I fully expected to turn that off after the first batter or two, but shit, that was just plain fun. I was skeptical but they did a good job with the changes.
Home Run derby game thread
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It may not have had the insanity of Josh Hamilton's derby, but overall this goes down as my all-time favorite. The new rules made things a million times better. Replace Berman with Gus Johnson and this thing is perfect.
edit: somehow I forgot about 1999 at Fenway for a minute. This is right up there with it, personally.
edit: somehow I forgot about 1999 at Fenway for a minute. This is right up there with it, personally.
I'm sure some of y'all already know this, but all 26 episodes of the original "Home Run Derby" have been uploaded to YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaxrzW3aSrc
Love this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaxrzW3aSrc
Love this stuff.
DeJesus Built My Hotrod said:
Agree completely. There have been some great individual moments in these things through the years, but I don't think I actually enjoyed the entire event as much as I did tonight.
Except, of course, for Berman
In the middle of watching Rizzo flame out because he was going too fast I thought this was going to be terrible. After that it was incredible. Damn near every matchup was right down to the end. The new format grew on me in a hurry.
I think the times per round was perfect. Byte last minute changes for weather worked well. 5 minutes would have been too long.
I'll take Berman over Harold Reynolds all day and twice on Sunday. Aaron Boone with his nasally voice is hard to listen to, although his "content" is OK.Soxfan in Fla said:
The format was great. The only time I thought it might be too long was after the first round. I thought they might drag out the rest but that didn't happen.
not a cloumn but Marc Bertrand on 98.5 just said "They used a clock to save the home run derby, they should use one to save baseball." Of course this was a takeaway point and he didn't elaborate but i'm sure the sentiment is out theresoxhop411 said:
Isn't MLB experimenting with the use of a clock for intervals between pitches? I don't know if that's gone beyond the minor leagues, though. Those moves, including the ones about stepping out of the box, are ok with me. Transforming the game to fit into a total time-frame, not at all.
