Home Run Derby

[gotbeer]

Main event time. 

[gotbeer]

Go Trumbo.  You can do 18

[gotbeer]

And Trumbo hits it off the scoreborad and almost compltely over the brick building.

[gotbeer]

Damn.  Nice Try Tumbo.  It was nice seeing the Trumbombs.

[CaliAngel]

Yeah he stopped looking at the bottom half of the ball. Also I thought his pitcher could have gotten the balls up a little higher.

Glad that everyone knows Trumbo though. Good for him.

[Kenny]

Who was that throwing junk to Trumbo?

 

He should've made a call to Dino.

[beatlesrule]

Did anyone see the fan in stands putting on makeup in that last slow mo shot? Haha.

[Tank]

10 hours ago, Troll Daddy said:

Trumbo and Giancarlo are the two hottest HR bats coming into the contest tonight ... so they probably won't win.

it's a lot more enjoyable to watch them mash while chowing down on a double-double.

#poornate

[Tank]

the HRD reminds me why chris berman sucks so much. i'm glad this is really the only time of the year i have to endure hearing him.

and what is with all the slobbing all over todd frazier? did he cure cancer or bail out the accounting dept at espn or something? my goodness, i feel like i'm walking in on a couple parked at the top of lookout peak on date night. this is embarrassing. 

[Tank]

for all the slobbering over stanton and whether or not he would hit the scoreboard, when trumbo finally hit it, the announcers were far less impressed.

stanton is just killing it in the final round. this has been fun to watch.

[tomsred]

3 hours ago, gotbeer said:

And Trumbo hits it off the scoreborad and almost compltely over the brick building.

For those of you not watching on TV, the "scoreborad" is a fat lady who sings, and sits in the outfield pavilion, LOL.

[beatlesrule]

 Stanton is really putting on a show.

[Troll Daddy]

2 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

 Stanton is really putting on a show.

Do I dare say it ... Hamiltonesque

[nate]

10 minutes ago, Tank said:

it's a lot more enjoyable to watch them mash while chowing down on a double-double.

#poornate

dick

[Tank]

i had to laugh at the kid from the padres. his brother was his pitcher and actually hit him. i'm sure they're gonna have a good laugh over it.

[Troll Daddy]

Hard to believe Garret Anderson won the HRD in 2003 during the steroid era.

He also walked away with MVP that year. 

[fan_since79]

Tickets to Marlins games are 61% off now, due to a poorly-thought-out promotion. Nobody imagined he would hit 61 home runs.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnIZrNUVUAA07BM.jpg

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Tickets to Marlins games are 61% off now, due to a poorly-thought-out promotion. Nobody imagined he would hit 61 home runs.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnIZrNUVUAA07BM.jpg

Considering Miami averages 21k tickets sold.  I think they would take any kind of promotion to get buts in the seats.

[Billy_Ball]

7 hours ago, Troll Daddy said:

Hard to believe Garret Anderson won the HRD in 2003 during the steroid era.

He also walked away with MVP that year. 

Yup.  He beat Albert Pujols in the final round!

[Tank]

12 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Considering Miami averages 21k tickets sold.  I think they would take any kind of promotion to get buts in the seats.

So this will bring their attendance to 21,500!

[Troll Daddy]

[Angel Oracle]

I am so glad I missed it, and didn't have to be subjected to the "long since time to retire" Berman.

Congrats to Stanton, and hopefully your offense won't go into the toilet after being in the HRD.

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

I am so glad I missed it, and didn't have to be subjected to the "long since time to retire" Berman.

Congrats to Stanton, and hopefully your offense won't go into the toilet after being in the HRD.

The Derby itself seemed fun.  It would be much more entertaining if they focused on the derby, instead of the announcers making it about who they want to talk about and interview. 

I think that's one bad thing about the clock.  Makes it more exciting, but when Trumbo hits the scoreboard then over the brick building, they hardly have time to cover it.  Stanton may have had longer homers, but I really think Trumbo's weren't longer because he struck stationary objects. 

If they just had a home run derby, with Trumbo and Stanton switching off and hitting jacks, both of them mic'd up, and a few players like Trout MC'ing it, I think it would have been just as if not more entertaining. 

[Pujols4MVP]

Who the heck is Adam Duvall ? I haven't followed the league as much cause the Angels have sucked all season long.