Posted on 05/25/2023 7:19:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They’re only about 10 block apart so once I was done at the Ruth birth house & museum, I had planned to go to the Edgar Allen Poe museum, but there were several detours for road construction en route and I got lost.
So I stopped at a bus stop to ask directions from some locals. Without thinking of the alternate interpretation of my words, I asked them “Can you tell me how to get to the Poe house?”
They answered in words I’m not supposed to repeat in this forum and flicked cigarette butts at me, so I beat a hasty retreat and scratched “the Poe house” off my itinerary.
Player OPS
Babe Ruth 1.164
Barry Bonds 1.128
Hank Aaron .928
The Yankees today have 5 starting pitchers who have started at least 5 games this season. Their opponents' OPS against them is as follows:
Gerrit Cole: .683
Luis Severino: .667
Nestor Cortes: .645
Jordan Montgomery: .700
Clarke Schmidt: .727
hehehe... that is funny...
glad you were safe...
Babe Ruth power came from eating hot dogs and drinking whiskey.
He was a great pitcher as well.
Hank Aaron was a great ballplayer who hit 755 home runs.
Barry Bonds hit 762 and used steroids so should not count.
Imagine if Ruth only cut down on the smoking, the drinking, and the sex....especially between the innings.
“Barry Bonds hit 762 and used steroids so should not count.”
I know about the steroids but always liked to watch Bonds at bat, with all the plastic armor he wore, he looked like some kind of medieval knight.
You gonna tell me that if you'd been in his shoes (and pants) that you'd have refrained from living the high life?
That reminds me of the scene in the Lee Marvin/Clint Eastwood film, "Paint You Wagon." Marvin brings a teenaged Mormon boy home after his first experience at a brothel. When the boy produces a bottle of whiskey from his coat pocket, his father starts in on him for the drinking. The boy (fresh from a cathouse) replies, "... until you've had a good cigar and whisky, you're missing the second and third the best things in life." The first best thing being, ... well, ... you know.
I went to game a where the Giants played the Marlins. Marlins manager Jack McKeon intentionally walked Bonds on his first three at bats...with nobody on base! After the game he was unapologetic, saying he wasn't going to let Bonds have any chance to beat him.
If I recall, the Giants did lose. :)
Anybody who can eat hot dogs and smoke cigars in the dugout in between smacking home run after home run on the field has my respect.
Think of “Babe Ruth”
And you think of hot dogs and beer
But if he can hit a home run, so can you!
Babe Ruth was fortunate to have Lou Gehrigs pickled eels.
Folks deride him for the juicing.
But it was his eyes and his hand speed that hit 762. Strength had little to do with it.
He was the greatest player in the game.
Another one who does not get deserved credit is Alex Rodriguez. In the winter between his first rookie appearance and his rookie year, in Peoria AZ I saw him hit a line drive 20-25ft off the ground...over the dead center field wall at 415ft. It hit the berm on the other side, bounced up and went another 60+ ft in the air, across the street and hit a pick-up parked in front of the condos.
Hardest hit ball I ever saw. And I saw Maguire hit a Randy Johnson fastball into the 3rd deck of the King Dome.
The entire stadium was stunned and dumbfounded.
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