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The Big Lead: Rick Reilly: What’s With All the White Guys in the Home Run Derby? Where are the Hispanics?
Big League Stew: There's nothing like being at the Derby ... Or is there?
SPORTSbyBROOKS: Blog Jam: Chase Utley Has 2 Words for Boo Birds
FanHouse: Rick Reilly Thinks There Are Too Many White Guys in the Home Run Derby
Deadspin: Hamiltonmania, Rick Reilly On Race, And Chase Utley Tells New York Fans Where To Shove It [Home Run Derby Blogdome]
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phanatic74 Seriously . . . . . As if players of different ethnic backgrounds weren't ask to participate. These players were the only ones healthy enough and cared enough to participate for their fans and more importantly charity !! -
phanatic74 ESPN announcers suck !! I'll stick with my Wheels, Sarge and Harry Kalas on Comcast. At least they stick to the facts and talk baseball . . . . . . -
phanatic74 Sorry Tom McCarthy - I also forgot you as well !!
Rick Reilly: What’s With All the White Guys in the Home Run Derby? Where are the Hispanics?
The Big Lead —
... We were going to wait another 30 minutes for Red Lasso to pick this up, but Real Clear Sports already grabbed it: “We got eight white guys here. This is like a Kiwanus Club meeting. We don’t have a single Hispanic player out here.” ...
There's nothing like being at the Derby ... Or is there?
Big League Stew —
... I've taken the liberty of listing the differences between each after the jump. * * * Live advantage: Not having to listen to Chris Berman's incessant "back, back, back" that became tired some time during the H.W. Bush administration. (Also, if Iracane at Walkoff Walk reports correctly, avoiding Rick Reilly's commentary ranks as a sizable blessing. Like MLB would have said no if Albert Pujols wanted to enter the Derby and interrupt the Kiwanis Club meeting. ) At-home advantage: Being able to ...
Blog Jam: Chase Utley Has 2 Words for Boo Birds
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... • Meanwhile, REAL CLEAR SPORTS catches Rick Reilly complaining about too many white players participating in the Home Run Derby . • Speaking of racist chatter, DEADSPIN discovers Reggie Jackson having the chutzpah to call an artist Jewish, just because the two ...
Rick Reilly Thinks There Are Too Many White Guys in the Home Run Derby
FanHouse —
... , and he's had a weird night. He seems determined to moralize at every instance, to imbue the Home Run Derby with manufactured meaning where there is none. (We've got all the meaning we need with Josh Hamilton's 28 monstrous home runs, thank you very much.) But by far the weirdest part of Reilly's evening has been the below argument on behalf of some sort of Derby affirmative action. For Reilly's taste, there are just way too many white dudes hitting dingers tonight: ...
Hamiltonmania, Rick Reilly On Race, And Chase Utley Tells New York Fans Where To Shove It [Home Run Derby Blogdome]
Deadspin —
... • Rick Reilly Thinks There Are Too Many White People In The HR Derby. "This is like a Kiwanis Club meeting!" Karl Ravech could not have wanted to change topics more quickly. Priceless. [Real Clear Sports] ...
Rick Reilly Is Not Happy With The All-White Guys Home Run Derby
FanIQ Blog —
... Rick Reilly Thinks There Are Too Many White People In The HR Derby [RealClearSports]
