Ruth with over half of the votes!!!slide_into_first wrote:What's really being voted on is, "Who was the biggest slugger when you were 14?"
Greatest Home Run hitter of alltime.
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I'm not that old yet. (that's a Yogi-ism).Socnorb11 wrote:Ruth with over half of the votes!!!slide_into_first wrote:What's really being voted on is, "Who was the biggest slugger when you were 14?"
The question was posed after I listened to a Buster Olney podcast basically asking this question, recognizing that while the record itself is big it's not everything. You can still in your own mind have Hank or Babe or whoever as your number 1, for whatever reasons you want. I was just wondering how many people in their own minds had someone other than the numerical leader first, and it's a huge majority. The fact that Bonds hit 762, and for many that Hank hit 755, doesn't matter. Or doesn't matter enough.
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jim wrote:I will never recognize Bonds.
I don't know, he's pretty famous. I'm sure you'd recognize him.
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If you don't recognize Bonds you can't recognize a lot of guys. That gets you in a tough spot.
If you want to discount Palmeiro, who was never MVPaterial even on a down ballot basis, that's still a slippery slope. Aaron is basically Palmeiro. He was rarely spectacular and outlasted a lot of dudes.
If you want to discount Palmeiro, who was never MVPaterial even on a down ballot basis, that's still a slippery slope. Aaron is basically Palmeiro. He was rarely spectacular and outlasted a lot of dudes.
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It's only a slippery slope if I want to win an argument, which I do not on this subject. I only have to convince myself, which I have done. It's not a tough spot, or a slippery slope. It's easy, my brain is easily moldable by my own thoughts.
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O.k., never mind about Ruth.
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Yeah, well, he wasn't one of the choices.Radbird wrote:pioneer98 wrote:I voted Ruth just because he was so far above everyone in his era. The time before he came around was known as "The Dead Ball Era".
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Josh Gibson is an excellent choice.
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To say that "everyone was taking" whatever drug of choice of whatever era is wrong. We know that A LOT of guys were taking stuff, but not ALL of them were. In fact, this is why MLB has been able to implement all of these new policies - there were enough players who didn't want to have to take drugs to compete with the guys who were that they went along with the new harsher policies. I don't think this changes the discussion much but just wanted to get that out there.
And IMO since we are just talking about HRs...Ruth and Aaron are more impressive to me that they did it in their eras just because they really stood out from their peers. Bonds played in an era when Brady Anderson hit 50 HR in a season.
And IMO since we are just talking about HRs...Ruth and Aaron are more impressive to me that they did it in their eras just because they really stood out from their peers. Bonds played in an era when Brady Anderson hit 50 HR in a season.
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50 sounds like a lot. It really does.pioneer98 wrote:
And IMO since we are just talking about HRs...Ruth and Aaron are more impressive to me that they did it in their eras just because they really stood out from their peers. Bonds played in an era when Brady Anderson hit 50 HR in a season.
Now think about 73. That's 46% more than 50. It's ridiculous to hit 73 home runs, even if someone else (anyone else) is hitting 50.