It's July it's Monday and no regular season baseball games today... you know what that means. It's time for the HOME RUN DERBY!!! This is one of my favorite days of the year. Me and my friends hit whiffle ball home runs in the back yard and drink while picking players in the derby to do well and making other people drink. For exact rules of our drinking we take each bracket and the group of people each pick 1 player from each bracket. Then during that bracket round when your player hits a home run everyone that didn't pick him takes a sip of beer and then vice versa. This goes on for every bracket and each round. It's fun and a much better way to watch it besides hearing BACK BACK BACK BACK BACK BACK BACK BACK gone. But now lets combine my two loves. MLB showdown and Home run derby. Me and Peter came up with idea of special variant edition of the home run derby contestants with there projected stats at the half way point. Then tonight I might do a little home run derby with each player and see who ends of winning mlb showdown style... with the DIE! So stop talking Bob and lets see the damn cards. Now just to let everyone know I got the images from the TOPPS BUNT app this way I could get a consistent picture. I also will post later probably on twitter additional variants I created myself. But before I reveal those cards how bout a DERBY favorite. A monster in his own time Mr. Ken Griffey JR. He won 3 home run derbys. We took his 1994 half way stats to base his card off of. Again I took the art off some website for the variant.
What a beauty!!! This should be a fun card just to mess around with. Again this was just based on his half way point stats. All of the cards are based on there half way stats and projected out. So whats taking so long lets see them!! OK OK.
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BobBumbarger
that Griffey card is silly!! Love the Home run derby
ReplyDeletethose are amazing
ReplyDeleteMy son and I had an idea for our own MLB Showdown HR Derby...No pitch obviously but we take the OB and add it to the Swing Roll...so Griffey would need a 6+ for a HR. We may even do a timed first round and let him roll as fast as he can for 30 seconds and count the HR's.
ReplyDeleteI just did my own in the most current post. I kept it separate to explain it more clearly. Let me know your thoughts.
DeleteLove the look and idea of the Home Run Derby card. With the inclusion of all time great Griffey, thought it would be a fun idea to have an all time great Home Run Derby team. Players who have won/ put on a performance at the derby or players with 30+ HR at the break. Griffey, Sosa, McGwire, Hamilton, Judge to name a few. That would be quite the collection of talent
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