People like to accuse Belle of being a juicer, which I believe him when he says he wasn’t. I loved his response. “If I was taking steroids, I probably could have hit 60 homers every year.” The dude was problematic as hell but we need more dudes like him. Social media has made too many athletes fake as hell
Belle wasn't a juicer, he was a corker. Now there's a debate over whether corking a bat really helps the ball fly more, but the fact he did it and tried to cheat to get competitive advantage still makes him a P.o.S., even if you don't count faking an injury, quitting right after getting a $70M deal or something like that, and being a horrible human being.
Yes, he should be in the hall. It is the writers who hate him that are keeping him out. No one has done what he did with RBIs and looked at that time period when he played 162 games between 2 years. 67 home runs. That would have been a record if it was in one season before the real druggie broke it. That's why I said that Barry is not the home run king. It is still Hank. I was at the game where Albert became the Cleveland 's home run leader,(broken by Jim Thome) it landed a few rows behind me in the bleachers. The fans were harassing him about having the ball up there when he came out to left field. They said that he flipped the bird (finger) at us. I didn't see it because I was looking down at my program at the time. Albert is a good man but he was in the zone when he played. The type of player you wanted on your team when it came to playing the game.
Barry Larkin should have a video, he's usually forgotten about compared to the other 90s shortstops like Jeter, A-Rod, and Nomar, but his prime was elite and he's easily a contender for the best Reds player alongside Rose and Bench.
Hell yea, I'm an Astros and Yankees fan so I got no bias here, Larkin was an understated legend. Legit one of the best offensive SS of all time, whole career with one franchise, he was super consistent and just did everything the right way. Great player, Cinci should be proud to have him as one of theirs. He's the Biggio of the Reds.
@@NYY300Completely forgot about Morgan but he only spent 8 of his 22 years with them (granted he was absolutely elite during that time and was an All-Star every year with them) and Joey Votto and Frank Robinson put up more WAR for the Reds than Morgan did. He honestly deserves his own video though, his peak was unbelievable and is the reason he's widely considered the best second baseman in history.
Just based off his performance over the span of his career, he is a Hall of Famer. No doubt. It’s stupid to say this Belle shouldn’t be in the HOF because he only played 12 seasons. He has better overall stats than some guys who played 20+ seasons. 8X550=4400ABs…
mlb hof is prob the hardest hof to get into. They don't care about how amazing your peak was, even if the player had something like an insane 8 year peak..they care about total numbers and longevity way more
This video made me happy. What run production year in year out! In my opinion he deserved more years on the ballot maybe even a spot in the HOF due to his insane prime. And I agree with Belle that the best feeling in baseball is driving in runs. Nothing beats the high you feel after driving in runs with a clutch hit
Thanks for doing this on Albert Belle. Many people talk about the 1995 season, and we all know he should have won the MVP. But Belle's 1998 season with the Sox was also incredible with 49/152/.328 with 200 hits and it's sad he wasn't elected as an all star that season. But yea those Indians teams were amazing with Lofton, Manny, Belle and Thome. Please do one on Thurman Munson who should also be in the HOF
Still holds the single season records for HR and RBI for the ChiSox! Pretty impressive considering Frank Thomas was a monster. Belle had an off year in ‘97 while Thomas had a stellar ’97. They flip flopped in ‘98 🙄
@@edmondlau511 I know, they are still records. They flipped their productivity the two years Belle was there (But Belle still hit over 30 hrs and 116 rbi). I sort of wish Belle had stayed in in Cleveland. I mean the Tribe did make the series in 97'. Cleveland still won that division both of those years. Today's Orioles team could possibly be like that Cleveland team in that mid 90s. They just need pitching.
@@flame-sky7148 I remember the Sox still sucked after signing Belle. Ventura broke his ankle in spring training '97 which depleted their defense and they lost a 25 home run lefty. It would've been quite a show if Thomas and Belle both had great seasons, they would've done some damage for sure but the Sox couldn't get their pitching right.
@@edmondlau511 Yea, Ventura's defense with his 6 Gold Gloves would have helped including his bat. The Sox also traded Baines after 90 plus games (which I don't know why, he was hitting .300??). But yea they lacked pitching. They got a segment of a 1998 game on YT, with the Sox vs. Cardinals and the Sox were down like 7-0 in the late innings, then Belle hit 2 hrs and Ventura hit 2 homes and the Sox came back and won that thing. It was simply amazing.
I dare any TH-cam content creator to TRY and touch this work. Thing is, they can't. I love the comparisons, effort and ability that it takes to do this. As a fellow O's fan @Cam23 I salute you!
@@Cam23 I support all content creators with great work. We see these larger platforms that barely put in effort anymore and it sickens me. We ditched Xfinity so I download and watch your vids over and over. Trust me, what you do makes a huge difference.
Imagine walking around as the only person in the history of the sport to have 50 doubles and 50 home runs in the same season. Only one can say this, and live this. All respect to Albert.
It's almost incomprehensible to think that he did this in a short season. One of the best years in the history of the sport. That season lit a spark for the Cleveland franchise that has been burning since. They've been competitive for most of the years since. And we're almost entirely a non factor before his 1995 season.
People talk about character when a guy is not in the Hall of Fame, but those character clauses didn't apply to some players like Rube Waddell, Pud Galvin or Ty Cobb. There's a photo of Cobb drop kicking a catcher when he was suppose to slide into home. Go look up those guys incidents, nobody's perfect. And in each sports there some guys who simply have issues, and Belle was one of those guys. I also would love to see you do one on Ralph Kiner, like Belle played a short career, (just 10 seasons). Played for Pirates who played their games at Forbes Field, one of the toughest home run parks.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1996 at a restaurant in downtown Cleveland. I was 16 and honestly nervous to even approach his table. I finally worked up the courage and asked for his autograph. He smiles and says of course. That opened up the floodgates and suddenly there's10 people around him. This little girl with her dad couldn't have been more than 5 or so. She walks right up to Albert and says that her dad loved him and never believed he did "the roids." Albert laughed and said he appreciated that, even shaking her obviously nervous dad's hand. Encouraged by the laughter, the little girl just blurts out: *"Yeah, he said you don't get roided rage. You're just batsh+t crazy."* I have NEVER in my life seen a white guy get whiter than her poor dad, who clearly believed his time on earth had come to an end. After a second, Albert just busted out laughing hysterically. He signed her napkin: "Your dad might be right. Your buddy, Albert Belle." 😂😂😂
Albert.. I mean, Joey abused alcohol while he was in college and the Cape Cod league, which changed his demeanor for the worse. But even after he stopped drinking, the surliness stayed.
Andruw Jones? Maybe the biggest HOF snub? Best defensive CF ever. 50 HR season. 434 career HRs. Forgot how to hit the ball. Bobby Cox said about Andruw: he has RBIs in his glove.
Let's face it Albert Belle was one of the greatest hitters and baseball players to ever live but when you have wimps voting for who gets the mvp you know those batas are not going to give it to an alpha like Belle. That's why the mvp is meaningless and so is being in the hall of fame. They voted purely on the basis of hating alpha's
a generation soon will look at what this guy did and ask baseball what the hell is wrong with them…Belle may not have the overall numbers because of injury shortened career but Belle is one of the best right handed hitters ever in baseball
I would love to see an insane prime video for Joe Morgan or Chase Utley. A video on either the best second baseman of all time or the best second baseman of his generation, can’t go wrong with either.
Albert Belle was a douchebag off the field. A kid in Seattle came up to him, while he was leaving the stadium after a Mariners and Indians game at the Kingdome, and handed Belle a giant caricature (spelled correctly) of him and said "I made this for you because you're my favorite player," to which he looked at it for literally two seconds and said, "this looks nothing like me!" To which he shredded the picture, threw it on the ground and then just got in a taxi with Kenny Lofton and left without saying another word. The kid was like 9 years old picked up the pieces in shock and just slumped back to his parents with tears in his eyes. When he limped away from the game into retirement, I was thrilled that he was done and was forced into retirement by injuries before he could amass enough stats to be considered for the Hall of Fame.
@@C00lGuyWithHats Not even close. I was about to ask them for autographs when they left, and was about 5-7 feet away. I suck at drawing, but it was really good. The fact that you even ask this, instead of the focus being on their actions, tells a lot about how you live your life, and what you put value in when being told something. It's sad really, make an adjustment, be a better person, the people in your life deserve far better from you.
@@DrWestlake that’s hilarious coming from the guy who had a smile on his face over someone’s injuries and early retirement, Albert belle was hard as they come and a beast at the plate. You don’t gotta like it but you will respect it.
@@C00lGuyWithHats He was a cheater, literally using corked bats, and faked an injury right after the Orioles paid him, because he didn't want to keep playing. By the way, he only had 40.1 fWAR compared to Kyle Seager had 36.9 fWAR, while being a slightly above-average hitter and fielder. I smiled at him retiring from baseball, and even if it was about his injury. The concept of not having ill-will for bad people is dumb, as if someone saying good thing Hitler is dead would somehow make them a bad person. Then you say Belle isn't Hitler, to which I say, I also didn't wish Belle dead. Even then, now you're changing the argument, first you said "who had a smile on his face over someone's injuries and early retirement," but now I bet you're going to tell me Belle wasn't Hitler, which means you think it's okay to wish ill-will towards a person, so long as it's not Albert Belle or someone you value more highly than Hitler, as if people should conform to an abstract morality dictated by your own preferences.
Well actually science says the cork bat does not help hit HR’s. They probably make it harder so hitting a HR with a corked bat is actually impressive 🤣🤣🤣
There's a balance between bat speed and inertia. A heavier bat will always make the ball go further in relation to the speed of the swing, but you have to be strong enough to swing the bat at nearly top speed, your bat speed with your game bat should be pretty close to your speed with a plastic wiffle ball bat, meaning about the same speed you can pull your hands through the zone with no weight.
Albert 'Joey' Belle and his twin brother are from my hometown. His dad was the baseball coach at one of the big high schools here back a few decades ago. He never comes back around here but this is where he's from. He went to Huntington but his dad was the coach at Airline High School, across the river in Bossier City. It's Shreveports 'sister city'. Essentially 1 city split by a river but run by 2 city govt's, Shreveport and Bossier City.
Having to shorten your career due to injury shouldn't be held against anyone that put up his type of numbers. It didn't hold Sandy Koufax back. He should be in the HOF.
That's the problem. One thing clicked and the other part didn't. Should have won the 97 series. In 95, we just didn't have that shut you down pitcher. And that hurt in the series against Braves.
How about a Dave Winfield video? Talk about a crusher. A Fred "The Crime Dog" McGriff. His batting stance and swing is a video in itself lol beauty exists in sports. P.S. Albert deserves to be in HOF. He's an ass. So what. Stats are stats.
Sure, baseball writers want all players to hit .300 and raise all our country's orphans. Hall of Fame for sure. Between the lines, Albert Belle was a show stopper, full stop. AND he stole bases as a "big man". Who in the current day of the game can hit for average, homers, rbi's, obp, steals, hits, ops for just 5 years in a row? Hate on him all you want, but you would want him on your team! Be honest. His career was amazing.
It's what he did on the field that should make him a HOF guy. I love Ty Cobb's career too & he was more dis-liked than Belle. Maybe Ty' got in because the writers didn't get so butt hurt back then. The power of voting should be put in the hands of the fans. Writers don't know anymore than any fan after all & don't have that personal connection that can make a writer bias for or against a player based on if they got along with them or not. Lots of others that should be in the Hall also but Alberts the 1st that comes to my mind always.
If Belle was better liked he'd be in the Hall of Fame. His WAR/162 isn't that far off Kirby Puckett's. But Kirby waited until after he was elected to be unlikable.
I can still see it. Albert Belle batting in the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded as Jacobs Field filled to capacity. The 1990s were special for sure.
Belle was a terror. The best player in baseball for a stretch. His legacy is tarnished by a bunch of soft, spineless media members who he refused to bend the knee and act the way they wanted him to act. The media screwed him because they didn’t like him. He was the most feared hitter in baseball and has a strong argument for Cooperstown. The same soft media members won’t let it happen proving yet again they should not be the ones with the ability to enshrine.
As a kid, I used to go a ton of games at the Jake back in the 90s and man it was an electric time to be alive when Albert Belle came up to bat. The stadium would go nuts and he seemed to alawys deliver
As a Dodgers fan who you did listen too and because your gramps was a fan you came through with Sandy K, now it’s time to see one about Don Drysdale 🤝🏼🤝🏼😎😎💪🏼💪🏼
People like to accuse Belle of being a juicer, which I believe him when he says he wasn’t. I loved his response. “If I was taking steroids, I probably could have hit 60 homers every year.” The dude was problematic as hell but we need more dudes like him. Social media has made too many athletes fake as hell
Not that hard to tell if someone is juicing. The people I always saw that did roids had acne issues, robot voices, etc from hormone issues
Jose Canseco, who was publicly calling out all of the juicers, including himself, said that Belle was clean.
The fact Belle only hit 50 once should tell you he didn't take roids.
Belle wasn't a juicer, he was a corker. Now there's a debate over whether corking a bat really helps the ball fly more, but the fact he did it and tried to cheat to get competitive advantage still makes him a P.o.S., even if you don't count faking an injury, quitting right after getting a $70M deal or something like that, and being a horrible human being.
^^^^^^ His body quit, not his choice. And Jose was probably scared to piss him off lol. I would be.
Joey B. Was a f*cking Beast!!!
Who is thattttttt!!!!!
Its a joke Belle is not in the HOF. Kiner is in the HOF with only 10 years. Too much subjective criteria used.
Damn straight. Imagine a career where your final injury plagued season STILL came with 100+ RBI.
Yes, he should be in the hall. It is the writers who hate him that are keeping him out. No one has done what he did with RBIs and looked at that time period when he played 162 games between 2 years. 67 home runs. That would have been a record if it was in one season before the real druggie broke it. That's why I said that Barry is not the home run king. It is still Hank.
I was at the game where Albert became the Cleveland 's home run leader,(broken by Jim Thome) it landed a few rows behind me in the bleachers. The fans were harassing him about having the ball up there when he came out to left field. They said that he flipped the bird (finger) at us. I didn't see it because I was looking down at my program at the time. Albert is a good man but he was in the zone when he played. The type of player you wanted on your team when it came to playing the game.
One of the best hitters to ever play the game
Barry Larkin should have a video, he's usually forgotten about compared to the other 90s shortstops like Jeter, A-Rod, and Nomar, but his prime was elite and he's easily a contender for the best Reds player alongside Rose and Bench.
Hell yea, I'm an Astros and Yankees fan so I got no bias here, Larkin was an understated legend. Legit one of the best offensive SS of all time, whole career with one franchise, he was super consistent and just did everything the right way. Great player, Cinci should be proud to have him as one of theirs. He's the Biggio of the Reds.
Ozzie > Barry
@@J.C...not even close
Joe Morgan?
@@NYY300Completely forgot about Morgan but he only spent 8 of his 22 years with them (granted he was absolutely elite during that time and was an All-Star every year with them) and Joey Votto and Frank Robinson put up more WAR for the Reds than Morgan did. He honestly deserves his own video though, his peak was unbelievable and is the reason he's widely considered the best second baseman in history.
Sports need more Albert Belles and Ron Artests. There's consequences to your words. 😆
Says some random p**k on internet..why don't you join an mlb squad instead of crapping on internet 😮💨
When i think of those 90s Indians teams, its not Manny or Thome i think of. I think of Albert Belle. He was the most dangerous guy in the lineup.
The most impressive part about researching Albert was the sheer number of clutch moments he had, it's unbelievable!
Just based off his performance over the span of his career, he is a Hall of Famer. No doubt. It’s stupid to say this Belle shouldn’t be in the HOF because he only played 12 seasons. He has better overall stats than some guys who played 20+ seasons. 8X550=4400ABs…
I agree, it’s the Hall of Fame not the Hall of 20+ year, 100 WAR careers
Very comparable numbers and career length to Ralph Kiner.
mlb hof is prob the hardest hof to get into. They don't care about how amazing your peak was, even if the player had something like an insane 8 year peak..they care about total numbers and longevity way more
This video made me happy. What run production year in year out! In my opinion he deserved more years on the ballot maybe even a spot in the HOF due to his insane prime. And I agree with Belle that the best feeling in baseball is driving in runs. Nothing beats the high you feel after driving in runs with a clutch hit
I’m glad to hear that! I definitely think he should have been given a better chance to get elected to the Hall of Fame
Belle was a absolute menace in the box
The Baseball HoF is for your accomplishments on the field, not your relationship with the media!!
Thanks for doing this on Albert Belle. Many people talk about the 1995 season, and we all know he should have won the MVP. But Belle's 1998 season with the Sox was also incredible with 49/152/.328 with 200 hits and it's sad he wasn't elected as an all star that season. But yea those Indians teams were amazing with Lofton, Manny, Belle and Thome. Please do one on Thurman Munson who should also be in the HOF
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I agree, he certainly gets a lot of attention for '95 but his '98 season is very impressive as well
Still holds the single season records for HR and RBI for the ChiSox! Pretty impressive considering Frank Thomas was a monster. Belle had an off year in ‘97 while Thomas had a stellar ’97. They flip flopped in ‘98 🙄
@@edmondlau511 I know, they are still records. They flipped their productivity the two years Belle was there (But Belle still hit over 30 hrs and 116 rbi). I sort of wish Belle had stayed in in Cleveland. I mean the Tribe did make the series in 97'. Cleveland still won that division both of those years. Today's Orioles team could possibly be like that Cleveland team in that mid 90s. They just need pitching.
@@flame-sky7148 I remember the Sox still sucked after signing Belle. Ventura broke his ankle in spring training '97 which depleted their defense and they lost a 25 home run lefty. It would've been quite a show if Thomas and Belle both had great seasons, they would've done some damage for sure but the Sox couldn't get their pitching right.
@@edmondlau511 Yea, Ventura's defense with his 6 Gold Gloves would have helped including his bat. The Sox also traded Baines after 90 plus games (which I don't know why, he was hitting .300??). But yea they lacked pitching.
They got a segment of a 1998 game on YT, with the Sox vs. Cardinals and the Sox were down like 7-0 in the late innings, then Belle hit 2 hrs and Ventura hit 2 homes and the Sox came back and won that thing. It was simply amazing.
I dare any TH-cam content creator to TRY and touch this work. Thing is, they can't. I love the comparisons, effort and ability that it takes to do this. As a fellow O's fan @Cam23 I salute you!
I appreciate the kind words! It takes a lot of work but it's always well worth it to honor the careers of the game's best players. And Go O's!
@@Cam23 I support all content creators with great work. We see these larger platforms that barely put in effort anymore and it sickens me. We ditched Xfinity so I download and watch your vids over and over. Trust me, what you do makes a huge difference.
Thank you for supporting the channel that truly means a lot!
Imagine walking around as the only person in the history of the sport to have 50 doubles and 50 home runs in the same season. Only one can say this, and live this. All respect to Albert.
It's almost incomprehensible to think that he did this in a short season. One of the best years in the history of the sport. That season lit a spark for the Cleveland franchise that has been burning since. They've been competitive for most of the years since. And we're almost entirely a non factor before his 1995 season.
It's amazing that this record still hasn't been touched by anyone else, and Belle almost did it a 2nd time?!!!!
People talk about character when a guy is not in the Hall of Fame, but those character clauses didn't apply to some players like Rube Waddell, Pud Galvin or Ty Cobb. There's a photo of Cobb drop kicking a catcher when he was suppose to slide into home. Go look up those guys incidents, nobody's perfect. And in each sports there some guys who simply have issues, and Belle was one of those guys. I also would love to see you do one on Ralph Kiner, like Belle played a short career, (just 10 seasons). Played for Pirates who played their games at Forbes Field, one of the toughest home run parks.
Glad to see you cover Belle! He's one of my favorite players of all time, just a wholesome guy. (Yes, in spite of the anger stigma.)
It was a blast to make this video! He was an interesting guy to learn about that’s for sure
Without question, Albert Bell should be in the Hall of Fame
Belle
Belle was equal parts baseball superstar and complete a-hole. It’s too bad. He should be in the Hall.
I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1996 at a restaurant in downtown Cleveland. I was 16 and honestly nervous to even approach his table. I finally worked up the courage and asked for his autograph. He smiles and says of course. That opened up the floodgates and suddenly there's10 people around him. This little girl with her dad couldn't have been more than 5 or so. She walks right up to Albert and says that her dad loved him and never believed he did "the roids." Albert laughed and said he appreciated that, even shaking her obviously nervous dad's hand. Encouraged by the laughter, the little girl just blurts out: *"Yeah, he said you don't get roided rage. You're just batsh+t crazy."* I have NEVER in my life seen a white guy get whiter than her poor dad, who clearly believed his time on earth had come to an end. After a second, Albert just busted out laughing hysterically. He signed her napkin: "Your dad might be right. Your buddy, Albert Belle." 😂😂😂
Albert Belle was a DAWG!!!! Put him in the HALL💯💯
Yes. This is what we love to see. Excellent job as always man. Love your work.
Being a prick shouldn't keep you out of the HOF when your numbers justify your entry. We loved him in Cleveland
First at bat in the bigs...just out here facing the NOLAN RYAN. That would be crazy. Even craier to get an rbi single off of him.
It was so interesting to learn that! Can’t imagine how stressful that would have been 😂
Belle is a sure Hall Of Famer
He damn well better be!
Most feared hitter in MLB from 1993-1999
Please willl Clark
Albert Belle was a freakin beast...he definitely could have had a lot better career
Albert.. I mean, Joey abused alcohol while he was in college and the Cape Cod league, which changed his demeanor for the worse. But even after he stopped drinking, the surliness stayed.
Andruw Jones? Maybe the biggest HOF snub? Best defensive CF ever. 50 HR season. 434 career HRs. Forgot how to hit the ball. Bobby Cox said about Andruw: he has RBIs in his glove.
I'll take Belle
Belle, Jones and Kenny Lofton should all be in
Let's face it Albert Belle was one of the greatest hitters and baseball players to ever live but when you have wimps voting for who gets the mvp you know those batas are not going to give it to an alpha like Belle. That's why the mvp is meaningless and so is being in the hall of fame. They voted purely on the basis of hating alpha's
Manny Ramirez is my pick for your next video
should be in hall
Belle for HOF
Roberto Alomar next?
George Brett
This man and Gary Sheffield should both be in the HOF
Hey, you ever thought about doing a video on jim rice? Thanks for the vids
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying the content. Definitely will have to make one on him someday.
Still waiting for Lance Berkman
a generation soon will look at what this guy did and ask baseball what the hell is wrong with them…Belle may not have the overall numbers because of injury shortened career but Belle is one of the best right handed hitters ever in baseball
Another awesome video yet again! How does this guy keep doing this? Btw its Sergio I just changed my name👍
Thank you Sergio! I always appreciate the kind words 🙌🏼 (Even before I looked at the comment I remembered your avatar 😉)
Most people don’t know Albert frequently took unsold ballpark foods to inner city shelters after games!👏
I didn’t know that. However, that’s a positive thing about him.
I would love to see an insane prime video for Joe Morgan or Chase Utley. A video on either the best second baseman of all time or the best second baseman of his generation, can’t go wrong with either.
Albert Belle was a douchebag off the field. A kid in Seattle came up to him, while he was leaving the stadium after a Mariners and Indians game at the Kingdome, and handed Belle a giant caricature (spelled correctly) of him and said "I made this for you because you're my favorite player," to which he looked at it for literally two seconds and said, "this looks nothing like me!" To which he shredded the picture, threw it on the ground and then just got in a taxi with Kenny Lofton and left without saying another word. The kid was like 9 years old picked up the pieces in shock and just slumped back to his parents with tears in his eyes. When he limped away from the game into retirement, I was thrilled that he was done and was forced into retirement by injuries before he could amass enough stats to be considered for the Hall of Fame.
You’re that kid aren’t you
@@C00lGuyWithHats Not even close. I was about to ask them for autographs when they left, and was about 5-7 feet away. I suck at drawing, but it was really good. The fact that you even ask this, instead of the focus being on their actions, tells a lot about how you live your life, and what you put value in when being told something. It's sad really, make an adjustment, be a better person, the people in your life deserve far better from you.
@@DrWestlake that’s hilarious coming from the guy who had a smile on his face over someone’s injuries and early retirement, Albert belle was hard as they come and a beast at the plate. You don’t gotta like it but you will respect it.
@@C00lGuyWithHats He was a cheater, literally using corked bats, and faked an injury right after the Orioles paid him, because he didn't want to keep playing. By the way, he only had 40.1 fWAR compared to Kyle Seager had 36.9 fWAR, while being a slightly above-average hitter and fielder. I smiled at him retiring from baseball, and even if it was about his injury. The concept of not having ill-will for bad people is dumb, as if someone saying good thing Hitler is dead would somehow make them a bad person.
Then you say Belle isn't Hitler, to which I say, I also didn't wish Belle dead. Even then, now you're changing the argument, first you said "who had a smile on his face over someone's injuries and early retirement," but now I bet you're going to tell me Belle wasn't Hitler, which means you think it's okay to wish ill-will towards a person, so long as it's not Albert Belle or someone you value more highly than Hitler, as if people should conform to an abstract morality dictated by your own preferences.
Well actually science says the cork bat does not help hit HR’s. They probably make it harder so hitting a HR with a corked bat is actually impressive 🤣🤣🤣
I'm genuinely curious, do you have a link with evidence of this?
There's a balance between bat speed and inertia. A heavier bat will always make the ball go further in relation to the speed of the swing, but you have to be strong enough to swing the bat at nearly top speed, your bat speed with your game bat should be pretty close to your speed with a plastic wiffle ball bat, meaning about the same speed you can pull your hands through the zone with no weight.
@@jeffn9952it was on Baseball doesn’t exist I believe were they broke it down. I think it was in their video about cheating in baseball.
@@ImGonnasayit Okay thanks
Say what you will, but I would like to see an Insane Prime for Alex Rodriguez
Yep.. The "Juiced Years"!
Should be in the HOF
The feeling of terror those pitchers must have felt .When that human steamroller Albert Bell charged the mound ...😮😮😮
Albert 'Joey' Belle and his twin brother are from my hometown. His dad was the baseball coach at one of the big high schools here back a few decades ago. He never comes back around here but this is where he's from.
He went to Huntington but his dad was the coach at Airline High School, across the river in Bossier City. It's Shreveports 'sister city'. Essentially 1 city split by a river but run by 2 city govt's, Shreveport and Bossier City.
RBI machine
My dads best friends sister dated Albert Belle for a few months
Dang!
My first disappointment in free agency as an Orioles fan
Granted, we didn't know about his hip. But also, with Angelos' stringent physicals, I'm surprised they didn't find an inkling of an issue.
Having to shorten your career due to injury shouldn't be held against anyone that put up his type of numbers. It didn't hold Sandy Koufax back. He should be in the HOF.
Yay. Thanks for listening to your viewers ☺️
Bob and Tom did a skit about Albert Belle. Was vitamin A infused whole milk product, called A-whole.
The Indians lineup from 94-98 was the best hitting lineup anyone born after 1970 will ever see. If only their pitching staff matched the lineup.
I agree. That lineup was phenomenal. Arguably the best lineup since the Big Red machine.
True
That's the problem. One thing clicked and the other part didn't. Should have won the 97 series. In 95, we just didn't have that shut you down pitcher. And that hurt in the series against Braves.
How about a Dave Winfield video? Talk about a crusher. A Fred "The Crime Dog" McGriff. His batting stance and swing is a video in itself lol beauty exists in sports.
P.S. Albert deserves to be in HOF. He's an ass. So what. Stats are stats.
Sure, baseball writers want all players to hit .300 and raise all our country's orphans. Hall of Fame for sure. Between the lines, Albert Belle was a show stopper, full stop. AND he stole bases as a "big man". Who in the current day of the game can hit for average, homers, rbi's, obp, steals, hits, ops for just 5 years in a row? Hate on him all you want, but you would want him on your team! Be honest. His career was amazing.
It's what he did on the field that should make him a HOF guy. I love Ty Cobb's career too & he was more dis-liked than Belle. Maybe Ty' got in because the writers didn't get so butt hurt back then. The power of voting should be put in the hands of the fans. Writers don't know anymore than any fan after all & don't have that personal connection that can make a writer bias for or against a player based on if they got along with them or not. Lots of others that should be in the Hall also but Alberts the 1st that comes to my mind always.
Awesome video. It's hard to believe this guys not in the hall of fame. His numbers rival any player of his era.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Tbh that was a primary reason I made this video - to show how he stacks up to the very best players from the '90s.
But the soft media won’t allow it. He was mean to them.
If Belle was better liked he'd be in the Hall of Fame. His WAR/162 isn't that far off Kirby Puckett's. But Kirby waited until after he was elected to be unlikable.
Belle, Vizquel and Loft all should be in the hall of fame. The hall of fame loses all credibility without them.
I can still see it. Albert Belle batting in the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded as Jacobs Field filled to capacity. The 1990s were special for sure.
My favorite Indian player of all time. Hands down most feared hitter in the league for a 4 or 5 year span
He was so much fun to watch, sooo clutch! Thanks Albert for the memories, you are the tops on my list.
I don't even care that he was batsh*t insane, he was my first favorite non hometown team player. He was a joy to watch.
Belle was a terror. The best player in baseball for a stretch. His legacy is tarnished by a bunch of soft, spineless media members who he refused to bend the knee and act the way they wanted him to act. The media screwed him because they didn’t like him. He was the most feared hitter in baseball and has a strong argument for Cooperstown. The same soft media members won’t let it happen proving yet again they should not be the ones with the ability to enshrine.
Mcgwire soon i hope a HR every 10.6 is the best ever. what he did 1995-2001 was crazy
As a kid, I used to go a ton of games at the Jake back in the 90s and man it was an electric time to be alive when Albert Belle came up to bat. The stadium would go nuts and he seemed to alawys deliver
Belle is one of my all time favorites. So glad to come across this video. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame
Albert was always big I don't believe he was roiding. A crazy athlete.
Can you make a video about Robin Yount's prime,he's my best player of all time
One of my favorite hitters he could swat and fight lol ⚾️
A hall of famer if I ever saw one. The only reason he is not is he didn’t have a good relationship with the media and baseball writers are snowflakes.
Belle and Lofton are the two best eligible players not in the HoF.
Belle was scary at the plate especially in crucial situations !!
He was a hot head no doubt, but one of the best pure power hitters in history.
Beltre would be a cool addition since he just became a hofer
Insane prime of Troy tulowitski
ALBERT BELLE DEFINITELY BELONGS IN THE MLB ⚾ HALL OF FAME ..
Glad my Braves beat him and the Indians in 95
July 17th 1998 my birthday lol
He's a HoF and its embarrassing he's not in
Ole Joey Belle was not to be messed with.
He was a bad man and an awesome baseball player
Day 2 of asking for Ernie banks
I’d like to see a Mark Grace video
he was great but what an ego maniac
Great video. The Indians are my favorite team and Albert is the reason I wore #8. Thank you for this.
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Michael Young
Ok. Barry bonds
Beast mode
An Oriole Legend
Two more injury free seasons and nobody would be able to find an excuse to keep him out of the Hall
Without a doubt!
In the thumbnail, he looks so much like Andre Iguoudala from the NBA who most recently won titles with the Golden State Warriors
Juan Gonzalez hopefully
As a Dodgers fan who you did listen too and because your gramps was a fan you came through with Sandy K, now it’s time to see one about Don Drysdale 🤝🏼🤝🏼😎😎💪🏼💪🏼
Wil Myers
I forgot just how consistently good he was, and i thought he fell off after leaving Cleveland. Maybe it was cuz he was so easy to hate lol
Back then I only had ESPN to see his highlights but damn they were electric
Albert Belle was an absolute unit!! Pretty cool to see a video about the legend of Ozzie Smith.