Joe Carter's complaining his HR to win the WS ain't getting enough respect

We wear caps and sleeves at this level, son.

 

Please don't accuse me of being dishonest--you're better than that.

Joe's point --which I said I agreed with--was that his WORLD SERIES WINNING home run didn't get enough respect.

I would have plugged it in at #3 of so even if Carter had still been with the Indians.

And I take a little bit of comfort in the fact that two of the most knowledgeable baseball people here--Spnited and Buckweaver kinda agree with me.

Have we flogged this dead horse enough?

 

Junkie,

Who gives a shit what Joe Carter did with the Inidans?

I mean seriously, what does that have to do with this discussion?

Did I say it was the biggest home run ever hit in baseball history? No.

All I said was that it's up there in the top 3, an opinion shared by a couple of serious baseball guys around here.

I gotta go feed my dog.

 

Carter's home run never resonated with me for several reasons, including some mentioned on this thread. Also:

-- I didn't see it. I was covering a football game.
-- I never really got into the Blue Jays.
-- Pretty sure the game being in a domed stadium took something away from it for me (is that fair? I don't know, but it's true).
-- Even seeing replays (the call, the hit itself) left me sort of ... OK, whatever.

Great accomplishment. Certainly one of the best in baseball. It deserves to be ranked wherever you choose to rank it. If you love it, great. I'm thrilled for you. Just doesn't really reverberate for me.

 

I wonder if Joe has asked Pete Rozelle what he thinks of this.

 

I also hope Joe Carter gets hit by a train.

Or a bus.

 

Unfortunately your attempts at humour are about as bad as your reading comprehension.

And you are not being "honest". You are being fucking dense.

Let me explain this again.

Joe Carter's HR walk-off home run won a World Series.

The only other person to do that in baseball history was Mazeroski.

Given that, Joe Carter's HR --and this isn't me speaking--could objectively be ranked # 3 after Maz & Thomson's pennant winning HR. That is the opinion of some of the SportsJournalists.com baseball experts, none of whom have a dog in this fight.

Go nuke yourself.

 

And, for old time's sakes, here's Tom Cheek's call of the home run.

http://www.irun.com/users/6967/downloads/Jays%20Win%20Back-to-Back%20World%20Series.mp3

 

Never had one clutch hit with the Indians?

He drove in 98 or more runs four times in five full seasons with the Tribe. Among them was a pretty damn stellar 1986 campaign in which he led the league in RBIs and led the team in home runs, hits, runs, doubles, slugging and total bases. He was also second in triples and stolen bases.

He also must have pissed in your corn flakes somewhere along the way, obviously.

 

Imagine if Mazeroski's home run had been hit today, ESPN would have wood for years over that one.

 

Junkie's right, JJ. Those Indians teams weren't playing for anything. Really hard to have "clutch" hits when you're 36 games out of first in August.

Brook was also good at the solo home run and two-run doubles in eighth innings of losses. Brook had 32 home runs in 1987 and only 69 RBIs. Weren't a whole lot of baserunners ahead of him.

 

Tabler always managed to do that.

And I said "those Indians teams" not just in '86. The Indians teams were good for personal numbers, bad for wins.