30 Years Later, Don Denkinger Still Evokes Emotions

On Sunday night, after NLCS GM2 ended, the TBS post-game show ran a piece on the 30th anniversary of 1985 World Series GM6 (which will officially be next Monday, OCT 26th).

More specifically on ‘the call’.

This is the point where I’d normally embed the piece so everyone that missed it (i.e. pretty much everyone reading this), but TBS doesn’t appear to put clips of anything online.

So here’s (most of) the last 1/2 inning in question, instead. See how long you can make it.

Some people were still watching:

https://twitter.com/dmk1122/status/656052456472707072

https://twitter.com/sean_mcdevitt/status/655955291247284224

Here’s an interesting theory:

https://twitter.com/AnswerDave/status/655955120849481729

At least ESPN’s T.J. Quinn is standing up for the beleaguered former ump. Sort of:

Now TBS doing entire profile of Don Denkinger mispronouncing his name. It's Den-KING-er, not Denk-in-ger as commonly called all these years.

— T.J. Quinn (@TJQuinnESPN) October 19, 2015

In fairness to Mr. Denkinger, he has owned up to the blown call. Below is an interview he did with Keith Olbermann last year where he talks about the game and the aftermath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIeIG43w_gs

Unfortunately, the Cardinals won’t be able to win the World Series against the Royals in 2015 to mark the anniversary properly.

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