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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3991220, member: 1969"]
Just catching this Documentary tonight ... not sure if they showed it on TSN earlier, but the 30 for 30's typically get shown a few weeks later in Canada.

Saw most of the first 90 minutes, and taped the last 90 minutes (they are playing the parts back to back).

Really good documentary -- I was a much bigger baseball fan back then (even if I did not like the Mets) -- I knew the players so much more at the time -- I read whatever I could when I was 11 --- 5 or 6 preview magazines, Elias, Bill James Abstract. memorized baseball cards.     But its great to see a look behind the scenes that I would have been naive to at the time.

Of course was a huge Gary Carter fan at the time-- but even at that young age when I talked to adults I could tell he had a reputation of not being well liked and spotlight seeker.     Even if he was not a bad guy as I learned later.

Lenny Dykstra is really screwed up.   Bob Ojeda seemed like an odd fit into the bucnh.

I only have 1 petty quirk -- when people take an inaccurate shot at the Montreal Expos it gets me a little riled up.     And really it has nothing to do with the quality of the documentary.   When they were introducing Gary Carter, his wife mentioned that in 1985 there was a moment that 40-50,000 fans were cheering for him and he had never experienced that.    OK, the Expos crowds stank at the end, but they got great crowds between 1979 and 1983

Here is a 4 game series from August 1982 and a 3 game series from September 1979.
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