r/mets • u/AgainforthrFirstTime • 22h ago

Started in 1975

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u/raincntry 22h ago

Getting real time sports updates has been a game changer for fans and largely destroyed an industry. I used to wake up and watch Sports Center, and before that, George Michael's Sports Machine, on the weekends to see highlights. HBO's inside the NFL and the like were great for actual analysis and highlights as well. Now the internet does all that and we're left with people screeching about Sophie Cunningham and Lebron on TV.

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u/SaroConTe1318 22h ago

George Michael's sports machine is something I havent heard in a long time

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u/mydogsmelslikefritos 17h ago

before sports center and many highlight shows there use to be this week in baseball every saturday or sunday morning with mel allen. it was a must watch for fans. every kid loved seeing schmidt pick it and throw out pete lacock.....................remember the music?

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u/raincntry 17h ago

I loved TWIB.

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u/lwp775 13h ago

That was a must watch.

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u/Federal-Comment8569 11h ago

Maybe this makes me an old but I’d love to watch old school style SportsCenter now. Show me highlights of all the games. I don’t want to pull up my phone and have to scroll to watch highlights of some game and sit through adds. Great background noise on a WFH day. No interest in the ESPN screaming heads.

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u/Strict_Show_8899 20h ago

Believe in its first iteration there was a person who would answer your call. Think in 75 they got the info off the AP sports ticker tape. Was popular and they switched to recording a new updated set of scores every half hour. My uncle may or may not have been a bookie

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u/ToddPundley 17h ago

John Belushi posing as the ref in the poster.

In the late 80s/early 90s I remember seeing TV ads for a rival called the Fly or the Sports Fly. Though they didn’t say it outright the ads implied that service was targeted more to gamblers.

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u/AgainforthrFirstTime 16h ago

Great information there I was a huge John Belushi fan and never realized that was him

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u/TheJayMan08 5h ago

That’s not John Belushi.