James K. has left a new comment on your post “My Unpopular Opinion Of The “Piazza Home Run”“:
I have to ask – did you even watch that game? Did you see the home run happen live? How could you not be touched by that moment, especially as a New Yorker?
No one is claiming it had anything to do with the Mets winning a pennant and this seems to be your reason for downplaying it. It wasn’t about wins and losses and World Series wins that night. That home run should be #1 all time, if anything it’s underrated.
I did. Maybe it’s just my personal reaction but at the time a Mets game just seemed trivial. I did think it was cool when Bush showed up at Yankee Stadium and threw a strike – that was a neat moment…and I was at the Mr. November game which was the most exciting game I’ve ever seen in person (I was home for Buckner).
My reason for downplaying it has nothing to do with the Mets winning it or not, I just don’t see that it has any more meaning than any other Piazza home run. I guess it made some people happy for the first time in a week – but I didn’t react that way. As I said in the title, I expected my opinion to be unpopular.
On the other side, someone else wrote…
Agree completely with you Shannon. A home run does not “heal a city.” Playing that game was the great moment, the home run was merely icing on the cake that day.
Whether the Mets won or lost that game didn’t really matter. What was important that day was that the teams played, and that the people came out to watch them play.
I can think of at least 3 other more dramatic Piazza home runs: his first as a Met, his grand slam off Clemens, and the 7/1/2000 3-run shot that capped a 10 run comeback over the Braves.
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