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00:00Where does this series rank for you, and where does that Rojas home run rank?

00:03Well, if you look at the series, the Yankee Diamondbacks series was tremendous.

00:07The Brave Twins series in 91, I'm sure you covered that.

00:12That was tremendous.

00:14Now, the one thing, two things about that series, really one thing for both.

00:18Nobody won a road game.

00:21Everybody won the home games.

00:23Right.

00:23To me, when I talk about a series in any of the best of sevens,

00:27I want to see a road team win a game.

00:28And in this particular situation, the Dodgers won three of four in Toronto,

00:34and the Blue Jays won two of three at Dodger Stadium,

00:37which to me adds an element to it that I like a lot.

00:40The Game 7 Red Sox-Reds, that's an all-time classic too.

00:44The one problem I have about that series, historically, and I remember it,

00:49you remember it probably too, I was 7, 16 years old,

00:53is the idea that the greatest game in that series, in Game 6,

00:56the losing team won.

00:59So the Fisk home run, to me, historically is a little overrated

01:04because the Red Sox didn't win the World Series.

01:06Right.

01:07It'd be like the Dodgers making that great play to end Game 6,

01:10but then losing Game 7.

01:12You kind of forget about the great play they made,

01:13the double play at second base.

01:15So when you have a great game like that in this sixth game,

01:19you want to see the team that made the great play win this seventh game.

01:23And then you had Game 3 in all-time classic with Freeman's home run,

01:26and the Dodgers won that too.

01:28So that's what I like about this World Series is that the three gigantic moments

01:33in this World Series, plus Game 2 was a big Game 2 with Yamamoto 1-1 top seven.

01:39So I like that aspect of it.

01:41Road team wins, and the big moments that were in this World Series,

01:45obviously, look at the Yankees' Diamondbacks.

01:48Jeter's homer, Tino's homer, Rojas' homer, but the Yankees lost the World Series.

01:53The big moments in this series, Rojas' homer, Hernandez's double play,

02:00Freeman's home run, Will Smith's home runs.

02:03The Dodgers won this series.

02:05So I like that aspect of it a lot.

02:07Now, I didn't see it.

02:09You know, that 60 World Series, I've had a lot of people tell me,

02:12Ernie Acorsi was a huge Yankee fan, giant ring of honor,

02:16longtime general manager.

02:18I talked to him a lot, and he's a huge baseball fan.

02:21And he thought this was the second best Game 7 he's ever seen.

02:25Now, he put the Game 7 Yankees-Pirates first,

02:29because that had a lot of back and forth.

02:33The Mazurowski walk-off, the Giants, the Yankees trail took the lead,

02:38Pirates trail, bottom of the eighth came back.

02:40Yankees tied it in the ninth, and then the homer by Mazurowski.

02:44He thought that game was the best game he's ever seen,

02:46and the Yankees lost, and he was a Yankee fan.

02:48So I didn't see it, nor did you, so it's hard to get a gauge there.

02:52But this has got to be, what, top three, top four World Series of all time?

02:57And I don't know if I've seen a better game in a Game 7.

03:03Now, I always thought there, John, that the Yankee-Red Sox game in 78,

03:08in Fenway, in my lifetime, that has always been one of the greatest.

03:14It capped the regular season, first to 100.

03:18It sort of symbolized the whole year.

03:20Red Sox the big lead, Red Sox the lead in the playoff game.

03:25Dan hits a home run.

03:26Yankees come back, take the lead, and then they got to withstand a Red Sox rally

03:29in the bottom of the ninth, eighth.

03:31Same kind of thing happened in the regular season, was symbolizing that game.

03:35So I always thought that was the best game ever.

03:37But this is a game that is historically going to rank top two or three

03:42that you and I have ever seen.

03:44You want to put it three, you want to put it two.

03:46That's Dina's choice on that.

03:49But it's top two or three games we've ever seen.

03:51And as far as the Rojas home run is concerned,

03:53I think the thing about it is the improbability of it.

03:56It's Miguel Rojas.

03:59I mean, I can eat off and...

04:01We had Dan, we had Roger Davis.

04:02There have been a few like that, but...

04:04They have.

04:05Now, remember, the Indians lost.

04:09So the Davis home run out of Chapman was incredible.

04:12An incredible moment.

04:13But the Indians lost that game.

04:15Right, you're right.

04:16Rojas won the game.

04:17He did.

04:18Essentially.

04:19So that's why I would put this one better.

04:21That's a good one.

04:21I hadn't thought of Roger Davis.

04:23I was in the ballpark for that.

04:24The whole world thought that, look at this,

04:26the Guardians are finally going to win a World Series

04:28and beat the Cubs who hadn't won them for 100 years.

04:30But this Rojas home run was as good as you're ever going to see.

04:33And I'll tell you, I'm mad at Hoffman.

04:35Do you have the three...

04:37With Otani up next, throw a 3-2 fastball, 97, 98 miles an hour, let him hit it.

04:43Don't throw a slider there, where if you leave it over the middle of the plate,

04:46he might hit the ball out of the ballpark.

04:48That pitch selection really bothered me by Hoffman in the top of the ninth.

04:52Yeah, I'm with you.

04:54Amazing recall on everything.

04:56A 60 World Series, no, I didn't see that.

04:58I'm with you right just before I was born.

05:01But looking at it, all routes by the Yankees, three games,

05:06and then they lost four close games.

05:09So that's pretty spectacular.

05:11I'm with you.

05:1191 World Series to me until this one was the winner.

05:15For me, this one might be the winner.

05:17For me, this one might be the winner.

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