This is pretty cool:

https://youtu.be/jXftJC8FOfo

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Yeah, that was.

Who the hell was throwing BP? Lucas Giolito? Hit the plate for Christ's sake.

Gehrig makes the Babe look small.

Man they had giant hitches in their swings. That shit wouldn’t play today.

Babe was all hitch with those feet close together.

I think they'd both adjust fine, though.

I love how they shared a bat.

Check out that guy's whole channel. History buffs should love it.

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They used a 40 oz bat against guys throwing 85. Never had to worry about breaking it.

Babe Ruth was 2 inches taller than Gehirg, Ruth was 6'2" and Gehrig was 6'0". Ruth also had a huge upper body, I think he made Gehrig look pretty small.

The amount of hip rotation these guys get is incredible.

Look at the finish - no weight is left on the trail leg. That's true power right there.

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Yeah, Kyler Murray plays today, not Babe Ruth.

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Did you see his back, forearms, and legs? He made the Babe look small. Edit: Or smaller.

Look, I'm three inches taller than Mickey Mantle was.....

Ever wonder, if Lou Gehrig never became famous, what would they call Lou Gehrig's disease? Crazy

Probably ALS

Gehrig was an impressive athlete but Ruth's upper body dwarfed Gehrig's.

And speaking of diseases, the one disease I ain't want is Pete Gray's Disease

Maybe Lou with his muscular ass, thin waist, and wide shoulders just cuts a better figure. Why the fuck am I replying?

TIMMAAAYYYYYY just came up in the wrong era. He would be the greatest player in the history of baseball if he had been around in Ruths day

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What the fuck are you butt hurt fuckin retards talking about. Leave your MAGA hats out of this. Good god grow the fuck up.

Ruth woulda crushed a Clincher with that swing.

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Seems like you're the one who is butthurt. You say idiotic stuff and then get angry when it gets pointed out. What's retarded is calling Adam Engel a Hall of Famer and saying Ruth and Gehrig couldn't play today.

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BBBBuuuttt the hitches in their swings !!!

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Pete Gray could easily play Fortnight today. (In truth, I don't even know what Fortnight is.)

Before you bash him, hear me out. In fourth grade, I got caught crying in the liberry when I was reading The Pete Gray Story and I got to the part where the dual-armed players returned from beating Russia or whatevs and the greedy owners sent Pete--the fastest man in the bigs!--back down. Anyway, someone asked me what the tears were for, and I was like, "I have an eye condition," and I had to maintain the lie for about two more years.

Anyway, Gray was a natural right-hander who chose, for a variety of reasons, to bat, throw, and catch lefty.

That is true. Gehrig was bigger in his lower half. You are right about Ruth having a huge upper half.

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Oh, he might have went on livin'
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Jorr: I believe the best players from the past could make adjustments and play in this era.

Keyser: Fuck you MAGA retards.

Leash you have a new Trump derangement clubhouse leader.

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Good stuff. The notion that Ruth and Gehrig couldn't play today is the clap trap from people today who think that today's athletes are just so superior to those who preceded them. They just ignore the pure physical talent of yesterday's athletes who didn't have all of the equipment, supplements, travel advantages, training, MONEY, etc. of the players today. Most baseball players back then had to have second jobs just to make ends meet. Now, a guy just coming into the majors is pretty much a millionaire for cripes sake.

And I have to laugh when I hear so-called "experts" talk about the top end speed of today's pitchers and that Ruth and Gehrig would never hit these guys. Hilarious. And they talk about how he hit with a 40-46 ounce bat and that he wouldn't be able to bring that bat around. What these "experts" as they typically do are clueless about what someone like Ruth would do. Do they think that the greatest hitter of all time(Ruth) wouldn't maybe go to a LIGHTER BAT?

Ever take a look at the HANDS of Ruth? He had huge hands and he whipped those hands through his stroke. The notion that Ruth couldn't turn around a 95-100mph fastball is ridiculous. He'd eat up a fastball at that speed.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

I play in a fantasy baseball league that is undoubtedly the longest continuously running league in existence. It's been going since the mid-80s. I guess Dan Okrent and his friends invented Rotisserie baseball in New York around the same time this league got started. Obviously there were no Yahoo or ESPN leagues at the time. The scoring and categories had to be made up. I believe a guy named Dave Weisbecker created our scoring system. There are a bunch of arcane rules and only Friday games count (with Saturday as a backup if the guy didn't play on Friday).

Anyway, one year I had Jim Abbott on my team. He was probably my fourth option as a starter. I didn't really like him because strikeouts are a key category in our league and there was a bonus for 10 strikeouts. You wanted guys like Randy Johnson or Pedro, not Jim Abbott.

We used to meet at Quencher's on Thursday nights to turn in our lineups. One Thursday during a drunken discussion I happened to say, "I don't like Jim Abbott. He's only got one hand." That earned me the nickname, "The Minister of Sensitivity". Abbott took his revenge against me though, as he was sitting on my bench the Saturday night he tossed his no-hitter.

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Jorr and RFDC doin work in this thread.

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Cool video, but I wish they had taken some shots of where the balls were hit.

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Ah, the 312 was the best one!! I get it, though.