The Rangers' Great Druggy Hambino Josh Hamilton stole the show even if he didn't win it last night during the Home Run Derby, launching a record 28 [homespun term for home run]s in the opening round though ultimately coming up short in the finals against Justin Morneau. In addition to being besieged by reminders of how truly intimidating it must be to bat in the mystique of Yankee Stadium (Oh my gawd! Lights! People! Professional baseball players aren't used to this!) viewers got a heavy dose of the it's-heartening-because-he's-a-white-guy back story of former heroin addict turned burgeoning star Josh Hamilton. We get it, addiction overcome. The guy was a former no. 1 pick who fucked up and righted the ship. Maybe have him string together a few years of productivity before lionizing him completely.
Hambino put on one of the best shows ever in a Home Run Derby in the opening round, but to hear Rick Reilly drone on with cornball lines like "It's a lousy night to be an athiest!" made it more than a bit difficult to really enjoy.
Also ruining things, per the usual: Yankees fans. Being insufferable dipshits, they wrestled for balls in the stands, started "asshole" chants and lustily booed Evan Longoria and Chase Utley. Lucky for viewers, Chase wasn't letting that go unanswered, as you can see after the jump.
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SOMEONE GET AN EXTINGUISHER! HIS ARM IS ON FIRE!!!!
We want Home Run Homer!
If I had that tattoo there'd be a lot of Oh my God look how fast I'm jerking off! jokes.
My favorite part was when Reilly pointed out that every guy in the thing was white and then nobody else said anything until they could think of a way to change the subject. Good times.
Chase Utley was apparently played by Nick Swardson last night.
I'm hoping ESPN fires Reilly for saying that this Home Run Derby was gonna suck due to that abundance of white dudes. Not that I care about it being a black/white/latin thing, I just want Reilly fired and this is as good an excuse as any.
Reilly is a fucking d-bag. What was the point of even bringing that up?
Awesome comeback from Utley… Geez, it's the allstar game, turn it up a notch!
I can't wait for that time when Berman yells, "back back back" and then has a brain aneurysm.
"Speaking of a second baseman that can pull it…"
They booed because they thought Chuck Knoblauch was making an appearance.
BTW, Matt, you forgot to add, "FIRST!"
they weren't booing Utley, the sun had come out from behind the clouds just at that moment.
+2, for the Nick Swardson and Knobloch comments
I didn't watch for fear of hearing "Back, Back, Back" That would give me an aneurysm.
The idiots at ESPN were out in full regalia last night. Reilly is a disgrace to his profession and that's pretty hard. As for Gammons, can they put this invalid out to pasture already. Every time he opened his fucking old stroke mouth, he was spewing man love for some bullshit AA Sox prospect somewhere. SHUT THE FUCK UP ESPN!!!
Reilly? I thought that was Jeff Van Gundy!
Ah the home run derby, or as we call it in Dallas – an above average showing of the Rangers' pitching staff.
Now that is what I call a moon shot.
i know one group of people who rooted for Josh Hamilton…
Colombian Drug Lords!
Indeed TP2151, Gammons is a washed up hack. Somewhere Harlod Reynolds is crying into his Old English.
chase utley hates the crowds at yankee stadium too! he's just like one of us!
anybody see utley get booed during the intro, then say, extremly homoly, "Boo? Fuck U"
They were saying boo-urns…boo-urns
Day-Day…I missed that. If only there was some kind of "video" that we could attach to a "blog post".
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that didnt work…heres the link….[www.youtube.com]
Wow, apparently he really can't see that the video is posted. As a non-New Yorker Yankee fan, the booing of almost everything really does get old.
@lolcoolj – old as in Michigan fan old? Cause that shit would be real old and played out and just fucking awful.