Long Gone Summer tonight

[zack54attack]

Anyone plan on watching?

 

[MDB111™]

Anyone plan on watching?

I plan on tuning in. That was a fun year. Maybe steroids need to make a come back?

 

[Leomaz]

Not watching...

The only memory I have is Sammy doing the hop and the ball being caught by the shortstop in shallow left

 

[TL1961]

I plan on tuning in. That was a fun year. Maybe steroids need to make a come back?

They juiced the balls instead. Same result.

 

[TL1961]

It was fun at the time, but all a fraud. And living in St Louis watching McGwire and his "all about me" attitude sickens me.

It's a 30 for 30 focused primarily on a guy whose concern was his own stats, and cheating to do it. And Sosa did as well. I just can't get fired up for that. It feels like celebrating cheating.

To me, it feels as bad as watching Lance Armstrong. But I think I am in the minority on this.

 

[Diehardfan]

It was fun at the time, but all a fraud. And living in St Louis watching McGwire and his "all about me" attitude sickens me.

It's a 30 for 30 focused primarily on a guy whose concern was his own stats, and cheating to do it. And Sosa did as well. I just can't get fired up for that. It feels like celebrating cheating.

To me, it feels as bad as watching Lance Armstrong. But I think I am in the minority on this.

Spitballs, sign stealing, juiced balls, pitch framing......the damn sport doesn't care, why should we?

 

[TL1961]

Spitballs, sign stealing, juiced balls, pitch framing......the damn sport doesn't care, why should we?

Well, that is a good question.

(And i love that you included pitch framing in there, as I am on board with that being ridiculous.)

 

[Hawkeye OG]

2000 HR Derby on right now and then Long gone summer. I miss Sammy Sosa so much

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Man I despised McGuire so much back in the day but he really was a stud.

Also, Kerry wood was fucking awesome

 

[zack54attack]

Ken Griffey’s swing is still porn. My goodness.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

I must have been to young but this 30 for 30 is really painting Sammy as a nobody before 98.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

bring Sammy back first game after coronavirus

do it

 

[zack54attack]

Man, that doc stunk lol

 

[SilenceS]

bring Sammy back first game after coronavirus

do it

He wasn’t a nobody. He was a borderline all star. Then, he became all world. I don’t care if he took the roids. A majority in mlb was on them. That 3 year span was ridiculous. Another level

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

He wasn’t a nobody. He was a borderline all star. Then, he became all world. I don’t care if he took the roids. A majority in mlb was on them. That 3 year span was ridiculous. Another level

Your thoughts on Sammy all of a sudden can't speak English in front of the congressional hearing on PEDs...

 

[Hawkeye OG]

Man, that doc stunk lol

It was really just about McGuire lol

 

[anotheridiot]

100 whatever of those who volunteered to get tested, out of what 750 in the league at any time. Why werent there 6 guys chasing the Maris record then? There were probably 400 players taking steroids and since there were no written rules or regulations, why is it considered cheating?

 

[Omeletpants]

Turk Wendell rips Sosa

Turk Wendell eviscerates Sammy Sosa: ‘One of the worst teammates ever’

Baseball fans got to relive the 1998 home run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire in ESPN’s “Long Gone Summer” 30 for 30 documentary Sunday, but it wasn’t a pleasant trip down memo…

nypost.com

 

[TL1961]

I recall McGwire saying "I can't believe what I've just done. Can you?" and thought that was as self-centered as it gets. But then I saw "We'll all always remember where we were when I hit #62".

I didn't like him then, and I don't like him now.

I didn't watch much, but to show pictures of fans in the stands years later and timestamp them 1998 is just flat out ridiculous. But even worse is having an entire doc on the 1998 HR race and barely mentioning steroids at the tail end of it.

 

[JimJohnson]

Turk Wendell rips Sosa

Turk Wendell eviscerates Sammy Sosa: ‘One of the worst teammates ever’

Baseball fans got to relive the 1998 home run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire in ESPN’s “Long Gone Summer” 30 for 30 documentary Sunday, but it wasn’t a pleasant trip down memo…

nypost.com

Nobody gives a fuck what Turd Wendell has to say about anything. Who the fuck names their kid Turd anyway?