Watchdog

I forgot to watch Game 6 of the '77 World Series on YES tonight until there were two outs in the ninth and Reggie had to get a batting helmet to protect himself from fans throwing stuff at him in rightfield.

(Memo to people too young to remember New York in the '70s: Back then, people threw crap at you even if you hit three home runs in your home ballpark.)

The weirdest thing was seeing fans sitting on the rightfield wall with their legs dangling into fair territory, and seemingly no one doing anything about it!

The post-game was familiar from the re-enactment on "The Bronx is Burning.'' Billy Martin and Thurman Munson did an amazing job of looking and sounding like John Turturro and Erik Jensen, the latter a confirmed member of WatchDog Nation, by the way.

ABC's camera had huge trouble getting a clear shot of Reggie in the madness. Apparently network TV hadn't yet figured out how to isolate itself in a corner away from all the print journalism schlubs.

(One of the writers who got the most face time was a shockingly young Dan Shaughnessy, at the time a novice baseball beat writer for The Baltimore Sun.)

Standing outside missing all the fun was SI's Melissa Ludtke. But that's another story.