So speaking of HRs ...

[Elster88]

On the other hand, maybe not. As a youth I personally hit about a thousand game winners in Game 7 of the World Series down 3 with 2 out and the bases loaded in my backyard.

[Guest Edgy DC]

As much as they want to eke importance from Bonds' homer, they're forcing it in there, aren't they?

[Willets Point]

Ditto for Maris #61 which is included but not Mcgwire #62 or even Ruth #60.

[seawolf17]

Ruth's 60th wasn't anything... do you know anything about it? I don't. Maris you remember, because he overtook a legendary figure and an unbreakable record.

The tough part about Bonds' HR is that there's no distance from it to really see where it fits. It's obviously enormously historic, but also wildly anticlimactic... so was it "important"? Only time is going to tell that. You could make a case that McGwire's 62nd was more important than Bonds' 756th.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think Maris's homer was special and dramatic. Ruth was a myth, and breaking his record in the 1961 --- while in part a product of circumstance and an extended season --- is Jack outfixing the giant, Perseus slaying the Gorgon, Alladin stealing the lamp, all that shit.

It's easy enough to look at the advantage of the extra eight games and compare that to McGwire's and Bonds's pharmaceutical advantage, but the reason folks were against Maris was that they didn't want a Myth to die. The reason they were against Bonds was that they didn't want a moral line further blurred. Both were childish wishes, but I think distinct from each other also.

[nymr83]

Rick Ankiel with 2 more homers a double and 7 RBI tonight, what a story this guy has been!

[Willets Point]

Nymr83 wrote: Rick Ankiel with 2 more homers a double and 7 RBI tonight, what a story this guy has been!

But if the Cardinals get in the playoffs he'll probably start swinging wildly at pitches way out of the strike zone.

[DocTee]

WP with the post of the week-- funny stuff.