Judge’s March To 62 Homers

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Who's more desperate to be noticed ... Roger Maris Jr or Jackson Mahomes?
 

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Not sure why so many Sox fans are cool with this, lol.... but I'm not overly peeved, at least. 62 HR in this day and age is a totally wild feat.
 

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Not sure why so many Sox fans are cool with this, lol.... but I'm not overly peeved, at least. 62 HR in this day and age is a totally wild feat.
Eh, nothing changes. Judge is a good dude and it’s another Yankee so good for him. Now, hope he goes 0-playoffs.
 

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Not sure why so many Sox fans are cool with this, lol.... but I'm not overly peeved, at least. 62 HR in this day and age is a totally wild feat.
Why should we dislike it in 2022? Our team is eliminated, he seems like a decent guy, he’s never helped eliminate our team from contention (twice just the opposite), it’s just a regular season record (I hope he strikes out in every AB in the playoffs), and he’s only supplanting another Yankee.
 

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Congratulations on a great season, Happy he did it as it is more interesting than seeing the Sox limp home. However, if they are going to lean into the Most HR by anyone in the American League, shouldn't they account for the 10 HR he has hit in interleague play against NL teams? Ruth and Maris hit all of their HRs vs. AL teams only.

Edit: I guess the wording "nobody in American League history" does not say only against AL teams, but I think it implies.
 

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Why should we dislike it in 2022? Our team is eliminated, he seems like a decent guy, he’s never helped eliminate our team from contention (twice just the opposite), it’s just a regular season record (I hope he strikes out in every AB in the playoffs), and he’s only supplanting another Yankee.
That’s all fair and pretty reasonable…I just still can’t really get behind anything good happening for that team :)

In the grand scheme of things this year, though, it’s true that it basically doesn’t matter to a Red Sox fan.
 

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david cone apparently made a really good point during the yankee game today about how stupid everyone looks trying to argue ____ player is the true home run king. Its all literally revisionist history.
Hell you could say Ruth would have hit more homers had he not played games in the forrest known as the polo grounds.
View: https://twitter.com/djshort/status/1577479821323800578
 

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Surprisingly all three big Yankee HR seasons had more on the road than at home:

Ruth, 1927: 28/32
Maris, 1961: 30/31
Judge, 2022: 30/32
 

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david cone apparently made a really good point during the yankee game today about how stupid everyone looks trying to argue ____ player is the true home run king. Its all literally revisionist history.
Hell you could say Ruth would have hit more homers had he not played games in the forrest known as the polo grounds.
View: https://twitter.com/djshort/status/1577479821323800578
By the time Ruth set the 60 record in 1927, the Yankees had been playing in the House that Ruth Built for four years.
 

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Asked what he was going to do with the ball, Youmans said, “That’s a good question! I haven’t thought about it!”
A finance executive who can afford to sit anywhere in any stadium chose to sit in the "cheap seats" in left field... while wearing a baseball glove... for this particular game where a player on the opposing team had a chance of breaking the American League homerun record.

And he never thought about what he might do with the ball? I'd respect him more if he just came out and said he was diversifying his portfolio with horsehide futures.
 

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A finance executive who can afford to sit anywhere in any stadium chose to sit in the "cheap seats" in left field... while wearing a baseball glove... for this particular game where a player on the opposing team had a chance of breaking the American League homerun record.

And he never thought about what he might do with the ball? I'd respect him more if he just came out and said he was diversifying his portfolio with horsehide futures.
To be fair, homerun sections of cheap seat sections are often more expensive than much better seats. But I agree.
 

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I'm just glad that guy who seems to catch every other signature dinger is not a party to the upcoming Judge baseball ransom. FWIW, in keeping with the posture, patience and negotiating style of the new AL season HR king, I'm all for the guy getting whatever he can.
 

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It's like winning the lottery, but imagine having paid $15 for those seats like three months ago, having no idea that it could be THE NIGHT, and then as the day gets closer you're thinking, man, there's a chance that I'll be at the game when Judge hits #62, and then as you're THERE, seeing that ball come to you and you reach out and snag it and suddenly...

You're fabulously wealthy.

Just like that.
 

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I like to fantasize about what I’d do in this situation. Just auction off the ball? It’s the right money move, but boring. I’d rather negotiate a package deal. Season tickets in the GOOD seats for five years and a pair in the cheap seats for life. Photo opp with the player and a game used and signed item (batting glove?) as a memento from the record setting event. If I’m a fan of the opposing team, maybe a team signed bat or ball, too.

Of course, I’ve had two chances at a home run ball in an old timer’s game and one in a regular season MLB game and missed all of them, so this really is fantasy…
 

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Don’t you have to seriously consider selling the ball sooner rather than later in case events happen in the next few years that causes the ball to lose value? What if Trout hits 63 next year? What if Judge gets popped for PEDs at some point in the future?
 

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Don’t you have to seriously consider selling the ball sooner rather than later in case events happen in the next few years that causes the ball to lose value? What if Trout hits 63 next year? What if Judge gets popped for PEDs at some point in the future?
If you're already rich (as this guy seems to be), none of this matters. You keep it if you want to, sell if you want to, whatever.
 

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Don’t you have to seriously consider selling the ball sooner rather than later in case events happen in the next few years that causes the ball to lose value? What if Trout hits 63 next year? What if Judge gets popped for PEDs at some point in the future?
For sure, but I'd wait until after the postseason. It could go up if the Yankees win the WS on the back of Judge but it won't go down if they lose in the first round.
 

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Also a money bro like that isn't going to auction that ball unless he actually badly needs the money, he doesn't want the world thinking he badly needs the money (just my educated guess obv). He will strike a deal of some kind with the Judge camp (who has 60 and 61) or keep it, that's my guess. If it was someone who needed the money, then I agree with crow.
 

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I’d auction that ball off in a heartbeat. I might throw a nice party for the SOSH Yankee fans. Maybe I’ll do that anyways, though.
 

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Also a money bro like that isn't going to auction that ball unless he actually badly needs the money, he doesn't want the world thinking he badly needs the money (just my educated guess obv). He will strike a deal of some kind with the Judge camp (who has 60 and 61) or keep it, that's my guess. If it was someone who needed the money, then I agree with crow.
Imagine being so rich you have to hide pocketing an effortless $2 mil so people don’t think you’re poor. What a world!
 

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You are closer to that world than me, do you think I'm wrong?
I suppose it night seem a little gauche, especially among the good Hamptons set. Others might applaud his fiscal savvy as he’d surely turn that two million into many more rather than letting it settle in an asset less likely to accrue significant value in his lifetime.
 

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I’d auction that ball off in a heartbeat. I might throw a nice party for the SOSH Yankee fans. Maybe I’ll do that anyways, though.
It's funny that you and I were talking about this exact seeding possibility in maybe May here.
 

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Oh now I see there is already a firm $2M offer out there, I didn't realize that. So no fear of an auction coming up short, maybe he will auction it and just start the bidding at $2M, I did not realize it was that 'valuable'.
 

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I feel like the value will be depressed if Judge immediately goes to the Giants. The Yankee thing would get the biggest bidders. But I'm not the kind of person who would spend millions on a baseball, so my opinion doesn't carry much weight on this.
 

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Time to put an asterisk on 62*?







While we accumulated 204 baseballs from 22 big league parks in 2022 – more than Wills has obtained in any of her previous studies – MLB also made sure it wasn't easy. One player told Insider that one of Manfred's top lieutenants warned a players' union official not to let players send any balls to Wills for "third-party testing" and warned that the league could fire any non-union team employees who helped her research. Nonetheless, we amassed baseballs from sources around the league, and supplemented our sample by purchasing balls caught by fans and from licensed vendors at ballparks.
 

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So, the allegation is actually they fed Judge juiced balls starting in August to get him over the mark? (Sorry, I’m bad at reading charts).
 

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It’s a very small amount of baseballs tested but I wouldn’t be surprised.
 

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Not sure how or why you’d turn down $3m thinking the AL HR record ball would somehow fetch more than that.