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30 years after breaking Pirate fans' hearts, the story behind 'the slide' and why Bream is still talking about it

I ask Steve Blass if he was on the call for game seven of the 1992 National League Championship Series.

He responds the way most Pirate fans would: "The Sid Bream game."

Blass left the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium radio booth in the ninth inning on Oct. 14, 1992 so he could be ready in the clubhouse for postgame interviews when the Pirates won and clinched a trip to the World Series. Plastic was set up to cover every locker in the visitor's locker room.The series MVP trophy was set to go to Tim Wakefield.