IGT: Home Run Derby 2013

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Pitbull with the "anthem." Showing a handful of MFY home runs in the "New York home runs" montage leading the telecast. It's like they're DARING me to hate this.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The booing of Cano and the standing O for Sugar go a long way to leaven that burgeoning hatred.

Bring on the stupid-- I'm on drink number two, with a bullet!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Cuddyer acquits himself quite well there, with 7 first-round runs de home. Nepotism 1, Stupid French-Fry-Sandwich Lovers 0.

[metirish]

Cespedes is putting on a show.

Gotta say, City Field looks beautiful in the setting sun.

[ashie62]

Cespedes is a monster

[ashie62]

First time I have seen Citi full and the fans paying attention to the action

[metirish]

#15 looked so easy and he smashed it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

GOOD LORD, he is nasty. (I'm a little behind, on DVR.)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

17? Holy Christ.

Correct me if I'm wrong-- nobody here's EVER seen one hit off the third deck... not even in BP, right?

[metirish]

Kinda feel for Alverez having to follow that.

[metirish]

Davis his bombs without even swinging hard it seems, crazy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That opposite-field "mistake" swing was kinda nuts.

Also kinda nuts-- the tween girl in center. She's a bruiser, isn't she?

[Frayed Knot]

There's no sport/activity that Chris Berman can't make worse simply by his presence.

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: There's no sport/activity that Chris Berman can't make worse simply by his presence.

agree, although he does seem to have mellowed out quite a lot.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I think that's the unpublicized prescription-painkiller addiction talking.

Brown Fauxhawk out in the first round, as White Fauxhawk puts up an 8. So, will Pirates fans boo Pedro Alvarez the next time they see him, or will they boo David Wright for choosing him?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Somehow, this is the first time BetterHalfer-- no big Derby fan, and NOT a football fan-- is hearing Berman.

The reaction: "Who IS this guy? I mean, are you KIDDING me?" I've scarcely been prouder of who I married.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Think Sugar's feeling a little blood-pressure-spike?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Bah. Still love ya, guy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

HEY! PIAZZA!

His electrolysis/facial guy is fantastic!

[metirish]

The Home Run Derby is starting to drag on just a little bit, rooting for a good final round.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This is long. Are these normally this long? Because this is looooong.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That was the daddest of all dad commercials, that Chevy-dad one was.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

PUNTO DE EXCLAMACION

[Gwreck]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: 17? Holy Christ. Correct me if I'm wrong-- nobody here's EVER seen one hit off the third deck... not even in BP, right?

Exactly. I counted 5 by Cespedes up there.

[MFS62]

Since MLB honors everything that isn't under investigation, how about having the major league pitcher who has given up the most home runs prior to the All Star game throw out the first pitch of the Home Run Derby?

Later

[metirish]

Chaos as the 7 train is not running, God, I would hate to be stuck in that mess.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

So who won? I assume Cespedes but tuned out after Wright hit.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yep, Cespedes... in style, with the clincher in the shape of a 440-footer to dead center, over the apple.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Ashie62 wrote: First time I have seen Citi full and the fans paying attention to the action

You should have been there on Opening Day, or July 3.

[Guest themetfairy]

D-Dad caught one of Bryce Harper's first round homers -