With Toby and Patrick like usual. One note: I talked in the podcast about how I’d watch every one of Dwight Gooden’s 1985 starts if SNY aired them. This morning I got what I thought was an awesome idea for SNY to re-air the games with Gooden doing commentary over them like MST3000, so I went to the programming department here to try to sell them on it.

Turns out it’s impossible. Sadly, those games do not exist in the MLB archives in the format necessary to rebroadcast them. Like with the old Kiner’s Korner episodes, no one at the TV networks realized what they were watching was something worth archiving, and the 1″ stock they needed for broadcast was expensive and unwieldy enough that, I’m told, they likely taped over it.

Incidentally, if you’re wondering why SNY’s broadcast of Gary Carter’s first game as a Met from last night switched from the Mets to the Cardinals broadcast in the top of the 10th inning — leaving out the famous “Welcome to New York, Gary Carter” call — that’s why: It’s all anyone’s got of that inning in broadcast quality. Obviously it’s out there on VHS somewhere.

So, like my man Russ from programming points out, if you ever go back in time, bring a digital-video recorder and some sort of really awesome adapter. There’s a hell of a lot of archiving to be done, and probably a hell of a lot of money to be made doing it.

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