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"The Home Run Derby at Citifield."
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"The Home Run Derby at Citifield."
Good luck, suckers.

I'm predicting a total of three.

Not the winning total. Three home runs between all eight contestants.

Two of those may be umpire miscalls.

Every ballpark stat in http://espn.go.com/mlb/allstar13/story/_/id/9475439/home-run-derby-preview is lies. LIES!

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 RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield... Molaholic 07-15-13 1
   RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield... Molaholic 07-15-13 3
 RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield... PepeLePew13 07-15-13 2
   RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield... AyaK 07-16-13 5
 All Star Parade madness beginning moonbaby 07-16-13 4
   RE: All Star Parade madness beginni... kingfish 07-16-13 6
       RE: All Star Parade madness beginni... cahaya 07-17-13 7

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1. "RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield."
It's been many years since I've been able to watch the HRD (it's usually the second Monday of July & the LA Dodgers Booster Club meets on the second Monday of the month).

As I recall it usually starts out fairly interesting but quickly evolves into a snore fest. So -- has anything changed?

Another thought -- as I'm watching the MLB Network ASG Warm-up, they're talking about the HRD about to start -- but then run a promo for "Pride of the Yankees" which MLB Network will be airing during the HRD. How many folks watching now are going to stick around for a 70-year-old biopic over the HRD over on FOX?

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3. "RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield."
Now I know what I've been missing (actually, not missing).

Two hours of Chris Berman.

110 minutes too much.

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2. "RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield."
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They really need to shake up the HR derby and make it more interesting. I read somewhere about this idea and I really like it:

Have a bracket-style competition. Think of the interest gained and the betting that would go on! Have 16 players take part, and they square off with 10 swings with the winner moving on (if there's a tie, either have a swing-off with five swings or have the tiebreaker be the dude who hit the longest HR).

This helps solve the problem of the competition seeming to be dragging on forever by making it ten swing-and-contacts instead of unlimited HRs with ten outs per round, while keeping fans interested in seeing who would match up against each other.

You could have the top five leading HR hitters from each league be automatic qualifiers, the defending champ gets one spot, a hometown guy gets one spot, and four wild cards. Seed them from 1 to 16 with the two leading HR hitters in each league getting the top two seeds.

Based on that, this year's HR derby competitors could have been:

NL automatic - Cargo, Alvarez, D. Brown, Goldschmidt, Beltran or Bruce
AL automatic - C. Davis, Miggy, Encarnacion, Dunn, Ibanez
Defending champ - Fielder
Hometown guy - Wright
Wild cards - Cano, Trout, Harper, Stanton or Bautista (or any one of the other guys like Ortiz, Cespedes, Cruz or Bruce/Beltran)

Could you imagine having Trout and Harper facing each other in a bracket? Miggy vs Fielder? Cano vs Wright? Fans would be amped up.

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5. "RE: The Home Run Derby at Citifield."
Part of the problem, though, is that it's hard to get even 8 players to compete for fear that they'll mess up their swings by swinging for the fences (not an unjustified fear -- see Adrian Gonzalez, 2011).

Thus, you'll always have a problem getting enough talent to compete. But, even if you only have eight players, I like the idea of having individual face-offs, broken up into two "innings" of five outs each.

Similar to your scenario, Pepe, imagine how much attention a first-round face-off of, say, Prince Fielder versus Chris Davis would have drawn. Or Bryce Harper against Cespedes.

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4. "All Star Parade madness beginning"
Just heard traffic around the office is terrible. Parade starts at Bryant Park at one and winds up just a couple of blocks from here. Early lunch? You betcha!
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6. "RE: All Star Parade madness beginning"
Go to Coney Island.

Cool breezes.

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7. "RE: All Star Parade madness beginning"
Not quite so cool with the current heat wave!

Having said that, from personal experience (especially for DD) Coney Island is a cool place to visit!

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