THE REAL ALL-TIME HOME RUN RECORD?! Stephen A. weighs in on Aaron Judge’s No. 62 ⚾️ | First Take

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  • On First Take, Stephen A. Smith talks through Aaron Judge setting the new American League single-season record after belting his 62nd homer of the season.
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  • @bboo88
    @bboo88 Год назад +113

    Kudos to the Rangers for actually pitching to him to give him a chance to break the record.

  • @dylanhayre1967
    @dylanhayre1967 Год назад +146

    Chris Russo: Barry Bonds is not the HR king
    Also Chris Russo: The 2017 Astros should keep their title

    • @Shiny101
      @Shiny101 Год назад +3

      I don't understand what your point is at all

    • @elawson1991
      @elawson1991 Год назад +40

      @@Shiny101 if you're going to say Bonds cheated the game and his record shouldn't count then the same goes for the Astros

    • @darkvader4755
      @darkvader4755 Год назад +29

      @@Shiny101 His point is both of them cheated but Mad dog is only letting one of them reap the benefits..

    • @word183rd2
      @word183rd2 Год назад

      @@Shiny101 are u dumb or slow

    • @soruyo210
      @soruyo210 Год назад +5

      @@Shiny101 you must be an Astros fan

  • @jsmith5442
    @jsmith5442 Год назад +28

    If Major League Baseball didn't want Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa to lead in the HR record list, they could've done something about it. They watched the money roll in and decided to do nothing about it. Like it or not, 73 is the record. Blame Major League Baseball for that.

    • @HardenJID
      @HardenJID Год назад +1

      You think no one’s taking nothing now?

    • @jsmith5442
      @jsmith5442 Год назад

      @@HardenJID Maybe they are. I don't know. I just know that if there are dirty players out there, it's the league's job to sniff them out.

    • @Shiny101
      @Shiny101 Год назад

      Okay moron then why didn't they let them in the HOF? 😂🤡

    • @arthurau9231
      @arthurau9231 Год назад +4

      Listen, if we are going to open Pandora’s Box and start discounting records then damit let’s stop picking & choosing which ones we are going to count and which ones we aren’t. If Bonds record doesn’t count then let’s start removing known cheaters like Phil Neikro. Let’s start removing anything from the 70’s & 80’s when guys were on amphetamines which are performance enhancers. Let’s remove any references to the 1951 Giants who did the Astros thing almost 70 years before them. Then there’s the cru de gras, let’s remove every MLB record before 1947 which includes Williams .400 & DiMaggio’s hitting streak.
      Here’s the simple fact, Bonds has the most home runs, PERIOD. However if people are going to discount it I’m fine with it as long as you also discount EVERYTHING else where records were set by dubious means.

    • @jsmith5442
      @jsmith5442 Год назад

      @@arthurau9231 Yep. And that's the problem people run into trying to preach on sanctity of baseball. It's history is full of corruption and cheating. You can go back to Babe Ruth's records and nitpick that he did all of it in a segregated league against other white people.

  • @yyyremix
    @yyyremix Год назад +48

    Stephen A : I'm from Queens, Queens is in the building!
    Also Stephen A: I'm a diehard New York Yankees fan

    • @PyroMiniYak
      @PyroMiniYak Год назад +1

      RIGHT??!!! God idk how you can be from Queens and be a Yankee fan. I like the Yankees and wish them success but Mets first always

    • @JustAwesomee
      @JustAwesomee Год назад +1

      @@PyroMiniYak because the Mets are garbage. Who wants to cheer for a trash team?

    • @atreus4277
      @atreus4277 Год назад +6

      @@PyroMiniYak Uh probably because he grew up watching the Yankees dominate and the Mets suck.

    • @jackiepage6120
      @jackiepage6120 Год назад +1

      It’s because he’s not really a baseball fan.

    • @PyroMiniYak
      @PyroMiniYak Год назад

      @@atreus4277 so did I but if you’re a queens native why not root for the team in your borough? I might be bias because I live only a 15 minute walk from cities field but still.

  • @GraphicN
    @GraphicN Год назад +123

    Stephen A smith knows as much about baseball as I do about sportscasting

    • @jordancarrier191
      @jordancarrier191 Год назад +2

      What did he say that makes you think this?

    • @GraphicN
      @GraphicN Год назад +20

      @@jordancarrier191 I’m just getting top comment homie

    • @dougiesherwin9591
      @dougiesherwin9591 Год назад

      So you know nothing? LOL but you're right. Smith is a moron.

    • @dom12011
      @dom12011 Год назад +1

      @@GraphicN 😂😂😂😂

    • @Ok-bv2kk
      @Ok-bv2kk Год назад +2

      @@jordancarrier191 he doesn’t know baseball or boxing

  • @brianrommel7110
    @brianrommel7110 Год назад +16

    I remember watching Jeters 3000th hit when I was very young. It was incredible and I will never forget it. I also saw Mariano Rivera tie the save record in Toronto in person when I was very young and it was also incredible. My brother was younger than me and he fell asleep at the game when Rivera tied the save record lol. Those two moments, however were unforgettable and so is this one, especially because I remember judges first career homerun

    • @yarapah
      @yarapah Год назад +1

      I remember the last time I saw Mo pitch in 2013 at Yankee Stadium and it felt like every time you saw him pitch he set a record

    • @rayjameson937
      @rayjameson937 Год назад

      Yeah i remember that day too braodie.. it was the baby bombers, back to back by tyler austin and aaron judge… i think he was batting 7th at that time.!

    • @KingRey036
      @KingRey036 Год назад

      I’m reading this thinking what do you mean very young that was a couple years ago what are you like 12. Then I looked it up and realized both events happened over a decade ago

    • @ksx580
      @ksx580 Год назад

      if you were that young then you didnt watch them in their prime, what a shame

    • @HynoDesignsvIII
      @HynoDesignsvIII Год назад

      In order to play in Toronto in 2022 you must be fully injected and boosted. People like me were banned from places like NYC for refusing the Jim Jones Juice. Nobody really cares about the woke MLB, I kind of hope they go out of business.

  • @DadBot-_-
    @DadBot-_- Год назад +6

    Lmaoo mad dog got me rollin 😂🤣

  • @pedrada06
    @pedrada06 Год назад +1

    I agree 100%

  • @andybiz4273
    @andybiz4273 Год назад +64

    Bonds and McGuire may have brought a lot of interest into MLB with their home runs, but you can't take away that they did it the wrong way, and MLB let them do it. Congrats to Judge!

    • @SamuelClemente7718
      @SamuelClemente7718 Год назад +8

      So how you feel about Tom Brady who was caught cheating 3 times!

    • @80schild48
      @80schild48 Год назад

      And bonds wasn’t banned like McGwire… Hummm wonder why

    • @itshiho
      @itshiho Год назад +7

      All the records before were set before segregation so those weren't done the right way either.

    • @SamuelClemente7718
      @SamuelClemente7718 Год назад +2

      @@itshiho there were Jim crow laws in baseball???

    • @augustaborn9034
      @augustaborn9034 Год назад +1

      @@SamuelClemente7718 I hate Brady for that reason. Can't stand a player who feels the need to cheat. Bonds, Sosa, McGuire...F all 3 of them.
      Congrats to Judge. As a Braves fan, the Yankees need to make him the highest paid player in baseball...period. I've always liked him...great player

  • @mjwsecondable
    @mjwsecondable Год назад +8

    Josh Gibson is still telling everyone to have several seats...that is the Home Run King then and now

  • @KevinMichael2018
    @KevinMichael2018 Год назад +27

    Stephan A we all want a World Series. This is history! We gotta celebrate judge with #62

    • @crini413
      @crini413 Год назад

      Yeah dude only like 9 left! He's almost there!

    • @langleyh8243
      @langleyh8243 Год назад +3

      @@crini413 He just broke the AL record lmao. Learn some baseball bro.

  • @demetriusbrown6229
    @demetriusbrown6229 Год назад +1

    Love the weekly mad dog segment

  • @RobertBalto
    @RobertBalto Год назад +2

    I'm not really understanding Stephen A's points in favour of Bonds. Yeah, Bonds hit 49, 46 and 42 home runs before he cheated. Mark McGwire hit 49, 42 and 39 (and maybe 52 depending on when the cheating began). But we know neither of them were breaking any records without PEDs. They had an established pattern of performance that didn't include 50 home runs, let alone 70. And Barry Bonds was angry because he was way better than Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, so what? So were Ken Griffey, Frank Thomas, Chipper Jones, Tony Gwynn and a lot of other ball players who still didn't feel the need to cheat. So, congratulations Aaron Judge, you are the new single season home run champion. And congratulations Hank Aaron, you are still the all-time home run champion.

  • @jonathanoscategui2678
    @jonathanoscategui2678 Год назад +37

    Aaron Judge set the All Time American league record in home runs with 62 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
    That's the First and Final Take.
    Good day

    • @Fernando-fr5cu
      @Fernando-fr5cu Год назад +2

      It's the all time record period! 62! All rise!

    • @JV-NY987
      @JV-NY987 Год назад +4

      @@Fernando-fr5cu its not

    • @JV-NY987
      @JV-NY987 Год назад

      Lets win the WS now....

    • @SuperWhofan1
      @SuperWhofan1 Год назад

      @@JV-NY987 Yes it is.

    • @amms0716
      @amms0716 Год назад +3

      @@SuperWhofan1 not according to Major League Baseball

  • @chuuuchify
    @chuuuchify Год назад +5

    Barry is the KING!!! You still have to hit the ball reguardless of what he so call took.

    • @multimidnight13
      @multimidnight13 Год назад +2

      His hit average would still be the same with or without roids. But his home runs would not be that high of a number. And you can tell as easily as telling McGuire that bonds was on roids. Stop being in denial.

    • @kozmeetorez
      @kozmeetorez Год назад

      It gives you more power, simple.

    • @chuuuchify
      @chuuuchify Год назад

      I get that but it was a GANG of players on roids & were still terrible so how does one explain that???

    • @multimidnight13
      @multimidnight13 Год назад +1

      @@chuuuchify roids affect your batting average by a small amount. They drastically affect your home runs and increases your speed through the bases. If your average sucked before roids, it won't improve that much after taking roids. In the end bonds used roids just like everyone else did, and therefore cheated, like everyone else on roids. Simple as that, and those other good players on roids aren't in the hall of fame either. The reason why bonds is talked about more is because of the records he set, he can blame him self for being too good on roids lol.

    • @chuuuchify
      @chuuuchify Год назад

      @@multimidnight13 😆

  • @williamrubinstein3442
    @williamrubinstein3442 Год назад +4

    Ruth hit 60 in a 154 game schedule. If he had had an extra 8 games like Maris etc. he might hace hit 3 or 4 more.

  • @KiddiesKiddies
    @KiddiesKiddies Год назад +1

    "So, there you go"😂

  • @KingGeeKay
    @KingGeeKay Год назад

    Mad Dog reminds me soooo much of Skip! His beliefs are his beliefs and he stands on that!

  • @trendsports3136
    @trendsports3136 Год назад +2

    I can't believe Stephen a makes sense 🤣

  • @phillipsmith3077
    @phillipsmith3077 Год назад +7

    Stephen A Smith proves once again that basketball is the ONLY lane he should be driving in. My goodness, he brings up 40 home run seasons as if that justifies his position.. When it only proves the other.. Hitting more than 20 home runs better than your best ever... at a period when your body/career should be in decline PROVES the point.

  • @jamesgallagher7059
    @jamesgallagher7059 4 месяца назад

    Stephen A's argument defending Bonds..."those guys got rich robbing a bank, that makes it okay for me to do it too!"

  • @dom2760
    @dom2760 Год назад +1

    nice seeing them talk about MLB and i don't even follow it until the Red Sox are in the playoffs lol

  • @aaronshapiro9828
    @aaronshapiro9828 Год назад +1

    If Stephen A is a fan of the Yankees I know he's gonna be hating on them. Just like his Steelers

  • @boris2997
    @boris2997 Год назад +12

    Aron Judge is the new home run King 🤴

  • @eddieroche8176
    @eddieroche8176 Год назад +9

    Judge himself said he isn’t the Home Run King, so that’s the end of it imo

  • @39830000
    @39830000 Год назад +23

    I hate how the down play McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds now. When they knew they were taking steroids the media was eating up making money off it. Cold World!

    • @HardenJID
      @HardenJID Год назад +5

      Wait you think they are clean now?

    • @joseborjon1045
      @joseborjon1045 Год назад +1

      You said it bro, cold world that’s why I love Barry he always treated the media like the scum they are

    • @39830000
      @39830000 Год назад

      @@HardenJID lol no. I’m saying when they were on the roids it was the biggest thing to talk about.

    • @nautgamingnautgaming9949
      @nautgamingnautgaming9949 Год назад

      @@HardenJID I think judges hands are clean until proven otherwise therefore we celebrate that record

    • @alexmotts
      @alexmotts Год назад +1

      I agree. They allowed it. They cant pretend it didnt happen. No renigging. As far as im concerned bonds mcguire and sosa all have more. I dont wanna hear no BS about purist BS. They were watching when that era happened too. You made your bed now lay in it. You dont get to just pretend it didnt happen. Deal with it MLB. Take accountability.

  • @SFGUNNER
    @SFGUNNER Год назад +4

    SF native and BONDS fan of course. Even though he's the same as Sammy and Big Mac - but HOF before '99... With that, those 3 including Judge and Pujlos still have to make contact and hit it over the fences. Bonds and Judge are HR Kings for their leagues and Barry Bonds is MLB GOAT.
    Otherwise Bud Selig HOF needs to be ripped from the wall and MLB should gives us our money back or make baseball free to attend for the next season.

  • @steveod2
    @steveod2 Год назад +8

    Holy double standard batman! if your out on Mcgwire and Sosa then double down with Bonds as well

  • @DamanLane1017
    @DamanLane1017 Год назад +1

    They need to take about baseball more on first take

  • @pnutbutrncrackers
    @pnutbutrncrackers Год назад

    Stephen A. bringing it W-E-A-K!

  • @stacystoltz8722
    @stacystoltz8722 Год назад +1

    Baseball good
    Happy inthe
    Usa
    Funny
    Good love you

  • @JDilla2285
    @JDilla2285 Год назад

    AMEN STEPHEN A SMITH. BONDS IS THE GOAT. PERIOD!!!! Everything Stephe A said waa spot on. We celebrated Mcguire and Sosa post 94 shutdown to celebrate 97 - 2001 to only critique and criticize em. Bonds is the true HR king. He is and will always be the best player of all time because there will be no other player like him EVER!!! Judge is THE AL HR KING. Mcguire, Sosa and Bonds should go in HOF by default because they saved baseball. This coming from a HUGE griffey jr fan

  • @jetoneshuford5182
    @jetoneshuford5182 Год назад +1

    I support bonds.. and I never agree with mad dog. But on this topic I agree with him %100 percen... 62 is the record

    • @arthurau9231
      @arthurau9231 Год назад +1

      Listen, if we are going to open Pandora’s Box and start discounting records then damit let’s stop picking & choosing which ones we are going to count and which ones we aren’t. If Bonds record doesn’t count then let’s start removing known cheaters like Phil Neikro. Let’s start removing anything from the 70’s & 80’s when guys were on amphetamines which are performance enhancers. Let’s remove any references to the 1951 Giants who did the Astros thing almost 70 years before them. Then there’s the cru de gras, let’s remove every MLB record before 1947 which includes Williams .400 & DiMaggio’s hitting streak.
      Here’s the simple fact, Bonds has the most home runs, PERIOD. However if people are going to discount it I’m fine with it as long as you also discount EVERYTHING else where records were set by dubious means.

    • @jetoneshuford5182
      @jetoneshuford5182 Год назад

      You have made some valid points. Hard to argue with your stance..

  • @JackRabbit-us9uk
    @JackRabbit-us9uk Год назад +9

    Fact (not opinion): the Official MLB Record Book lists 73 for Barry Bonds in 2001 with no asterisk (*) and there are no plans on vacating that statistic.
    Bonds never tested positive; never suspended

    • @Shiny101
      @Shiny101 Год назад +1

      Fact (not opinion): The Yankees trigger you so you'll never acknowledge Judge.

    • @philthompson7318
      @philthompson7318 Год назад +4

      Let's not be naive Bonds, Mcguire and Sosa were dirty they all did steroids

    • @NodeLedge
      @NodeLedge Год назад +3

      Bonds holds the record. it is what it is but lets be real too. He did use steroids and only got to 73 because of it.

    • @arthurau9231
      @arthurau9231 Год назад +1

      @@NodeLedge Listen, if we are going to open Pandora’s Box and start discounting records then damit let’s stop picking & choosing which ones we are going to count and which ones we aren’t. If Bonds record doesn’t count then let’s start removing known cheaters like Phil Neikro. Let’s start removing anything from the 70’s & 80’s when guys were on amphetamines which are performance enhancers. Let’s remove any references to the 1951 Giants who did the Astros thing almost 70 years before them. Then there’s the cru de gras, let’s remove every MLB record before 1947 which includes Williams .400 & DiMaggio’s hitting streak.
      Here’s the simple fact, Bonds has the most home runs, PERIOD. However if people are going to discount it I’m fine with it as long as you also discount EVERYTHING else where records were set by dubious means.

    • @kobeisthegoat332
      @kobeisthegoat332 Год назад

      @@NodeLedge he didn’t DID HE GET CAUGHT???

  • @high-defRJ
    @high-defRJ Год назад +1

    Let's talk more baseball and 😮and who knows, hockey might actually make it into the topic!

  • @kenyattaclay7666
    @kenyattaclay7666 Год назад +21

    Listen, if we are going to open Pandora’s Box and start discounting records then damit let’s stop picking & choosing which ones we are going to count and which ones we aren’t. If Bonds record doesn’t count then let’s start removing known cheaters like Phil Neikro. Let’s start removing anything from the 70’s & 80’s when guys were on amphetamines which are performance enhancers. Let’s remove any references to the 1951 Giants who did the Astros thing almost 70 years before them. Then there’s the cru de gras, let’s remove every MLB record before 1947 which includes Williams .400 & DiMaggio’s hitting streak.
    Here’s the simple fact, Bonds has the most home runs, PERIOD. However if people are going to discount it I’m fine with it as long as you also discount EVERYTHING else where records were set by dubious means.

    • @mordsythe
      @mordsythe Год назад

      Cheaters = YOU OUTTA HERE.
      Simple as.
      No discussion needed.
      Caught using steroids.
      No records for you.

    • @poocrayon4588
      @poocrayon4588 Год назад +2

      Nah just Bonds, Mcguire and Sosa. Stop making lame excuses - the fact they hit those home runs all the same time tells the truth

    • @crini413
      @crini413 Год назад

      @@poocrayon4588 nah you wrong. Just take the L

    • @nhu6791
      @nhu6791 Год назад

      They cheated (if there’s proof) , then they should regards as cheaters. You just can’t defense the indefensibles.

    • @kenyattaclay7666
      @kenyattaclay7666 Год назад

      @@nhu6791 okay cool. Then you also cannot count records of everyone I said. It’s been proven that players in the 70’s & 80’s were using amphetamines. Guys have talked about how there was a bowl of them in the middle of the locker room & they would pop them like Pez candy. Phil Niekro is in video throwing a fingernail file out of his pocket yet he’s in the HOF. There are whole documentaries on how the Giants used the EXACT same sign stealing method as the Astros back in 1951 yet we celebrate them.
      Lastly, the fact that MLB was segregated before 1947 means that all record’s including Williams .400 & DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak are tainted then because he didn’t have to face the best of the best solely for the reason that they didn’t allow black players.
      My point is if you are going to discredit Binds then fine, but you cannot pick & chose who you are going to discredit. You have to also discredit everything.

  • @stephonaugustin1384
    @stephonaugustin1384 Год назад +5

    Bruh what SAS is talking about?

  • @bobjones289
    @bobjones289 Год назад +2

    Facts judge is the single season king.

    • @arthurau9231
      @arthurau9231 Год назад

      Listen, if we are going to open Pandora’s Box and start discounting records then damit let’s stop picking & choosing which ones we are going to count and which ones we aren’t. If Bonds record doesn’t count then let’s start removing known cheaters like Phil Neikro. Let’s start removing anything from the 70’s & 80’s when guys were on amphetamines which are performance enhancers. Let’s remove any references to the 1951 Giants who did the Astros thing almost 70 years before them. Then there’s the cru de gras, let’s remove every MLB record before 1947 which includes Williams .400 & DiMaggio’s hitting streak.
      Here’s the simple fact, Bonds has the most home runs, PERIOD. However if people are going to discount it I’m fine with it as long as you also discount EVERYTHING else where records were set by dubious means.

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 2 месяца назад

      No he’s not and he never will

  • @stereo-type1510
    @stereo-type1510 Год назад

    for once I agree with SAS....I'm really happy for Judge and so glad I was able to witness it but I need that Chip....

    • @robertarodecker2558
      @robertarodecker2558 Год назад

      Didn't the Yankees win enough world series. They still have the most. Yankee fans are spoiled. Still remember what meter said. If we don't win a world series. Its a loading season. Like I said their all spoiled.. Like their royalty. Smh

    • @robertarodecker2558
      @robertarodecker2558 Год назад

      Correction jeter

  • @KMM210
    @KMM210 Год назад +1

    No, it’s Bonds but let Judge have his own greatness.

  • @josejose2100
    @josejose2100 Год назад +14

    Wonder what Stephen A’s take would be if McGwire had the 73 instead of bonds.

    • @JohnS-gf4sz
      @JohnS-gf4sz Год назад +2

      You really need to wonder?

    • @jgs1703
      @jgs1703 Год назад

      Stephen a smith is deeply racist and disturbing.

    • @kmoney362
      @kmoney362 Год назад

      Well McGwire admitted. Bonds was never found guilty (from what I can see online)

    • @itzsombra10
      @itzsombra10 Год назад

      @@kmoney362 he admitted it tho

    • @jacob45415
      @jacob45415 Год назад

      Bc Stephen a is a racist everyone knows it

  • @kevincannon9564
    @kevincannon9564 Год назад +3

    Yankees pitching coach is why they won this year

  • @MJSPARTAN117
    @MJSPARTAN117 Год назад +1

    Bonds is the record holder.

  • @ramonmendoza1738
    @ramonmendoza1738 Год назад

    Fresno state stand up… let’s go Aaron Judge

  • @wonderemporium6094
    @wonderemporium6094 Год назад

    Barry never was pinched. Never tested positive. Never once admitted he did roids. 73 is the record, and I love the Yankees.

  • @h61625
    @h61625 Год назад +1

    both guys should be ashamed of themselves this is about judge and what he did stop being up past players at this time and let judge have his moment

  • @dantheman8152
    @dantheman8152 Год назад

    Baseball topic wow

  • @christidavis6182
    @christidavis6182 Год назад +1

    ESPN First Take

  • @AbogadodelaVerdad
    @AbogadodelaVerdad Год назад

    MLB on ESPN and First Take. Good.

  • @Jovaniel
    @Jovaniel Год назад +5

    Bonds called the family and asked them to acknowledge the true new king

  • @QuackMamba34
    @QuackMamba34 Год назад +2

    Steroids don't help you hit a baseball. You still have to make contact with the ball.

    • @poocrayon4588
      @poocrayon4588 Год назад +4

      Steriods help you hit a baseball further and you know that's the point.

  • @chriszenko3598
    @chriszenko3598 Год назад +1

    If Judge used steroids he would have hit 80 this season. If Hank used them he would have hit over 800 HR easily over his career’. 62 is the new record

  • @professor3778
    @professor3778 Год назад

    "This is not artificial"🥴😫😭

  • @paulmann5328
    @paulmann5328 Год назад +1

    😂 That's like saying a TD record doesn't count because he didn't win the superbowl....and it's December 🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @universe-ie2mk
    @universe-ie2mk Год назад +1

    When mcgwire broke the record, i couldnt tell you who was the nl leader in home runs at the time, because they never mentioned it. Its like lebron being praised for scoring the most points in a season in eastern confrence history, but still being bottom 5 of the overall totals. Shoutout to judge for breaking a yankees record, but 61 has been passed on 6 occasions already. Thats just the truth i dont care how they did it. If the league recognizes it, then we should. Even if they didnt, we should because most of us rememer the summer of 98. Steroids were the last thing on our minds then it was just a blast to watch.

  • @GHO5TSTAR
    @GHO5TSTAR Год назад +2

    Whatever MLB recognizes is the real HR record..so if MLB recognizes Bonds HR record, then thats it. End of story

  • @jmcgee39
    @jmcgee39 Год назад +9

    Unless the MLB struck the 73 home runs from their record books, 73 is the MLB record and that's not up for debate

    • @arnoldmayii3563
      @arnoldmayii3563 Год назад

      That’s exactly what I was going to say.

    • @nautgamingnautgaming9949
      @nautgamingnautgaming9949 Год назад +2

      @@arnoldmayii3563 I think that should be struck n why not STRIP the Astros of both their world series titles since sign stealing laser pointers n drums are AGAINST THE RULES
      And why not every pitcher who JUICED TOO
      Let's clean up the sport

    • @campbellmunn5326
      @campbellmunn5326 Год назад

      Nobody cares what the MLB record books say. Aaron Judge is the MLB record holder.

    • @jmcgee39
      @jmcgee39 Год назад

      @@nautgamingnautgaming9949 🤣😂

  • @drexeldragon1723
    @drexeldragon1723 Год назад +2

    "Bonds never hit 50 other than the 73." Ok but he hit 40 eight times and 30 fourteen times. Maris only hit 30 three times. So I'm not seeing how this is relevant.

    • @UnbreakableKDL
      @UnbreakableKDL Год назад

      I think the point being that if it wasn't for the juicing he'd never have been close to 73

    • @drexeldragon1723
      @drexeldragon1723 Год назад +1

      @@UnbreakableKDL but we can't know that for sure because Maris was never close to 61 except for the one year he did it. That's why I brought him up.

    • @anonymike8280
      @anonymike8280 Год назад

      You're lying with statistics. Pre-steroids, Bonds had more than 40 home run only three times in his career through age 34, though he lost a 40-plus HR season due to the 1994 labor action. Five of the eight 40-plus HR seasons you allude to were post-steroids and after age 35. Look at the record. You will see three phases to Bonds' career.
      When he came into the league, his game was get on bases and score runs. He developed into a power hitter and RBI guy in his mid 20s. He became the jolly green giant and steroid king only after he was 35. He may have been fun to watch if you were a Giants fans, but someone who take steroids no longer is a natural human being.

    • @drexeldragon1723
      @drexeldragon1723 Год назад

      @@anonymike8280 I'm not lying. My point is that you can't discredit Bonds on a count of "his non-record years weren't nearly as good" when it's the exact same case with Maris. Other than 61, he never even hit 40. He hit 39 the year before in 136 games, which is a 46 homer pace over a full season. Other than that, not much. Averaged 30 homers per 162 games on his career, and that includes the season with 61. If you remove that season, it's under 27. So a guy that averages 27 homers over 162 games the rest of his career somehow got 61 one year. Bonds was a better power hitter than Maris without steroids. He led the league in slugging three times in the early 90s. You mentioned the strike-shortened season. He didn't just lose a 40 homer year, but potentially 50, as he was on pace for 53 over 162 games. In '99, he hit 34 in 102 games, or a 54 homer pace over 162. Was he using PEDs at that time? I don't know for sure. The story goes that he got jealous of McGuire and Sosa getting the limelight when he knew he was a better player. So if we assume he wasn't using in '98, we can trace back from that year to the beginning of his career. He averaged 35 homers per 162 games without steroids, and 40 per 162 games from '90 to '98. That's better than Maris. Would he have gotten the record without the juice? Probably not. That's your view, but you can't base it off of his other years because he was consistently better than Maris at hitting homers and yet Maris still found a way to have one outstanding season that stands as an outlier. You can put an asterisk on it, but you can't remove it from history. Those hits counted, the RBI's counted. They changed the scores of games and the standings at the time. The MLB did nothing to stop players from using because baseball was more popular than ever. Now they want to turn around and act like none of it happened after they exploited the entertainment value of players who used steroids. And the pitchers were also using, so that would also theoretically make it harder to hit off of them.

    • @anonymike8280
      @anonymike8280 Год назад

      ​@@drexeldragon1723 If you look at ballplayer records, you will find many that reach a peak for several years and then fall off. Maris is one of them. He was 27 years old when he hit 61. For three years, he was one of the best players in baseball. That was it for him, and it's not something rare. Ted Kluzewski had four years as the most feared power hitter in the game in the 1950s. Geroge Bell had five years as a prime power hitter in the 1980s.
      It's not as rare as you think By the way, I don't think it is a given that old time (pre-WWII and earlier) players were not using anything. They may have been naive about what they were doing, but that doesn't mean they weren't doing it.
      The salient symptom of PED use is enhanced performance. Any time you see enhanced performance, you have the right to at least consider. What constitutes enhanced performance is relative though. A fringe or journeyman player could be using too, just to be good enough to be in the game at all.
      Remember, Bonds turned 37 the year he hit 73 home runs. His record of 258 home runs between 36 and 40 was unnatural.
      By contrast, Aaron had 179 home runs and Ruth had 149 over the same age span. Jim Thome had 157. Darrell Evans had 149.

  • @lovepeace_goodvibez
    @lovepeace_goodvibez Год назад +37

    Let's talk about Babe Ruth playing against inferior White baseball players. Talk about Maris breaking it more games than Ruth. Let's talk about Bonds breaking it with the entire MLB juiced. Finally let's talk about all the low ERA of pitchers in dead ball era. C'mon stop the CAP on Barry Bonds. His plate discipline is all time great

    • @poocrayon4588
      @poocrayon4588 Год назад +8

      He cheated stop crying. Everyone not making excuses know he would never have those home runs if he wasn't juiced to the eyeballs.

    • @mrvargas2582
      @mrvargas2582 Год назад +2

      Nobody’s questioning Barry Bonds as a baseball player he’s one of the greatest they’re questioning the home run record which should be questioned because everybody knows why. Even SAS saying at the end of this with basically saying that since Mark McGwire and Sosa did it then he should do it

    • @JetfuelJoe
      @JetfuelJoe Год назад

      Let's also admit juicing will boost your power and some shots that wouldn't be Homer's, were. If anything, make two records.

    • @crini413
      @crini413 Год назад

      @@poocrayon4588 you don't know that at all. What we do know is he did, and for all you know judge could be juiced right now. In a lot of peoples eyes he does not have the record

    • @JetfuelJoe
      @JetfuelJoe Год назад

      @@crini413 Judge has looked like this since HS, bonds was a slim dude with skill but he needed more power.

  • @Banana-wu6te
    @Banana-wu6te Год назад +3

    Idc about Aaron
    I miss Sammy Sosa
    It was way more exciting back then and Sosa was hitting monster bombs. This Judge stuff is actually Boring. He doesn’t have the muscles and he doesn’t have the swag like Sammy did or Big Mac or Bonds

    • @mrbonesaw90
      @mrbonesaw90 Год назад

      Swag the man used steroids and a corked bat. Sosa is literally the baseball equivalent of a Russian kid that calls you a #@& on an online game and is using an aimbot.

  • @louispineda566
    @louispineda566 Год назад +1

    Barry bonds is still HR king 🤴

  • @Matt-hl5vm
    @Matt-hl5vm Год назад

    Bonds. I know they say steroids can slow a pitch down and give you the power to hit a home run, but the talent still has to be there. If they gave you or me the same stuff they gave Barry, Mark and Sammy, we still couldn’t hit 70 home runs in 162 games. It requires the ability to read a pitch, make a split-second decision on where or whether to swing and connect. Are their records tainted, sure, but they still managed to hit those home runs.

    • @jacob45415
      @jacob45415 Год назад

      Are u condoning cheating ?

  • @justinheat1
    @justinheat1 Год назад

    exceptional season SAS? Lmao, it's legendary. He leads just about every catagory and should have the triple crown but pressed for the Home Run record. SAS, learn from Chris please.

  • @maulsmith
    @maulsmith Год назад +2

    Bonds

  • @Field_Marshall
    @Field_Marshall Год назад

    Judge 62 asterisk batting leadoff

  • @oof6520
    @oof6520 Год назад +1

    Judge now being AL season holder, until MLB erases roiders from the record books, Judge will have to hit 74 to break Bonds record. He has no shot breaking the all time record, unless he bombs 50 per year every year until he retires, he's already 30. I don't see that happening. Seems kinda unfair, but Pete Rose was banned from baseball and his records still stand.

  • @carlosg1941
    @carlosg1941 Год назад +1

    Stephen talked about everything else except about the answer to the question… SMH
    Focus on the question my guy

  • @Mattyice00
    @Mattyice00 Год назад

    Judge to the Seattle Mariners

  • @nneely613
    @nneely613 Год назад +1

    Did Bonds actually ever test positive for steroids? As far as I know he didn't but admitted to using the cream. Correct me if I'm wrong please.

    • @pv25
      @pv25 Год назад

      Multiple articles state he tested positive in November 2001 and again in 2003.

    • @pv25
      @pv25 Год назад

      *November 2000

  • @hereef1
    @hereef1 Год назад

    SAS is waffling. Barry Bonds is the single season and major league HR leader. Period.

    • @campbellmunn5326
      @campbellmunn5326 Год назад

      Nope. You can’t accept it. Aaron Judge is the MLB record holder.

  • @ezmodegaming6457
    @ezmodegaming6457 Год назад

    Basically what Stephen A. is saying is that if you are a very good and competent CEO, earn a lot of money and you see a CEO that is more incompetent but is earning a lot more and is more respected because he was embezzling money. You have an excuse to do it too because you got jealous and wanted the same thing, also you were clearly better than that guy anyway so why not embezzle money too.

  • @kingpoodietv364
    @kingpoodietv364 Год назад

    BARRY BONDS IS THE HOME RUN KING

  • @STAMPEDFRESH
    @STAMPEDFRESH Год назад

    Barry Bonds is the home run king. That's just the facts

  • @centerwarren
    @centerwarren Год назад +1

    Stop hating everyone. It’s not historic to be seventh!

  • @ParkinLotPimpin816
    @ParkinLotPimpin816 Год назад +11

    Barry Bonds is the record holder 🤷🏽‍♂️ oh well. Nobody put caveats on Babe Ruth playing against only 7 teams during the season (let alone no persons of color) and seeing the same pitchers over and over. Media and the MLB itself ate that HR race up back in the 90s and early 2000s when baseball was essentially dead in the annals of American sports. Then want to try and wash their hands of it without touching the record books but by keeping them out of the HOF and with media narratives. FOH. Great season by Judge, but it's not the record.

    • @nickcole1800
      @nickcole1800 Год назад +2

      There was 16 teams in 1927 and every batter faces some of the same pitchers in their division multiple times every season. In terms of the record holder it should be bonds.

    • @jdkdx2
      @jdkdx2 Год назад +4

      nah theres no way you compared a guy facing the same competition… to bonds was literally cheating & taking roids

    • @ParkinLotPimpin816
      @ParkinLotPimpin816 Год назад +1

      @@jdkdx2 Bonds had multiple 40 HR seasons. Not like it came out of nowhere. Don't try and add sterisks unless you gonna do it for every era. Fake purists kill me

    • @ParkinLotPimpin816
      @ParkinLotPimpin816 Год назад +1

      @@nickcole1800 the first time he hit 59 or 60, there weren't. This was like early 20s. But in 1927, baseball still wasn't integrated and no interleague play. It's like come on. No asterisks then, no asterisks now. Can't pick and choose.

    • @jdmagicmusic
      @jdmagicmusic Год назад +1

      @@ParkinLotPimpin816 that's right! Barry IS the single season AND all time HR record holder, and the fact he's not in the HoF is a crime!

  • @WorldBeater123
    @WorldBeater123 Год назад

    First of all, you don’t know that Judge isn’t taking steroids!! Most of these athletes are using performance enhancing drugs. So stop being naive. Also, as someone who had season tickets to the Giants during the Bonds area, I’ve never seen a baseball player as good as him. His hand eye coordination was next level. Bonds was also a hall of famer before the steroid accusations

  • @vashthestampede11
    @vashthestampede11 Год назад +1

    So Stephen A is okay with obliterating someone's name and reputation if they smoke pot, but will defend their integrity and accomplishments if they cheat to do so?

  • @eZaFJDUBB
    @eZaFJDUBB Год назад +1

    Chris Russo cracks me up, Everytime he talks I learn some sports history fact I never knew

  • @benchwarmerss9165
    @benchwarmerss9165 Год назад

    No way to cut it … it’s 73 .. coming from a yankee fan who lived in Texas but is from New York and would love for a yankee to have that record … judge just couldn’t hack it to 73 nor 74 and he had chances and if the Yankees were smart they could keep judge .. if I’m not mistake the Mets were able to get grandees on right after the Yankees had him and granderson was nice with it

  • @Field_Marshall
    @Field_Marshall Год назад +5

    Bonds 73 Lord of the Home Runs

  • @superdopehiphop
    @superdopehiphop Год назад

    No way to know who is cheating and who isn’t. It’s not the record Bonds has it, PERIOD!

  • @anonymike8280
    @anonymike8280 Год назад

    Barry Bonds' downfall was Shakespearean. He was a man consumed by a sense of being slighted and ignored. Some would say, by envy and jealousy. He didn't have the patience to wait it out, to wait for McGwire, Sosa and some of the others to be exposed. If he had suffered a career-ending injury at the end of the 1998 season, he would have been elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. He didn't need to do what he did.
    Whether Bonds is to be thought the all-time home run leader is not something that can be settled by a debate among sports journalists. Sports journalist are only people with opinions. Just like us. In fact, I've been a sports journalist myself. I covered preps, not pros. Nevertheless, my opinion is no more informed than anyone else's. It is, however, that I do not consider the team, league and MLB records set by Bonds, Sosa and McGwire to be valid. McGwire, in fact, was close to out of the game when he started juicing. Sosa was a decent power hitter who might have finished his career with more than 400 home runs. Of three, I fault his motives the least, but the bottom line is, steroids don't just keep you alert and help you get stronger. They make you a better athlete than you ever could have been without them. By using them, you cease to be a natural human being.

  • @Christopher_-jp9ef
    @Christopher_-jp9ef Год назад +1

    Barry bonds was the most naturally gifted hitter I’ve ever seen and idc steroids or not he’s the record holder and deservingly so …. We have no clue what judge is taking, if people think that mlb drug testing is good enough to stop steroids and peds y’all are sadly mistaken..
    People are still taking peds in all of our major sports

    • @sylogazm6909
      @sylogazm6909 Год назад

      You think Bonds is a better hitter than Pete Rose and Ichiro Suzuki?

    • @campbellmunn5326
      @campbellmunn5326 Год назад +1

      Bonds is a cheater

    • @Christopher_-jp9ef
      @Christopher_-jp9ef Год назад

      @@campbellmunn5326 ur moms a cheater just ask ur dad

    • @Christopher_-jp9ef
      @Christopher_-jp9ef Год назад

      @@sylogazm6909 completely different styles as far as power yes bonds is the best power hitter that’s ever lived , his eye was among the best for his style of hitting … he hit for average while also sending the ball flying 73 times in one season …. Ichiro and rose were obviously better contact hitters it’s apples to oranges

    • @nhu6791
      @nhu6791 Год назад +1

      @@Christopher_-jp9ef with the roids it help leaf higher and farther, imagine Ichiro and Rose with roids😊

  • @Fernando-fr5cu
    @Fernando-fr5cu Год назад +4

    62 is the record! ALL RISE!

  • @phillybeccio2782
    @phillybeccio2782 Год назад +7

    If 73 is the record give Marion Jones back her Olympic medals.

  • @TotallyCompton2023
    @TotallyCompton2023 Год назад +4

    Come on first take let's talk about the Mets. The Braves were clearly better.😂
    Chop on!😎

    • @nickcole1800
      @nickcole1800 Год назад +2

      As a Braves fan I wouldn’t say clearly better but we are the better team right now. I respect the Mets since they will win 100 games

    • @TotallyCompton2023
      @TotallyCompton2023 Год назад +1

      @@nickcole1800 I my reasoning is because we shut down the Mets offense for the most part. Then the Braves offense hit the Mets three best pitchers. Don't get me wrong, the Mets are a good team. Braves just a level above.

    • @nickcole1800
      @nickcole1800 Год назад +1

      @@TotallyCompton2023 Ah okay I see what you mean now I agree 100%

  • @fredcox6994
    @fredcox6994 Год назад

    I can't finish listening to anything Smith says. He seems to get louder with each sentence. Mere volume won't convince me he
    , or anyone else is right

  • @BusyWatchingYouTube
    @BusyWatchingYouTube Год назад +1

    The Astros` trash can-beating title was real too

  • @SamuelClemente7718
    @SamuelClemente7718 Год назад +1

    How come Barry Bonds doesn't get A PASS like Tom Brady? Who was caught cheating 3 TIMES? 🤔🤔
    What could be the difference???????????

    • @robertarodecker2558
      @robertarodecker2558 Год назад

      Easy its a different sport and different rules. But your right

  • @Shiny101
    @Shiny101 Год назад +1

    Aaron ain't Blacker than Bonds so SAS can't acknowledge him 100%

  • @brandonwomack7379
    @brandonwomack7379 Год назад +3

    Yeah I think we all agree Bonds can kick rocks! Congratulations Aaron Judge.

  • @Alex-tm4th
    @Alex-tm4th Год назад

    This dude is literally yelling just to yell.

  • @disco4255
    @disco4255 Год назад

    Even with the steroids what bonds put up was ridiculous. We try to brush it away and make it the norm that he took steroids but he is still a massive anomaly with those numbers. Idk who else could of put up numbers like bonds if they took peds

    • @jacob45415
      @jacob45415 Год назад

      David Ortiz Aaron judge Stanton did u see how scrawny bonds was with the pirates ?

    • @disco4255
      @disco4255 Год назад

      @@jacob45415 they strike out way more often and can’t get on base like bonds.

  • @joeklaps4708
    @joeklaps4708 Год назад

    I'm still waiting for Stephen A to give a valid reason why 62 is not the real all-time record?? Winning a world series has nothing to do with it, having to deal with the popularity of Mcgwire and Sosa (cheaters) is from the worst takes I've ever heard.

  • @fartmaster700
    @fartmaster700 Год назад +1

    Stephen a seems like he couldn't care less about baseball but the producers told him to act like a yankee fan

  • @athens_1psvr31
    @athens_1psvr31 Год назад

    Leave it to a certified mouth to not answer address the question, but go on a rant about championships. What?!!

  • @JLW667
    @JLW667 5 месяцев назад

    3:10

  • @OneSideofFries
    @OneSideofFries Год назад

    Judge himself said that Bonds is the king and holds the real record. Roger Maris jr can go cry in his pillow along with Mad Dog and the rest of the old timers who for some reason feel disrespected for watching some of the best baseball to ever be played. Btw Bonds was never proven to have used peds, it’s all just allegations.

  • @rockjm9876543210
    @rockjm9876543210 Год назад +1

    "His head expanded 3 times" 💀💀💀💀

  • @abjustdoit1294
    @abjustdoit1294 Год назад +2

    Let’s just call it even because the pitchers bonds was facing was juicing to