#FORG1V3: A-Rod's Suspension is Over
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A lot of folks consider that good news. He's sitting on 654 HR's now, so even at 15 / year he won't crack 700. Again, good news. I'm interested to see what he has left in the tank and if he's even a 20 HR guy at this point.Papelbon's Poutine said:
If he's a 20HR guy for the next 3 years, it's going to pretty damn tight for #715.
I wonder if he ends his last season at #712 or something, whether someone will sign him and give him the chance to break it. It'd be a chance for one of the smaller teams to fill their stadium because it's certain to be full, but there might be lots of bad publicity before that.
I wonder if he ends his last season at #712 or something, whether someone will sign him and give him the chance to break it. It'd be a chance for one of the smaller teams to fill their stadium because it's certain to be full, but there might be lots of bad publicity before that.
3rd,actually,but your point stands.Rudy Pemberton said:
Edit to add: unless you're not counting Bonds, which occurred to me right after I posted.
The point is it triggers contract escalators, so it's pretty damn significant for this steroid user.Rudy Pemberton said:
Rudy Pemberton said:
I doubt it. No one picked up Bonds when he was about 70 hits from 3000, less than 70 runs scored from Henderson's all time record, 4 RBI's from 2000, 14 games from 3000 played and on and on.
He hit about .280, 28HR's and led the ML in walks and OBP that last season. They wanted him out.
Not because of Ruth, because of A-roid. If he never hit another HR again that would be fine with me. Hell, if he never gets another hit that would be fine too.Papelbon's Poutine said:
Awesome. Glad he's back.
The Yankees/Red Sox have been oddly calm as of late, and with Jeter gone, there's really no ties to the old rivalry.
The Yankees/Red Sox have been oddly calm as of late, and with Jeter gone, there's really no ties to the old rivalry.
I was on my way here to post a similar pic in response to Brandon, but you beat me to it. His larger point stands though; the ol' rivalry ain't what it used to be. A non-baseball-fan friend asked me the other day what the biggest rivalry in the sport is and I hesitated before answering. Kind of sad in a strange way.snowmanny said:
Oh you probably mean Yankee ties. I'm leaving the pic anyway.
That's actually what I told him, but I live in Giant country, so I doubt I'm being objective. Cubs-Cards has great history, but little current vitality. What else is there? Yankees-Mets? Cubs-White Sox? Dodgers-D'backs? (!) Sox-Rays? I think Dodgers-Giants tops them all right now.InsideTheParker said:
Numbers? The percent delta between an average Army or Harvard or Navy or Yale game vs an Army-Navy game or Harvard-Yale game is, at least historically, much, much larger than between an average Auburn or Bama game and an Auburn-Alabama game. Like, by orders of magnitude.snowmanny said:
I haven't looked at the numbers recently, but as of a couple of years ago Army-Navy was by far the biggest rivalry in college football.
Who's winning can impact how big a rivalry is in the long term, but the Army Navy ratings still show very clearly that that game draws a tremendous amount of viewers compared to either team in a vacuum. It's numerically, not just in name, a huge, huge rivalry. Bama-Auburn draws more viewers, but not compared to the ratings of the teams in other games-it's bigger because the teams are generally more popular, not because of the rivalry in particular. The Army Navy game's viewership is driven by that particular rivalry in a way that no other game outside of Harvard Yale comes close to approaching.
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