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On ESPN+ (via Hulu) Is freaking great. I am a huge Big Mac fan (since his days as a Bash Brother), and this show made me love Sammy Sosa too.

 

yeah, they were juicing. Don’t even care. They saved baseball.

 

I hope they do one about Bonds’  73 HR season. Maybe they can rehabilitate Bonds image somewhat.

 

(98 was a hell of a year with Ricky winning the Heisman)

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  • lilMAC25 changed the title to 30 for 30 “Long Gone Summer” (98 season HR chase)
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6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

All of them should be in the HOF.

 

Amen. 
 

looking back, what Bonds did in 2000-2005 was absolutely insane. Words really can’t describe it.

 

 

put a giant asterisk on their accomplishments, I don’t care… they deserve HOF status.

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You CANNOT tell the story of baseball without the Home Run Chase of 98.

 

Bud Selig and the rest of baseball’s “ruling class” knew (hundreds of) these guys were using PEDS. There was no question.

That was such a fun time. Baseball dominated all talk at dinner, family get togethers, freaking everything. It makes me miss my grandpa thinking about it 

This came out in 2020.  How did you get through Covid without watching it?

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

This came out in 2020.  How did you get through Covid without watching it?

Working 80-90 hr weeks trying to keep people on ECMO alive, i guess. 
 

built a house and lost my dad since then. Was bored of Tacoma FD (FARVAAAAAA) last night and found this on Hulu.

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17 hours ago, lilMAC25 said:

Maybe they can rehabilitate Bonds image somewhat.

Bonds has been all over social media lately. Clips/stories/stats. I think younger generations don't really have a problem with him and are fairly enamored with how good he was.

The most recent fun stat I heard was that you could go 2/5 with a homer and a single every single game of the season and wind up shy of Bonds' 2004 OPS.

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45 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Bonds has been all over social media lately. Clips/stories/stats. I think younger generations don't really have a problem with him and are fairly enamored with how good he was.

The most recent fun stat I heard was that you could go 2/5 with a homer and a single every single game of the season and wind up shy of Bonds' 2004 OPS.

That’s bonkers

That math only works if every game is one single, 1 home run, no walks, and 5 abs.  That would be 1.400 OPS.  Mix in some doubles and walks- especially walks since they take ABs away and those are the denominator for both stats that make up OPS. 

3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

That math only works if every game is one single, 1 home run, no walks, and 5 abs.  That would be 1.400 OPS.  Mix in some doubles and walks- especially walks since they take ABs away and those are the denominator for both stats that make up OPS. 

I mean - I get how the math works. Obviously it isn't realistic. 

Think about it this way: you could post 162 homers and 324 hits in one season and not match his OPS.

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Or you could walk or hbp in your only PA and have an infinite obp which means an infinite ops.  

Think Tim Robinson GIF by NETFLIX

image.jpeg.225a3eb6352f31cce98d837df2b10b84.jpegI remember reading Lupica's book about Mac and Sammy's chase of Maris my freshman year(2000). Such a great time to be a baseball fan.

42 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Think Tim Robinson GIF by NETFLIX

Must have been fed bad info from the internet or stopped reading too soon. Thought it was only at bats as the divisor, meaning a walk would be 1/0.  I’ll take that L. 
 

 

On 8/9/2025 at 2:27 PM, Zepol87 said:

 Baseball dominated all talk at dinner, family get togethers, freaking everything.

I remember being on vacation that summer with my parents and us checking the news each day for HR updates. 

I was in middle school during this. They resurrected baseball after the strike and had people following the game who normally didn't. Such a fun time. Put them all in the HOF. They deserve it just on talent alone but even further than that, what they did for the game.

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