It’s been a tough 12 months and we’re nonetheless in January.
I’ve been engaged on some stuff. Researching. Hitting the archives. On the lookout for misplaced media. The digital world is an fascinating place. The saying was, at one level, “the web is eternally” however now we all know linkrot is a plague for the web as web sites shut down. Having a hyperlink to a website that doesn’t exist anymore is, apart from a couple of issues just like the Wayback Machine, ineffective.
We’re previous the twentieth anniversary of the 2004 World Collection, however one of many moments I’ll all the time bear in mind was from a recreation on June thirteenth. The Dodgers had been on the town. Dave Roberts (nonetheless a Dodger, bear in mind) is on the plate. He hits a line drive. Absolutely additional bases. However no! Pokey Reese leaps into the air to snag the ball out of the sky.
Go search for it. I’ll wait.
ESPN had a recreation write-up that’s now blank.
MLB Film Room? They’ve only one spotlight from 2004 and it’s not that.
However after some in depth looking out I struck gold. Virtually discovered footage.
I clipped the frames from the grainy video myself. Apologies for the poor high quality of a recreation somebody certainly taped and uploaded to a nook of the web.
And now we have now a spotlight.
And that was good. I used to be completely satisfied. However there was one thing extra. One thing else. One thing commemorative for this 12 months.
“It’s like a child New York” perhaps? Already uploaded. Though this too was misplaced media for some time. I truly wrote to Southwest within the early 2010s asking in regards to the business. They’ve a YouTube channel and it had their newest advertisements…why not a traditional? Anyway, right here’s that one.
However I needed to shoot larger.
As I mentioned within the 2006-2016-2026 article final week, these ‘06 Sox traded for a brand new centerfielder to exchange the departed Johnny Damon. The fortunate man? Coco Crisp. Whereas there was quite a lot of speak about Jeremy Reed as a “Johnny Damon starter package,” Coco was established. Francona was able to unleash his pace within the outfield and on the bases.
Sadly an damage put Crisp on the IL simply 5 video games into the season. It was a minor catastrophe on the sphere.
It was a main catastrophe within the media relations division! Coco Crisp was a middlepiece of the NESN advert marketing campaign for the season. They’d already shot the movie and produced the commercials.
When you had been round in 2006 this isn’t a shock.
And you already know what’s coming.
So I provide you with a deal with. NESN’s massive advert marketing campaign: One Nation, One Community.
Or as you bear in mind it: Did you see that catch Coco made?
