Mlb playoffs / world series thread - Discussion for baseball post-season.

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 08:45 PM

I disagree galt, it is unfair to take someone from today and put him in the past. The athlete was different back then.

Players get bigger, stronger and better with each passing generation. Especially with todays salaries and the money involved, players are treated with more respect than they were back then, their every need is met. Back then they were treated basically as servants to the tycoons of baseball.

That would be as fair as saying that Lennox Lewis at 6' 6" and 250 pounds would knock out Jack Dempsey at 5' 9" and 180 pounds. Even though both men were heavyweight champions. But one is fighting today while the other one fought in ruths era.

The Sleeper · 10-14-2002, 08:47 PM

I think if you transported Bonds into the 1920s, he'd be the king of vaudeville.

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 08:49 PM

Jolson would have killed bonds.

Galt · 10-14-2002, 08:50 PM

Your exact point is why I say that Bonds is better.

Lennox Lewis would break Dempsey's neck with one punch.

Bonds is approximately 1 billion times the athlete that Ruth was for all the reasons you mentioned

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 08:54 PM

I understand but it is unfair to compare the two. Ruth was decades ahead of his time.

If you take ruth from then, and put him in now. With the way the sport itself has evolved in play, money wise, training wise. I say Ruth would be better than bonds. Ruth was not just the best of his era, no one came close.

Sir O · 10-14-2002, 09:00 PM

BEST BASEBALL PLAYER EVAR!!11!

And yeah, that Bonds guy is good, but he's no Babe...

Galt · 10-14-2002, 09:02 PM

I'm gonna have to disagree Sir O. Your dad kinda sucked at baseball.

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 09:03 PM

Sir O said so, it must be true.

Sir O · 10-14-2002, 09:04 PM

Babe Ruth is my dad?

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 09:12 PM

Can I touch you?

Sir O · 10-14-2002, 09:18 PM

Of course!

:loveya:

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 09:19 PM

Dude, I can feel the electricity running through your body.

Galt · 10-14-2002, 09:21 PM

the touching thing has nothing to do with Babe Ruth does it?

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 09:27 PM

Yes it does, sir o has nigger lips and a flat nose.

50 years from now athletes will be 10 feet tall and hit 200 homers a month, they will be half man half cyborgs and 200 million will be a base salary. Yet the Yankees will still be winning world series.

Galt · 10-14-2002, 09:37 PM

I bet they will have big cocks too.

2 tired 2 give N F · 10-14-2002, 09:55 PM

Rusty is my hero!!! :loveya:

GonzoStyle · 10-14-2002, 11:18 PM

Bonds woulda hit a homer off that brush off pitch at crotch level.

PeterDragon · 10-15-2002, 02:33 AM

Quote:Bonds is the greatest black player of all time

probably not even that. Satchel Paige probably would have struck him out 5 days in a row.

You can't compare eras though. Christy Mathewson threw 390 innings in 1908 on way to winning 37 games. The Negro leagues they probably played 400 games a year. they weren't pampered the way they are now.

The Jays · 10-15-2002, 02:38 AM

... sac fly's were considered at-bats back then. and those pitchers threw like every day... in the snow.... up hill.... back and forth.... AND THEY LIKED IT...

GonzoStyle · 10-15-2002, 02:50 AM

Quote:The Negro leagues

They should bring those back.