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Kyle Schwarber Was ROBBED By ESPN In Plain Sight!

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

Published:

via ESPN Home Run Derby coverage

Not only does the Derby suck because Karl Ravech is making the most exciting event of the year boring, but we had ESPN rob Kyle Schwarber in OT and actually get away with it!

The Robbery in Ravine:

Schwarber had seven home runs in OT clear as day. ESPN never counted Schwarber’s 18th home run! This is the worst robbery in All-Star festivity history since Andre Iguodala had to watch Nate Robinson take 20 attempts for one dunk and steal the trophy. What the fuck is going on? I don’t want to make this all about me, but I had Schwarbs and Juan Soto to make it out of the first round juiced up to +150. I’m sure plenty of people reading this had Schwarber at +330 to win the whole damn thing. I don’t want to go back to the old system with outs because we’d only be in the second round right now, but if people are going to be betting on this get some clear rules that make sense.

Listen, people fuck up, I understand that. Someone fell asleep at the wheel. In the end it’s all an exhibition. If it happened once I can understand that, BUT TWICE?! TWICE?! They’ve already completely abandoned the rule that you need to let the ball go out before the next pitch. Now they’re not even paying attention to the clock? Albert Pujols finished with 12 home runs in the first round:

If ESPN and Pujols have any honor they will pay for an entire section of tickets for underprivileged children to go to Citizens Bank Park because they not only robbed Schwarber they robbed them too:

via Phillies.com

EDIT –

ESPN messed up the count for Juan Soto in the final round lol. This entire broadcast was a shit show start to finish:

Kyle Pagan
Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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