Home Run Derby
The Derby right now consists of eight players, three rounds, and three hours along with having to hear Chris Berman yell “Back, back, back, back, back, back, back, gone!” every other pitch. In addition, this year they seemed to have introduced a new idea where each league has a captain, this year it was David Ortiz for the AL and the NL’s Prince Fielder, and that captain selects three players from their league to join them. One would think that this would make the Home Run Derby something like a team event where maybe the most combined home runs wins the Derby, but we quickly learned that the whole “captain” concept really had nothing to do with the actual event as hitters were on their own once the pitches were thrown.
