Comments on: A-Rod now 10th on all-time HR list

By: j

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:30:37 +0000

sounds good… imagine if ted williams didn’t go to WW2. damn…

By: j

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:29:49 +0000

lol i meant 800. sorry folks.

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:23:07 +0000

900 is alot dude

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:51:36 +0000

On a less controversial note, Jeter will pass Jim O’Rourke, Lave Cross, and Jimmie Foxx for career hits shortly after the break (if not in the next game). Even Ted Williams is only 11 hits away. He’ll be # 68 after passing Williams.

By: Salty Buggah

Salty Buggah — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:31:59 +0000

you never know when he started but yea they were still good, as were A-rod’s

By: dkidd

dkidd — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:25:49 +0000

his pre-steroid stats are outrageous

hall of famer by 1998

By: Salty Buggah

Salty Buggah — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:24:36 +0000

I put him at 789

By: Dela G

Dela G — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:22:03 +0000

waay under

i put him at 749

i know thats short of aaron

By: V

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:11:02 +0000

Josh Hamilton says hi.

Bonds was an excellent hitter.

But he wasn’t an OBP > .500 hitter. Managers being pussies made him an OBP > .500 hitter.

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:06:20 +0000

WHAT IF WHAT IF WHAT IF WHAT IF SHUT THE FUDGE UP and compare the players to the others that where alive and working at the same time.

If this is the approach we should take, why should we care that A-Rod is in the top 10 all time for HRs, or that he is about to pass Killebrew? Since players should only be compared to those in the same era, all all-time records are basically irrelevant.

By this logic, we should have paid no notice whatsoever to Bonds passing Mays and Aaron, let alone a real old-timer like Ruth.

I am intrigued by this approach. And I applaud A-Rod for climbing to #5 or so in the career HRs in his own time list.