Aaron Judge’s season has generated big interest. It’s engaged Yankees fans in a way they hadn’t been engaged in years. But it’s not the same as 1998.
It’s bad enough that the PED Patrol — Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa — have ruined the record books, rendered them unreadable. They’ve been duly prosecuted for their crimes in the court of public opinion, and their sentences include banishment from Cooperstown and expulsion from the hearts and souls of many baseball fans.Aaron Judge’s season
So on the one hand, you can lump me in with the rest of the scribes who were blissfully blind to the possibilities of steroids, even after that bottle of androstenedione was found in McGwire’s locker, even as our eyes kept cynically wondering why many baseball players — not just McGwire and Sosa — looked different than they used to.Charles Wenzelberg / New York PoThe world was caught up in McGwire and Sosa. Networks broke into their every at-bat. Every stop in St.
But the bigger one is the PED Patrol. Look, for better or worse, the record remains 73, and the runner-up is 70. So Judge isn’t really chasing the number that’s on the books. But the steroid era — and those three hitters in particular — drained much of the joy and the wonder from the record itself. It’s hard to generate the kind of buzz that surrounded this pursuit in 1998; it’s impossible to manufacture it.
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