Tag: Babe Ruth

MLB fans had lots jokes about a Yankees fan at Game 3 of ALCS who looked so much like Babe Ruth

Many wondered if this fella could step in and help the Yankees.

The New York Yankees were hoping to get back into the 2022 ALCS when the series shifted to the Bronx for Saturday’s Game 3 but instead they didn’t score a run in the game and now stand a loss away from a sweep and the end of their season.

The Yankees only got three hits in the 5-0 loss to Houston and it now wouldn’t be a surprise to anyone if they just bowed out quietly in Sunday’s Game 4.

There was one funny moment late in the game when the TBS broadcast showed a Yankees fan who looked very much like Babe Ruth.

Check this guy out:

I mean, that is wild that Babe Ruth was able to make it to the game. Absolutely wild.

I’m kidding, of curse, because Ruth sadly passed away in 1948.

(AP Photo/Library of Congress)

Twitter had jokes.

Mets fans are already comparing Daniel Vogelbach to Babe Ruth, but like, a better modern version

Daniel Vogelbach has never lost in the World Series.

New York Mets fan favorite Daniel Vogelbach has become one of the fun favorite players to watch in the MLB. Look at the way he hustles to score on the base paths!

Since the Mets acquired Vogelbach from the Pirates earlier this season, the team has won 14 games and lost just twice. If they kept that pace for the entire length of a 162-game season, they would win somewhere between 141 and 142 games.

Vogelbach, of course, isn’t directly responsible for all fourteen of the victories for New York. He gets help from stars like Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, Max Scherzer, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, and manager Buck Schowalter.

Vogelbach, however, is well-deserving of the cult following he has earned during his time with the Mets. He has played so well that one fan made an infographic comparing him to Babe Ruth:

The reasons are hilarious and leave me convinced that, yeah, Vogelbach is better than The Great Bambino. Just look at all of the evidence!

Other fans have compared Vogelbach to the Hall of Famer as well, and you can see some of the best tweets making the side-by-side below:

We asked the ghost of Babe Ruth for his thoughts on Shohei Ohtani

There’s only one (fake) person fit to comment on Ohtani’s unprecedented season.

American League MVP Shohei Ohtani has landed on not one but TWO All-MLB Teams. He’s on the first team as a designated hitter and the second team as a starting pitcher.

That’s wild.

In the long history of baseball we’ve seen very, very few players who can be elite at both hitting AND pitching. Your average high school game features players who’ve already decided to focus on one or the other; the guys who can successfully do both are quickly forced into specializing once they get to college or the minors.

But there WAS one giant of the game renowned for doing both, and that was Babe Ruth. He starred as a pitcher early in his career with the Red Sox but is most remembered for clobbering home runs with the New York Yankees.

Luckily for you dear reader, I live in Baltimore, the birthplace of Babe Ruth and, for the purpose of this probably cliched but still fun concept, the place where his eternal soul is resting.

It’s the day before Thanksgiving, there are no rules, so let’s head down to the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum to rouse his eternal soul and get some thoughts on Ohtani.

BABE: Owwwwwww.

FTW: Wait, are you ok?

BABE: Just groggy. Hair of the dog?

FTW: You’ve been slumbering since 1948 and you’re *still* hungover?

BABE: You’ve heard the stories. Is that a brewery over there? Right near my old house?

FTW: It is. Suspended. Women-owned and operated. Really great beers.

BABE: Wait, wut.

FTW: Oh. Right. Yeah, women are allowed to do things now.

BABE: *stares blankly*

FTW: Anyway, wanted to get your thoughts on something as we walk over to this brewery since that is the direction you are headed and I can’t stop you because you’re a ghost, please wait up.

BABE: How’s my hair look? Think any of these young ladies will be interested in a date with the home run king?

(AP Photo/File)

FTW: Yeah, about that. Anyway. There’s this guy Shohei Ohtani who won the AL MVP this year and then was named to the All-MLB team as both a pitcher and a hitter. He batted .257 with 46 homers and 100 RBIs and went 9-2 with a 3.18 ERA and 156 strikeouts in 130 1/3 innings on the mound. Can you believe that?

BABE: (applying cologne liberally and swigging from a flask; the liquids splatter to the street below) Well that sounds probably like the greatest feat in baseball history.

FTW: Well you were good at both ….

BABE: Look, kid, I played in an era when they DIDN’T EVEN LET BLACK PEOPLE PLAY IN OUR LEAGUE. Let alone players from around the globe. And nobody worked out. Look at me. I look like you, and you’re a stupid writer. It was a different time, and I just got lucky to be a naturally gifted athlete in an era when there was less incentive to become a pro athlete and fewer opportunities for them to emerge from whatever circumstances they found themselves in at the time. The money was good for the greats but for everybody else it was not the most structured way to live. Leagues were scattershot, owners were nuts. And there were wars! People had to go off and fight wars constantly. I bet that has stopped, right?

FTW: *stares blankly*

BABE: Point is, I was never truly playing against the best of the best, and we weren’t training in any meaningful way. I used to pretend to go down to the hot springs in Arkansas to do “exercise” but that was really vacation, bud, come on now. You got a picture of this Ohtani fella?

FTW: Let me pull it up on my phone here ….

BABE: (hides)

FTW: Yeah, man, this device has more information on it — and more b.s. — than every library that existed when you were alive.

BABE: Library?

FTW: Here he is.

(AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

BABE: Right. This is a strapping athlete who has honed his craft to be able to do what he did. You know that once some science nerds took me up to Columbia University to do a “study” on me and concluded that my eyes spoke to my brain quicker than anybody else, and my brain spoke to my hands quicker and I was sauced then, my friend, so those readings were probably dulled. I was just born to be great (in comparison with my extremely limited sample size of peers at the time.)

FTW: Fair enough, I suppose. You’ve really gained some perspective over the years, I’m impressed.

BABE: (reaches the brewery, is breathless) Ok, I have this shiny quarter here, give me five lady beers, please.

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Hank Aaron’s historic day remembered

What I’m Hearing: While recounting the historic day Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record, Bob Nightengale tells us what Aaron’s closest teammates said about being along for the ride.

What I’m Hearing: While recounting the historic day Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record, Bob Nightengale tells us what Aaron’s closest teammates said about being along for the ride.