The Aaron Judge Effect

[packs]

I disagree. He is chasing a record: the AL home run record. His company is Babe Ruth and Roger Maris. That gets my attention.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by packs

I disagree. He is chasing a record: the AL home run record. His company is Babe Ruth and Roger Maris. That gets my attention.

I totally agree with you.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by packs

I disagree. He is chasing a record: the AL home run record. His company is Babe Ruth and Roger Maris. That gets my attention.

Yours......yes, but not the vast majority of people who don't ever think or realize there even is such a record just for the AL. Especially now with interleague play and all, many people don't really think of JUST the AL, or JUST the NL, they think of it as MLB and view the real record as 73.

[BobC]

Not trying to crush or downplay anyone's interests in those pursuing various records. But as one poster noted, he is interested as a SERIOUS fan/collector, and the truth be known (and I know this is going to be tough to swallow for a lot of people on a site like this), the majority of people out there are NOT anywhere as serious about baseball and such records as you all are. It isn't a good or bad thing, just what it is in reality.

Now if MLB had come out and declared that Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa were all definitively guilty of cheating through their alleged use of PEDs, and discredited and disallowed all their homeruns and records, THEN Judge would be going for the legitimate all-time record, AND the interest and excitement might be a lot more like what you were expecting. But MLB didn't do that, did they?