totalprosports.com - 7/13/2009
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Total Pro Sports - Tonight will mark the 25 year anniversary of the MLB All-Star Game (unless you want to be stingy and exclude the 1988 event, which was canceled due to rain). The fans in St. Louis will be jacked to see hometown hero Albert Pujols taking part in his third derby, as will many ...
How To Improve the Home Run Derby
mlbnotebook.com 7/8/2009 — The All-Star Game's Home Run Derby started out as a fantastic preview to the game itself but over time it's slowly turned into something about as exciting as a NASCAR caution lap. So let's think about some ways to juice it up again (oops, poor choice of words, sorry). One idea would be to use ...
Pujols Puts His Money Where His Mouth is
slanchreport.com 7/14/2009 — During the home run bonanzas of the steroid days, then-SI writer Rick Reilly challenged Sammy Sosa to take a piss test to prove he didn’t use steroids. Despite being a douche of the umpteenth degree, Reilly has been proven right. Now, while putting up one of the best first-halves in the ...
The 2009 Home Run Derby - Who's Gonna Win?
edthesportsfan.com 7/13/2009 — I'm just warning you all ahead of time, the lovefest that is about to happen in St. Louis tonight is going to make some of you queasy. And for good measure, as the league's preeminent force is about to take center stage this Monday night as the NL's 4 best sluggers and the AL's 4 reject ...
The Home Run Derby effect
i94sports.com 7/14/2009 — Major League Baseball held it’s annual crapitition that is the Home Run Derby and last night it was Prince Fielder taking home the slugging prize. I for one lost the desire to watch anything having to do with these festivities and have not paid much attention to them since the early ...
Pujols favored to win 2009 Home Run Derby
scoresreport.com 7/13/2009 —
The 2009 Home Run Derby is tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET and Cardinals’ slugger Albert Pujols is a 2/1 favorite to win this year’s event, which is hardly a surprise since a) he’s a G-damn home run hitting cyborg and b) the event is in his home park at Busch Stadium.
Phillies’ first baseman Ryan ...
Home Run Derby Open Thread
pinstripealley.com 7/13/2009 — Who is your choice in tonight's Home Run Derby? Hometown hero Albert Pujols will, of course, be the player everyone is rooting for. I'm taking a dark horse -- Nelson Cruz of the Rangers . I suppose I am doing that just to be difficult.
Anyway, enjoy the Derby. Use this as an Open Thread for ...
Will Albert Pujols Be The Real Home Run Champ?
sportfeen.blogspot.com 7/10/2009 — Albert Pujols just hit his 32 nd home run of the season. Pujols has a shot at hitting 62 home runs this season and if he did would be the legitimate single season home run king. Barry Bonds holds the record with 73 home runs hit in 2001. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have each hit over 61 home ...
Field set, Derby promises to thrill | MLB.com: News
mlb.mlb.com 7/13/2009 — By Doug Miller / MLB.com 07/13/09 1:00 AM ET ST. LOUIS -- Post positions have been drawn and the horses are just about ready to break from the gate in baseball's favorite Derby. The 2009 State Farm Home Run Derby field was finalized on Sunday, when ...
Handicapping the 2009 Home Run Derby
vegaswatch.net 7/13/2009 — First a disclaimer: This is mostly just for fun. I have no idea if there's any correlation between these stats and performance in the Derby. If I had to guess, I'd say there is, but it's probably not very strong. Odds taken from The Greek . Stats ...
What Home Run Derby Means to Baseball —
Bleacher Report - MLB 7/13/2009
Home Run Derby is one of the many great festivities that will be taking place during All-Star weekend and has been the case since 1985 to the best of my knowledge. Fans like you and myself love to watch as we listen to Chris Berman and his famous ...
Live: Hamilton at Nats Presser —
Nationals Journal 7/13/2009
Columnist is live-tweeting the Nats' news conference "to discuss the team's managerial situation" at Nats Park. #twitter_div h2 { background-color: transparent; color: #C00; font: bold 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; ...
2009 Home Run Derby Could Be Best of Decade —
Bleacher Report - MLB 7/13/2009
There is no doubt that this year’s Home Run Derby has some big shoes to fill--Josh Hamilton's.
But there is also no doubt that the 2009 Home Run Derby will be better than those of yesteryear, because it has something recent Derbies have not: ...
One Year Later: How To Fix The Home Run Derby —
Bleacher Report - MLB 7/13/2009
A year ago following the ridiculousness of Justin Morneau winning the Home Run Derby when the only person anyone remembers is Josh Hamilton, Small White Ball had enough and decided to present our ways to fix the Home Run Derby. Sadly, none of our ...
