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1. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: December 05, 2012 at 10:52 AM (#4317493)The 154-game unasterisked home run record?
You just can't escape it. Sammy was an Xbox avatar.
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I kind of liked that. It had a bit of child-like joy in it, like he's trying to will it to get "up".
It reminded me of Carlton Fisk's famous home run.
As asking Kirby now would be rather fruitless, I'd settle for pointed questions to Carlton Fisk who, as a well known weightlifting fanatic many years after the introduction of steroids to competitive athletics, had a career high (and nearly league leading) 37 homers, 42% over his previous best, at age 37. And I'd hate to point out that Typoid Mary LaRussa was his manager.
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I was surprised how few players there were in the 2000/2000/2000 club.
Bobby Abreu needs 181K to make the list, and Jeter is 257K away.
There isn't anyone else active that has broken 1500 for all three (G/H/K).
It should be noted that the 40 HR season (1996) was in 124 games (and the previous years 36 was in 144 games). Not that you are going after Sosa, but I don't think his jump is quite as unanticipated as the bare numbers suggest.
That's just the 2000 strikeout club, minus Adam Dunn, who has 1422 hits in 1721 games. Gives me a new appreciation for Dunn's career.
True. He was on pace to lead the league with 52 HR when Mark Hutton -- whose control that day made playoff Rick Ankiel look like Greg Maddux: 5 batters faced, 4 BB, 1 HBP -- broke a bone in his right hand with a wayward fastball. Oddly enough, at least by WAR, Sosa was also on pace for a better overall season than 1998 or any other year of his career besides 2001.
It will forever be remembered as the biggest mistake of George W. Bush's life.
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It also seems like he was unfairly judged when he went in front of Congress and had an interpreter by his side. The fact remains that his primary language is Spanish and if he was going before a group of individuals who could ultimately charge him with perjury if answered a question by mistaken its translation then I don't blame him. He is not a scholar in any language by any stretch. But to critize him for using an interpreter to defend himself when he was appearing before Congress because of his suspected PED use is wrong.
Personally, I don't think any PED's users should be allowed to go in the Hall. Like someone on MLB network said, they traded money for the hall and should never be allowed in the HOF.
that's just bullsh*t talk. c'mon. NO they didn't - that's as silly as Robert Johnson making a deal with the devil.
Not to mention the true master of the Heart Punch, Ox Baker.
I didn't know many people who weren't having fun rooting for Sammy and the Cubs from 1996-2003, and I'm pretty sure most of the people claiming they weren't are lying to make themselves feel morally or aesthetically superior.
Because it has been brought up here so many times (that the 40 HR was in an injury-shortened season), I was actually surprised to see the mistake brought up here.
Plus he killed Ed Exley's father.
Only? That's tied for the 11th highest total ever (well, since they started counting them). Take out Bonds and that's tied for the 5th highest total. Other than Bonds, the record is "only" 45 (McCovey). The top 10 all-time is 6 Bonds seasons, 2 McCovey seasons and 2 Pujols seasons.
My buddies and I used to go to Wrigley annually from NY/NJ starting in 1986.
RF bleachers were best with the elegant Dawson on hand.
But Sosa brought such a new vibe by engaging the fans so much. Good times.
Met a local in '96 on one of these trips, we got married out there in late Sept 1998. McGwire/Sosa counts dominating the city every day. What a time.
I don't know about Sammy, but that joke is going to the Hall.
Those 2 kind of go hand in hand. Every IBB is one fewer attempt at a TB.
Rk Player OPS+ WAR/pos PA From To1 Babe Ruth 207 47.6 3134 1924 1928 H
2 Lou Gehrig 186 41.7 3477 1932 1936 H
3 Mark McGwire 184 19.1 1906 1993 1997
4 Mickey Mantle 183 25.0 2363 1961 1965 H
5 Ted Williams 179 28.8 2471 1948 1952 H
6 Barry Bonds 178 38.6 3171 1994 1998
7 Rogers Hornsby 178 43.3 3227 1925 1929 H
8 Willie McCovey 177 28.3 2810 1967 1971 H
9 Ty Cobb 177 33.7 2822 1916 1920 H
10 Honus Wagner 175 43.3 2915 1903 1907 H
11 Johnny Mize 172 12.0 1051 1942 1946 H
12 Frank Robinson 171 27.5 3068 1965 1969 H
13 Stan Musial 170 37.7 3404 1950 1954 H
14 Lip Pike 170 11.3 1287 1874 1878
15 Jason Giambi 167 27.3 3036 2000 2004
'16 Sammy Sosa 167 31.9 3516 1998 2002'
17 Mike Schmidt 166 37.5 3061 1979 1983 H
18 Willie Mays 166 48.7 3370 1960 1964 H
19 Dan Brouthers 166 26.3 2918 1887 1891 H
20 Willie Stargell 165 25.7 2907 1969 1973 H
21 Albert Pujols 163 26.4 2721 2009 2012
Yes, of course Sammy Sosa belongs in the Hall of Fame.
Whereas Palmeiro was touting the benefits of Viagra. Point to Sosa.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Looking back, I wonder if the passion for gold jewelry shared by Sammy Sosa and your average Greek male had anything to do with it.
I'm right there with you. Fantastic player who is probably the one who first made me love baseball.
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