Home Run Derby

Lost amidst all the hoopla regarding the MLB Home Run Derby lately, let’s not forget that we run a little contest here.

And we have a champion to announce. Not Justin Morneau … he won the real Home Run Derby even though Erin Andrews was more interested in Josh Hamilton.

BELICHOKE is your HomerDerby.com 2008 First Half Champion.  Belichoke finished the First Half of the 2008 Season with 289 Home Runs and led the last nine weeks of the First Half.  He only had two players with less than 15 Home Runs and eight with more than 20.  And this was with two of his Group A Picks on the DL for the past month.  The Home Run Derby Hall Of Fame has been updated.

We had to break out the rule book for second place.  Because THE JOBA RULES and SUCK IT tied for the second-most HR with 282.  We actually had to use the tiebreaker of AB/HR Ratio to settle the score.  That’s the first time we’ve had to use that.  Joba wins the Second Place kitty on the basis of a lower AB/HR ratio (17.73 to 18.53). 

Suck It nearly knocked Joba down, gaining 10 Home Runs on Joba over the last week, but his 226 extra AB did him in.  He still gets the 3rd Place Money.  And he joins his brother in the HRD HOF - but he almost didn’t …

… because the leaderboard almost got shook the Hell up by the surging TEAM MINVAN (281 HR), who led the Deby for the second week in a row and the third time in five weeks.  One more Home Run and Minivan’s 4th Place finish would have become a Second Place victory … breaking a three way tie with an astounding 17.07 AB/HR ratio.

So the First Half of the Derby is complete.  But it’s not over.  Because we’re already into the 2nd Half and everyone has new life. 

Belichoke will look to be complete the first HRD Sweep in three years.  But it won’t be easy … as the past two years, the First Half Champ has not won either the Second Half or Full Season Crown.  And last year, the First Half Champ didn’t finish in the top three in either the Second Half or Full Season Standings.

Everyone in the Derby has a shot at the Second Half Crown, as we start at zero.  Even last-place Go Yanks! can win the Second Half Title.  Then again, maybe not.

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