***Official 2022 MLB All-Star Game and Home Run Derby Thread***
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">American League All-Star Game starting lineup:<br><br>Ohtani DH<br>Judge 9<br>Devers 5<br>Guerrero Jr. 3<br>Stanton 7<br>Buxton 8<br>Anderson 6<br>Gimenez 4<br>Kirk 2</p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1549094644176150529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">National League All-Star Game starting lineup:<br><br>Acuña Jr. 9<br>Betts 8<br>Machado 5<br>Goldschmidt 3<br>Turner 6<br>Wills. Contreras 2<br>Willi. Contreras DH<br>Pederson 7<br>McNeil 4</p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1549094004284743680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">THE HOME RUN DERBY BRACKET IS HERE 🤩<br><br>Who&#39;s your pick to win? 🤔 <a href="https://t.co/IpqpZ6WpCs">pic.twitter.com/IpqpZ6WpCs</a></p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href="https://twitter.com/espn/status/1547730716116406272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The future AL ROY is up first.

Julio Rodriguez


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The Rook is putting on a show

Albert Pujols still plays? damn

Mets fan here but I think Schwarber is a monster and he's my pick.

Threw some change towards Pujols at +2200

Cmon senior citizen strenfff

Ugh Pujols looks ancient

Checked in to see albert tanking. Beautiful thing

Should have bought a 700.00 drone instead

Pujols making Billy Butler look like Barry Bonds

10 hrs lol trash

Give the Missouri legend some love.


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StL scum. No can do

He went to high school at Fort Osage in Missouri.


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Schwarber sucking is kind of funny

Lol

Schwarber rolled into more DPs than HRs

Lol Kyle you scrub

Pujols has a look of **** I got to keep going on lol

Pujols with the upset.


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I’m aware. He’s not wearing a fort Osage uni tonight is he?

Yeah he’s next round won’t be good.


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Julio Rodriguez is the star of this show.


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Maybe under his Cardinals jersey. [emoji2369]


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That homo is meditating??

Let’s go Julio!! Let’s get that’s scrub Alonso out of there. After him and Salvy last year. He can kick rocks

HR derbies are his life.

Yeah I guess so. Julio is raping his dream and it’s awesome

30 won't be enough to end Alonso's terrible reign I fear. I think you'd need Vlad to come out of HR derby retirement.

Julio cementing the AL ROY tonight.


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Why is Alonso doing dead lifts of like 100 pounds lol

He deserves it

Strongly dislike Alonso, Salvy should’ve advanced last year not Alonso so **** Pete

Alonso choking through a minute and a half. Will the timeout save him?

Guy looks like he chokes on dicks

I’m not sure about that.


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Pete Alonso is the "Softball Guy"
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He can’t catch Julio.


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They counted Alonso's after the buzzer and not Rodriguez's. The fix is in.

Won’t matter.


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Shoulda meditated a little more

Does he really go by the Polar Bear? Or is this just some holthus like dipshit name?

Get ****ed Alonso!!

Clearly didn't visualize properly. Now never return Alonso.

Great job Julio!! Alonso go back to meditating

Pujols is done. Can't wait to see JRod vs Soto in the Final

Pujols is exhausted

Mickey Mantle could hit the ball further than any of these Caribbean juiceheads.

Rodriguez is going to destroy Soto assuming he's not too tired. Perhaps Vlad will return next year and get some competition for him.

Just in time for the final.

And, who is this BadBunny clown?

Rodriguez got tired. Could be all over.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Soto was 2 1/2 years old and Julio Rodriguez was 98 days old when Albert Pujols hit his first career homer. <a href="https://t.co/U2hX2OQeBF">https://t.co/U2hX2OQeBF</a></p>&mdash; Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1549218268774223873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Exhaustion definitely plays a role in this.


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Seems like endurance is the major factor in a lot of its winners.

Now a documentary about Jeter.


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Hard pass.

Might be a parallel between those Yankees & these Royals.

Could BWJ be another Jeter?

Could he change the atmosphere?

I know one thing for sure that Matheny is no Buck Showalter.


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If you look up try-hard in the dictionary this is the pic

Look up what Alonso gets paid on his rookie deal per season.

Then look up what you win if you win the HR Derby.

He makes something like 400k per season but gets 2 million to win the derby. For Alonso, the one night of the derby matters far more than an entire season on the Mets.

I read an article recently that Alonso's career baseball earnings are something wild like 1.1 million salary, 4 million in HR derby winnings.

And you're out here calling him a try hard. For shame.

Alonso is making 7.4M this year.

Oof well that is indeed a lot more than 400K. But 2m on top of 7.4m is still a HUGE carrot on a stick. The HR derby is 1 night, and he can make orders of magnitude more on that 1 night than he can in 1 night of regular or postseason Mets baseball. My mistake was comparing HR money to full season money when the real comparison should be this 1 night at the plate vs any other 1 night at the plate.

Ultimately the idea is there is so much money on the line, all participants should be going full-on full-blown try-hard. Except I guess that age fraud Pujols who made himself a hero in the midwest and a vampiric villain in Anaheim, to the tune of 250 million horribly spent dollars.

who cares about a player shaves off a couple of years on the resume? So the team pays that much more for two years younger? The print more money Angels?

Pujols was an established star. The Angels knew what they were getting. **** the Angels anyway. We never get to see one of the best players of this generation play on TV or in the playoffs because their front office is incompetent.

We fans got to see the best 11 year run a player has ever had. Better than Ruth, Mantle, Griffey etc. we started to see the aging taking hold. Everyone did. He still was one of the top players of the current game but no longer HOF level of play.

One of the best players of this generation? Man, Aaron Judge or Yordan Alvarez is "one of" the best players "of this generation".

Mike Trout is THE best player of ALL generations ever.

Get that right and then we can talk about a guy that everyone knew even in his amateur days was way older than he claimed. There is a scene in the movie 'Benchwarmers' that directly clowns on Pujols himself. Pujols should definitely be a first ballot HOFer if you mean Hall of Frauds.

But we can never discuss Pujols if you have that much disrespect and vitriol in you about Trout.

National League uniforms look outstanding.
American League uniforms look like ass.

Damn that was one sweet double play

Goldy with a homer for the Senior Circuit

Kirk should have been batting higher in the order.

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This game has rapidly become irrelevant.

I used to LOVE watching the All-Star game but the TV presentation has basically killed my interest in it.

Manoah/Smoltz conversation was great tonight.

It's not saying much, but it's much more watchable than the all-star games in the NBA and NFL.

The NL-AL league pride aspect has been killed off by interleague play, and there's way too many substitutions. Too many stiffs, too.

Tony Gwynn, a starter, was still playing and scored the game-winning run in extras in the 1994 All-Star Game. That was probably the last great one that was an unforgettable classic.

This game used to have moments (Pete Rose running over Ray Fosse, Reggie Jackson hitting the transformer at Tiger Stadium, Dave Parker's outfield assists in 1979, Fred Lynn's grand slam) but the game lacks a defining moment in the last 25 years.

It’s gawd awful. I don’t care to hear from every damn player, I just wanna watch the game.

and hockey too.

The All-Star baseball game isn’t that great but you do have pitchers trying their best to strike out the best hitters in the game.

Tonight is just a shitty game

Yeah, I just kinda follow it online these days. Not even interesting enough to me to actually watch at this point. I really think inter-league play (which I like) kinda ruined the ASG. Along with some of your other points. At least during the recent Royals glory years I had some sort of rooting interest but I can't work up any give a shits about watching a dude who will be on another team next week.

These announcers are a real snooze. Never thought I'd miss Joe Buck, but at least his voice and delivery had some life to it.

Can you ask Prison Bitch what he misses?

And the AL wins again.