Nostalgia! I remember stepping up to the plate as a kid thinking i was KG Jr. The stance, the backwards cap. All of it!
@charismatic99042 жыл бұрын
Same. Usually I was KG jr. If someone claimed him then I was gary Sheffield just because I loved his stance and the little bat wiggle.
@markymark7182 жыл бұрын
@@charismatic9904 I was Mo Vaughn that's a batting stance
@AyeshaTheGreat2 жыл бұрын
Junior Griffey had me wishing I was a lefty. That batting stance is legendary. He was the first baseball player that I really liked who didn't play for my home team. I loved his smile and backwards cap. Thanks for the video.
@hectorlopez10692 жыл бұрын
One of the players to never used steroids in his baseball career. The best in the sport of baseball.
@panagenesis2695 Жыл бұрын
💯
@hectorlopez10692 жыл бұрын
The only thing about him, that is missing, is his world series ring. He truly deserves at least one championship.
@Air2theRon2 жыл бұрын
so enjoyable! this was the first 20min segment i lost track of in a long time...sports is a great escape with the craziness in the world
@Authentic18742 жыл бұрын
It definitely is a great escape
@lionelrust48962 жыл бұрын
How did 3 baseball writers think he didn't deserve to be in the hall of fame?
@muhammadrifqi73082 жыл бұрын
I mean, babe ruth didn't get close to 99% of the votes when he was inducted. BBWAA are notoriously inconsistent for a long time.
@tremelthelegacy67152 жыл бұрын
They were idiots....
@tylerhildebrand51102 жыл бұрын
They were Yankees fans
@TheKrazyk20102 жыл бұрын
They must have really looked at his Cincinnati years
@ahogg59602 жыл бұрын
Some writers believe noone should be elected on the first ballot. Because they're idiots. I guess even those three fogeys showed up for Mariano Rivera.
@LakeLyfe3152 жыл бұрын
One of the best all around players ever and hands down the smoothest swing there ever was!
@deenyce2216 Жыл бұрын
He is one of the best baseball players I’ve ever seen. Man if it wasn’t for those injuries on the second half of his career.
@rocketvanpersie1632 жыл бұрын
Jr and McGwire(before I knew about the steroids) were the players that made me fall in love with baseball. Glad that steroids were never mentioned in the same sentence as Jr. dude was just different
@mikesirman31486 күн бұрын
You just mentioned jr and steroids in the same sentence... Millions of ppl have
@kidtae12 жыл бұрын
Every kid in East Oakland Babe Ruth imitated his batting stance. He was a legend to all of us
@hectorlopez10692 жыл бұрын
JR could do anything on the field, hit homeruns, robbed homeruns and steal bases. A goat of MLB of the 90s.
@baseline-G Жыл бұрын
No clutch moments! Mariners were a better team without him... Nothing great about a losing baseball team
@craigugulini34092 жыл бұрын
He hit home runs like he was juiced to the gills like the rest of them the only difference was he wasn’t juicing at all and put up the same kind of numbers as guys trying to get an edge….it’s actually one of the most amazing athletic feats I think
@terrywarnold5 ай бұрын
Ohhhh that swing!!!!!! I got into baseball a little bit during his Seattle days. I started batting left handed cause of him and TRIED to pattern my swing after him. By the time I was hitting my latter teenage years though, I became more focused on basketball.
@andrewj3050792 жыл бұрын
90s goat
@mikesirman31486 күн бұрын
Bonds
@maxagabon182 жыл бұрын
Being from LA, my favorite player growing up was Piazza but I always tried to play like Ken Griffey Jr ;)
@sincity918092 жыл бұрын
I love this comment!!! Real baseball fan! Those were the GLORY days !!!!
@hitokiriibattousaii9 ай бұрын
Easily my favorite swing I've ever seen in baseball, the Kid is a legend
@rogercormier45692 жыл бұрын
When it looks & feels that smooth & effortless. 1 can only dream to be that guy❤️🔥⚾️ 24
@jdestiny777 Жыл бұрын
I always remember me and probably 5 of my team mates as kids playing baseball all wearing our hats backwards and copying his stance as best as we could. What a legend
@robertamore94332 жыл бұрын
Griffey the goat 🐐 greatest baseball player of all time
@mikesirman31486 күн бұрын
He was pretty awesome for 10 years... Worth about .7 WAR average for his last 11 seasons
@GeorgeYoung-uh5by Жыл бұрын
Without all those injuries JR. Has the most homeruns ever. He also was a tremendous outfielder. 10 golden gloves. In my day after 1960 Jr is the best. Over Mays Aaron and Mantle. If he didnt have all those games he missed in the last half of his career. He might be the best ever.
@mikesirman31486 күн бұрын
Crazy decline after his first season in Cincinnati... Worth an average of .7 WAR over his last 11 seasons
@ragecage2011 Жыл бұрын
They need to make a movie out of this story!!!! Would be bigger than Brian's song
@justinbuda2352 Жыл бұрын
I loved Junior, when he got traded to the reds I was happy (they are one of my favorite teams Braves ass the other). Yes his injuries in Cincy hurt his career but god that swing…..the sweetest swing in baseball.
@SpaceFox93 Жыл бұрын
Anybody know what game that was at 15:24? Jr. absolutely murdered that baseball.
@markjackson64312 жыл бұрын
wish he broke the HR single season record
@volkonrubenstien56332 жыл бұрын
He will get the love he deserves in the hobby
@Brians_C82 жыл бұрын
The best to play the game
@noelranger72 жыл бұрын
I love this Channel
@Wildstag4 ай бұрын
It's so bizarre that MLB clip is edited so it removes the announcer almost predicting the back to back homer. He says "such a short period of time, it seems like Sr. and Jr. have done so many things as a first for father and son, but they haven't done a back to back home run trot yet" right before Jr. took that famous swing.
@danotto8970 Жыл бұрын
Legend
@YouCallThataKnife2532 жыл бұрын
To this day, I can't hold a bat any other way. I don't even play baseball
@walterbison9 ай бұрын
@15:48 Video over. Him demanding a trade to the Reds was his biggest mistake and his time with the Reds is a blight on his career.
@obarbeito2 жыл бұрын
The best player that ever lived, until the injury bug.
@williamkoscielniak78712 жыл бұрын
Maybe the most likable, and possibly the best slugger, but he wasn't the greatest player. Bonds and Trout are at least two players who are undeniably better than Griffey.
@brennanhartnell2322 жыл бұрын
Trout is not undeniably better.
@williamkoscielniak78712 жыл бұрын
@@brennanhartnell232 How not? He leads the league in on base, OPS, and OPS+ basically every other year on average. Griffey never lead the league once in any of those categories. He also led the league in stolen bases one year, which is something Griffey never did. Griffey slugged a bit better and was a better defender, but I don't see how that can make up for being so much more productive as far as getting on base and then running the bases as well as he does.
@williamkoscielniak78712 жыл бұрын
Griffey was an all-time great, and probably the 2nd best player of his era behind Bonds, although Big Frank has a case to right there with him at number 2. Jr. would have most likely ended his career with the most homeruns ever had he not had all the injuries. Literally the only thing that I don't love about Griffey is his sometimes overly zealot fanbase. I've had people call me an idiot for making the obvious claim that Barry Bonds and Mike Trout are better players. Anyone who knows the slightest thing about baseball knows that Griffey isn't quite at the level of those two, but of course he's still an all-time great and one of the best all around players ever.
@lachlaneberle2889 Жыл бұрын
Well if Griffey wasn't so injury prone in the last half of his career he would probably have a pretty strong case to be the goat. - Likely HR king, as in the couple seasons where he was even remotely healthy he hit 35 and 30 homers at the ages of 35 and 37 showing the the power and swing never left -Likely over 3000 hits -RBIs leader -Probably a couple more gold gloves in center if he wasn't sapped of his athleticism and might have been able to grab one to to in a corner OF spot later in career. - And no steroid allegations making the sheer numbers even more impressive for his era But I do understand your stance even though I still can't say Trout is better yet and I believe the steroid use hurts Bonds in terms of being compared to Griffey Jr but not the rest of the players from his era and I do think he was juicing earlier than he says just not on the same level as he was late.
@justinbuda2352 Жыл бұрын
Bonds was great, but ironically enough bonds never had 50 home runs in a season except the year he hit 73. I would love to have seen where Junior finished if he wasn’t injured later in his career
@bryanglynn95322 жыл бұрын
That “double” was and is actually referred to as “the 95 slide”. Someone even named a sports bar after it.
@yoinkhaha2 жыл бұрын
Well I doubt if there’ll ever be another instance of back-to-back homers by father and son…
@nlocc294 ай бұрын
"the double" saved baseball in Seattle
@diegoblanco51992 жыл бұрын
A huge example for people with gigantism
@baseline-G2 жыл бұрын
Played 22 years of MLB baseball. His teams went to the playoffs in: 1995, 1997 & 2008. His great play, unfortunately didn't translate to winning... Mariners record in 1998 was 76-85, 1999 was 79-83... Mariners trade Griffey to Cincinnati on February 11, 2000... In 2000 the Mariners were 91-71, in 2001 were 116-46... The Griffey trade literally ruined the Reds for the next 10 years... THE GREATEST TRADE IN MARINERS HISTORY!!!!!...
@tiemann55 Жыл бұрын
I watched him when he was in Cincinnati . He was overpaid and full of himself by then , but I still think he’s the greatest player of all time
@LegalShield30002 жыл бұрын
I went through a wierd phase in 5th grade where I made my lil siblings say "Ken Griffey Jr" instead of please. "Pass the Salt, Ken Griffey Jr."
@Brand337772 жыл бұрын
didnt know griffey sr lust missed on the 1990 ws reds team
@danjimenez71592 жыл бұрын
2:52 AS A WHAT?
@siniister7102 жыл бұрын
griffey content poggies
@Quayleman Жыл бұрын
You didn't mention A Rod... Cause pretty sure he was the reason he left Seattle.
@Quayleman Жыл бұрын
You have an issue of not saying the year... But you say the date...
@nlocc294 ай бұрын
T mobile park is the house Jr built
@bigpasty15822 жыл бұрын
Mariners trade griffey and the made playoffs next year lol then win 116 year after that
@jddallan11152 жыл бұрын
And arod.. and Johnson lol. 2 greats
@panagenesis2695 Жыл бұрын
If he took steroids, like Bonds did, he'd have all the records.
@youtuber33282 жыл бұрын
in ALL honesty i SOMEWHAT like ken griffey jr
@jamesmarshall43642 жыл бұрын
"progidy", huh?
@justineebourgeois34202 жыл бұрын
Why doesn’t he have any rings if he’s so good? Overrated! 🤷♀️
@volkonrubenstien56332 жыл бұрын
It couldn't be more clear. Ur literally watching why lmao.
@jonathanwashington91992 жыл бұрын
Albert Pujols: Watch Your Mouth Before You Insult Me My Two Rings Has Weight