ESPN announces top 10 all time HRs (ZOMG DRUMROLL!!!1!!!)

[MicroBob]

Anyone who doesn't think Fisk's HR belongs near the top of the list should just stop watching baseball.

And there's absolutely no way that Aaron Boone's HR should be higher on the list than Fisk's.

[MyTurn2Raise]

sweet....MicroBob is getting as aggravated as me

the interent is serious business

[Dids]

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Anyone who doesn't think Fisk's HR belongs near the top of the list should just stop watching baseball.

And there's absolutely no way that Aaron Boone's HR should be higher on the list than Fisk's.

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Fisk's homerun only has the status is does because the media's been wacking off to it for years. Boone's homerun really is more "important".

[gusmahler]

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Anyone who doesn't think Fisk's HR belongs near the top of the list should just stop watching baseball.

And there's absolutely no way that Aaron Boone's HR should be higher on the list than Fisk's.

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Fisk's homerun only has the status is does because the media's been wacking off to it for years. Boone's homerun really is more "important".

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In the grand scheme of the team aspect of baseball, Aaron's 715th (an April game) and Bonds's 756th (a game featuring a last place team) were not important because, by a certain point in time, it was inevitable that each would break the record. (And are either any more important than Ruth's 139th?)

(Career records are different from single season records because single season records have a time limit--even late in the season, it was possible that Maris wouldn't hit #61, McGwire wouldn't hit #62, or Bonds wouldn't hit #71.)

[MikeyPatriot]

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Fisk's homerun only has the status is does because the media's been wacking off to it for years. Boone's homerun really is more "important".

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Then why isn't Scott Podsednik's HR on the list?

[Sooga]

Meh. I'm not interested unless they spend the next couple of weeks debating about which homer is the most now.

[MicroBob]

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Anyone who doesn't think Fisk's HR belongs near the top of the list should just stop watching baseball.

And there's absolutely no way that Aaron Boone's HR should be higher on the list than Fisk's.

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Fisk's homerun only has the status is does because the media's been wacking off to it for years. Boone's homerun really is more "important".

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In the grand scheme of the team aspect of baseball, Aaron's 715th (an April game) and Bonds's 756th (a game featuring a last place team) were not important because, by a certain point in time, it was inevitable that each would break the record. (And are either any more important than Ruth's 139th?)

(Career records are different from single season records because single season records have a time limit--even late in the season, it was possible that Maris wouldn't hit #61, McGwire wouldn't hit #62, or Bonds wouldn't hit #71.)

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exactly.

arguing that Boone's home-run was 'more important' because it led directly to the World Series whereas Fisk's HR was somehow 'not as important' because they didn't even win the World Series isn't relevent imo.

We're talking 'biggest' HR's.

Aaron's 135th HR was just as important as his 715th technically. He wouldn't have gotten to the record when he did without either one of them.

By the 'more important' criteria then Bonds's and Aaron's and Maris' hallmark home-runs were all slightly less 'important'.

It's 'Top 10 All-Time HR's' I believe and I don't think 'important' has as much to do with it.

Reggie Jackson's huge shot in the All-Star game is one of the top HR's of all-time. Maybe not top 10 but certainly in almost anyone's Top 25 or Top 50.
And it came in an exhibition game where the winner didn't even really matter. But it was legendary and happened on national TV thus it becomes one of the "Top" HR's of all-time.

By the criteria that the Fisk HR should somehow be considered less important then maybe the Bobby Thomson HR should be lower on the list as well.
Afterall, his homerun only won the NL pennant for NY.
The Giants didn't even win the World Series that year for crying-out loud.
So that HR must really just be more about the hype and less about the importance too I guess.

I mean, there actually have been home-runs that actually won the World Series or kept a team alive in the World Series to eventually win it. Mazeroski, Carter and Puckett to name the biggies.

But Thomson's just won the league pennant only for them to lose the World Series so I guess it is somehow less big. [/sarcasm]