Posted on 09/28/2022 7:26:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nice to see someone not on ‘roids do that.
He will be the home run king, breaking Maris’ record.
He’s having an amazing year. He has 61 homers. Next closest has 40 something.
Aaron Judge was not vaccinated as of March, but I guess at some point he was.
He’s also a class act.
He’s also got a very good shot at the Triple Crown — the league championships in batting average, homeruns, and RBIs. He’s got comfortable leads in the latter two, but a narrow lead (one point going into tonight) in batting average. If he pulls it off, he’ll be the first player in history to hit 60+ homers and win the Triple Crown in the same year.
I remember an incident in which there was a pileup of feuding ballplayers. While Detroit Tiger Miguel Cabrera was pinned , the Yankee Aaron Judge repeatedly took cheap shot punches at his body. Shown on camera.
I will never forgive him.
He is as much thug as any other street bum in that city.
Arrogrant, self-confident, selfish, immoral.
And next season when teams are not allowed to use extreme defensive shifts his average will probably be 30 or 40 points higher.
The ALL-TIME king. Bonds, Sosa and McGwire's "records" should be expunged.
Perhaps he’s been damaged less by the injection than other players, because he got it later than them. Perhaps he wasn’t injected.
Is it easier to hit home runs in the National League for some reason?
I was nine years old when my dad took me to Yankee Stadium on October 1, 1961. My fondest memory.
Smallball leads to more HRs?
He “seems” like a decent guy.
He is going to be a rich guy next season.
I actually haven’t watched any baseball this season, but isn’t he still in contention for the Triple Crown?
Yes.
This is why I say Judge has tied Maris’ MLB record, not the AL record.
Yeah, he is. I pay only passing attention. When the teams bowed to the Rainbow Mafia I lost interest.
Good guy. Well deserved. I’m happy to have witnessed this game on my tv tonight.
I’ve been a Yankee fan since their devastating WS loss to the Pirates in 1960.
I remember that game cuz our first grade teacher had rolled the TV into the classroom and I was probably the only Yankee fan in the classroom. I was sad.
Mickey has always been my hero to this day.
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Steroids don’t improve bat speed or hand-eye coordination. The primary thing they do is keep players with nagging injuries off of the disabled list - Bonds missed almost the entire 2005 season after he apparently stopped taking them. Steroid use thus has some effect on longevity-based all-time records, but it isn’t like Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa were taking a magic pill that made them hit home run balls farther - which is what the casual fan has been led to believe by the typically hysterical media coverage at the time.
That said, congratulations to Judge - who just pulled off a very difficult accomplishment.
It is impossible to take “cheap shot punches” at someone who threw the first punch. Judge had his teammates back. I just watched the brawl and Cabrera had more of an a$$ whoopin coming than he got.
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