Who's Your Single Season HR King?
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No one is ever right in this argument. Cheating in baseball has been around since the beginning of the game. Stealing signs, corking bats, pitchers using anything sticky, sandpaper, apple watches, trash cans and drugs. Players, coaches, teams will do anything to get a slight edge over their opponent. Why would they do this? How about the millions of dollars involved. Everyone wants to point out the homerun race for steroids but how many players were using some foreign substance to get an edge years prior to that. MLB basically turned a blind eye to whatever cheating was going on at the time as long as ratings were there. Then when they get exposed, be it the Astros, Bonds or pitchers doctoring balls, they like to step in to look like the good guy when it reality they let it happen and now are being reactive because people got caught. I hate Barry Bonds but MLB let this happen, so even if they want to put an asterisks next to it, unfortunately Bonds is the HR King. It would not surprise me several years down the road if we don't find out that more players in the current era are on some illegal substance that they have found a way to mask it from tests.
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@MadBatter77_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
Roids werent illegal at that time. Amphetamines were always illegal. So Hank Aaron cant get a pass if Bonds doesnt. Just playing devils advocate here.
I've never gotten this rationalization. Steroids were illegal (since 1990) according to the US Federal Govt. The fact that there wasn't an explicit prohibition in MLB seems to be a distinction without a difference.
I doubt there's a specific rule against murder but surely Slugger X would be kicked out of the game if he killed someone.
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@MadBatter77_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
Roids werent illegal at that time. Amphetamines were always illegal. So Hank Aaron cant get a pass if Bonds doesnt. Just playing devils advocate here.
This is a disingenuous argument. They were illegal in US since 1990 for the purpose Bonds, Sosa, etc. were using them. I am not sure that MLB has a rule that prohibits decapitation of an opponent but if the next guy that breaks the record decides that the best chance he has is to lop off an infielders melon as he rounds third no body is going to sit there and say "welp, there is no rule against it. Guess he's the best."
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WHY DOES THIS CONTINUE TO BE A DISCUSSION?
The record is 73. That’s it. Congrats to Aaron for breaking the Yanks and AL record, but Bonds still stands on top.
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@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
I read that the Maris family acknowledged Judge as the "true" single season HR champ.
So who do you prefer?
Now before the Debbie Downers point it out, it's obviously Gigantic Head in the books.
But do you tell your kids the story of how Bonds juiced, practically doubled his muscle mass, somehow went up a few shoe sizes, and ended up with a Pumpkin Head?
I'm with the Maris'. In the Court of Public Opinion, it's going to be Judge.
If anyone can justify that scumbag and the rest of his roid boys as legit, I would love to hear it.Bonds hit the most homeruns in one season. LMAO, you can justify my nuts if that’s not good enough.
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Home Runs a cool
Here is my stance, as a paying consumer of tye game of baseball I want to be entertained by the best game in the world. Players are interchangeable anthey come and go.
I don't care if the juice or not so to me cool Bonds hit 73 awesome oh that's also the record cool oh wait we have changed state tracking to make certain stats mean more now then they did before so that changed the record books to. So you means the numbers have been altered like they are all o steroids interesting
You know what let them juice, I want 600 foot home runs that are hit so hard it risk killing someone in the front row. Records are just numbers for Millionaires to chase
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Judge has probably been injecting non detectable hgh since he was in the womb.
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@BalsamicArrow88 said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
You can’t cheat and be considered the home run king. Could you cheat on your wife and think you should be considered a good husband?
Many women do still consider them good husbands
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@CDNmoneymaker93_MLBTS said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
You know what let them juice, I want 600 foot home runs that are hit so hard it risk killing someone in the front row. Records are just numbers for Millionaires to chase
One of my favorites:
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I don't like what Bonds did, how he handled himself during or after his steroid days, or what he has come to represent. But, even more than that, I dislike creating my own reality and living with my head in the sand because I don't like the way things are. Even though I don't like it, Bonds is the single-season and all-time HR king until someone hits 74 in a season and 763 in a career.
Sorry, we all know how he did it, and we don't have to like it. But while steroids were illegal since like 90 or 91 or something, MLB didn't care and didn't even start testing until mid-2000s or whenever it was. 2007 or something. MLB has made it very clear that they aren't willing to rewrite history regarding statistics and records from cheaters (Bonds, Astros, Altuve), rule-breakers (Rose, all the Black Sox), or people who were cheated (Armando Galarraga). Judge is the single-season AL HR champ, but nothing more. If anyone can hit 74 cleanly, I think he can do it. So the Yanks (or another team, like, I don't know, the White Sox) need to write him a check with a lot of zeroes and he can go break the record for real. Until then, any claim to the contrary is, unfortunately, just sour grapes and revisionist history.
EDIT: Steroids were banned in 1991 and testing began in 2003. Good thing this wasn't for a grade. But I did remember Bonds's HR numbers without looking that up, in case that's good for some extra credit.
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@arvcpa_MLBTS said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
@CDNmoneymaker93_MLBTS said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
You know what let them juice, I want 600 foot home runs that are hit so hard it risk killing someone in the front row. Records are just numbers for Millionaires to chase
One of my favorites:
I 100% want the roid Olympics, Javilyn were the front row is in danger, 100m race done in 5.5 seconds.
I'm here for it
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Don't really care all that much but I will say it was a blast watching Bonds/Soda/McGwire chase that record as a boy in complete ignorance about steroids (what they were, how they helped, and who was taking them). The old adage "ignorance is bliss" comes to mind.
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@kovz88_MLBTS said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
Barry Bonds has the most home runs, period. He was obviously aided but we have no idea how many pitchers he faced that were juicing as well and on top of that the whole holier than thou attitude the league has now is hard to take seriously considering they loved the ratings when those guys were blasting Home Runs. You can’t bring up Bonds/Sosa/McGwire without mentioning the steroids tho.
Excellent points!
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@BANGyourSOUL_XBL said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
I read that the Maris family acknowledged Judge as the "true" single season HR champ.
So who do you prefer?
Now before the Debbie Downers point it out, it's obviously Gigantic Head in the books.
But do you tell your kids the story of how Bonds juiced, practically doubled his muscle mass, somehow went up a few shoe sizes, and ended up with a Pumpkin Head?
I'm with the Maris'. In the Court of Public Opinion, it's going to be Judge.
If anyone can justify that scumbag and the rest of his roid boys as legit, I would love to hear it.Bonds hit the most homeruns in one season. LMAO, you can justify my nuts if that’s not good enough.
A well thought out and valid observation.
You've given us all something to think about. -
My created player, Matt Stairs, hit 287 HR's in RTTS in one season.
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@BalsamicArrow88 said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
You can’t cheat and be considered the home run king. Could you cheat on your wife and think you should be considered a good husband?
Hank Aaron cheated back in the day with "Greenies" as did many others which was an Enhanceement
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@eatyum_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
@BalsamicArrow88 said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
You can’t cheat and be considered the home run king. Could you cheat on your wife and think you should be considered a good husband?
No, no one said he's a good home run king, but in your example he still is her husband, being bad or good doesn't matter in that context.
Bonds juiced when they didn't test for steroids. If we knew the extent a lot of our beloved players went to in order to produce, I think we would be shocked. I mean Babe Ruth injected sheep balls so like...
Baseball turned a blind eye to it, Lots of fans left after the strike, then we got Sosa, McGwire and Bonds, Baseball knew the Commish knew, but the Commish did not back the players turned his back, my opinion that it was good for baseball at that time.
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@brainfreeze442 said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
@bmoo44_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
Bonds, even jacked u still gotta make contact with the ball.
Do you consider greenies cheating?Bonds was a great player, that’s why it’s sad he did what he did. I know you are trying to tell everyone about Hank Aaron taking greenies; however, even if true, they don’t give you more power.
Aaron admitted taking them
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@maurice91932_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
Man, I thought this post was asking us who have we hit the most homeruns with in The Show 22…Probably AS Juan Soto, but only with 30 or so. I change my lineup A LOT. Plus I’m not very good. Haha.
But to answer your question: it’s Bonds, ya weirdos.
I think I have the most with 88 Donaldson I change my lineup alot as well
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I still think Bonds is the home run king, the guy hit home runs off of pitchers who were also taking steroids as well.
