Long time bartender here, i appreciate trevor sticking up for bartenders. The human interaction is a major deal. But more importantly, robo bartenders steal jobs away from people. Fuck them robots
The HR Derby has kinda gone the way of the NBA dunk contest. It used to be the cream of the crop names. Now it’s just the good guys who happen to say yes. Dunk contest is worse because a G League guy won in the last couple years.
Yall act like Gunnar doesn’t hit absolute piss rockets. And for anyone who thinks Gunnar doesn’t bring excitement to baseball is either just a stankee fan or just don’t simply watch Baltimore baseball
International home run derby is interesting. I’d say just pick 8 countries: 🇺🇸 Judge 🇯🇵 Ohtani 🇩🇴 Soto 🇨🇺 Adolis Garcia 🇨🇦 Josh Naylor 🇻🇪 Altuve 🇰🇷 Ha-Seong Kim 🇵🇷 Correa
As a dodgers fan, no, I don't want ohtani to screw up his swing in some pointless exhibition. Last time he did a home run derby he performend much worse afterwards. Baseball is too hard of a sport to be practicing it completely wrong like that.
I think Chris is right about the Dodgers. They've been doing fine, but nowhere near expectations And the pitching the past month has been god awful. Everyone is hurt and performing poorly. I'm concerned
Bring back the 10 out system for the derby. Let us actually see the ball going out. Also bring the camera back. Can't appreciate the trajectory of the ball coming off the bat when the camera is zoomed in all the way to the batters box. Do this and I'll watch again.
Chris is right about the teams not being the powerhouse they were expected to be. Dodgers. Braves. 100% dodgers aren’t winning as expected. And losing Acuna isn’t the reason for the braves. Acuna wasn’t playing anywhere near his previous year and the team overall outside of Ozuno hasn’t played good at all.
I graduated class of 2021 Cal Poly athletics I was a diver! We used to lift super early in the AM right before the baseball guys. Brooks was always a dog! S/O Bryan woo too! Go mustangs!
If they actually enforced the ball landing rule for the format that’s been going on it would actually work out well. They just don’t or barely have an actual break from one swing to the next. 10 out system I liked but I prefer the timed system if they fixed the cameras. Gotta see the arc of the ball going out, not the swing then ball landing from far out.
@@BeefPapaPretty sure his average home run distance is longer than every other person here, and he has the longest home run by 20+ feet than any other contestant this year. He also won the high school home run derby with 8 home runs in a little over a minute. So why you hating? Just uniformed?
What about my arch rival and I: knocked me for 2-run HR in the 2nd, but then I proceeded to strike him out with the bases loaded 3 times......? who owns who there? 1-4 with 1 HR, 2RBI and 3 Ks to give you the line. final score was my win 5-3.
75% K rate is PWNED haha but sample size too small! On a single game case study I'd say you killed it because sabermetrically speaking teams really should score most of the time with bases loaded. But again, one game shows almost nothing really... As a Mariners fan, sadly I would love a batter that hits .250 with power. Honestly fuck it, I'll take THREE of them hahaha. That game your rival batted .250 but the OPS is 1.250!
My idea is divisional supremacy. 2 guys from each division and it's tag team format. You do East v East, Central v Central, West v West. Combined hr out of 2 minutes each, with bonuses. The 3 divisions left just do highest score wins after that. 12 players, 12 teams, everyone gets someone to watch.
People get off on complaining ? It’s legitimate criticism. MLB has had steadily declining viewership numbers for decades now. It’s a legitimate conversation. Rule changes are a step in the right direction. You’re lying if you think these 8 guys are the best story possible. I’m willing to bet you’re a dodgers fan offended anyone dare question Teo or maybe a Philly fan doing the same with Bohm. It’s old bro. Same teams every year always like maybe it’s time to put in a pirate or sum we never see?
@@Chinchuchwei_sr I just love the lineup, they’re all all-star level studs. No Ohtani, Judge, Oneil Cruz and Elly sucks but these 8 guys are all high .OPS studs that I’d love to have on my team.
@@Leonardo2003 sure but there are tons of guys that are all-star levels (it’s literally the allstar break) and tons of guys with high OPS that I’d want on my team. Why did Teo get picked over all the other guys? Because he’s a dodger and the league makes more money off that fanbase than any other. This league has no integrity and that’s why these guys are “complaining”
@@Leonardo2003 never said he wasn’t a slugger I’m saying there is plenty of sluggers and it sucks the league chose another dodger we’re getting dodgers in this for the next 10 years like did we really need to throw Teoscar in there? Devers … Santander … either Cruz… like come on. Teo has been a slugger for many years. Why NOW is he gettin the bid? 🤔
Give me a wiffleball HR derby with pitchers only. Also, let's go back to everyone wearing their own team's uniform. Throw a patch on there and maybe put a star on one of the shoulders (their non-throwing shoulder, like the teams all have now) and let it be. No more "special" uniforms.
I just wish Pete actually deserved to be at the All-Star game and didn't strong arm his want into the Derby like he has talked about before. I can't say with certainty that's what happened, as we know he was voted in by the players but he has said he won't participate in the Derby if he doesn't get All-Star honors in the past. That's scummy.
As a dodger fan I have to admit that we’re not having a great time right now. But also, the regular season means nothing to us anymore. All we care about is winning in October 🤷
Long time bartender here, i appreciate trevor sticking up for bartenders. The human interaction is a major deal. But more importantly, robo bartenders steal jobs away from people. Fuck them robots
So glad you cut out the 15 seconds of silence at the intro! 😀
The HR Derby has kinda gone the way of the NBA dunk contest. It used to be the cream of the crop names. Now it’s just the good guys who happen to say yes. Dunk contest is worse because a G League guy won in the last couple years.
Yall act like Gunnar doesn’t hit absolute piss rockets. And for anyone who thinks Gunnar doesn’t bring excitement to baseball is either just a stankee fan or just don’t simply watch Baltimore baseball
@@TorchDeeJ you really that dumb? I'm an orioles fan and even I can tell you Gunnar doesn't belong in the derby.
@@sampascar4936why doesn’t he belong?
@@sampascar4936he is top 2 in the AL in hr and you are clearly a liar
@@sampascar4936you just proved yourself to be a bandwagon
International home run derby is interesting. I’d say just pick 8 countries:
🇺🇸 Judge
🇯🇵 Ohtani
🇩🇴 Soto
🇨🇺 Adolis Garcia
🇨🇦 Josh Naylor
🇻🇪 Altuve
🇰🇷 Ha-Seong Kim
🇵🇷 Correa
Genius idea man! Reminds me of when the NHL would do a North America vs World All star game
As a dodgers fan, no, I don't want ohtani to screw up his swing in some pointless exhibition. Last time he did a home run derby he performend much worse afterwards. Baseball is too hard of a sport to be practicing it completely wrong like that.
Are you limiting it to 1 per country or something? Cause that’s a shitshow waiting to happen
1000% with Trevor. No robot bartender/server for me. Human interaction is everything.
nah no tip needed
your only human interaction is with bartenders?? 😏
If robots take all our jobs, who will have money for drinks?
@@Youngstomata they'll still find a way to include a tip, rebranded as maintenance fee lol
I think Chris is right about the Dodgers. They've been doing fine, but nowhere near expectations
And the pitching the past month has been god awful. Everyone is hurt and performing poorly. I'm concerned
Bring back the 10 out system for the derby. Let us actually see the ball going out.
Also bring the camera back. Can't appreciate the trajectory of the ball coming off the bat when the camera is zoomed in all the way to the batters box.
Do this and I'll watch again.
And bring back Chris Berman doing the play-by-play
@@michaelbaucom4019
I'd settle for Matt Vasgersian.
back back back back back
i agree. but mlb has a boner for clocks 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah the clock is some bs they had no reason to change it
The home run derby should have a representative from each division and who ever wins that division gets some kind of incentive.
Chris is right about the teams not being the powerhouse they were expected to be. Dodgers. Braves. 100% dodgers aren’t winning as expected. And losing Acuna isn’t the reason for the braves. Acuna wasn’t playing anywhere near his previous year and the team overall outside of Ozuno hasn’t played good at all.
I graduated class of 2021 Cal Poly athletics I was a diver! We used to lift super early in the AM right before the baseball guys. Brooks was always a dog! S/O Bryan woo too! Go mustangs!
Yezzr SLO represent!!!
3:41 thank you, Plouffey, for the Geography lesson! You should play with Those GeoGuys
In getting to watch Oneil Cruz every day, I'd love to see him in the Home Run Derby. Some of the rockets he hits seem to be such easy swings.
Fenway has self checkout now with a screen that asks for a tip.....tell me the robots aren't going to expect a tip again.
Plouffe is 11 out of 10 today
As a driver for DoorDash who has been tipped 0 plenty of times. The idea of tipping a robot is beyond laughable
If they actually enforced the ball landing rule for the format that’s been going on it would actually work out well. They just don’t or barely have an actual break from one swing to the next. 10 out system I liked but I prefer the timed system if they fixed the cameras. Gotta see the arc of the ball going out, not the swing then ball landing from far out.
Love these HRD ideas!
I’m guessing if MLB went back to 10 outs in the HRD, the bigger names might do it more often. It looks exhausting for the batters these days
Trev - Cuba and Dominican Republic (all the carribean islands and countries above and including Panama) are all in North America
You’re mostly right except Panama. Panama and a few others countries are considered Central America
@@tpd1399 they may be considered Central America, but Central America is still in the continent of North America
@@roshii7164 which hemisphere
@@tpd1399 what roshii said. Central America isn't a continent
@@tpd1399 North. It's above the equator
I think this year's contestants are great. I didn't expect Bohm to be in it but its still pretty cool. Its fun so i expect Bohm to be having fun.
Maybe we should ask the old-timers to compete! Hell, if beer-gut-Thome showed up, I'd pick him to win it!
These contestants aren’t bad , why they hating
That's the problem. There not bad, but not great.
Everything is hating to you losers
Everyone wants to see Judge and Ohtani. I mean I like Bobby Witt, but c'mon.
@@BeefPapaPretty sure his average home run distance is longer than every other person here, and he has the longest home run by 20+ feet than any other contestant this year. He also won the high school home run derby with 8 home runs in a little over a minute. So why you hating? Just uniformed?
What about my arch rival and I: knocked me for 2-run HR in the 2nd, but then I proceeded to strike him out with the bases loaded 3 times......? who owns who there? 1-4 with 1 HR, 2RBI and 3 Ks to give you the line. final score was my win 5-3.
75% K rate is PWNED haha but sample size too small! On a single game case study I'd say you killed it because sabermetrically speaking teams really should score most of the time with bases loaded. But again, one game shows almost nothing really...
As a Mariners fan, sadly I would love a batter that hits .250 with power. Honestly fuck it, I'll take THREE of them hahaha. That game your rival batted .250 but the OPS is 1.250!
Other All Star Showcase competition can include a "Outfielder Accuracy" and "Bunt Contest". Maybe fastest around the bases
I absolutely love baseball. It's the best sport out there, but I truly don't care at all about the All-Star game or Homerun Derby if I'm being honest.
My idea is divisional supremacy. 2 guys from each division and it's tag team format. You do East v East, Central v Central, West v West. Combined hr out of 2 minutes each, with bonuses. The 3 divisions left just do highest score wins after that.
12 players, 12 teams, everyone gets someone to watch.
I don't think the new timing rules were needed
Homerun derby would be better if they stopped doing it in brackets. It should go back to who hits the most home runs in a round advances.
We need robot umps/ABS before robot servers please
trevor has so many great ideas, implement them!!
i think; you should have a seperate roster of allstars just for the hr derby, guess ohtani has bragging rights vs skenes
Only Non-World Series players are concerned about the Homerun Derby
A lot of people go to the bar after work, by themselves…hoping for a drink and some human interaction.
The back half of that is the important part.
mmm, no.. the important part of that is its called alcoholism 😂
The home run derby needs boppers, these guys are great players, but they need the big boys out there hitting baseballs
Getting people from different nationalities… that’s the WBC 🤔
I think this HR derby will have parity. Never know who might win.
What kind of home run call was that 😂
I wish they got Elly in the derby
Nice I picked up Brooks Lee he’s been balling go Cal Poly
North america would get absolutely smoked 🤣🤣🤣
So sick of the whole Pete only makes the all star game because he’s part of the derby.
Trev I get paid 5$ an hour without tips. That’s what’s criminal.
The title of this video pisses me off. People just get off on complaining nowadays. This Derby lineup is Stacked with power and star power
People get off on complaining ? It’s legitimate criticism. MLB has had steadily declining viewership numbers for decades now. It’s a legitimate conversation. Rule changes are a step in the right direction. You’re lying if you think these 8 guys are the best story possible. I’m willing to bet you’re a dodgers fan offended anyone dare question Teo or maybe a Philly fan doing the same with Bohm. It’s old bro. Same teams every year always like maybe it’s time to put in a pirate or sum we never see?
@@Chinchuchwei_sr I just love the lineup, they’re all all-star level studs. No Ohtani, Judge, Oneil Cruz and Elly sucks but these 8 guys are all high .OPS studs that I’d love to have on my team.
@@Leonardo2003 sure but there are tons of guys that are all-star levels (it’s literally the allstar break) and tons of guys with high OPS that I’d want on my team. Why did Teo get picked over all the other guys? Because he’s a dodger and the league makes more money off that fanbase than any other. This league has no integrity and that’s why these guys are “complaining”
@@Chinchuchwei_sr dude Teoscar is a slugger… I’ve got no problem watching him in the derby. I’m a Braves fan.
@@Leonardo2003 never said he wasn’t a slugger I’m saying there is plenty of sluggers and it sucks the league chose another dodger we’re getting dodgers in this for the next 10 years like did we really need to throw Teoscar in there? Devers … Santander … either Cruz… like come on. Teo has been a slugger for many years. Why NOW is he gettin the bid? 🤔
trevor is so gonna get cancelled for being anti-robot
Give me a wiffleball HR derby with pitchers only.
Also, let's go back to everyone wearing their own team's uniform. Throw a patch on there and maybe put a star on one of the shoulders (their non-throwing shoulder, like the teams all have now) and let it be. No more "special" uniforms.
I just wish Pete actually deserved to be at the All-Star game and didn't strong arm his want into the Derby like he has talked about before. I can't say with certainty that's what happened, as we know he was voted in by the players but he has said he won't participate in the Derby if he doesn't get All-Star honors in the past. That's scummy.
F those robots. Weak.
Garcia for the win
The Astros are the rangers Daddy!!!!!!!!! Hahaha!!!!!!! Cry harder!!!!!!!
@@AnthonyMartinezmartinez2 if this isn't bait, you're dumb as hell
Brewers were only a surprise to mfs who dont know ball
As a dodger fan I have to admit that we’re not having a great time right now. But also, the regular season means nothing to us anymore. All we care about is winning in October 🤷
I'm just praying everyone will be healthy by September 😭🤞🏼
Oh cry me a river
Can’t wait for that first round exit for you again!
- a Dbacks fan
@@BeefPapa Who’s crying?
@@Arizona_Dude and I’ll be ready to get hurt again every single year lol
100% need better contestants. The biggest names are sitting out. Would be so much more hype if Ohtani, Judge, Guerrero, etc were participating
yoo don’t get it twisted trevor, puerto rico is part of latin america u don’t "have us"
Plouffe you have terrible ideas
Yall should change this to Talking Dodgers, always a highlight on your show