23-22 anniversary (video)

[zambonir]

On this date: Phillies, Cubs combine for 45 runs at Wrigley - ESPN Video

[bkeich]

Still the funnest game I have ever watched (partially because we won). If you are too young to have seen this, I strongly advise watching it, just crazy and what it really means when the wind is blowing out at Wrigley.

You also get to see some great players you might not have seen. Schmidt and Kingman alone are worth price of admission. "Kong" is a fogotten player, but he was one of the most dangerous hitters in baseball history, he just couldnt hit a single to save his life.

[Philsmania]

Still the funnest game I have ever watched (partially because we won).

Conversely, there was Game 4 of the 1993 World Series, the highest scoring WS game ever. For most of the baseball watching world, it was probably an epically entertaining affair but in Philadelphia, a source of tremendous agony.

[EastFallowfield]

Kingman makes Pat Burrell look like Mike Trout-all he could do was swing for the fences.

[zambonir]

To me Kingman is pretty well-remembered, as the pioneering all-power/strikeout king. When he was at his best, for maybe three seasons, the strikeouts and low BA didn't matter. Now there are a hundred players like him. (And he and Ryan Howard both stopped being effective around the same age. Howard was much better for longer, of course.)

I don't see Burrell as similar at all because even when he struggled Burrell got on base. Shoot, he'd be the most productive offensive player on this year's team by far, and a great hitter on almost any team. 8 out of 9 seasons w/ an OPS over .800, four of those at or close to .900. (I know that still doesn't make him Mike Trout. Especially not in the field).

[EastFallowfield]

My point that Burrell's athletic skills dwarfed Kingman's. He looked like a civilian out there except when he was homering.