subway series, everyone batting .300, still immaculate pitching (pedro, roger, randy)...closers were awesome...more personality without being narcissistic a**holes. such a better time overall
People always wanna talk shit about the roids era, but it was one of the most exciting years in baseball. Even Brady Anderson a player who never hit 30 hrs in a seasons hit exactly 50 in one season back in 96', good times
Great upload. Every hrd should be online. I watched this live as a kid and I do not remember him putting one into the upper deck in left-center field. I remember the really really far one that he hits later, but that first one oh my God. I've never seen anyone come anywhere even remotely close to the upper deck especially in left-center field. It would be interesting to see what statcast would say as far as distance. They say 496 but back then they were usually way way off on their estimates. This is why I miss steroid baseball I don't care what anybody says it was so much more entertaining
@@dontrellmayfieldjr2868 if you look at Bonds stats in 01, the 73 homers isn't whats all that crazy lol. Bonds had 476 AB, out of them at bats, he had 156 hits he almost had a 50% chance of taking you yard, now heres the really crazy stat, so the big bombers Sosa, Big Mac, Griffy Jr, Thome, ect, ect.. their norm is about 80 to 90 walks, Bonds had 177 walks he had more walks then hits if he would have been walked like the rest of them he would have been closer to around 90 home runs give or take a few. you could easily argue Bonds is the GOAT! think hes the only person to be walked consistently with bases loaded they would rather give up a run then risk him swingin that bat..
@@Stadt101 Imagine if Bonds never get walked a lot...he would have hit over 90 HRs or more over McCovey Cove easily.... about the GOAT talk? you're absolutely right... Barry Bonds is always been dominant over 2 decades as the best player. If Barry Bonds never got blackballed... even though never got injured in 2005 he would have hit over 800 or more home runs instead of 762. Including 2000 RBIs and 3000 hits.
@@dontrellmayfieldjr2868 oh for sure he would have that man was an insane hitter his tracking ability for pitches was on another lvl, theres a story that a pitcher during batting practice put a different number on 10 different balls and 7 out of 10 Bonds was correct on the number on that ball. thats just insane to be able to see a number on a ball moving at 70 mph it is batting practice so they aren't going all out but the ball is still spinning and moving he could see and tell you what number it was.
Shame he didnt get traded to the Yankees during the 2000 season. Imagine Sosa hitting blasts as a Yankee player in Yankee Stadium for a winning team (Cubs stunk in 2000)
I've never seen ANYONE give up home runs like that. I've never seen anyone else come close to the upper deck there. Ever. Just shows how awesome steroids made baseball
Thinking back, maybe Andres Galarraga got close to that second deck when he was with the Braves. Nothing in my head sticks out though. The one he hit at Wrigley in the 98 NLDS was the longest one I remember when he was with the Braves.
@@jonmolina948 - The longest one Sammy hit in this Derby was his last one, but the video cut off just before the end. He hit it to the left of the 755 Club about half way up the upper deck.
Back when Baseball was actually baseball and not a pitch clock, no more shifting players, limited pick offs, limited calling time at the plate, player starting at 2nd base the 10th inning on, etc.
Even the Home Run Derbies are getting insane! Well with that rule change though, with the timer, can't really compare. But the recent ones they do get tired a ton faster.......
@@Trafala32 oiga el mejor pelotero con mas fama y mas talento que ha habido en el beisball se le paso a baybi rull y porque a Mcgwire no le hicieron nada
@@fellosantana9535 Como puertorriqueño hay muchos que no los soportan pues es debido a la migración ilegal en Yola a la isla. Si son excelentes en el béisbol pero te falta historia que en la MLB todo empieza con el 21 en ser tan bueno y luego con el mejor receptor de todos los tiempos Ivan Rodríguez, después de eso lo que ves son A+ en el baseball.
Sammyyyyy Corrrkaaa i mean Soosaaaa 🤣🤣. still he was a killer those years hitting 60some home runs consecutive years. what i don't really like is that he change is skin color to white, Lord have Mercy.
Look at this beautiful ballpark...that they needed to destroy less than 20 years later. I wonder if ownership ponied up the money to do it... Nope, they used backroom handshakes to ensure taxpayers would foot the bill so wealthy ownership could sit back and relax.
they ALL have been on one thing or another...get over it. from uppers in the 20's, 30's, 40's to Popping pills & coke in the 70's&80's. , steroids in the 90's, HGH in the 2000's, to all the new stuff today
@@christianvera7631 THANK YOU. Roids have even been used in America for the positive effects dating back to the 1910s... They just didn't have the dietary knowledge back then so they also had guts... They were using speed in the 60s-80s in addition to PEDs. Even today, the list prohibits certain PEDs but not all.
Not to mention....before Steroids Amphetamines was a part of it as well around 1970's how the MLB never mentioned that conversation... there's one of those players using that before steroids came along. ..
