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Favorite Homeruns?

Since I have nothing better to do aside from wait for the Third Coming of Pedro, I got to thinking about something: homeruns. I'm not sure there's anything quite like them in all of sports. They come out of nowhere: one second a pitch is just another pitch and the next the course of a game is changed completely. What are some of your favorite homeruns? The ones you've seen in person or on TV, doesn't matter. Giants or otherwise.

For me, a couple stand out in my memory. The best, most exciting homerun I've ever seen was on Barry's birthday a few years back. The original Timmeh (Worrell) is in against the D-Backs in the top of the 9th inning, with the game tied. A liner is hit to Bonds on a hop. Counsell rounds third and heads for home. Bonds throws a perfect one-hop seed to Torrealba to gun him down at the plate. Inning over. Bonds is leading off the bottom of the night. Mike Myers (or Austin Powers?) is brought in to face him. First pitch, he sends it into deep left-center to end it. I was going nuts. Almost as great was Kuiper's line when Barry came out for a current call: "And Barry's coming out to say 'Folks, thanks for coming to my party.'"

Otherwise, let me think...The Ball that Never Landed (Lidge vs. Pujols). I told my roommate that he would send it out right when he stepped up the plate. JT vs. the Mets, too, of course. How about the rest of you?

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Re: Favorite Homeruns?
I was at that game too, and it is one of my favorite baseball memories.  I absolutely knew, when Barry came up to lead off the bottom of the 10th, that he was going to hit a walkoff.  My girlfriend at the time and I drove all the way back home (to So Cal) after that homerun, and it was sweet listening to the postgame show until I no longer got reception.

D

by sunnyd100 on Jan 13, 2008 9:28 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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Oh man that game on Barry's birthday was amazing. I was at work and had the game on the radio, and I was going absolutely ape in my cube. I still remember Jon Miller's call on the radio.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jan 13, 2008 9:48 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
I actually ripped a video of it a couple years ago and it might still be on one of my old hard drives. I'll look around for it at some point and see if I can upload it somewhere.

by MidKnight on Jan 13, 2008 9:55 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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For some reason I thought he hit that homer off of Ray King. Either way, definitely one of the more memorable baseball moments.

by ArmaGideon on Jan 14, 2008 12:20 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Nope. I was wrong. You're right. Still a great game.

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by ArmaGideon on Jan 14, 2008 12:33 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
That's one of my faves too. I think I listened to that on the radio... most of my favorite homers I heard on the radio. I remember one Bonds hit in about '94 or '95 i think off Trevor Hoffman... a three-run walk-off shot that I had to celebrate quietly because I was like 10 and was supposed to be asleep. Snow's three-run against the Mets I heard on the radio, getting ready to come back from a football game. I was sitting on the bus with my whole team, and we all just exploded.
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by jasomack on Jan 13, 2008 10:44 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
2003 after Bobby Bonds passed away and Barry beat Atlanta in the ninth (tenth? twelfth?)
Brian Johnson, of course.
and Santiago in the NLCS
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by nick on Jan 13, 2008 10:48 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
oh, and Galarraga's 480-footer the first game back from 9/11 was a special one
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by nick on Jan 13, 2008 10:49 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
May 27, 2007. Barry Bonds home run #746
I've been to dozens of Giants games but had never seen Bonds hit a home run in person. It was also the second time, and maybe the last, I've ever been able to take my dad to Pac Bell Park (or whatever the hell phone company it is now.)
My dad has been sick four a couple of years and we've thought we'd lost him twice, but last May he felt good enough to take the trip over the mountain from Reno to San Francisco. His joy just at being there made the day one of the three best in my life, but watching my dad slowly get out of his seat in the sixth inning when Bonds sent a towering shot to center field was one of the most powerful, emotional moments of my life.

by Voodoo Chile on Jan 13, 2008 10:54 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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One day in 1986 the Giants were already way up on the Padres when they started pouring it on in the 8th inning. The Pads gave up and brought in Dane Iorg, a 36-year-old outfielder taking his last sip of coffee, to save the bullpen. Up stepped Mike Woodard, utility infielder of little renown, who promptly hit his first major league home run. (Mike LaCoss was up next. He too went deep.) After the game they asked Woodard whether he had gotten the ball back. No, he said, he'd wait till he hit one off a real pitcher.

He never hit another one.

Twenty-seven years of waiting has come to an end.

by trapper9 on Jan 13, 2008 10:55 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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My dad pulled me out of middle school to go to the Brian Johnson game. So, super-duper double-bonus there.

by Steve on Jan 13, 2008 11:01 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Me too, except it was freshman year of high school.  Beautiful.
"They can trade me," Bonds said. "I don't think they will, though. It's not like I want to be traded, man. I'm a Giant. I'm stuck here till the end."!

by GameSix on Jan 15, 2008 7:50 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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me too, cept it was 4th grade.
"Branca throws..."

by Takimoto on Jan 16, 2008 3:31 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Ooh, I've got another one: Brian Dallimore's first career homerun. All those years of toiling in the minors, and in his first at-bat in the bigs (if I remember correctly), he launches a grand slam to left field.

by MidKnight on Jan 13, 2008 11:14 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
It's been discussed and not too long ago a link was posted to this particular HR but Bonds vs. Gagne at home in SBC(?) was a great one.  I think it was '03?  I was at the game which made it great.  Not so great:  knowing that the rest of the Giants would not be able to surmount the bearded Gag to tie the game.  Also, when I was a wee lad, my father took me to a Giants game at the stick.  My favorite player at the time, Will Clark.  What'd he do?  Grand salami pulled into right.  Freakin' nuts.  Boy, it's gonna be a long time till we get memories like that again...

-D

by dw4848 on Jan 13, 2008 11:29 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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The opening series against the Dogs in 2004 (I think?) where Bonds hit a monster homer off Gagne. I remember that, because it was awesome. Gagne threw a 70 or so mph changeup and then threw about 20 mph faster and Bonds tore the cover off the ball. I was there for that game.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jan 14, 2008 9:32 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
One of my favorite homeruns was JT Snow's 3 run HR to tie the game against the Mets in the NL Division Series.  Lol I remember grabbing a pair of socks from my room and swinging it around my head because everyone at the game had a white rally towel.  Sounds kinda stupid but I was pretty young back then.  Fricken shame we lost that game.

by Tchli on Jan 14, 2008 2:13 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
My favorites:

Barry's two walkoff home runs in three games as the Giants swept the Braves to briefly become the best record in the NL in August, 2003.  The first one doubly so, because of Kuip's perfectly timed call:  "He hits it hiiiigh....he hits it DEEEEEP.....We...are...going...home....OUTTA HERE!"

The second one because of the look on Bobby Cox's face afterwards, like he knew he could never win in those situations (the Giants won Game 2 of the series in extras after the Braves intentionally walked Bonds).

Bonds' home run to be the only run of Game 1 of the fabled 1997 2-game series against the Dodgers.

756, since I was there with my father.

Bonds' birthday in 2003.

Bonds' two home runs in July 2001 off of Curt Schilling.  It was part of a three home run day, and a four game sweep by the Giants to get back in the race against the eventual champs.  The Sporting News cover the following week showed Bonds trotting the bases and perhaps their best headline ever, "RAZING ARIZONA".

J.T.'s home run in Game 2 of the 2000 NLDS.  The silence in the crowd as they waited for fair or foul was one of the great moments of anticipation in my life.

Dallimore's grand slam.  'Nuff Said.

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by BruteSentiment on Jan 14, 2008 2:55 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
That's funny, I was actually in that issue of the Sporting News.  Visiting my folks in Phoenix, went to one of the game and Pedro hit a homer that landed two rows in front of us.  The picture in the magazine was that of the ball right in front of us with Luis Gonzalez watching it go.  The Giants absolutely destroyed them that series, it was awesome.

by One Flap Down on Jan 14, 2008 10:17 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Brute, the two against Atlanta were my votes as well. EVERYONE knew if he came up he'd hit the home runs, and he did. my girlfriend at the time thought i was nuts for victoriously dancing around pre-at bat, but it was so obvious what would happen.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200308190.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200308210.shtml

LOVED those games.

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by redhornet78 on Jan 14, 2008 1:41 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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2001 - the season Barry set the record for HR in a season.

May 19th, the second of a 3-game series in Atlanta. My son was in attendance, as a birthday gift from his then-girlfriend, and I really hoped he'd have a enjoyable day. Bonds hit a HR in the 3rd off Odalis Perez, but then there was a long rain delay, and I thought his trip might be ruined. After the rain delay, Barry hit another HR in the 7th off Jose Cabrera, and he hit a third HR in the 8th off Jason Marquis. Barry had hit one HR the day before off Mike Remlinger, and he hit two more the next day. Three games against Atlanta, six home runs. Not bad work.

I was especially pleased that my son, despite the rain delay, got to see 3 of Barry's home runs in that magical season.

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by Lyle on Jan 14, 2008 6:27 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Mike Ivie's pinch-hit grand slam to cap a tremendous comeback and smash the Dodgers in 1978.

To give some context, imagine it's 2012 or so and everything between now and then has been as bleak as you fear it will be. Then imagine that the team comes out of nowhere to snatch first place. Then imagine that there's some ridiculous give-away at the park so there's suddenly 56,000 people there instead of the usual 5600. Then imagine that the Giants have picked up a young retread who had tons of potential whom they're trying to rehabilitate (ok, I know I'm stretching credulity here). Then imagine the Grand Slam.

Oh, yeah. And you're a 12-year-old uber-fanatic at the time.

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by senorvegas on Jan 14, 2008 7:13 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Great job of establising the context, senor. On the surface it really doesn't seem like much, but indeed it was a pretty euphoric moment in a very bleak era.
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by VidaWantsYourCar on Jan 14, 2008 1:48 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
My favorites are the ones I saw in person. Probably number one is Bonds' 500th career HR, which he hit late in the game to beat the Dodgers.

Second has to be JT's against the Mets. The ball landed just a few seats over from where I was sitting.

715 was cool.

I was also at the game when Bonds hit career #300 at Candlestick. He hit #301 in his next AB, and was ejected by Mark Hirshbeck in the AB following that.

by marklar on Jan 14, 2008 8:13 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
My favorite Giants home run that I have seen on TV was Bobby Thomson's famous "Shot Heard 'Round the World."

My favorite Giants home run that I have seen was the one Willie Mays hit in the tenth inning against Turk Farrell to put the Giants in position where a Dodger loss would set up a best-of-three playoff for the pennant.  It was Fan Appreciation Day, and most of the fans hoped to win a car and listened to the Dodger broadcast until the Dodgers did indeed lose.

Willie came up three times that year with the season on the line.  In game #162 he homered to left; in game #165 he lined a single up the middle; in game Seven of the World Series, he doubled to right, with only the wet grounds and a great fielding play by Roger Maris preventing the Giants from tying the game before Willie McCovey lined out to Bobby Richardson.

Mays was renowned for his extra-inning home runs and holds the record for same.  He also is the only player in major league history who has hit at least one homer in innings one through 16.

His 16th-inning homer allowed Juan Marichal to beat Warren Spahn, 1-0, in 16 innings, in what likely was the best game of Marichal's career.

Spahn,who wound up his Hall of Fame career with the Giants, was never the same after that (1963?) season -- which probably wasn't unexpected for a guy who at age 42 pitched into the 16th inning of what was probably the best pitching matchup of all time, 16 innings between two future Hall of Famers.

A couple of years earlier Spahn had spun a ho-hitter against the Giants, even fielding a ninth-inning drag bunt by the speedy Matty Alou himself.  Just two days after Spahn's no-no Mays hit four home runs.

by sharksrog on Jan 14, 2008 8:41 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Back in college (I think this was in 2001), a buddy of mine and I took a quick trip from San Diego State up to the Big Phone for a mid-week night game against the Rangers. We had about $30 each, and after some .99 cent Whoppers and Keystone, we were able to afford cheap bleacher tickets. Basically, we had about $10 in gas money each to get us home. We were going to have to starve.

Long story short, Armando Rios hits a walkoff HR, my buddy ends up with the ball after a scrum, then sells it for $40 cash to another fan. That cash gave us enough money to hit up Subway after the game, and more beer of course.

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by oooreebay on Jan 14, 2008 9:09 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
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by ACgiant87 on Jan 14, 2008 11:23 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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I was at the game where Barry hit 714, with the lovely and talented TK, her now husband, and her dad. TK's dad was telling me about how he was at the ballpark to see Roger Maris hit homer #61 back in the day. It's mindblowing to think the guy was there for two monumental historic moments. That's really special.

Noah Lowry hit a home run against the Dodgers, what was it, last year? That was hilarious. As was Matt Cain's short-lived power hitting display.

When Bonds tied Aaron at 755. I didn't see it live, but I lost my shit completely when I saw the replays where Barry picks up Nikolai (not a small kid anymore) in the bear hug after he crossed the plate. Words just cannot express how moving that was for me.

So many people have said Brian Johnson's home run. I'll remember that one for the rest of my life even though I wasn't at the ballpark for it.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jan 14, 2008 9:37 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
My favorite not yet mentioned has to be Barry's bomb off Percival in the World Series.  It didn't help the outcome at all, but that thing was crushed.

Armando Rios had a walk-off (I think against the Pirates) that hit the top of the foul pole.  The homer was nothing special, but I really enjoyed the post-game interview.  All he needed was a routine fly ball to win the game and you would have expected him to say he was just trying to find a pitch up and elevate it, blah, blah, blah.  Instead Armando says, "yeah, I was trying to hit a bomb."  Classic.

by W8ingForATitle on Jan 14, 2008 10:06 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
They've already been said, but I celebrated the most for Snow, Johnson and Santiago in that order.  

by One Flap Down on Jan 14, 2008 10:18 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

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"3 and 2...Bonds will go. White at the belt. Here's the pitch. Santiago hits a high drive to left! This one is way back...IT IS OUTTA HERE! SANTIAGO GIVES THE GIANTS THE LEAD! The walk to Bonds didn't work!"

by MidKnight on Jan 14, 2008 11:17 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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Bond's pirouette against the Evils at the Stick still has me giggling. I hate showboating, but I'd never seen a left fielder celebrate a big hit with a figure skating manuever.

Not quite my fave, but beyond classic.

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by oooreebay on Jan 14, 2008 10:57 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Willie Mays first game with the Mets after being traded to them was against the Giants.  Mays was my favorite player my whole life up until then (I was 14 at the time).  I went to the game with my family.  He came up late in a tie game a hit the game winning homerun.  Even though it led to the defeat of the Giants it was incredibly exciting.

by Billytell on Jan 14, 2008 11:26 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Now THAT was a good one!  Indeed probably the best home run that beat the Giants in all of history.

by sharksrog on Jan 15, 2008 2:05 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Well since everyone's got the Barry era pretty well covered, I'll go back to Sept. '82. On Labor Day weekend, the Giants were a .500 club (67-67) when the eventual World Champion Cardinals came to town. A string of solo runs gave the Cards a 4-0 lead heading into the late innings. In the 7th Jack Clark his a booming double to drive in a run, and a second scored on a throwing error. But the Giants were still down 4-2 with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth, when a single and a walk brought Clark back to the plate.

For some reason Bruce Sutter hadn't started the 9th, but St. Louis summoned him for a showdown with Clark and on the very first pitch Jack launched a moonshot that actually hit off the base of the Marlboro sign behind the pavillion in left-centerfield.

That game started a 19-6 run down the stretch that put the Giants within 1.0 game of 1st before faltering the final weekend.

It was one of the very few walkoff HRs I've ever seen, certainly among the most majestic HRs I've ever witnessed, and coming after a decade of pretty depressing Giants baseball, it remains one of my favorite games I've ever attended.

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by Roger on Jan 14, 2008 11:41 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Clark also hit a 10th-inning home run on August 1st that season to beat the Astros, although that one came on the road and wasn't a walk-off.

Jack is second in history behind only Willie Mays in extra-inning home runs.  One could easily have guessed that Willie would be at the top, but to find Clark right behind him was quite a surprise to me.

by sharksrog on Jan 15, 2008 2:07 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
August 10th, 1987 Vs. Houston

Back-to-Back HR's

Candy ties it

The Thrill wins it

The Giants would not fall out of first place the rest of the season.

by BuffyLaCoss on Jan 14, 2008 12:08 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Speaking of Snow's HR against the Mets, does anyone have video of it that they can upload? I remember watching that game and watching JT point the ball fair and it was just an unbelievable moment in my young life.  I haven't seen a replay of it since.  
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Jan 14, 2008 12:40 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
Easy. 756.

Bad game. Good homerun. Great company. It was essentially my good bye game to Barry Bonds, and most everything about it was damn special.

In second place for humor was another Barry homerun. I don't remember the day or the #, but those aren't important. I went with two friends to a Cal/Giants doubleheader (well, Cal played and then the Giants played about 2 hours later) at AT&T. One friend is a Giants fan and the other friend is a Doder fan. The Doderhead ends up feeling pretty sick when the Giants game starts, but he sticks out the first inning ecause he doesn't want to miss Barry's at bat in case he hits a homerun. Needless to say, since we're talking the Giants, we go down 1-2-3 in the first and my friend cuts out right then instead of buckling down despite the stomach issues. Second inning. Barry leads off. Homerun. It was awesome.

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by howtheyscored on Jan 14, 2008 1:22 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
I've always been partial to Barry's walk off HRs on back-to-back nights against the Braves in August 2003 (or 04?) right after his dad passed away.  

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by KCE on Jan 14, 2008 1:33 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
That line has stuck with me as well. It didn't take place that long after his birthday game. At that point, it seemed like Bonds had the ability to single handedly end any game in which hit in the 9th inning.

by MidKnight on Jan 14, 2008 2:52 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
One that jumps out at me, as far as HRs seen in person go, is a fairly inconsequential one with regard to The Big Picture. Willie McCovey had already passed #500 (back when that was a bigger deal), and was pretty much playing out the string of his career when I was able to see him hit a line drive into the rollaway football bleachers above the right field fence at Candlestick. As usual during a non-"event" game, nobody was sitting in them, so the ball bounced around those red seats for a few seconds before settling into its disappearance. It was not an important game, and was only one of 521 he hit, but I recall being very satisfied that I was able to see him hit one.
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by VidaWantsYourCar on Jan 14, 2008 1:57 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
One of my favorites in person was back to back to back by Snow, Bonds, and Feliz. Bonds' was his second of the night and a Splash Hit. So awesome.
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by Natto on Jan 14, 2008 2:55 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
One of the few Giants games I've been to, or at least was old enough to enjoy, was won on a walk-off 3-run homer by our good friend Pete Happy on July 25, 2003. I'm not sure I knew it at the time, but looking it up now, I see that it was the final win of a 9-game winning streak.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200307250.shtml

by fleasridden on Jan 14, 2008 3:03 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
In 2001 (I think), there was a game where Bonds hit 3 home runs in Atlanta. It was raining. That was awesome.

I also remember Glenallen Hill sending out a blast that made Ted Robinson, in a legitimately shocked voice, scream "Whoa that ball is WAY outta here!" No idea when that game happened. Maybe the same game? heh..

But all time favorite blast from any player ever? The one that just makes me go "Wow, that was awesome!"? Please, how could any Giants fan not say Brian Johnson? That was like the Stanford-Cal of homers. Who the hell would have expected that?

I will never, ever forget that moment. Well, unless I get Alzheimer's. But then I'll forget what the word Giants means. Hell, I'd be lucky if I knew what "word" means.

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by Gabafnerhagen on Jan 14, 2008 8:30 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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By the way, the day that I find a video of that HR on YouTube is the day I officially make a YouTube video my homepage.
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by Gabafnerhagen on Jan 14, 2008 8:33 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
I was in Philadelphia when JT hit three homers in 2004.  Barry also homered.  That was a fun game.

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by groug on Jan 14, 2008 9:19 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
This seems like a good place to once again express my anger at MLB for not making video of these homeruns available.  They have their staff scouring youtube and removing all MLB footage and then they don't even make them available to buy.  I would pay good money for these 30 second clips and I'm sure there are many more out there just like me.  Why doesn't MLB understand that?
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jan 14, 2008 11:57 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Re: Favorite Homeruns?
The Joe Morgan home run was bittersweet at best.  I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as most.  For me, the season ended the day before when the Dodgers eliminated the Giants.

What true Giants fan truly cares which team wins if it isn't the Giants?  If the Giants' winning is an A thrill, any other team's winning MIGHT be an X or Y thrill.

by sharksrog on Jan 15, 2008 2:09 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

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