Bud Selig Wants to Do WHAT to the Home Run Derby?

The answer, if you've been paying attention the past few days to the furor sparked by Robbie Cano's being booed viciously by the Kansas City partisans during the Derby on Monday, is possibly institute a mandate that says the host team must have a representative in the event.

Okay, okay, so Selig isn't all of a sudden off on a wild crusade to change the rules of the Derby yet again - he merely said that Major League Baseball would "talk about this [potential rule change]."

The mere fact that there would be any kind of discussion on this, however, is simply ludicrous.

In the Name of Self-Promotion

It's a little late as I sit here unwinding after a late shift, so I've got nothing original for the day. What I think I'll do instead is link to my labor of love from today - an argument against the continued existence of the Home Run Derby.

That said, below are two quick things that I wanted to address in the article, but cut either because of length or flow considerations.

The REAL Natural

Normally, I'm going to try and stay away from using too many superlatives, too much gaudy language, too many outrageous stances, and too many words in all caps. I see that as just an extension of the countless screaming matches that pervade both the blogosphere and TV shows these days, and a shameless attempt to drag in more readers. But there are some special cases where that mentality gets thrown out the window, and all the stops just have to be pulled out. What Josh Hamilton did last night at Yankee Stadium ranks as one of them.