@@mdboy2017 McGwire and Sosa (and Bonds and Clemens) never tested positive for PED use. Not one time. Also, McGwire was a big time home run hitter when he was at USC, so it's not like he suddenly hit them out of nowhere. Unless he took steroids for his entire career including college, but I doubt it.
@@isaacdonnelly20 That's true, but I still would put him in the HOF anyway. The league didn't give a shit about steroids, in fact they loved it because it brought more attention to the sport. And again, McGwire may have admitted to PED use, but at what time was he using? We can say for sure that he was using for most likely the majority of his MLB career, but in college? I don't know, and I have my doubts on that. That's important because it shows that the guy had a ton of natural talent to play the game from the jump. He was a great baseball player with or without the PED's. And given that the league didn't care at all about PED use, I think a guy like Mark McGwire should be put into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Mark McGwire is the greatest home run hitter of all time. It’s not even close. F the hall of fame. If it weren’t for mark then you wouldn’t even care about baseball. If it weren’t for mark baseball would be who cares steeze.
1984, last organized ballgame my Dad and I ever attended together. Modesto A's at John Thurman Field. That is where Big Mac and Canseco were given the name "The Bash Brothers." Never cared much for Canseco but Big Mac was always a favorite, made even more so when he played for the Cards. He will always be the homerun king in my mind.
This song is absolutely ideal for this video And I LOVE McGwire…ball players are still doing all variations of steroids today or whatever you want to call them, always trying to find an edge. grow up
Yea but what do you do? Dig up Ruth and Aaron, extract their DNA and recreate them in a lab,pump them full of roids and see what they would be capable of with some help?
I loved these days of baseball, I believe in fact it was the best era, but lmao you can see the moment he started juicing in this video. He got enormous, look at his legs!
He took Andro and took it for his back. He was always just a strong guy. Not like Bonds that went from looking like Griffey to looking like McGwire lol
@@jorgedelgado8177 bonds body transformation happened over a one year span, you look at his size and his numbers from his last year in Pittsburgh and then look at him the very next season, his first year in San Francisco, even his stats change drastically, age had nothing to do with that, he was just a 30 homerun hitter in Pittsburgh, their old park was homerun friendly and became a homerun hitter the very next year in a park that wasn't homerun friendly. Mark mcgwire was hitting 40 homers before steroids, remember he holds the record for most homeruns by a rookie with 49, even mark said he didn't start on steroids until a hip injury that happened a few years into his career.
@@freedomfest2741 Very true.....no way to know for certain but I'd imagine Bonds makes the Hall without steroids. Probably would have hit 5-600 without the juice, .300 plus average, 3000 hits, etc. He had plenty of pop naturally but he wasn't a pure power threat before roids. Turned him from a great into a legend.
That's not really the argument at hand but ok lol. Nobody with a rational, functioning brain is saying that steroids magically turn a horrible ballplayer into an all time great
@@crimsontide1980I would say a base hit is a base hit. juice just increases the chances of a home run but it doesn’t increase contact on the ball. Only thing this interferes with is the score board and the pitchers ERA, and I guess the all time leaders board. But mind you out of all the batters who took PEDs Mark and Barry were the only ones could produce those numbers.
Nothing graceful about Big Mac. Just a mountain of a man unleashing freakish power. Like a bull in a China Shop. When Mac and Sammy were trading shots it got people watching baseball again and saved the sport essentially. It wasn’t in a good place at this time, people tend to forget. Sammy had all the charisma and it was a rivalry with mutual respect. I know as a die hard Cards fan i was watching every chance I got. Went to many home games that season. It was some magical times.
It is funny how between hrs 4 and 5 hes like 40lbs bigger lol gotta get on that lifting routine. Dude hits homeruns no matter what though, hes an all time monster
Nobody cried and complained while he and Sammy helped baseball bounce back from the strike. He deserves to be in the HOF!
Hold your horses there buddy.
Well they did cheat though
@@mdboy2017 McGwire and Sosa (and Bonds and Clemens) never tested positive for PED use. Not one time.
Also, McGwire was a big time home run hitter when he was at USC, so it's not like he suddenly hit them out of nowhere. Unless he took steroids for his entire career including college, but I doubt it.
@@ryancalhoun2910 but McGwire admitted to ped use
@@isaacdonnelly20 That's true, but I still would put him in the HOF anyway. The league didn't give a shit about steroids, in fact they loved it because it brought more attention to the sport.
And again, McGwire may have admitted to PED use, but at what time was he using? We can say for sure that he was using for most likely the majority of his MLB career, but in college? I don't know, and I have my doubts on that.
That's important because it shows that the guy had a ton of natural talent to play the game from the jump. He was a great baseball player with or without the PED's. And given that the league didn't care at all about PED use, I think a guy like Mark McGwire should be put into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
A MLB legend. I’m still a McGwire fan today. He was very exciting to watch. #Legend⚾️🐐
Big Mac and Slammin Sammy made me fall in love with the game as a child.
Have you started injecting yourself in the Ass with steroids yet.
Gotta freakin LOVE the sportsmanship as some of the opposite players claps and praises his HR, amazing.
Big Mac and Barry bonds will always be my favorite players growing up , along with griffey jr
That's when baseball was fun to watch !!
That 1998 season had the world talking about it.
Best thing about McGwire….is that you expected him to knock it out of the park every time . What a time to be a kid and a baseball fan.
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Most prolific home run hitter of all time. No question about it.
Legend has it Mark Mcgwire invented yoga pants. Thank you sir.
WTF 😂
Loved watching him as a kid
Mark McGwire is the greatest home run hitter of all time. It’s not even close. F the hall of fame. If it weren’t for mark then you wouldn’t even care about baseball. If it weren’t for mark baseball would be who cares steeze.
Personally, I don't care about the steroids. He was fun to watch :)
@@depaola63 shut up old man
Fuck that. No HOF for any of those cheaters. Reinstate Pete Rose and allow the hits king in the HOF. Not these desperate for attention steroid users
@@depaola63take a few deep breaths buddy
The Big Mac will never be forgotten by me or my generation
He swing really changed by the time he got to St. Louis
The sweetest right hander swing ever.
Roids or not, that is a beautiful swing.
Astronomical power with a short swing. Steroids or not, it's absolutely amazing
He just gets bigger as the video goes on
He looks like a hungry super hero at the plate!!! & his swing is awesome!!
I have the newspaper where he broke the record. And a shirt that says in pursuit of 62. Man that was so long ago. Time is flying
It is. 🙂
Do you have the needles he used or the empty vials. Those are actually worth some good chunk of change. If you do.
like Barry Bonds, he was actually a really good player even before the sauce
I was at the game in Oakland when he hit the Budweiser sign
1984, last organized ballgame my Dad and I ever attended together. Modesto A's at John Thurman Field. That is where Big Mac and Canseco were given the name "The Bash Brothers." Never cared much for Canseco but Big Mac was always a favorite, made even more so when he played for the Cards. He will always be the homerun king in my mind.
McGwire was a home run hitting machine!
all them craters on the moon...McGwire put them there
Steroids put them there
Id love to see a vid where players talk about seeing him hit from the field perspective.
The only thing missing from these highlights is 'Stranglehold' by Ted Nugent
Dude exactly
MLB would have died if not for steroids. The strike almost proved that alone.
These guys took one for the team.
He had class
135 HR's in two seasons.. not bad 😮
Back when every kid named their sandlot BIG Mac Land
Orel Hersheiser played for the Indians? Damn I forgot
Question is he a cardinal legend or an A’s legend
This song is absolutely ideal for this video
And I LOVE McGwire…ball players are still doing all variations of steroids today or whatever you want to call them, always trying to find an edge. grow up
What song is this BTW? I do agree, fits the video perfectly
I think he started on the juice once he got his perm
One of Lance Armstrong's favorites
Why the music in the background? We want to hear the commentary. Not a rock song for 10 minutes.
im all for the juice in baseball.
Yea but what do you do? Dig up Ruth and Aaron, extract their DNA and recreate them in a lab,pump them full of roids and see what they would be capable of with some help?
loved that
Highlights are awesome...Music on the background...ANNOYING!
I "mis-remember." Oops. That was Clemens.
70 HRs in a season? Unheard of. Then Sosa came and there was a rivalry. Juice?! I mean come on. Who doesn't juice in pro sports these days?
I am from Europe, can please some American please explaIined- how this guy not in HOF?
Well......long story short, steroids......
I loved these days of baseball, I believe in fact it was the best era, but lmao you can see the moment he started juicing in this video. He got enormous, look at his legs!
Joe Buck with an actual good call? Well he is a Cards fan.
He took Andro and took it for his back. He was always just a strong guy. Not like Bonds that went from looking like Griffey to looking like McGwire lol
@@jorgedelgado8177 bonds body transformation happened over a one year span, you look at his size and his numbers from his last year in Pittsburgh and then look at him the very next season, his first year in San Francisco, even his stats change drastically, age had nothing to do with that, he was just a 30 homerun hitter in Pittsburgh, their old park was homerun friendly and became a homerun hitter the very next year in a park that wasn't homerun friendly. Mark mcgwire was hitting 40 homers before steroids, remember he holds the record for most homeruns by a rookie with 49, even mark said he didn't start on steroids until a hip injury that happened a few years into his career.
@@freedomfest2741 Very true.....no way to know for certain but I'd imagine Bonds makes the Hall without steroids. Probably would have hit 5-600 without the juice, .300 plus average, 3000 hits, etc. He had plenty of pop naturally but he wasn't a pure power threat before roids. Turned him from a great into a legend.
Give me roids and let me play an entire season as DH, I guarantee you could not make contact once.
That's not really the argument at hand but ok lol. Nobody with a rational, functioning brain is saying that steroids magically turn a horrible ballplayer into an all time great
Like I've always said, professional athletes should be allowed to juice up. fuck it, why not
Not really agreeing or disagreeing, just the only flaw with that logic is, what about the players who kept it clean throughout their careers?
@@crimsontide1980 valid point but I guess that's what the minor league are for unless you're good enough without the juice 🤷♂️
@@crimsontide1980I would say a base hit is a base hit. juice just increases the chances of a home run but it doesn’t increase contact on the ball. Only thing this interferes with is the score board and the pitchers ERA, and I guess the all time leaders board.
But mind you out of all the batters who took PEDs Mark and Barry were the only ones could produce those numbers.
goddam the music sucks, just remove it and let the clips play smh
Nice roids, but still need crazy skill to make contact like he did.
Salty loser.
.263 career hitter. Didn't make great contact that often
@@CNep99 more than you ever pal
@@CNep99 yea but if he hit .263 in today's game he would have a shot at the batting crown lol. .263 today would equate to hitting. 325 in the 90s
Nothing graceful about Big Mac. Just a mountain of a man unleashing freakish power. Like a bull in a China Shop. When Mac and Sammy were trading shots it got people watching baseball again and saved the sport essentially. It wasn’t in a good place at this time, people tend to forget. Sammy had all the charisma and it was a rivalry with mutual respect. I know as a die hard Cards fan i was watching every chance I got. Went to many home games that season. It was some magical times.
stereoids asteroid meteor comet whos care! that man saved the baseball
Steroids was the way he can save baseball.
@@hectorlopez1069 take a tissue
Dude steroids made baseball the shit those years. No one likes a no hitter no one.
Ken griffey Jr didn't make steroids the shit in those years.
Highlights are good but the music sucks. Plus, the music is repetitive.
After seeing this, i am a firm beleiver that baseball is the dumbest sport ever.
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kashif reid 🐐
Wow how orginal.
Loud guitar ruins it. Im switching to someone else's highlight reel. That "music" sucks. Ruins the experience completely.
Better than rap.
It is funny how between hrs 4 and 5 hes like 40lbs bigger lol gotta get on that lifting routine. Dude hits homeruns no matter what though, hes an all time monster