Comments on: Blogorama – It Sucks to Grow Up Edition

By: Kevin Marshall

Kevin Marshall — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:25:25 +0000

Anytime. Have fun with the painkillers!

But not, you know, too much fun.

By: Will King

Will King — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:18:28 +0000

I would have thanks you earlier for the double shout out on the Blogorama this week, BUT I had my wisdom teeth out this morning.

I now have four less teeth.

Also, thanks for the shoutout! :D

By: Dal

Dal — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:25:01 +0000

-Twelve time all-star
-Record for HR as a rookie with 49 and Rookie of the year
-Four years of 50 or more HR
-11 Years of 30+HR, how many players you think have done that?
McGwire was a guy you pitched around and was a threat most of his career.
-The man is 10th all time in OPS which has become one of the default metrics for measuring offensive output. Mentioning his .260 average is pretty silly as thats a terrible metric for evaluating performance.
-Those that win MVP are rarely the most deserving players though they have been getting better at it in recent years with paying more attention to sabermetrics and placing less value on actual RBI’s and batting average.

Yeah, he was good at one thing -> run production! One of the most effective run producers in baseball history!

Frankly being top 10 or top 100 of anything in baseball is quite impressive given the long history. McGwire falls into the top 10 of quite a few categories including OPS(10), SLUGGING(8), HR(10). If you go to baseball reference and click on just about any offensive stat his name will appear in the top 100.

By: Get Real ©

Get Real © — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:32:56 +0000

It’s all a conspiracy. MLB ratings were hurting. McGwire and Sosa brought them back. But now they’re the black sheep of the MLB?

By: Kevin Marshall

Kevin Marshall — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:32:25 +0000

Dal - No, not being sarcastic at all. He had two ridiculous monster years, and even with those extraordinary numbers from those two years inflating his career stats, there’s many that will say they’re still not Hall-worthy.

He’s a career .260 hitter with no MVPs and no rings on his fingers. He’s 67th in RBIs, 195th in Runs scored, and was ineffective defensively in all but his first five years in the Majors.

Doing one thing well – and over a very short period of time – doesn’t qualify in the minds of many for a player to be Hall of Fame worthy.

To put it in perspective, Roger Maris isn’t in the Hall either. It’s always been an elite club, and McGwire was only an elite player for two seasons, and even that’s arguable since he was really only good at one thing, which didn’t get his team into the playoffs.

McGwire was a good -maybe very good – but not great player.

By: Dal

Dal — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:14:54 +0000

You really think McGwires numbers are underwhelming? Are you being sarcastic? Frankly I think the whole PED thing is overblown. All these sports bloggers and writers acting as if they have such higher morales. There was nothing stopping anyone from doing them, meaning not doing them could cost you your job or money to someone that was. If anyone is at fault here I think its MLB for looking the other way and let it go rampant. Now there is suspicion of anyone who played in that era and put up good numbers. If taking some steroid would net me an extra $50 million contract you better believe I would be doing them as well.

By: JGR

JGR — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:50:21 +0000

Best Dance of the week: http://www.dlisted.com/node/40311