Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.
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Best Players:
Bonds
Ryan
ARodBest Games:
2001 World Series Game 1
18 inning marathon Red Sox vs. Rangers 2001
Vlad hitting for the Cycle
The Aaron Nola/Jon Gray Super Regional game -
I have a better one for you. I skipped school and went to this game with some friends. I was a junior in high school. I sat right near McGwire all game long. He struggled and even missed an easy pop fly right in front of us. I heckled him all game. Then he did this, and stared at us after he did it. It was empty in the stadium that day. He heard everything we said and I’ll never forget him staring us down after he hit this. I’ve always told this story to people but never looked anything up about it. Well I just found it.
Check out the links
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SapNzqQTcac
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25349436/mark-mcgwires-roof-clearing-home-run/
Also saw a car get broken into after the game. Haha. We were kids. So we just watched it.
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Game 4 nlcs Rockies clinch to go to the world series. I’ve been to game 7 at the staples center, national champ games but this was the greatest sporting event I’ve ever been to
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Saw Griffey in 1997 play the Jays at Skydome.
Best pitcher, Halladay a few times, or Clemens during his insanely dominant Blue Jay years
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Yankees vs. Indians had to be like 99 or 2000 season.. Gooden vs Orel on the mound.. 4 to 3 final score. THOME hit 2 run HR off Mariano in top of the 9th.. It was the loudest ball I ever heard off the bat.. so awesome
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Oh, I saw that moron Brett Lawrie try to steal home with Jose at the plate. I'll never forget it, because, just why?
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@maskedgrappler said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:
Oh, I saw that moron Brett Lawrie try to steal home with Jose at the plate. I'll never forget it, because, just why?
Bless Brett Lawrie's soul.. such a moron
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@scotphil75 said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:
Yankees vs. Indians had to be like 99 or 2000 season.. Gooden vs Orel on the mound.. 4 to 3 final score. THOME hit 2 run HR off Mariano in top of the 9th.. It was the loudest ball I ever heard off the bat.. so awesome
97 possibly? That Indians team was amazing.
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Best game I had ever been to because it was Timmy, they swept the Doggers and it coincided with my first wedding anniversary trip out west for the first time (I’m east coast). I also got to go ride around the field on the cart with Lou Seal in between innings (my wife paid God knows what for that experience). And they ended up that season winning the WS!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN201206270.shtml
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Gee whiz, I'm old:
Bo Jackson
George Brett
Wade Boggs
Ken Griffey Jr.
Dion Sanders
Ozzie Smith
Albert Pujols
Mark McGuire
Donte Bichette
Sammy SosaFavorite to talk to:
Edgar Renteria and Magglio OrdonezFavorite game in person:
August 7, 2005. Cardinals Vs. Braves. David Eckstein hit a walk off grand slam to win it, on my birthday.
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I was in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium in the 90's. Saw Carlos Baerga hit two home runs, one from the left the other from the right side of the plate.... In the same inning!!!
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As much as I hate his guts, statistically speaking, the answer is Barry Bonds, both as a Pirate and a Giant.
Ignoring Bonds, I would say Ken Griffey Jr., but by the time he got to Cincinnati, he was a shell of his former self. I may have to go with Tony Gwynn, at least in the early 90s he was still great. Saw Glavine and Smoltz, but never got to see Maddux or the big unit live.
Best game I went to, well most memorable, I was at the brawl between the Reds and Cardinals, where Molina and Phillips had words at the plate right in the bottom of the first, Cueto kicked LaRue I believe. Quite a nasty site as bad as anything I have ever seen at a hockey game.
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I was at the 1995 single game playoff between the Angels and Mariners. Mark Langston vs Randy Johnson. What a game.
Luis Sojo cleared the bases to break it open with a double that went under the benches in the bullpen in foul territory.
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My story is actually forum related...I’m a huge dodger fan and have seen any decent dodger play since the early nineties. But, last year I was reading a post on this forum about mike trout and Mickey mantle on a Sunday morning. There was some debate about who’s better and what not...
And I though, shoot, Mickey mantle plays down from the street from me and I’ve never seen him play. So, I grabbed my five year old and said we’re going to see mike trout.
The tickets literally cost 5 dollars a piece and I’m his first at bat trout hits the ball over the center field wall. He also hit a double later in the game. From this experience, I now have two regrets
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it was against the rangers and i really wanted to see gallo hit a bomb.
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now my son’s favorite team is the angels. It was calendar day at the park and he won’t let me throw away the calendar. He only one left saving is my two year old daughter.
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@nflman2033 said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:
As much as I hate his guys, statistically speaking, the answer is Barry Bonds, both as a Pirate and a Giant.
Ignoring Bonds, I would say Ken Griffey Jr., but by the time he got to Cincinnati, he was a shell of his former self. I may have to go with Tony Gwynn, at least in the early 90s he was still great. Saw Glavine and Smoltz, but never got to see Maddux or the big unit live.
Best game I went to, well most memorable, I was at the brawl between the Reds and Cardinals, where Molina and Phillips had words at the plate right in the bottom of the first, Cueto kicked LaRue I believe. Quite a nasty site as bad as anything I have ever seen at a hockey game.
Shoot. I forgot about Barry. I sat in the right field seats on opening day at dodger stadium one year and the guy must have hit the ball a good 20 rows behind me. It was unbelievable.
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I was at NLDS game 4, it was magical
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I’m not sure exactly what the poll is about from reading the title, so instead I’ll just mention the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen live. 1992 at Candlestick. Bill Swift had come to Giants from the Mariners and he was grinding the NL to powder with his heavy gravity sinker. He was 5-0 already. The filthy Dodgers were in town, with Darryl Strawberry in tow. As an aside, a lot of people forget how much raw talent Straw had before he became a tragic character.
I’m sitting in the right field second deck Outfield loge seats, row 1. We are pretty high in the air. Swift throws a sinker but leaves it high. High sinkers, as everyone knows, lose their break and become bad fastballs.
Straw uncorks his whiplash swing and tunes up the flat sinker. There’s a crack like a rifle shot. Even though we are in second deck, people start standing up because it looks like it might make it up to us.
The ball is behaving oddly. Instead of traveling in an arc, it’s just going up... and up.
And over our heads. Midway up the Third deck. It didn’t even seem real. Straw was so far away he looked like an ant rounding the bases.
Moral of the story:
HIGH SINKERS DONT BREAK SIDEWAYS AND HUMILIATE HITTERS. THEY FLATTEN OUT AND GET SMOKED!(Also saw the giants win two WS games against KC)
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@MathMan5072 said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:
@nflman2033 said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:
As much as I hate his guys, statistically speaking, the answer is Barry Bonds, both as a Pirate and a Giant.
Ignoring Bonds, I would say Ken Griffey Jr., but by the time he got to Cincinnati, he was a shell of his former self. I may have to go with Tony Gwynn, at least in the early 90s he was still great. Saw Glavine and Smoltz, but never got to see Maddux or the big unit live.
Best game I went to, well most memorable, I was at the brawl between the Reds and Cardinals, where Molina and Phillips had words at the plate right in the bottom of the first, Cueto kicked LaRue I believe. Quite a nasty site as bad as anything I have ever seen at a hockey game.
Shoot. I forgot about Barry. I sat in the right field seats on opening day at dodger stadium one year and the guy must have hit the ball a good 20 rows behind me. It was unbelievable.
Such a shame. As much as I dislike him, Barry was great before ever touching a needle. The talent was unquestionable. But the jealousy bug got him, he just couldn’t stand seeing players he considered inferior surpassing him (McGwire). That season where he hit .370 and a ton of home runs was amazing, not for the counting stats but because he walked almost every at bat, rarely swung, but when he did it was “perfect/perfect”. That isn’t just roids.
.370 46 hr 110 rbi. 47 strikeouts. 198 BB!!!
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@Namtrah22 said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:
I mean obviously the best player I’ve seen live is Miguel Cabrera hundreds of time and I’m thankful for that. Best game I’ve been to sitting behind home plate during Armando Galarraga’ Imperfect perfect game. JIM JOYCE BLEW IT. I was in middle school or freshman in high school and wrote a letter to Bud Selig to get him to reverse the call. (He never responded)
I am a die hard cubs fan and when i visited my bro in boston we saw the tigers a few years back and watching miggy just show that effortless power and oppo power was just nuts. Believe he had three extra base hits and two were off the wall in right field.
Will never forget that swing live!
