Running Diary. Let's get it on.
7:59 // Setting the Chris Berman Over/Under "Back" counter, conservatively, at 79.
8:05 // Chris Berman: "Our lineup tonight brought to you by Taco Bell, not George 'Taco' Bell, but Taco Bell." Mother of God...
8:16 // Berman: "Beltran is certainly in contention!".....through one batter.
8:19 // Beltran has the purest of swings. Watching his swing -- I imagine this is the feeling women get watching an anorexic model walk down a runway.
8:21 // Tulowitzki would dominate this thing. Why can't my man stay healthy.
8:23 // Hispanic guys watching a home run derby is the new black guys watching a dunk contest.
8:28 // Berman: "This one is on its way to Wichita!" Wichita was the 3rd favorite on my board behind Branson and Topeka for Berman's local geography ref.
8:34 // The winner of the HR derby should win a first class ticket on the next flight out of Kansas City.
8:39 // Bobby Abreu holds the record for the most homers in a single Derby. 41 in 2005 at Comerica Park. I witnessed.
8:42 // I don't know why but Chris Berman is a perfect fit for the HR Derby. I’m expecting Boomer to have a brain aneurysm any minute now.
8:45 // My friends are hating on Berman. People, it's the Home Run Derby. Being obnoxious is necessary for a meaningless competition like this. I'm comparing this to people who dislike Nickelback. It's taken on a life of it's own, as if it's cool to hate Nick for the hell of it.
8:49 // I can't wait until the Home Run Derby finals and George Brett is sitting on a raft in the fountains eating ribs.
8:52 // Prop Bet Update: If you had John Kruk to eat more than 8.5 ribs on air during the home run derby, you win. Congrats.
8:53 // Kruk hasn't said 3 words since that buffet spread came out.
8:56 // Oh damn...John Kruk just ate a cameraman.
9:05 // Berman: "Man that one's hit to Omaha!" George Brett: "That's the wrong direction."
9:12 // Mannequins with gloves would have caught more fly balls than these kids.
9:14 // Check that. The kid in the blue cleats shaggin flies could play for me anyday.
9:15 // [passes out]
9:36 // [wakes up]
9:37 // A swing-off in the Home Run Derby is only matched by the drama of an overtime NFL preseason game.
9:39 // Kruk: "Who ya got, Nomar?" Nomar Garciaparra: "Between these two?" (There are two people remaining in the competition.)
9:42 // If they forced the players to circle the bases with every home run, Prince would have died in Round 1.
9:45 // Berman channeling his inner Jim Nantz is the perfect end for the evening. "Prince is the king here in Kansas City."
9:52 // Pedro Gomez: "State Farm is donating much, much to the community". And you thought Miss Teen South Carolina was bad.
10:00 // Detroit FTW. Prince Fielder became only the second player to win multiple titles in the All-Star Home Run Derby. This is his Alamo.
