Chris Berman’s Bad Bay Area Geography
Posted by: Richie Rich in Ballparks, MLB Home Run Derby, YouTube
Okay … anyone who played along with our Drinking Game last night probably showed up late to work this morning with a wicked Home Run Derby hangover. What? It’s afternoon already?
Anyway, Chris Berman didn’t disappoint (but he did annoy), with hundreds of Back-Back-Back-Backs and other Bermanisms.
If you missed it, here’s a great recap.
There were about 80 utterances of “Back” in that 1:42 clip. Make the voices stop already.
Berman did a decent job giving some props to some Bay Area landmarks and communities with references to Alcatraz, The Presidio, Sausalito, Stinson Beach, and Half Moon Bay … but it was geographically impossible for a slugger to hit a home run to any of them even if they were on Tyrannosaurus Rex Growth Hormones…
Here’s a map of the five locations Berman said those balls went.
Considering AT&T Park faces East towards the San Francisco Bay, I shaded the area which a ball could be hit in fair territory with Home Plate at the left-most point of the triangle.
San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, or Berkeley would have worked. All of Berman’s destinations would have been popped foul behind the plate.
Bad ESPN research strikes again!!
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