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Why?....
First off, I admit this is nitpicking. This is a great collection of all 7 games of the greatest World Series ever played. It was my first real baseball memory as a kid so it will always be special to me. That being said, here are a few questions: <
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>Why did they skip the player introductions before Games 1 & 3?!? It is a baseball tradition to introduce the opposing players, coaches, etc. every year yet A&E couldn't find room on the dvd for it? <
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>WHY did they skip the post-game interviews? After game 1 Kubek interviews Luis Tiant and after game 6, OF COURSE, he interviews Carlton Fisk. Why couldn't A&E leave the tape rolling?!? A few more minutes wouldn't fit?!? <
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>Finally (and perhaps the most fundamental issue I have), why was this presented as a Cincinnati Reds product? This was a hard fought World Series that featured 5 1-run games, 2 extra inning games and was tied going into the 9th of Game 7. I feel it should have been a more balanced presentation - at least from a packaging standpoint. <
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>You'll notice that there is an opening montage on each dvd. They are all clips of Reds. To me, to show a summary montage of the 1975 World Series without showing Fisk waving the ball fair is blasphemous. <
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>I would love it if every world series became available on dvd, but A&E needs to go just a bit further to make it all-inclusive and a more even presentation. <
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>Again, I still recommend it to any baseball fan. I guess I'm a bit pickier than most. <
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>OKAY - I just noticed that in the bonus material, they do show the introduction of the REDS (and only the Reds) before Game 3. Obviously the Red Sox were just extras in this Cincinnati Reds production. They do include the Fisk postgame interview from Game 6, but WHY ISN'T THIS ON THE GAME 6 DISC?!!!! <
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>heavy sigh.

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Rounding third, heading for home
I'll never forget the day my copy of "The Cincinnati Reds 1975 World Series (Collector's Edition)" DVDs arrived in the mail. I had just gotten finished with a knockout, drag-down fight with my old lady about finances. After another one of my disastrous weekends in Las Vegas left our bank account in shambles, our rent was going to be late for the third month in a row, and the wife was not pleased. She told me that I needed to find a way to replace that money fast, or she was going to divorce me. Since she was pretty awesome in the sack, I decided that I should do whatever I could to salvage the relationship. <
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>That's when I decided to invite my pal cousinpaco over to my apartment. You see, cousinpaco isn't much of a sports fan. He spends most of his free time chasing women and watching Mystery Science Theater 3000. Instead of going out, I asked him if he would mind staying in to watch the first game of the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. He wasn't thrilled with the idea, but he agreed. While he was in the kitchen grabbing a beer, I pushed "play" on the DVD player, and the ruse was on. <
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>After Game 1 was over, cousinpaco didn't suspect a thing. He didn't notice that the picture wasn't in high-definition, or that Pete Rose was actually allowed on a baseball field, or that the two teams were playing at a pre-upgraded Fenway Park in Boston, or that Ken Griffey, Jr. was only six years old, or even that the World Series isn't played in January. cousinpaco was convinced that the game we were watching was live on TV, and I was going to take full advantage of his ignorance. <
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>It started out as simple bets - "I bet you $10 that Dave Concepcion hits a single here" - but then I got greedy. I continued to invite cousinpaco over to my apartment to watch Games 2, 3... all the way through Game 7. Doubting my ability to continue making spot-on predictions, he always took me up on my bets, and I was always right. Sure, I intentionally muffed a few small bets so he didn't grow suspicious, but when I called Carlton Fisk's game-winning homer in the bottom of the 12th inning of Game 6 - three days before it happened - and cousinpaco didn't question it, I knew I was home free. <
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>By the time Cesar Geronimo caught Carl Yastrzemski's fly ball for the final out of Game 7, I'd not only recouped my Las Vegas money, but I had made a $500 profit. <
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>To this day, cousinpaco has no idea what happened. After watching all seven games of arguably the best World Series ever played, he even fancies himself a baseball fan now. Just don't ask him how his search for a 2006 Cincinnati Reds World Series t-shirt is going. He's a little peeved that they're in such short supply.

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Game 1 Innings 6 and top of seventh out of sync - Otherwise a classic
This is a fine collection. However, the audio and video are substantially out of sync in inning 6 and the top of the 7th of Game 1. The audio trails the video by almost a pitch. I've played this on different dvd players with the same results. Has anyone else noticed this? <
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>My VHS copy of Game 1 (from a NESN re-broadcast in 2005) does not have these glitches.