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Poll: What do you view as the legitimate single season HR record in MLB?


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  1. 1. What do you view as the legitimate single season MLB HR record?

    • Bonds, 73 in 2001
    • Maris, 61 in 1961
    • Ruth, 60 in a 154 game season in 1927 (Ford Frick, is that you?)
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you can't tell me that babe ruth would've taken anything if he was told it would give him an advantage. that guy did anything he wanted and destroyed his body. same with mantle.

 

remember ruth was the first guy busting HRs in large numbers...so was he gifted or juiced?

 

we'll never know it, but we automatically give his numbers a pass.

Why don't people complain about the cokeheads of the 70's and 80's?

 

 

 

Flashback to the late 1970's and '80's. Cocaine has gone mainstream, and people are off the rails. Some of these people just happen to be professional baseball players.

In the famous "Pittsburgh Seven" trials of 1985, multiple MLB players testified to cocaine and drug usage before a grand jury. Big time players such as Vida Blue, Willie Mays, Willie Stargell, and Tim Raines were all supposedly connected. Raines even declared that he would sometimes slide into first base to make sure his vial of cocaine didn't break in his back pocket. Former 5-time All-Star and MVP Keith Hernandez even threw up the claim -– under oath -- that 40%, yes 40% of MLB players were using cocaine at the time.

 

https://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/16/mlbs-history-of-substance-abuse-cocaine-steroids-and-adderal/20978868/

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Here's the thing about modern players and juicing. How do we know players of older eras, Maris, Mantle, Babe Ruth, etc....weren't 'juiced' on something as well? There wasn't any testing or oversight so they could have taken anything and gotten away with it.

 

It's very simple for me...you judge the players by the rules that were in effect at the time they played. Don't blame the players if the league was lax about their rules and testing. You only go to prison if you break a law. If there's no law, then it's legal. The End.

 

Agreed

 

I am not saying that I agree ( or disagree ), however, here's a discussion about the possibility of Maris having used steroids during that historic season ..

 

Some players from that era - Willie Mays included - have admitted to using amphetamines .. Now, I realize that amphetamines are different from steroids, however, steroids were used in cases of injury ...

 

Who is to say that Maris - or dozens of other players from that era - did not experiment or were not used a guinea pigs ??

 

The fact that Maris developed lymphoma at age 48 and died at 51 could be taken as an unfortunate turn from steroid use

 

http://www.baseballforum.com/dugout/58503-roger-maris-used-steriods.html

 

 

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Here's the thing about modern players and juicing. How do we know players of older eras, Maris, Mantle, Babe Ruth, etc....weren't 'juiced' on something as well? There wasn't any testing or oversight so they could have taken anything and gotten away with it.

 

It's very simple for me...you judge the players by the rules that were in effect at the time they played. Don't blame the players if the league was lax about their rules and testing. You only go to prison if you break a law. If there's no law, then it's legal. The End.

 

Agreed

 

I am not saying that I agree ( or disagree ), however, here's a discussion about the possibility of Maris having used steroids during that historic season ..

 

Some players from that era - Willie Mays included - have admitted to using amphetamines .. Now, I realize that amphetamines are different from steroids, however, steroids were used in cases of injury ...

 

Who is to say that Maris - or dozens of other players from that era - did not experiment or were not used a guinea pigs ??

 

The fact that Maris developed lymphoma at age 48 and died at 51 could be taken as an unfortunate turn from steroid use

 

http://www.baseballf...d-steriods.html

That's an interesting read.
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Bonds is so much of an asshole.

That we can agree on. But there's lots of assholes in the HOF...Ty Cobb for example. Edited by HemiBeers
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Bonds is so much of an asshole.

That we can agree on.

I always thought that hurt Bonds, more than other athletes. He was such a jerk with the press. Combined that with his entitled pedigree, and Bonds was easy to dislike.
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Speaking of balls.....

 

watching PTI and they're talking about the balls being juiced.

 

so are we going to start splitting hairs about the balls being juiced during certain eras?

I call BS. They never talk about baseball on ESPN. Or did Lebron or Lavar Ball comment about it?

Hmmm I must have been imagining seeing them discuss juiced baseballs on PTI as I typed that. Silly me.
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Bonds is so much of an asshole.

That we can agree on.

I always thought that hurt Bonds, more than other athletes. He was such a jerk with the press. Combined that with his entitled pedigree, and Bonds was easy to dislike.

next poll: who is the bigger baseball douchebag: bonds or arod?

 

Hell you could have 20 possible answers.

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Bonds is so much of an asshole.

That we can agree on.

I always thought that hurt Bonds, more than other athletes. He was such a jerk with the press. Combined that with his entitled pedigree, and Bonds was easy to dislike.

next poll: who is the bigger baseball douchebag: bonds or arod?

 

Hell you could have 20 possible answers.

Arod. At least Bonds was straight forward about being an asshole. That I can respect.
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I honestly couldn't give two sh*ts who has the record anymore and this is coming from the biggest baseball fan ever back in the day. Having said that at least McGuire was hitting a bunch of home runs from his rookie year on. I do realize he had some large leaps in production during parts of his career but nothing like Anderson, Sosa etc. Ruth's 60 in 154 can stand as far as I'm concerned...
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