable.
02:091994, Larry Walker, then a member of the Montreal Expos,
02:12caught a fly ball and handed it to a fan.
02:14Do you remember this?
02:15Yes.
02:16And there were two outs.
02:17Meanwhile, the runners were running around the bases
02:18and Walker had to go back and get the ball.
02:21It's a famous clip.
02:22Good one.
02:22Most people remember that.
02:23It was a regular season game.
02:24It was early in the year.
02:25But people remember it.
02:27Steve Bartman, Steve Bartman rather, interferes.
02:31I'm Bartman.
02:32Not a superhero, right?
02:34Yeah, it's Bartman.
02:362003 playoffs interfered with Moises Alou in left field.
02:40Bad decision.
02:41Helped cost the Cubs a game.
02:43He had potentially a world championship.
02:451986.
02:47Mike, you might remember this.
02:48I didn't.
02:48I totally do.
02:49Steve Smith, defenseman for the Edmonton Oilers.
02:52Calgary.
02:53Shot the puck off a Grant Fuhrer's skate or stick.
02:56Yep.
02:57Went into his own net.
02:58Yep.
02:58Cost him a goal.
02:59They lost to Calgary in a game seven.
03:01I remember.
03:01Big, big mistake.
03:02Just a stupid, stupid play.
03:05The Indianapolis Colts fake punt against the Patriots in 2015.
03:08Some of the local ones have a, obviously, stick in our minds a little bit more.
03:14That play remains to me one of the dumbest plays I've ever seen.
03:18Jim Joyce, the umpire.
03:19Blown call of Armando Galarraga's perfect game as a member of the Tigers.
03:24And I say blown call because I wouldn't typically include blown calls.
03:30But that one was so egregious, you had to wonder where his head was.
03:34He just was, it was, and he apologized and cried the next day.
03:37Remember that?
03:38Of course.
03:38It was just, it was such an egregious mistake that it was impossible to leave out of this.
03:44I generally refrained on this list from officials and referees and, you know, umpires' mistakes.
03:51It's a good moment in that.
03:52It was horrible what happened to Galarraga, but that he cried.
03:55We should live in a world where more refs and umps are forced to be, you know, shamed and end up crying in public because they screwed up.
04:02And you know what?
04:02And Galarraga forgave him.
04:03Do you remember that?
04:04Yeah, that part I don't know.
04:05It was kind of a cool moment.
04:06I forgot about this one.
04:08Ryan, our producer there, who's helping, uh, replacing Kevin Maggiore back there.
04:12Garrett Cole last year was dominating the Dodgers in the World Series.
04:17Forgot to cover first base.
04:19Oh, right.
04:20Yeah.
04:20On a play.
04:21Did not get off the mound and cover first base.
04:23The Dodgers rallied.
04:24Freddie Freeman hit a home run.
04:26And the Dodgers clinched the World Series that night because Garrett Cole forgot.
04:30That was like a massive unraveling.
04:31Huge, huge.
04:33And, uh, this is one you brought up, Mike, that I remembered, but I had to go back and
04:37watch the video.
04:38Matt O'Connor, a goalie for BU in the National Championship, trying to catch a puck, then
04:45dropped it between his legs and into the net.
04:48This was Eichel's team.
04:49This was, uh, well, it should have been in the National Championship team.
04:53They were up 3-2 in the third period.
04:54This was the team that was later investigated for gambling.
04:58So, I don't know.
04:59I don't know if that's a mental error or a financial, uh, thinking.
05:02It's just, uh, worth mentioning because this goalie completely crapped himself in the third
05:07period.
05:08But this particular play, he just gloved a puck.
05:10It was a clear into the zone.
05:11He gloved it.
05:13And then proceeded to drop it between his legs into the net for the game-time goal in the
05:17third period.
05:17So, we're putting it down as a boner?
05:20It's a boner, but as Joe-
05:22There might be financial reasons for that boner.
05:23As Joe Murray would say.
05:27Speaking of which, you remind me, we do need a sniffing sound effect.
05:30Well, we do, because I don't have the schnoz power.
05:33Murray does.
05:34Murray's a nose-
05:35Yeah, I'm all schnoz.
05:36I mean, there's times over here, Murray's just breathing through his nose into the mic.
05:39You ever pick up on it?
05:40Yo, all the time.
05:41All the time.
05:42It sounds like Alex Barth down at Gillette today.
05:44McAdam used to be like that, too.
05:46Oh, my God.
05:47The nose breathing into the mic.
05:50It's like, wow.
05:51Sometimes I look at Murray from the side, and I think he's wearing those fake glasses and
05:55mustache.
05:56Tier 2.
05:57Let's jump ahead to Tier 2, shall we?
06:00We shall.
06:002018 NBA Finals.
06:02Game 1.
06:02J.R. Smith dribbles out the clock.
06:05Nice job.
06:06Remember the look from LeBron, too.
06:07Man, what the hell are you doing?
06:09Yeah, tied game.
06:10And he looked at him like, he thought they had the lead.
06:12He forgot the score.
06:13He dribbled out the clock.
06:14Which brings us to Chris Weber.
06:16Calling a timeout that he did not have in 1993.
06:20Resulted in a technical foul.
06:22Famous play in the NCAA tournament.
06:24Another one.
06:25Fred Brown.
06:26Guard for Georgetown.
06:27We talked about this game last week.
06:29The Michael Jordan game.
06:30When he won it for North Carolina.
06:31The next play of that game was Fred Brown.
06:35Brainlocking and passing the ball directly to James Worthy.
06:38Who played for North Carolina to blow the national championship.
06:42Phil Mickelson.
06:43Famous one here.
06:44On Felger, Mass.
06:462006 U.S.
06:47Open.
06:48At Windfoot.
06:49Decided to take out his driver.
06:51When all he had to do was put it in the fairway on the 17th hole to win the U.S.
06:55Open.
06:56He hit it off the effing hospitality tent.
06:58We all know what happened after that.
07:00Complete meltdown.
07:02Leon Leck.
07:03Former defensive lineman of the Dallas Cowboys.
07:05Who's actually on this list twice.
07:07I don't know why I've never tied these two together.
07:10The Miami game is what.
07:11So obvious.
07:12And then the Super Bowl.
07:13The Super Bowl.
07:14When he was running.
07:14Don Beebe.
07:15He was running in the end zone.
07:16Stuck the ball.
07:17Don Beebe ran up behind him and knocked the ball out of his hand.
07:19That was a 30-point game at the time.
07:21It didn't cost him the game.
07:22But they lost that game to Miami in Dallas.
07:24And it snowed there, right?
07:25Yes, that's right.
07:26Murray, what happened on that final play is because he touched the ball after they blocked the field goal,
07:31Miami got another crack at it, and then won the game on the final play.
07:36So it was 14-13 at that time, but Miami kicked the field goal, won 16-14.
07:41And then the miracle of the Meadowlands in 1978.
07:46Giants are about to beat the Eagles.
07:49All they have to do is take a knee, but they decided to hand the ball off.
07:55Larry Zonka fumbled.
07:57Joe Posarczyk was the quarterback.
07:59Herman Edwards picked it up.
08:00He ran into the end zone for a touchdown.
08:03One of the great blunders in NFL history.
08:06And that is the subject of this week's tears, sports boners, brain locks.
08:10Sports brain locks, giving you first two tears, meaning tears three and two.
08:14Here are the all-time sports brain locks in tier one, according to Mass.
08:18Okay, now one of these is a little bit of a stretch, but work with me.
08:21And I'll start from the bottom and work up here.
08:22Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield.
08:26Now, I don't know that you could call this a conscious decision as much as you could call it losing your composure, getting your ass kicked, and deciding to bite someone's ear off.
08:35But to me, it's one of the more memorable oddities that took place on the field or in the arena of play or competition in sports history.
08:44Watching that in real time is one of the five wildest things I've witnessed as a sports fan.
08:50I mean, Murray, do you remember that?
08:51Oh, I remember it like yesterday.
08:52That there was actually a piece of Holyfield's ear on the canvas that Mike Tyson spit out after biting off the tip of his ear.
09:02A completely crazy, crazy event.
09:04Too many men on the ice, the Bruins, Don Cherry, 1979.
09:09And Cherry gets the blame, or took the blame, because he was the coach.
09:12But really, one of the epic brain locks.
09:15Don Marcotte, a Bruins winger, was involved in the play.
09:17Peter McNabb was involved in the play.
09:19It's unclear exactly who was supposed to be on, who was supposed to be off.
09:23You know what's great is that the players that I've talked to, Millbury anyway, there might be another one, know who was really at fault and won't say it.
09:33Is that right?
09:34Oh, really?
09:35Cover for them.
09:35Yeah.
09:36Good for them.
09:36Yeah.
09:37Yeah, good for them.
09:38They won't give them up.
09:39I think on that play that they had six guys on the ice for something close to 30 seconds.
09:44Apparently, they were doing it all third period, and the linesman was warning them that, guys, I'm going to have to call this.
09:53And then they did it so egregiously that the linesman had to do it, that it wasn't a ticky-tack.
09:59It wasn't a one-off.
10:00It was almost out of exasperation where the linesman was telling, they choked as a team so badly that, well, that's the story I heard.
10:09They couldn't count.
10:10They couldn't count.
10:11Couldn't count.
10:11In fact, Boston comes on, shows up on this list a couple of times.
10:15Shocker.
10:15Grady Little, 2003, leaving Pedro in that game.
10:20Well, we don't have to relive that one.
10:21I think everybody knows it.
10:22At the time, I thought it was a good decision.
10:23Yes, I remember you and McAdams.
10:25Yeah, it was one of my big mistakes, and I've made many.
10:29Pete Carroll throwing the football 2014.
10:32As Mike Francesco would say, block it, touchdown.
10:37He probably goes in backwards.
10:41And finally, I still think like the greatest meltdown ever.
10:45All time.
10:45To somebody completely losing his mind and not making a single good decision was John Vandervelde in the 1999 British Open.
10:53I think he was up three strokes on the final tee.
10:57Three strokes.
10:59All he had to do was hit an iron out in the fairway, put it on, he could have three-putted.
11:03And he would have won the tournament by two.
11:06He instead hit driver, which triggered a chain reaction that led to a triple bogey.
11:12And he had to make like a significant putt to get into a playoff, at which point he lost.
11:16It was a complete freaking disaster.
11:20Trying to hit it out of the water, taking off his shoes and socks.
11:24Oh, my gosh.
11:24Like the worst thing ever that you will ever see.
11:27That Bruins too many men reminded me.
11:30You know which one we forgot for a Bruins boner?
11:33Marsham.
11:33Not getting off the ice with a line change at the end of the first period of Game 7 against the Blues.
11:37Good one.
11:38Belongs somewhere.
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