Bring Back the PEDs
Home Run Derby? For me it was more like Home Run Snoozy.
Inge hits zero. Gonzalez hits 2. A handful with 5 and a high of 11. Yawn. No theatrics. A couple of Fielder bombs. No electricity.
Quit screwing around trying to market the game. Bring me the real bombers. Mauer? Inge? Please. Half a season of power shouldn’t get you into the derby. I bet they will take note of that for next year. I would have rather seen Thome and Griffey Jr.
You shouldn’t have to be in the All-Star Game to compete in it either. MLB needs to become like the NBA for its dunk and 3-point contests.
I’d also like to see a Home Run Derby of retired players. Hey, wouldn’t it have been great to see Sosa, McGwire, Raffy and…oh…never mind.
Indianapolis Colts to win Super Bowl
So, let me get this straight. You’re perfectly fine if a player has one good half season with no prior track record and is elected to start the All-Star game, but in the silly home run derby, you have a problem with it?
In the words of Amy Poehler, really?
Just to be clear, I think all of the pre-game festivities to All-Star games like the HR derby, the dunk contest and 3 point contest are trivial. Couldn’t care less about any of them.
Did Pena literally get added last-minute then after he got put on the AS team? Did they bump somebody? I know you’re right about being in the game to participate, but I can’t believe they moved so quickly.
BTW, here was the best non performance enhancing drug derby…I think I coulda gotten on the board with at least one, LOL!
1990– Wrigley Field, Chicago — N.L. 4, A.L. 1
National League
Player Team Total HRs
Ryne Sandberg Chicago 3
Matt Williams San Francisco 1
Bobby Bonilla Pittsburgh 0
Darryl Strawberry New York 0
American League
Player Team Total HRs
Mark McGwire Oakland 1
Ken Griffey Jr. Seattle 0
Jose Canseco Oakland 0
Cecil Fielder Detroit 0