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Front Page: Bronx Bombers Catch the Bomba Squad. Can Twins Regain Record?

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jkcarew Ft Myers Mighty Mussels

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I 'liked' some of the posts because they were in tune with my thoughts on this. I think the most interesting thing about the HR record could be its permanence of MLB decides to go back to a real baseball next year and in the future. To me this is sort of like moving the mound in to 54' and being impressed by the amount of strike outs pitchers are accruing! :).

I'm with you...mostly. I agree with the sentiment that the numbers can't be interpreted in terms of where they would fit historically. About every record related to HRs is falling...most overall, most by a team, most in a month, most by a rookie in his first X games, most by a player before his 21st birthday...ad nauseam.

 

Still, I don't expect the 2019 team number to have much permanence. Two reasons. One, I don't think it's JUST the ball. Two, I think MLB very much wants the HRs. I think they see it as "well, if batting averages are going to be low, and strike-outs are going to be high, we need lots of home runs". And since the BA and K trends don't seem to be easing up any time soon, I'm not expecting MLB to be in any kind of a hurry to inhibit the HR trend...including materially 'correcting' the baseball.

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The home run record for a season is it's own thing. It is not connected to getting to and winning in the play-offs. It doesn't have to be one or the other, even in one'e own mind. They are separate accomplishments that may or may not happen. It doesn't lesson one to care about one more than the other. Not caring about one doesn't make the other more likely to happen. Records are fun. Always have been. Always will be. That is why we keep track of them.

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Why the big to-do over a possible home run record? It is only wins and losses that count in my book. A home run record is nice but not as nice as an AL Pennant waving over Target Field.

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Well it seems our hitters are comming back and we have 13 games against the bottom feeders so I still think we have a fighting chance.  I also hope we can hit some other HR goals.  We currently have 3 players who have hit 30 HRs.  if Sano and Rosario can make it that would be 5 players on a team which i think is a record.  we also have I think 8 20 HR hitters.  I think that is a record too.  so if the Yanks do have the most for the season we can end up with several other team HR records too.  Although I hate the Yanks and I will be rooting for the HRs the rest of the season so we can win by one.  

 

So the bottom line is we will likely tie the Yankees for the most HRs in a season.

 

yarnivek1972 Ft Myers Mighty Mussels

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yeah, and no matter who holds it, I suspect it gets broken in the not so distant future.

idk, it seems to me that MLB is going to have to do something. The big home run totals in the late 90s put fans back in the seats after the strike/lockout of 1994/5. But it isn’t playing out that way now. MLB attendance and ratings continue to trend down.

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idk, it seems to me that MLB is going to have to do something. The big home run totals in the late 90s put fans back in the seats after the strike/lockout of 1994/5. But it isn’t playing out that way now. MLB attendance and ratings continue to trend down.

Local ratings are doing quite well, as I understand. It is a very different media landscape than even just a few years ago, so I suspect MLB isn't truly concerned about national ratings all that much.

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How many of you knew that the Yankees held the record before the season started? Or who held it before that? Whoever sets it this year, it will almost certainly be broken again in a year or two. It's a nice talking point, but I honestly don't care that much.

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Nobody mentioned this, so I will.

 

The Damn Yankees movie, was about the player for the Washington Senators, now the Minnesota Twins, selling his soul to the Devil, in order to beat the Yankees just one year. 

 

The Yankees play in a little league park. Screw em. If Rosario or Kepler played there, they's average 50 homers a year. 

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Otto von Ballpark

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3 more HR for the Yankees halfway through the second game of their doubleheader today. Up to 279 with 14 games remaining after today.

 

Twins at 277 with 17 games remaining.

One more for the Yankees too, so they have a cool 280 with 14 games left.

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I really couldn't care less if the Twins hit another "bomba" as long as they win more games.

 

This whole bomba thing has run its course, IMO. Win some damn ballgames and then talk to me.

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