Who's Your Single Season HR King?
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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.
Totally clean, unless you include medical wacky sauce. -
@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.
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@mubby_33_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
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.
Very well put agree 100 percent
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@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
My created player, Matt Stairs, hit 287 HR's in RTTS in one season.
Totally clean, unless you include medical wacky sauce.My CAP hit close to 300 one year, but this was back in 19 or 20 and the HRs used to reset back to 1 once you hit over 255 HRs. I vaguely remember something from a computer science class about the number 256 and somehow it related to binary or something. I don't remember. But I do remember hitting #256 and checking my stats and seeing I had a grand total of 1 HR. It also dragged my WAR way down, too, because I had just magically lost 255 homers.
EDIT: But my CAP was absolutely on steroids.
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Need to stop calling them steroids.
none of those guys took steroids, the dangers of taking them including all the cancers they led to were well known by then they avoided them for that reason.
It was forms of growth hormones and testosterone that they were taking.
Ironically that stuff they took to avoid the cancer causing [censored] have since been discovered to lead to various cancers and immune disorders too. -
@mubby_33_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
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.
Look up Pud Galvin. Dude was using monkey testosterone. Also a few years ago maybe 10 years people were using ground up deer antler to hide PED
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@Boneman05_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
@mubby_33_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
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.
Look up Pud Galvin. Dude was using monkey testosterone. Also a few years ago maybe 10 years people were using ground up deer antler to hide PED
This us what I am saying, people will do anything to get an edge, even if it does not work.
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@BalsamicArrow88 said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
Barry Bonds is not the home run king. Plain and simple.
Yes he is! I hated Bonds with a passion, but the owners were in on it!! All the owners were in on it cuz the turnstiles were spinning after a horrific work stoppage. Bonds is the best hitter there ever was plain and simple!!
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@dbarmonstar_PSN said in Who's Your Single Season HR King?:
@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.
Amen sir!!! I’ve been saying this for years!! Thank you!!
