Observations from the 2024 Home Run Derby

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Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez was crowned champion of the 2024 Home Run Derby last night at Globe Life Field. Reg & Mike were at the event and discuss their observations from the derby, including if another change in format is needed after an almost 3-hour event.

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00:00I mean, just listening to Sean and RJ kind of be a little bit of a proxy because I tried

00:20in the auxiliary press box, obviously watching the game, but I tried to look at the TV copy

00:24a little bit to get a little bit of a feel, but using Sean, RJ, Bobby, Peyton as my kind

00:29of proxy for the folks watching at home, I felt like I had a very different experience

00:35than what they described with the Derby on television.

00:38It was awesome being there.

00:40I loved it.

00:42It's one of those things that I haven't gone now.

00:44I don't remember a lot about being in the 19, being at the 1995 Home Run Derby, except

00:49it was during the day.

00:51So if you were out in Arlington and taking in the events at the All-Star Village around

00:58like two o'clock to let's say five o'clock, can you imagine doing the Home Run Derby

01:04in the heat?

01:07Like that was, I just remember I was sweating.

01:09I was going to Esports to take my kid and my friend and my kid's friends over to the

01:15Esports All-Star Village yesterday, and we were walking around four o'clock-ish to go

01:21over there.

01:22I was like, God, can you imagine if this thing was outdoors, like how much we were going

01:27to be sweating, and then what the energy level would be like for these guys trying

01:31to compete in a Home Run Derby in this weather environment.

01:36But man, I really, I loved it.

01:39I went in 95.

01:40I don't even remember who won.

01:42I'm sorry, I forget.

01:44Because it was so hot.

01:45That's all I remember is being a 17-year-old and remembering how hot it was at the Home

01:51Run Derby that I was at.

01:53And this one, you know, I don't think it will be really that remembered five years

01:58from now.

01:59There was nothing special.

02:00In fact, I will say this.

02:02I had to look up when we got to our seats, like who is the defending champ?

02:07I forgot.

02:08Vladimir Guerrero Jr., yeah.

02:09Right?

02:10And so I had to remember.

02:11So there's very few of these that are memorable, that are remembered.

02:15Just on like the merits of the competition itself?

02:18Right.

02:19I remember the Mark McGuire situation, Josh Hamilton situation.

02:24I think Aaron Judge competing in it and winning it.

02:27Like those are very memorable, but there's not many that are memorable.

02:32But being there was really awesome.

02:34I loved it.

02:36I think my kid and his friends thought it was awesome.

02:40They were in the upper deck and they were just like, that was so cool, you know?

02:44And so there are probably some things that they could try to clean up and everything,

02:48but I do think entertaining our country, entertaining our world at this point with a home run derby

02:56or something like that, it's really tough.

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