Chris Berman at the Home Run Derby: One Insufferable Minute

All, Baseball, ESPN, Video Jason McIntyre July 10th. 2012, 9:45am

Chris Berman. Home Run Derby. Enjoy or bash, whatever your fancy. [video via @CFBSection]

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58 Responses to “Chris Berman at the Home Run Derby: One Insufferable Minute”

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Roethlishotdog Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt that you normally wouldn’t be calling 50+ home runs during a normal game/event and it’s tough to be unique/different with all of them, but that still hurt my ears.
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rittyrich Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
I don’t understand why the production has been the same for the last 10 years.
… Berman standing at home plate trying to be Buffer asking each section of the crowd if they’re ready for some long ball
… Interviews with players about non-Derby stuff, meanwhile somebody cranked one 450 ft. and Berman has a random seizure and interrupts whatever is going on
… Berman calling out random towns in the vicinity of the stadium, even though, as George Brett noted, his directions are way off
… Ortiz interrupting somebody’s swing flow to deliver a Gatorade and wipe their head off the towel, meanwhile announcers gush about his leadership and direction (with how to hit a home run off BP pitching).
… Get a new announcer. Shorten the amount of time between hitters. Put more emphasis on multiple HR’s and length of home runs. Bring back sponsors with $$$ giveaways for players hitting stuff deep in the ball park.
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KC Resident Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Berman calling out random towns in the vicinity of the stadium, even though, as George Brett noted, his directions are way off
They weren’t even close.
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Razor Shines Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
The home run derby is longer than the Super Bowl. Imagine if the NBA made the three point shootout like 3 hours long? It’s a ridiculous event that I haven’t watched more than 5 minutes of in about 10 years. Batting practice homeruns are not exciting unless someone is just raking.
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AssaultWithAConcreteDildo Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Yeah the game needs something different, targets in the outfield, “money balls” for double points when you have nine outs, points for hitting a kid… something just to make it nutty!!!!
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ButtersBC Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Going from 8 to 3 to champ makes sense to me, the second round is what really creates the bloat in the telecast
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ScubaSteve007 Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
I think they should go back to the old school home run derby format. Played just like an actual game, so nine innings with three outs per inning, guys go head-to-head. Make it an eight hitter tournament.
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PeerLessPrices Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
In a land where we applaud fakery, Berman is just too much
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cracker jack Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Less this, more celebrity softball game. The thing doesnt come on till 11, I havent seen it in years
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Remember the Bibliomaine Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
HRD takes way too long. It’s as bloated as Berman. Do it by innings: Three flys and you’re out. Have a 3-inning contest between AL stars, then 3 innings with the NL stars and the two winners play 3 innings more. I know changing the pitchers and warming them up is the time eater. Use a pitching machine.
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
The home run derby is longer than the Super Bowl. Imagine if the NBA made the three point shootout like 3 hours long?
This. I stopped watching when they decided it was essential to interview every participate after each at-bat.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
I thought it was funny that every time a black dude not named Prince Fielder was hitting they went full screen to some interview.
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KC Resident Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Good Lord. The country is full of idiots.
http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2012/7/10/3148749/kansas-city-missouri-tweets
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bk Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
That “back back back” shit got old over a decade ago.
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fluffy_bunny_feet Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
I say let Heath Bell throw and see how many he gives up would make it more interesting.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Ortiz interrupting somebody’s swing flow to deliver a Gatorade and wipe their head off the towel, meanwhile announcers gush about his leadership and direction (with how to hit a home run off BP pitching).
Fuck David Ortiz.
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Remember the Bibliomaine Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Knocking Berman is the great American sport but I find Buck/McCarver more insufferable by far. Buck’s smugness and McCarver’s “genius” make for an unlistenable four hour game. So some guy from the Padres gets a GWH off some Twins reliever and that determines which league gets home field in the WS. Thanks, Bud.
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rittyrich Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Also, who cares who has hit 17 walls scrapers this year. I want to see BP legends in there. All of them like Trumbo.
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YYSA Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Less this, more celebrity softball game. The thing doesnt come on till 11, I havent seen it in years
agreed. Just play that live and show the HR derby on tape delay.
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bk Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Good Lord. The country is full of idiots.
When I first started dating my wife I was at her families house and they were talking about how none of them knew that Hitler started WW2, after seeing it on the history channel. I just kept my mouth shut and told her afterwards how unfair it was that they could out vote us 4-2 in any election.
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spencer096 Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
thanks for bringing the home run derby to the us open every year, youre with me leather…you fucking gasbag.
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St. Bear Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I think they should go back to the old school home run derby format. Played just like an actual game, so nine innings with three outs per inning, guys go head-to-head. Make it an eight hitter tournament.
/pours one out for Mark Scott and ESPN Classic
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
That “back back back” shit got old over a decade ago.
I like to think Boomer’s talking about the size of his ass when he says that now.
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ButtersBC Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Less this, more celebrity softball game
Rickey Henderson’s lack of effort this year was disheartening
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KC Resident Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
I just kept my mouth shut and told her afterwards how unfair it was that they could out vote us 4-2 in any election.
!
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Less this, more celebrity softball game
I miss the old-timers actually playing baseball.
A highlight was 80-somthing Luke Appling going yard.
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spencer096 Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
somewhere lew ford fruitlessly searches for the sacrifice bunt derby ratings.
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
none of them knew that Hitler started WW2
At that point, you should have interjected, “Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!”
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spencer096 Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
When I first started dating my wife I was at her families house and they were talking about how none of them knew that Hitler started WW2, after seeing it on the history channel.
ill give them the benefit of the doubt and say they all had convincing cases for stalin sharing the blame.
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Walking Underwear Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
dumb relations > berman
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Hopboy Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
When I first started dating my wife I was at her families house and they were talking about how none of them knew that Hitler started WW2, after seeing it on the history channel. I just kept my mouth shut and told her afterwards how unfair it was that they could out vote us 4-2 in any election.
In their defense, England/France’s appeasement could be seen as equally at fault.
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jim Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
I say they bring back the old Home Run Derby tv show!
Hell, you can film it during Spring Training when nothing else is going on.
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Walking Underwear Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
know how berman got so fat?
snack snack snack snack!
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
ill give them the benefit of the doubt and say they all had convincing cases for stalin sharing the blame.
Now you need to do this in your Russki/Eastern Euro vernacular.
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PeerLessPrices Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
That was a perfect moment to make up history!
/yesterday’d
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Walking Underwear Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
I say they bring back the old Home Run Derby tv show!
Hell, you can film it during Spring Training when nothing else is going on.
hey jim. the interviews in the booth were nice, with politeness/humility all around
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oskie Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
How many times can you say back
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Walking Underwear Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
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i was shocked that it was that low. i bet you can gamble on the o/u somewhere
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Criticizing Berman is useless, actually. He’s symptomatic of the problems at ESPN as a whole, the biggest of which is that the biggest story for ESPN at all times is the WWL itself.
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spencer096 Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
this history channel, are they thinking they are better than us? their facts, they are not straight. stalin make pact with hitler? nyet in million years! this good comedy friend, no problem.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
When Berman retires or dies. Stuart Scott will take over for him.
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bk Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
In their defense, England/France’s appeasement could be seen as equally at fault.
That would have probably gotten me kicked out of the house. I’m already the black sheep in a town where 99% of people think how the pope tells them to think because I will ask them to explain their ideas.
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squawkbox Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
I have a 12 yr old. For the last couple years, it’s been root beer float for him, bourbon for me, popcorn, chips, have fun with the HR derby.
This year, he looked at me in the first round and said “This is just too long. And Chris Berman is annoying.” Last night sucked.
It’a almost as if MLB has no say-so or influence on any part of this thing.
MLB needs to give ESPN and Berman the banhammer.
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phillymantis915 Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
I just want steroids back in baseball…and make the top HR hitters play.
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ButtersBC Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Joey Bats taking five pitches between each swing wasn’t helping matters either…get an ump back there with a tight zone, you look at an absolute cookie, it’s an out
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Hopboy Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
This year, he looked at me in the first round and said “ …… And Chris Berman is annoying.”
Was it like the moment when he first started walking for himself.
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kaiserwilhelmreems Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
MLB needs to give ESPN and Berman the banhammer.
they really need to sharpen that banhammer to cut through his fat ass.
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spencer096 Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Joey Bats taking five pitches between each swing wasn’t helping matters either…get an ump back there with a tight zone, you look at an absolute cookie, it’s an out
i say we go the other way…use tennis balls instead of baseballs. now that’d be awesome.
also, there’d be so many “back’s” than berman would probably die from asphyxiation. win-win.
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scripty Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:00 AM
I say let Heath Bell throw and see how many he gives up would make it more interesting.
That “back back back” shit got old over a decade ago.
know how berman got so fat?
snack snack snack snack!
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squawkbox Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
they really need to sharpen that banhammer to cut through his fat ass.
/arkansas’d
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
When Berman retires or dies. Stuart Scott will take over for him
Booyah, booyah, booyah!
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kaiserwilhelmreems Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Joey Bats taking five pitches between each swing wasn’t helping matters either…get an ump back there with a tight zone, you look at an absolute cookie, it’s an out
pitching machine, plain and simple. the inspirational story of father, HS coach, homeless guy throwing BP can be replaced with father, HS coach, homeless guy loading the ball into the machine.
tons of home runs, less waiting for the perfect pitch.
or, do a wiffleball HR derby with the big red bats.
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
a town where 99% of people think how the pope tells them to think
Ah, I remember distinctly when I gave up on Catholicism for good. During preparatios for confirmation, I asked the priest a question about some tenet. He turnsed red in the face and screamed at me, “You are not here to ask questions! You’re here to do what you’re told!”
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kaiserwilhelmreems Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Ah, I remember distinctly when I gave up on Catholicism for good. During preparatios for confirmation, I asked the priest a question about some tenet. He turnsed red in the face and screamed at me, “You are not here to ask questions! You’re here to do what you’re told!”
go on…
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KC Resident Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
“You are not here to ask questions! You’re here to do what you’re told!”
“Now grab your ankles!”
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
“You are not here to ask questions! You’re here to do what you’re told!”
“Now grab your ankles!”
Hey, you take that over to the Roundup thread!
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Nada Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
go on…
Fortunately, there’s nothing more to add.
It’s odd. I grew up in a very Catholic family; four of my aunts were nuns. We’d go over to my grandmother’s for the holidays, and the house would be filled with nuns and priests, and the priests were always rip-roaring tanked. And they’d always play grab-ass with the girls, not the boys.
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You People Says:
July 11th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Tim McCarver and/or Bobby Valentine will always be the most insufferable people in sports, at least until they shuffle off this mortal coil.

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Chris Berman at the Home Run Derby: One Insufferable Minute

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