Talk:Buzz Arlett

I would have enjoyed the story far more if HT hadn't pulled this one out of his ass. HT's a serious baseball fan and I would have liked seeing his opinion on which real players, if any, would have played Ruth's revolutionary role absent the man himself. I really would have liked to see him suggest that Lou Gehrig would have been the superstar, as he sort of did in TL-191--I've long had a hero-worship thing going for Gehrig, and I like to see alternate worlds in which he gets the fame he so richly deserves and isn't under anyone else's shadow. And I really REALLY would have liked to see the discussion of baseball suggest that in the absense of Ruth no one stepped up to transform the game into a home run-dominated exercise, and see 19th-century offensive tactics hold up, with long fences, high batting averages, and speedy baserunning a major factor to a high slugging percentage. (Joe Jackson was considered the original great slugger, but he did it by driving up his SP with triples and even inside-the-park homers that he got by hitting 'em deep and running like there was no tomorrow.) Turtle Fan 21:58, 24 June 2009 (UTC)