In Albert’s defense regarding the first highlight, I’d be pissed off already if I had to wear those uniforms from the future which MLB thought was a good idea.
TBF I remember these a lot more fondly than I do the nickname uniforms they did a few years ago. Mercury Mets and the Mariners ones will live on forever.
@@riverview9320 blouses? FYI Deion Sanders purposely cut his sleeves to look like this while with the Reds to honor Jackie Robison and got his entire team to do the same.
He has the greatest statistics of any non-steroid linked player in the history of baseball that is not in the hall of fame. There is zero reason statistically speaking that he should not be in HOF. His numbers year by year are staggering. Check them out for yourselves there is no disputing it.
@@stevea6816 if we kept out all the guys that corked and the a-holes there would be a lot of guys not in the Hall. To me the HOF now is so watered down it has lost a lot of its prestige if not all of it. Years ago I felt stronger about guys that deserve it be in or not but now I really don't care any more since they put in guys that don't deserve to be anywhere near the HOF. Average ball players are getting in it's a joke at this point.
Not an Albert Belle fan buy you have to admire that he was a hard nosed competitor. He asked no quarter and gave none. That being said it’s pitiful that when he decked Fernando Vina no teammate came to his defense. If that was Hockey, he would’ve had five guys on him!
If Albert Belle had hit someone like Vina on the basepaths today he'd have gotten pounced by the pitcher, 3B or C before he ever made it across the 3B foul line.
My favorite was Belle playing left field vs. the Pirates in '97. Batter hits a foul ball off the railing and then kicks into fair territory, rolls and comes to a stop 8 ft from Belle. He makes no move to get it. Instead, he angrily gestures to a ballboy to come out and get it. When the ballboy does jog out for it, Belle is screaming at him until he has crossed the left field line. Absolutely priceless.
The point is that the ball hit the end of the bat, not Albert, in the umpire's judgement, but Albert didn't care what the umpire called, he wanted to hit. It doesn't work that way Albert!! 😂😂
@@Gykolove We know the rules fool. But he's not talking about that. He's talking about him being called an asshole for wanting to still hit. And referring to the title for that situation. Damn...smh..common sense !
@@Optim40how is that an asshole move? He’s trying to win the game! I’d take a chance at getting a hit over getting a HBP, especially considering the fact that Albert Belle was such a dangerous hitter
So vina did the same thing earlier in the game instead of throwing to the SS to start the double play. Albert told him "throw the ball, don't get in my way." Sure enough Murray hits the same Double play grounder and Vina should of listened.
My 1st Indians game at Jacob's Field, I saw him crush a home run to center field and it was one of the loudest sound waves of ball off bat and crowd reaction I've ever heard
Pretending to not have been HBP so you can take another swing and potentially take that fool deep. That’s pretty badass. My dad hated Belle, I’m a 90s kid. But his numbers were ridiculous. Ironically my dad was a big Lenny Dykstra fan because he was “hard nose”.
I knew from the title that Belle gently nudging Viña aside would be in there and I wasn't disappointed! :) On the first segment, if I understand right, Belle wanted one more chance to hit a home run (he'd already sent three over the fence that game). It seems part of why he was never seriously considered for the HOF was his disdain for the press.
Albert was talented, and he was very intense, too intense for his own (and others!) good, at times. The forearm shiver to the second baseman was dirty, imo, and the punch to the head of the catcher was completely unnecessary, and dirty, imo. He should have been thrown out of the game for punching a completely unsuspecting and innocent opponent.
After He Bulldozed Through Fernando Vina, I Said Why Won't Albert Belle Try That On.............. Nah He'd Have Any 2nd Baseman In MLB History On Their Ass.😂😂😂.
I really hate to admit it, but I loved the play in which Albert Belle gave Fernando Vina the elbow shot to the head. Somewhere Hal McRae was probably loving it also.
Manager Mike Hargrove before the game: Albert, your base running isn’t aggressive enough. Albert Belle: 💀 _Benches don’t clear because everyone is scared they could be next_
LOL...nothing better to do in 2024 than go back and drag Albert Belle 24 years after his career ended? I was no fan of Belle or the Indians, but this says more about you than it does about Albert Belle.
The first clip, the announcers are blowing things out of proportion. Belle was obviously upset he got hit. But he never charged the mound, he was never really in the face of the catcher. All he was saying is throw the ball over the plate. I’m sure there were some four letter words in there too.
@@michaeladams5636 No sir, Griffey was THE player of the 90s by far. In fact I think it would've been super amazing at the time if a baseball themed sequel to Space Jam could've been done staring Junior: th-cam.com/video/S9z2o_qcX0o/w-d-xo.html
I think you're reaching way too hard here on these examples. For the Vina play, he was on the way of the baserunner. It was just good, hard baseball. Good play on Vina for holding onto it.
@@willshad It's why you don't play around in the path of the runner. If Albert had slowed down and hadn't put his forearm up, it might have caused an injury.
He was a great talent, but he was an unhappy, dangerous guy. He tried to hurt guys, for no reason. People he didn't even know. I mean, it's hard to talk about his achievements, without having to remember all that.
I WANT GUYS ON MY TEAM LIKE ALBERT BELLE AND GARY SHEFFIELD AND ESPECIALLY SILENT GEORGE HENDRICK AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST ALEX JOHNSON THEY ALL DID NOT GIVE A F WHAT ANYBODY SAID TO FELT ABOUT THEM
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He's from my hometown of Shreveport LA and went to Huntington High School. That's the last kind of person/place I'd expect ever to end up being one of the league's most powerful hitters ever. Huntington and Shreveport, LA itself is like 80% black, but rarely do they end up playing baseball. It's usually basketball/football.
People may not remember the way Albert trashed the fans on his way to Chicago. The city supported him when he was a drunk, when he tried to run over kids on Halloween, when he threw the ball into the stands at a fan that was harassing him. He deserved the unfriendly welcome home.
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Say what you want about Albert Belle he’s one of the greatest players to ever play baseball ⚾️ and he doesn’t get the respect he deserves yeah he was a A hole but he was our A hole as a Cleveland Indians player I wish he won a World Series with Cleveland because he was a Legend in that City and didn’t take no Stuff LOL!!!!!!!
Its an absolute disgrace that he is not in the Hall of Fame.
This doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be in the HOF because they don’t want to celebrate him.
Albert made Baseball fun to watch. Thank You Mr. Belle.
In Albert’s defense regarding the first highlight, I’d be pissed off already if I had to wear those uniforms from the future which MLB thought was a good idea.
ha - they look like blouses. Not good...
They actually look pretty cool
TBF I remember these a lot more fondly than I do the nickname uniforms they did a few years ago.
Mercury Mets and the Mariners ones will live on forever.
Turn Ahead The Clock needs to come back.
@@riverview9320 blouses? FYI Deion Sanders purposely cut his sleeves to look like this while with the Reds to honor Jackie Robison and got his entire team to do the same.
He has the greatest statistics of any non-steroid linked player in the history of baseball that is not in the hall of fame. There is zero reason statistically speaking that he should not be in HOF. His numbers year by year are staggering. Check them out for yourselves there is no disputing it.
he corked though. and he was one of the biggest A-holes ever. Cant ignore that
@@stevea6816 if we kept out all the guys that corked and the a-holes there would be a lot of guys not in the Hall. To me the HOF now is so watered down it has lost a lot of its prestige if not all of it. Years ago I felt stronger about guys that deserve it be in or not but now I really don't care any more since they put in guys that don't deserve to be anywhere near the HOF. Average ball players are getting in it's a joke at this point.
lies @@stevea6816
Him leaving the Indians after 1996 didn’t help him. If he was on the 1997 Indians, they most likely win the World Series
It's pretty hard to believe Albert Belle wasn't on steroids.
Should be in Hall. Dominated from 91-2000
The 1995 Indians were beasts. Belle made Manny & Thome look like his little brothers. Huge firepower.
“The always friendly Albert Belle.”-Michael Kay
One of my favorite players growing up
The HoF is their for the accomplishments you put up on the diamond, not for if you hurt peoples feelings or not!
Not an Albert Belle fan buy you have to admire that he was a hard nosed competitor. He asked no quarter and gave none. That being said it’s pitiful that when he decked Fernando Vina no teammate came to his defense. If that was Hockey, he would’ve had five guys on him!
I'm not a fan of him either. However, I respect him a lot more now than I did back then.
If Albert Belle had hit someone like Vina on the basepaths today he'd have gotten pounced by the pitcher, 3B or C before he ever made it across the 3B foul line.
Like any of them would have a chance against Belle.
My favorite was Belle playing left field vs. the Pirates in '97. Batter hits a foul ball off the railing and then kicks into fair territory, rolls and comes to a stop 8 ft from Belle. He makes no move to get it. Instead, he angrily gestures to a ballboy to come out and get it. When the ballboy does jog out for it, Belle is screaming at him until he has crossed the left field line. Absolutely priceless.
Why is that priceless?
So a pitcher throws a mid 90s fastball at Belle’s face and Belle wants to still hit and Belle’s the asshole?
The point is that the ball hit the end of the bat, not Albert, in the umpire's judgement, but Albert didn't care what the umpire called, he wanted to hit. It doesn't work that way Albert!! 😂😂
@@Gykolove I get that..and it’s mad funny. Just think of all the shit he’s done that wasn’t so bad. He just wanted to hit..not fight Lol
Yeah he’s an asshole. You got hit, take your base. Act like a professional, this isn’t the California Penal League.
@@Gykolove We know the rules fool. But he's not talking about that. He's talking about him being called an asshole for wanting to still hit. And referring to the title for that situation. Damn...smh..common sense !
@@Optim40how is that an asshole move? He’s trying to win the game! I’d take a chance at getting a hit over getting a HBP, especially considering the fact that Albert Belle was such a dangerous hitter
I wonder if Albert Belle was the one that inspired the creation of MLB Slugfest.
So vina did the same thing earlier in the game instead of throwing to the SS to start the double play. Albert told him "throw the ball, don't get in my way." Sure enough Murray hits the same Double play grounder and Vina should of listened.
Albert was always angry!
My 1st Indians game at Jacob's Field, I saw him crush a home run to center field and it was one of the loudest sound waves of ball off bat and crowd reaction I've ever heard
That's what cost him the American League MVP Award in 1995, his shitty disposition.
Unfortunately, yeah.
Pretending to not have been HBP so you can take another swing and potentially take that fool deep. That’s pretty badass. My dad hated Belle, I’m a 90s kid. But his numbers were ridiculous. Ironically my dad was a big Lenny Dykstra fan because he was “hard nose”.
He would’ve been one hell of a football player.
He would have killed people, people.
Angry, angry young man.
If you made a compilation of ME being an asshole at MY job, it would be way longer than 3 minutes. Kudos Mr. Belle
I knew from the title that Belle gently nudging Viña aside would be in there and I wasn't disappointed! :) On the first segment, if I understand right, Belle wanted one more chance to hit a home run (he'd already sent three over the fence that game). It seems part of why he was never seriously considered for the HOF was his disdain for the press.
Albert was talented, and he was very intense, too intense for his own (and others!) good, at times. The forearm shiver to the second baseman was dirty, imo, and the punch to the head of the catcher was completely unnecessary, and dirty, imo. He should have been thrown out of the game for punching a completely unsuspecting and innocent opponent.
After He Bulldozed Through Fernando Vina, I Said Why Won't Albert Belle Try That On..............
Nah He'd Have Any 2nd Baseman In MLB History On Their Ass.😂😂😂.
Mike Moustakis playing 2nd base for a while a few seasons ago would still have been knocked into left field.
Thanks for using my video idea!
I really hate to admit it, but I loved the play in which Albert Belle gave Fernando Vina the elbow shot to the head. Somewhere Hal McRae was probably loving it also.
Manager Mike Hargrove before the game: Albert, your base running isn’t aggressive enough.
Albert Belle: 💀
_Benches don’t clear because everyone is scared they could be next_
They were tougher back then anyway.
@@WesleyAPEX they really were.
Much love, Wes!
When Belle was on your team, you accept the fact that he’s an a$$hole, but he’s your a$$hole!
That finger didn't even move, anyone hit by a pitch on that spot you would know it
When he played for the Orioles... Ray Miller put him in his place....
What happned with that situation if you dont mind sharing? Thanks
The fact that Harold Baines is in the Hall of Fame and Albert Belle isn't just makes the entire institution less credible.
Most people don’t know Albert frequently took unsold CLE ballpark foods to inner city shelters after games👏
So why was he a nice guy off the field and such an unmitigated asshole on the field?
LOL...nothing better to do in 2024 than go back and drag Albert Belle 24 years after his career ended? I was no fan of Belle or the Indians, but this says more about you than it does about Albert Belle.
Drag? Idk man, I’m watching it because I think it’s awesome. Baseball was better back then with guys like Belle.
@treycushwa4646 you tell em trey, totally agree!
The first clip, the announcers are blowing things out of proportion. Belle was obviously upset he got hit. But he never charged the mound, he was never really in the face of the catcher. All he was saying is throw the ball over the plate. I’m sure there were some four letter words in there too.
The Dennis Rodman of baseball! As I liked to call him at the time!
I called him the Michael Jordan of baseball.
@@michaeladams5636 That makes ZERO sense.
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp He was the GOAT in baseball in the mid 1990s.
@@michaeladams5636 No sir, Griffey was THE player of the 90s by far. In fact I think it would've been super amazing at the time if a baseball themed sequel to Space Jam could've been done staring Junior:
th-cam.com/video/S9z2o_qcX0o/w-d-xo.html
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp Actually Bonds was still a slightly better all round player than Griffey.
Most homeruns in the '90's
*4th most home runs in the 90’s.
I think you're reaching way too hard here on these examples. For the Vina play, he was on the way of the baserunner. It was just good, hard baseball. Good play on Vina for holding onto it.
LOL he literally stopped his running and gave the guy a forearm to the face. It was assault.
@@willshad It's why you don't play around in the path of the runner. If Albert had slowed down and hadn't put his forearm up, it might have caused an injury.
@@willshad Lmao this guy said assault. Come on man no wonder women are the men in the commercials now.
He was a great talent, but he was an unhappy, dangerous guy. He tried to hurt guys, for no reason. People he didn't even know. I mean, it's hard to talk about his achievements, without having to remember all that.
Still doing it Wesley. 👍🏻😄
I WANT GUYS ON MY TEAM LIKE ALBERT BELLE AND GARY SHEFFIELD AND ESPECIALLY SILENT GEORGE HENDRICK AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST ALEX JOHNSON THEY ALL DID NOT GIVE A F WHAT ANYBODY SAID TO FELT ABOUT THEM
And now they’re paying for it.
I am just shocked that he never went to prison. You never hear anything about him and he just faded out of the lime light.
He did go to jail in Florida. Driving drunk and naked I believe.
@@kkttss1928 Just like the forearm shiver he gave Vina, being naked in a car, while not morally correct, isn't illegal.
@donaldumunawa4787 well driving under the influence of alcohol certainly is.
2:40 And On
Total Nostalgia.
Chris Berman And John Madden (RIP) Were The Best Voices And Opinions To Hear.
Unfortunately Stephen (Real A..H...) Smith And His Clones Have The Attention Of Those Who Don't Know Better.
A**h***, yes, but also very talented and likeable.
Good guy to have on ur team, won’t see this in 2024 lmao soft generation vs hard haha
Not really a good video. The first clip shouldn't even be included.
He's from my hometown of Shreveport LA and went to Huntington High School. That's the last kind of person/place I'd expect ever to end up being one of the league's most powerful hitters ever. Huntington and Shreveport, LA itself is like 80% black, but rarely do they end up playing baseball. It's usually basketball/football.
Vina is in baseline. Said it then he did nothing wrong
It seems pretty easy for him.
3 plays that's all it takes huh smh
ha ha - maybe there should be a whole channel: "--------- being an A**hole"
NO WRONG ! Albert doesn't take any shty from anyone, especially the sorry ass media !
Doesn’t the media help determine who gets in the HOF?
So the media caused Albert to throw a forearm at a 2B and a punch at a catcher?
I don't see anything wrong here with his style of play?
Didn't he kill someone??
Joey! Joey! Joey!
People may not remember the way Albert trashed the fans on his way to Chicago. The city supported him when he was a drunk, when he tried to run over kids on Halloween, when he threw the ball into the stands at a fan that was harassing him. He deserved the unfriendly welcome home.
Yeah Albert dud some stupid things,,,,But check out his stats,,,,,WOW
Never liked him.
This was before sports went soft.
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Not sure what you are saying. I don't think you are sure yourself.
Was he ever busted for using PED? He shows the typical symptoms of roid rage.😂
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Say what you want about Albert Belle he’s one of the greatest players to ever play baseball ⚾️ and he doesn’t get the respect he deserves yeah he was a A hole but he was our A hole as a Cleveland Indians player I wish he won a World Series with Cleveland because he was a Legend in that City and didn’t take no Stuff LOL!!!!!!!
Albert Belle was a like an adult child. He probably had an IQ around 85. The roids didn't help his cause.
He’s a very intelligent man, but he had an explosive temper. Being an alcoholic likely had some part of his temperament.