Posted on 09/07/2022 9:42:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I run one of the original, Daniel Okrent fantasy baseball leagues that we started in 1988. Daniel Okrent named it Rotisserie baseball after the Rotisserie Restaurant in New York, where he penciled the first rules that became known as fantasy sports.
Over the years, we learned how to spot baseball players who were on steroids. Their batting average leaped by as much as 80 points, and the power increase was obvious.
We believe that McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds took high doses of steroids when they passed Babe Ruth's 60–home run record. Roger Maris obviously did not take steroids, but his season was 162 games. The Babe hit 60 in 154 games, and that record may be the most iconic in all of sports. It has stood for 95 years.
When Mantle and Maris were chasing the Babe's record, every home run was news every day. Ruth's iconic record is about to be broken, and no one is noticing.
It appeared rather obvious to us that Aaron Judge was not on steroids since Giancarlo Stanton proudly announced that he had not taken steroids and told his teammates not to use them. Judge's numbers and common injuries indicated that he was clean. His batting average began rather low but has improved steadily, no big leap. He just hit his 54th home run in 134 games.
Wake up, sportswriters.
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Ummmm....Mike Judge?
All things...I know nothing about. Have not watched T.V. in many, many years.
and the “documentary” office space
I always viewed that Aaron record as a little suspect, given how the Braves kept moving in the left-field fence at Fulton County Stadium in the years before he broke it.
Babe Ruth cannot argue he’s the greatest baseball player of all time. He’s dead.
Baseball is unwatchable to me. I even change sports radio when they start talking about it lol.
REALLY, thanks for telling me, I had no idea.
NO steroids? That’s what we all thought about Sosa, Bonds, McGwire, et al.
Better be 100% sure about that.
1) Judge plays on Little League Fields, Yes Ruth had a short 285’ RF porch but Yankee Stadium in the 1920’s was still 460’ in gaps and 490’ straight away Center. Not to mention the other large stadiums around the league Ruth had to contend with.
"Iconic" can be a bit vague in this case. But if he means "most unattainable", then it's an incorrect statement. The iconic record that will never be broken is Dimaggio's 56-game hitting streak. A couple of guys got into the 40s before the semi-intentional walks began to make a mess of their streaks.
And even if that scurrilous scheme didn't occur, hitting 56 games in a row is dicey at best. You've got to have incredible bat control to even approach 56. Most guys today don't even recognize the concept of bat control.
Between the political nonsense and all the rule changes, I gave up on watching baseball. It’s not the same game. And I used to have the TV tuned to a game a lot.
Another fun fact.
There was no foul pole until 1932, so even on balls over the fence where it landed counted if it was foul or fair. So those hook shots that wrap around the Pesky Poles would have been called foul back in Ruth’s day.
It is guestimated Ruth would have had about 75-100 more career home runs if he had a fould pole like today.
Also there were no ground rule doubles either, a ball bouncing over the fence was also a homerun but fences were so high back in the day Ruth never hit a ground rule homerun, and Gehrig only hit one in his career.
I think Nicklaus's 18 majors will never be broken, especially given the way the PGA is screwing up everything lately. All the good players will go LIV soon.
Ditto
You make a good point; I hadn’t thought about that.
Very interesting. That is the year that I lost all interest in baseball and never looked back
Yep.
You must be really old.
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