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What happens to baseball if the home run chase doesn't happen in 98?
Posted on 5/2/17 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 5/2/17 at 7:59 pm
So watching the Cardinals game and Jim Edmonds/play by play guy were talking about how McGuire and Sosa truly saved baseball that season and it got me to thinking:
Let's say the home run explosion never happened so basically no steroid era. No Bonds record/no McGuire/no Sosa/none of that. Basically everything continues at 94 levels of homers and gradually works it way to where it is today
What happens in baseball? The phrase "saved baseball" implies that MLB would be dead today which is preposterous IMO but I could see it not having the national tv presence that it does today. Maybe no MLB network, lower team salaries, etc but the idea of it being dead I find ludicrous
Just a thought that came to mind and interested in the boards opinion. I was only around 8 years old in 1998 so it may just be that I can't remember the true state of baseball prior to that
Let's say the home run explosion never happened so basically no steroid era. No Bonds record/no McGuire/no Sosa/none of that. Basically everything continues at 94 levels of homers and gradually works it way to where it is today
What happens in baseball? The phrase "saved baseball" implies that MLB would be dead today which is preposterous IMO but I could see it not having the national tv presence that it does today. Maybe no MLB network, lower team salaries, etc but the idea of it being dead I find ludicrous
Just a thought that came to mind and interested in the boards opinion. I was only around 8 years old in 1998 so it may just be that I can't remember the true state of baseball prior to that
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Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:02 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Better question: what happens to baseball if the 1994 strike hadn't happened?
Gallaraga and Olerud are your batting champions and the Expos win the World Series?
Gallaraga and Olerud are your batting champions and the Expos win the World Series?
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:08 pm to Paul Allen
Wonder if the Expos would still be in Montreal if they win WS that year
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:08 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Idk but man 1998 was a fun year of baseball. Got to see Big Mac play in St. Louis and Sammy in Atlanta. Both hit bombs when I was in attendance, really intensified my fanhood at 9years old being able to see them. The braves were crushing bombs like everyone else too which made for fun times at the Ted, the nineties were truly a magical time in baseball history to me and I'll never discount it like some people do for the steroid use.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:10 pm to Paul Allen
quote:
Gallaraga and Olerud are your batting champions
Paul O'Neill and Tony Gwynn, who was batting .394 at the time of the strike
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:12 pm to Cosmo
quote:
Wonder if the Expos would still be in Montreal if they win WS that year
indeed. reds were stacked that year though and I think would have been the Victor.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:13 pm to Caplewood
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Idk but man 1998 was a fun year of baseball. Got to see Big Mac play in St. Louis and Sammy in Atlanta
I the same age too and vividly remember me and my dad getting down to Turner early to watch batting practice. Mother of god McGwire blasting moon shot after moon shot was astonishing to a 9 year old David Ricky
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:16 pm to Wishnitwas1998
That was really the last time Baseball mattered more than Football on the National scale until the Cubs world series win last year
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:23 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Certainly brought a much needed spark. The whole world was watching - remember being in a bar in Greece and the whole place erupted with one of those dudes homeruns.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:25 pm to Wishnitwas1998
I was 10 and those are memories that will forever stick in my head. I remember big family gatherings at my grandmothers house and all of us sitting around watching the Cards games in awe and what Mark was doing. How about those home run derbys!? 
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:27 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Clinton gets impeached
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:28 pm to Wishnitwas1998
That chase was fricking amazing. I consider myself a very very casual baseball viewer, but that was must see TV every night. You'd tune in just to see ESPN break away to live at bats in the middle of whatever was on.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:29 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Baseball was never going to die
Home run chase didn't save anything
Home run chase didn't save anything
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:33 pm to goldennugget
I think Josh Hamilton's home run derby spectacle did a lot to help boost baseball. Forgot the year, 2009?
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:34 pm to Paul Allen
quote:
Better question: what happens to baseball if the 1994 strike hadn't happened?
Gallaraga and Olerud are your batting champions and the Expos win the World Series?
Griffey also breaks Maris' record in 1994.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:37 pm to ShamelessPel
Especially as a kid when you have the summer off of school and could watch any time.
How about that HR derby at Fenway in '99 when Griffey went off when the field was
Larry Walker, Bagwell, Walker, Sosa, McGwire
The next few years was when Sosa owned the derby
How about that HR derby at Fenway in '99 when Griffey went off when the field was
Larry Walker, Bagwell, Walker, Sosa, McGwire
The next few years was when Sosa owned the derby
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:38 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Baseball in the 90's was truly fricking awesome.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 8:39 pm to Tigermite
because of the steroids 
Posted on 5/2/17 at 9:56 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Barry fricking Bonds still happened.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 10:39 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Fans in St. Louis don't get diabetes from eating too many Big Macs.
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