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Posted By: Todd Schultz

Glad to see you finally offered something to support your position on Puckett, however much I disagree with it. First, if you look at you baseball reference.com "comparable players", you'll see that all but one of them played far more seasons than Puckett--most played 17 or 18 seasons. Only Ducky Medwick had more hits, and he played 18 seasons. Cuyler had fewer in 17 years. BTW, however you may want to rely on this little feature of baseballreference.com, I find it interesting to note that they list Indian Bob Johnson and Moises Alou as similar players to Joe Dimaggio. Next time you see Moises roaming the OF next year, post here on the similarities you observe between him and Joey D. Personally, I just don't see it, but if baseballreference.com says it's so, it must be true.

Finally, thanks for the little cheap shot at the '87 Twins and the Metrodome. The dome has been mischaracterized as a "Homer" dome for years--check the numbers if you wish. It is instead built for speed, the kind of venue where a team with Vince Coleman, Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee, Tommy Herr and Terry Pendelton would flourish. Oops, wait, they couldn't win a single game there in four chances, hmmm, how'd that happen? Yeah, I wonder what it would have been like if Puckett had to play in a "normal" stadium, indeed I do.