Best d**n All-Time Baseball Team: Best d**n Sports Show Ever?

Question

The producers decided:

C: Johnny Bench

1B: Lou Gehrig

2B: Joe Morgan

SS: Alex Rodriguez*

3B: Mike Schmidt

LF: Barry Bonds

CF: Willie Mays

RF: Hank Aaron

Pitcher: Roger Clemens

Closer: Dennis Eckersley

The analysts said that because A-Rod is going to play another 10 years, he'll be more of a 3B than a SS. They thought that Cal Ripken Jr. Should be in the SS.

Do you agree or disagree? I think the criteria was the player's career, but also how great the player was. There were that many players that are really old, so I think that the voters thought that the more recent eras were more competitive. I have to agree. I don't want to see any dead ball era pitchers because their competition was trash. Also, one guy mentioned that Ruth was not on the team because he played before the color barrier was broken, so the competition was not nearly as high.

Ruth was unanimously named the best PLAYER of all-time, but was not included in the starting lineup.

My question is:

Do you agree or disagree? Is this the best d**n all-time team?

Make your own. I think that players after WWII should be weighed more heavily because people before could just dominate against weak competition and the numbers are inflated.

Answer 1

if you leave Ruth off because he played before integration, how can you pick Gehrig, they played at the same time. They made some selections just to be controversial!!!!!!!!    

Answer 2

disagree  i mean ozzie smith should be ss

Answer 3

I have an issue with Bonds, Clemens, and possibly Aaron and Eckersley.  Bonds should be replaced by Ruth IMO and Eckersley by Mariano Rivera.  But Clemens??!! I thought he shouldn't be #1 even before the steroids allegations.  How about Koufax, Seaver, Feller, Gibson.?  Forget generations: Bonds/Clemens cheated so that automatically reduces their stats like MVPS, Cy Youngs and diminishes their greatness in my book.  If you want more current players who are better try Pedro, Randy Johnson, Maddux, or Griffey, Manny, etc.  Sure, lots of players took HGH/roids in '90s-'00s but these players were never even accused of being dirty.

Answer 4

mariano at closer and warren spahn at pitcher but r u ppl serious arod is the best of all time and you want ozzie over him i no ozzie was great but cmon AROD

Answer 5

that is pretty good, but I totally disagree with A-Rod. C'mon... give us a break. Cal Ripken, Ozzie Smith, or Ernie Banks all played circles around g*y-Rod.

Answer 6

yea