Home Run Derby IGT

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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by MFS62 » Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:37 pm

I'd rather watch your other suggestion:
Maybe if the losing team wives/GF's then had to walk around the outfield topless.
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by Cowtipper » Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:24 pm

The Home Derb is a silly frivolity whose primary audience is nine year olds.
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by Fman99 » Wed Jul 17, 2024 6:24 am

Centerfield wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:54 pm
Fman99 wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2024 8:21 am It'd be tough to think of something lower on the list of things I give a shit about than the home run derby.

Watched Pete. Then turned it off. Agree it's kinda boring.

I think there's ways you can make it fun though. For HR derby, you can switch it up year to year between an individual competition and AL vs. NL. Five guys, 20 swings each or something like that. You can have a skills competition. Bunting. Fielding. You can set up a course where you field a ball then fire it at target. Make it fun.

I don't know that it would be enough to get Fman to watch. Maybe if the losing team wives/GF's then had to walk around the outfield topless.
Ceetar, ABNS & I talked about this a bit last night in our most recent "Mets On Tap" podcast episode. I also advocated for the skills competition. I'd watch even a titty-less version of that I think.
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by metirish » Wed Jul 17, 2024 7:29 am

I did watch amy of the ASG last night, did Pete get in the game ? Did he do anything?
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Post by Edgy MD » Wed Jul 17, 2024 7:38 am

Got in the game and made a modestly deft put out at first.

Struck out in the ninth against a powered-up Emmanuel Clase.
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by metirish » Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:07 am

Thanks ,I posted in the wrong thread, no wonder I didn't see anything about Pete in the game
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Post by Frayed Knot » Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:56 am

IIRC, Barry Larkin injured himself in an ASG-related skills competition (something to do with throwing) and it never resurfaced after that.
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Post by Edgy MD » Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:06 am

Marshmallowmilkshake wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:12 pm Well, not the strongest version of the anthem.
The young lady is sadly checking into rehab after acknowledging she was drunk during the performance.
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by MFS62 » Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:57 am

Francis Scott Key is still spinning in his grave like a Costco rotisserie chicken.
She insulted American worse than an Ayatollah on crack.
Rehab?
What about extradition?
That was awful.

Strongly worded message to follow.
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by Benjamin Grimm » Wed Jul 17, 2024 10:00 am

She certainly embarrassed herself, but I have a hard time seeing how she "insulted America".
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Post by metirish » Wed Jul 17, 2024 10:02 am

Harsh , I feel for the girl,and hopefully she comes through it all
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by Frayed Knot » Wed Jul 17, 2024 10:11 am

Among the comments I saw:
- The Star Strangled Banner
- Listening to that makes me wish we had lost to the British
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by MFS62 » Wed Jul 17, 2024 10:23 am

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 10:00 am She certainly embarrassed herself, but I have a hard time seeing how she "insulted America".
When they announce the Anthem at events, I've heard the PA announcer say, "Please stand to honor America".
That was no "honor".
It was offensive, and I feel strongly about that.
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Re: Home Run Derby IGT

Post by Cowtipper » Wed Jul 17, 2024 5:37 pm

Frayed Knot wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 10:11 am Among the comments I saw:
- The Star Strangled Banner
- Listening to that makes me wish we had lost to the British
"It’s a rough week to be an ear in America"
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