How To Ping Life Back Into The Home Run Derby

Today’s column from CBS Chicago

(CBS) Much like Chris Berman’s shtick – and necktie collection – the Home Run Derby is played out.

But I have an idea that could bring it back to life. The derby, that is. Not Berman’s act. Even Dick Vitale thinks that’s a lost cause. Although what I really should say is that my idea could ping the derby back to relevancy.

But we’ll get to that.

First, let’s begin with how last night when I flipped on my TV to watch the Home Run Derby, I was hoping that I had misremembered just how dull the event has become. But, alas, my memory was just fine. The derby, which was born in the same year as Lindsay Lohan (1986), is indeed looking almost as haggard.

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