Top 10 Greatest Moments...

[wannabe whale]

One of my favorites came tonight..when they introduced Charlie Hustle and he got that HUGE ovation and they chanted HALL of FAME!!
Whatever it takes PETE-just get to Cooperstown-if it is an admission-so be it. You deserve it!!

 

[hello there]

I think they were chanting....."HALL OF SHAME"

 

[Wilson]

Hello There...blow me.

There is no valid Hall of Fame without Perter Edward Rose.

Yea, he gambled..so does the rest of the America.

Did he bet on baseball....show me the evidence...and I will give you a rebuttal on every shred.

Pete Rose's only mistake is that he gambled..if he was a child molester or a drug addict...he is in.

Did you see how the people of SF reacted last night, Do you think baseball fans want or think he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame?

 

[vchipsliu]

Well said, Wilson

 

[Pujo21]

Any Help Please :

Any Help Please :

What was #s 1 and 2..

I fell asleep after coming back from a trip to Pittsburgh. But i did last for The Pete Rose Ovation.
Thanks

 

[Wilson]

# 1 Ripken
# 2 Big Mac or Jackie Robinson (can't remember)

 

[shamrock]

cal Ripken #1 give me a break!! And no Fisk or Thompson Homer?? No Willie Mays "the catch"?? You can't be serious.

And about Rose, probably should be in the Hall, but didn't bet on MLB. Let's get real, Vincent had the goods on Rose & did him a favor burying it.

 

[heleanth]

I am stunned that the #1 moment is Cal Ripken!!! This really shows the number of "fans" that voted that have no clue about the history of the sport. What an absolute joke.

And to think that Willie Mays and Henry Aaron, who were so much better ball players than Cal had to stand there and watch him throw out the first ball. Ouch!

Pete should be in. All he has to do is say he's sorry, even if he isn't. He is too stubborn.

 

[doveshack]

Rose said if all it took was an apology then he would give one. I guess it will take more than that.

Rose had kilo's of coke in his freezer, are you telling me he never got high on his own suppply. What will power this man has. And he didn't bet on baseball. Keep telling yourself that.

The Bobby Thompson moment is definately top 10. To come from that many games back to force a playoff game, and then in the bottom of the ninth with two out and the bases loaded, down by 3, to hit it out. It sends chills up my spine just thinking about it.

The greatest moment I ever saw was Gibson hitting that homerun. I hate the Dodgers and that is still the most amazing thing I have seen live on TV or in person. Big Mac! Give me a break. 62 better than 70. 70 better than 73. I don't think so.

 

[BBMF]

It aways amazes me how many people cite the Fisk homerun. Cripe, they didn't even win the series!

If you want to use the BIG homerun logic, then the Thompson & Mazeroski home runs were bigger.

I will never forget the Kirby Puckett home run in the 11th inning of game 6 of the 1991 World Series. And remember, the Twins won Game 7 on Jack Morris' gutty 10 inning shutout. YHe Puckett Home Run is clearly more important than the Fisk HomeRun! It's just the networks and the Red Sox fans are so starved for a Red Sox victory they'll promote anything. The Buckner boot is more memorable than the Fisk Home Run.


While I wasn't alive, it seems to me the Don LArsen perfect game in the 1956 World Series was the single most impressive one game perfromance in baseball history. Imagine.... a perfect game in the World Series....ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

As for Pete, Hall of Fame, yes.....unless he bet on ANY of his own games.
:nono

 

[mgs4bama]

#2---Hank Aaron's 715th

 

[british bulldog]

Although Ripkin's achievement was great, lets not forget no sick days for 16 1/2 years, it is by no way the greatest moment.
A moment is something that happens as a one off (instant) not over a series of days, weeks, years. That is what the hall of fame is for, a lifetimes results.
Ripkin was top because it is what is freshest in peoples memory. If I am not mistaken was it Willie Mays who recrived numerous death threats if he broke the Babe's home run record. Thats guts and determination, once level he could easily have called it a day. That to me would be a magic moment.
I don't know if I have the right person but I read somewhere about these threats. I am sure someone here at MJ will put me right.

 

[hello there]

Did you see how the people of SF reacted last night, Do you think baseball fans want or think he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame? ~WILSON

I'm not surprised how SF reacted last night, half of them probably bet for or against SF, too, in that game. Hell, they would have reacted the same way if Hulk Hogan or The Rock came out and made a grand appearance. What does that tell you? Heh heh.

 

[Pujo21]

THANKS TO ALL

THANKS TO ALL

Hey what about Reggie Jacksons Hat Trick Home Runs against The Doders in The World Series.
I can't forget that.. especially The Last one "The Charlie Huff Special"

and didn't he hit each homer on the 1st pitch? 3 homers on 3 pitches?

 

[dr. freeze]

It aways amazes me how many people cite the Fisk homerun. Cripe, they didn't even win the series!

If you want to use the BIG homerun logic, then the Thompson & Mazeroski home runs were bigger.

I will never forget the Kirby Puckett home run in the 11th inning of game 6 of the 1991 World Series. And remember, the Twins won Game 7 on Jack Morris' gutty 10 inning shutout. YHe Puckett Home Run is clearly more important than the Fisk HomeRun! It's just the networks and the Red Sox fans are so starved for a Red Sox victory they'll promote anything. The Buckner boot is more memorable than the Fisk Home Run.


While I wasn't alive, it seems to me the Don LArsen perfect game in the 1956 World Series was the single most impressive one game perfromance in baseball history. Imagine.... a perfect game in the World Series....ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

As for Pete, Hall of Fame, yes.....unless he bet on ANY of his own games.
:nono

great post......buckner boot, puckett homerun, and Larson perfect game way ahead of most of these "moments"

also think that Rose should be in.....good grief.....get the stick out of Selig's ass......the micromanagement of baseball is one of the most laughable and absurd things going on right now in the world......especially with all the real important issues at hand....

how bout the pine tar incident? lol....or the game 6 '85 series call.....need some Royals love!!!!

 

[neverteaseit]

Pete Rose in the hall defenitely. Prove to me he gamble on baseball. We have a bookies notes that they go by. Yea thats trustworthy. The guy was up on illegal gambling charges and tried to cop a plea by saying rose gambled with him. I have listened to pete and his attorney several times talk about the agreement he made with vincent, with elegibilty soon after. Giamatti is who banned pete forever, blaming him for vincents death. Pete may have liked to gamble but i seriously doubt he gambled on baseball.

But even more of a screw job is shoeless Joe Jackson. Shoeless Joe was gulity of only one thing, knowledge of the fix and that is suspect to who knew what. Jackson batted .423 in the 1919 series, yea those stats look like someone on the take. If anybody is deserving its shoeless joe.

Lets look at some of our great hall of famers.

Ty cobb pure racist
Babe Ruth adultrist
Mickey Mantle drunk

Mantle didn't even know he had a kid until he truned 21 so he could visit him at the bar.

the hall is a joke to some point, but it will never be the true hall of fame without pete and shoeless joe.

 

[BBMF]

Neverteaseit:

Couldn't agree more on Shoeless Joe. From all I've read, a truly great player. One can hardly blame him for not divulging the fix. Lockerroom comraderie/pressure can be tremendous.

 

[jr11]

Rose should be in. If only half the players today played as hard...
Different subject, but isn't LT in the pro football hall of fame? Which to you all think is worse? Betting or being on crack and getting caught multiple times. Not to slam LT because he is one of the greats...just bringing up another situation that is somewhat comparable.

jr11

 

[usbbroker]

Rose should definitely be in the Hall!!
They suspend players for drugs and send them to rehab for their addiction and then let them return. Gambling is a drug just like coke, pot, alcohol and every other substance. MLB is so ass backwards it makes me sick!!! Darryl Strawberry can relapse over and over again and still play but Rose Gambles and he's kicked out of the game for life!!
Ridiculous, absolutely Ridiculous!!!:shrug: :shrug: