Barry Bonds is the greatest baseball player to ever live. Fucking deal with it
Barry Bonds is the greatest baseball player to ever live. Fucking deal with it
Even taking that out of it, I think Ruth's pitching puts him a step abovePitching was nowhere near what you are thinking of today.
Only one you got right was Gretzky
Barry Bonds is the greatest baseball player to ever live. Fucking deal with it
Even taking that out of it, I think Ruth's pitching puts him a step above
(especially gretzky, whose numbers are ludicrous).
but also one that most benefitted from situation
the Bucs were clearly a talented team who just needed an upgrade at QB
Brady chose Tampa for a reason
that's like half the league!
Fun Fact, before Lemieux retired the first time he averaged over 2 points per game.
The most of any NHL player.
He went into the Hall of Fame with that average.
It was only when he came back his PPG lowered to below Gretsky. Old broken diseased Lemieux could only average 1.34 PPG in the 2000's in the height of the dead puck era.
Which by the way "In fact, he had the highest points-per-game average amongst NHL players for the entire period from his 2001 return until his final retirement in 2006."
He didn't play full seasons but old man Lemieux was still the best player when he was on the ice.
I will always think Lemieux > Gretzky
Retiring younger always makes your PPG look good. Lemieux's first retirement came when he was at 2.005 PPG. After the same number of seasons played Gretzky was at 2.31 PPG. It's the same reason Mike Bossy has the best GPG of anyone (barring guys from the days when players were on the ice the whole game) and likely always will - he retired before the age where goal scorers almost universally have their production go down. For the sake of comparison, Lemieux was the second fastest player to reach 1000 career points. Wayne Gretzky of course did it fastest. Gretzky also went from 1000 to 2000, which no one else has even done, in fewer games that Lemieux went from 0 to 1000. So Gretzky is essentially the fastest *and* second fastest player to reach 1000 points, which is beyond ludicrous. Makes no sense to discredit him solely for being healthy enough to keep playing mostly full seasons as he aged which naturally lowered his PPG like it has for almost every single player in NHL history. There's also the fact that he won more awards, led the league in scoring more often, scored more at even strength than on the powerplay relatively than Lemieux did, played way more games, won his last scoring title at roughly the same age Lemieux did anyway, was even better in the playoffs (not a small achievement given the competition), etc.Destroyed.
lol and Bonds would not have been in the same shape, had the same video to study, have the same nutritionist, or have the same training equipment if he played in 1920. It's not like you could just plop 2002 Bonds into the equation.
Comparing era's straight up like that is silly and degrading the level of competition is also silly.
Brady has broken the "championships sre the only stat that matters" thing to me.
Brady won 0 Super Bowls during his actual prime.
I basically only know soccer and it's absolutely right.
