If you pay $650 to watch the Home Run Derby, you are either very wealthy or very dopey.

Watching Alex Rodriguez hit b.p. fastballs would totally make it worth it.


If you care to read a sampling, Ken Rosenthal, Jayson Stark, and John Donovan all make very lame arguments that ARod is obligated to participate in the HR Derby.


The whole time explaining how the fans don't like ARod, anyway.



Mark Kriegel has the nerve to call another grown man a "sheep." Because Mark Kreigel has achieved self-actualization. The key to salvation, apparently, is lots of one-sentence paragraphs. It's also stylistically edgy. Because Mark Kriegel wouldn't want to be a sheep who follows the Good Writing Herd.



You know who should participate in the Home Run Derby? Jeter. The King of New York.

Put a fielder at second base and throw high fastballs that tail across the outside corner.

Call it the 4-6-3 Derby.