Judge’s 62nd hR Different Perspective

[D. Bergin]

Personally, I'm not going to be impressed until somebody hits 80 HR's with a wiffle ball bat, while blind-folded with their back facing the pitcher in the batters box.

.....and they have to get it done by the All-Star break.

It's what the Babe would have done in the modern pansy ass game we call "baseball".

[steve B]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Personally, I'm not going to be impressed until somebody hits 80 HR's with a wiffle ball bat, while blind-folded with their back facing the pitcher in the batters box.

.....and they have to get it done by the All-Star break.

It's what the Babe would have done in the modern pansy ass game we call "baseball".

If the Red Sox had signed Kingman that one time.... you might have seen at least part of that.

[packs]

There is no asterisk next to Maris's record. It was removed in 1991.

[bammerbb]

Yes, the asterisk was removed. I think all of you are whining because it's the Yankees. Maris did not lengthen the season, no on did except baseball officials. I believe it is home runs in a season, no matter how many games are in a season. And it's funny, I never heard this kind of crap about Sosa and McGwire and Bonds about the length of the season as I have with Maris and Judge. If all this would get rid of steroids, things would be much better.

[cardsagain74]

Maris did have a ton more pressure, but he was also doing nothing in '61 until the most feared hitter of the prior decade was protecting him in the order.

Various sides for the argument for both him and Judge. Each obviously had their amazing year, and there's no clear answer to which was "better"

[bcookie]

my opinion that no one asked for:

There is no such thing as an AL or NL record. When Maris hit 61, was it in the records book AL record? No, it was MLB record.

Judge did nothing more than hit 62 home runs in the 2022 season.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by bcookie

my opinion that no one asked for:

There is no such thing as an AL or NL record. When Maris hit 61, was it in the records book AL record? No, it was MLB record.

Judge did nothing more than hit 62 home runs in the 2022 season.

One can say they don’t care about it or it shouldn’t matter, but to say there is no such thing is false. They’ve been recognized for many decades.

Hack Wilson was listed for many years in many published resources as the NL holder. League records have been around since before 1961.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by G1911

One can say they don’t care about it or it shouldn’t matter, but to say there is no such thing is false.

What if I don't care AND it shouldn't matter?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by raulus

What if I don't care AND it shouldn't matter?

Oh dear, this is serious. If we don’t care about pedantries of comparisons and baseball history, what else are we going to do?!

[Fred]

As people say - records are made to be broken. What's statistically interesting is that a Yankee has held the AL record for HRs in a season for almost 100 years. No, I'm not a Yankee fan, in fact most of the time I'll be rooting for the other team when the Yankees (and Dodgers) are playing.

If someone was going to do it for the Yankees, I'm happy it was Judge in his walk year. It's going to be really interesting to see how the negotiations go. I'm happy it wasn't A-rod as a Yankee that passed Maris. That would have just sucked for Yankee purists. Kind of like when Maris that passed Ruth and not Mantle, but in this case, Maris was a class act, like Judge.

Heck, the person to pass Judge could be Judge himself or maybe that player hasn't been born yet.

Records are made to be broken and when they're like this record, it's fun to watch it play out.

[Snowman]

Zero chance that ball sells for $3M, in my opinion. I'll be shocked if it eclipses $2.1, but hype has a way of infecting people, so who knows.

[abothebear]

What’s the big deal about an asterisk? It just something that alerts you to notable information. 150 year long record books ought to be littered with them. The thing really doesn’t make much sense without asterisks (or the equivalent). Most of the arguments and counter arguments on this thread are asterisks (some more helpful than others. None of them remove the record from the books or make it less real. If someone wants to celebrate the asterisk next to Maris that says his feat was special because of the unusual animosity from his own team’s fans, that makes sense. Likewise for those that want to stress the number of games each hit their significant home runs in, or whether or not the player played against an integrated league that includes the best pitchers, or my favorite asterisk, Yankee stadium is a joke for homers.

Asterisk on, my friends.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by abothebear

… or my favorite asterisk, Yankee stadium is a joke for homers.

Asterisk on, my friends.

Not if you’re a right handed hitter. Check Judge’s splits.