One of my favorit days in Baseball...The Home Run Derby

As I mentioned in previous blogs baseball is a "newspaper sport" , but there are a few special parts of the season that become must watch TV. Between opening day and the World Series you have the All Star break, and in the break you have the Home Run Derby which to me is a must watch part of the season.

I know the derby doesn't really count for anything but bragging rights, but the home run is the most exciting part of the game (after the stadium dog of course). The home run is what made baseball, and the reason Babe Ruth is still a house hold name. The home run made a former cotton picker from Mobile Alabama into one of the greatest all time, but no one talks about Hank Aaron's three Golden Gloves Awards. The home run "saved" baseball as the country started back watching after the strike of 1995 for the excitement of Mark Mcgwire and Sam Sosa chasing Roger Maris's home run record. 

So it's only natural that the Home Run Derby becomes one of my favorite parts of the long MLB season. This years derby has an impressive lineup of hitters:

• Robinson Cano 20 HR
• Prince Fielder  15 HR
• Carlos Beltran 20 HR
• Carlos Gonzalez 17 HR
• Jose Bautista 27 HR
• Matt Kemp 12 HR
• Andrew McCutchen 18 HR
• Mark Trumbo 21 HR

I'm rooting for the young very talented Andrew McCutchens to make a bigger name for him self, but I'm picking the Broxn's Bomber Robinson Cano to win yet another Home Run Derby.

-Patrick Pierce

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