Best first baseman of his era. Absolutely a first ballot HOFer.

Nothing tops the post-9/11 home run. But I’ll never forget one he hit in a game against the Braves circa 2000 where the Mets had been down something like 7 and scored 10 in the 8th inning. Piazza capped off that inning with an absolute laser down the left field line that barely stayed fair. 14-ish year old me was…

Get out of my yard, lame-o

A few facts I remembered/learned when reading Bagwell retrospectives on Astros blogs:

“HEY MAN, PISS OFF!! RICKY! GET THIS LAME-O OUT OF YOUR YARD!”

Bagwell was fucking incredible. (I was actually digging around earlier for footage of what I remember as a Sunday Night Baseball game in 1999 or 2000 where he and Piazza were having what seemed to be a competition to see who could hit the most absurd opposite field shot.) Frank Thomas with a glove and base-stealing…

There’s a reason he named his kid Shea.

I think you’re confusing him with Andrew Luck.

Chipper Jones used to destroy the Mets. Seemingly at will and while laughing.

Man, I would love to see the same compilation for my favorite player, Jeff Bagwell. I guess he’s got a good chance next year, but I was really hoping he’d get some overdue credit for a wonderful career.

Neh, it was the time his son hit a home run off him in Spring Training and the next pitch was up and in.

“Amphetamines? What do frogs have to do with this?”

- Emmitt Smith

Then he threw a bat at him.

Doc’s consumption was legendary.

Gun Slinger just came out blazing there didnt he? I guess now he will have to be OK getting corralled into the PED discussion. Who knows what will be on his baseball Tombstone. Kilmer

Halladay knows all about steroids, being a medical professional and all.