Home Run Derby Thread 2022

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Interrupting this fake baseball thread with some news about actual baseball, I just looked at the schedule and discovered that, starting tonight, we have five games over the next eleven days. Exactly how do they expect me to survive on such meager rations? Well fortunately there's apparently a seven-part documentary on Derek Jeter you can watch.

Y'know, I might have even watched it if it were two or three parts. But Seven?!? He's just not that interesting. And he was intentionally not that interesting.

[Fman99]

I watched not one bit of this crap.

[Ceetar]

=Fman99 post_id=100235 time=1658226546 user_id=86]
I watched not one bit of this crap.

[Willets Point]

Nationals fans must be happy to see their young superstar win the HR Derby just before he leaves the team. Again.

[Edgy MD]

I think it'd be more fun to have an array of skill competitions. Outfield arms. Race around the bases. 100 Grounders. Etc. MLB Field Day



But this is the only one where the risk is deemed worth the reward.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: I think it'd be more fun to have an array of skill competitions. Outfield arms. Race around the bases. 100 Grounders. Etc. MLB Field Day

They did that one year and someone (Barry Larkin?) hurt his arm in the throwing comp and they never went back.



With even hard core NBA fans now admitting that the dunk contest has been totally lame for more than a decade now, the NHL runs the best skills competition at their ASG

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I figured an arm would go and they would never speak of it again.



How sad to find out it happened, and if I had ever known of it, I had forgotten, as they never spoke of it again.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Apparently there is some controversy that ESPN miscounted one of Schwarber's homers and he actually beat Pujols in that round. Oops.

[roger_that]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I think it'd be more fun to have an array of skill competitions. Outfield arms. Race around the bases. 100 Grounders. Etc. MLB Field Day They did that one year and someone (Barry Larkin?) hurt his arm in the throwing comp and they never went back. With even hard core NBA fans now admitting that the dunk contest has been totally lame for more than a decade now, the NHL runs the best skills competition at their ASG

Yeah!!! because outside of the ASG, Larkin never threw a single ball with his utmost effort.

[ashie62]

Julio Rodriguez greatly impressed me.

[Frayed Knot]

=ashie62 post_id=100270 time=1658254690 user_id=90]
Julio Rodriguez greatly impressed me.