Vlad Guerrero Hates Every Living Baseball
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by user Gadzooks
Posted by Erik from thefourthout.blogspot.com
OK, baseballs aren't really alive. Well, if they were, they're not now. Because Vladimir Guerrero killed them all last night at the Home Run Derby. An obviously exhausted Guerrero, who needed to apply extra tape to his typically batting glove-less hands to finish, smacked three homers in the finals to knock out the surprising Alex Rios.
But the big question seems to be if Guerrero actually hit the ginormous glove out in left-center field. The glove itself is marked with a 503-feet distance marker, and no one has ever come close to hitting it in a game at PacBell/SBC/AT&T Park. Vlad was credited with a 503-foot blast that appeared to hit near the base of the glove. The media consensus seems to be that he fell just short, although Kevin Kernan of the New York Post is sure he did hit it. (And don't we know you can believe everything you read in the Post.)
One final note: Chris Berman's Bay Area geography was in fine form last night. I didn't catch 'em all, I'm sure, but I know I heard Sausalito, Burlingame, Coit Tower, and Stinson Beach. Here's hoping Boomer fulfilled all your drinking game dreams.
