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Gabriel commented on Giancarlo Stanton Monster Homerun Sunday Versus the Cubs:
“Amazing home run. Few players in baseball can hit that ball so hard and far. Can't wait for Stanton to earn freedom from the glorified AAA team Marlins and play for a real MLB club.”
Probably the strangest part of last night's Homer Run Derby in Kansas City was the venom with which Royals fans booed Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano (video below). Aside from the fact that ballparks across America like to boo the Yankees, is classy, quiet Cano seemed an odd target.
So why did this happen?
Apparently because Kansas City sports talk radio got everyone's panties in a bunch. And if sports radio is good at one thing, it's getting listeners to rally around imagined villains.
As the winner of last year's Home Run Derby, Robinson Cano was the captain of the American League team, meaning he got to pick three AL players as his teammates on the derby team (stupid concept to begin with, but whatever). Cano selected the three most powerful men in the league: Tigers' Prince Fielder (who won the derby), the Blue Jays' Jose Batista (27 HR) and the Angels' Mark Trumbo (22 HR). He did not select the Royals gap-to-gap doubles hitter, "Sweet Swingin'" Billy Butler (16 HR).
So Kansas City "Sports Zone" radio 810 WHB decided to campaign against Cano, and even went so far as to fly one of those airplace banner around the stadium that read: "CONGRATS BILLY! YOU BLEW IT CANO - 810 WHB."
It's all pretty none-sensical, I know. But KC fans apparently picked the right victim, because Cano proceded to hit zero (0) home runs in the Home Run Derby, so KC fans got one chance after another to laugh and jeer and lustily boo Robby Cano.
Pitching to Cano was his father, Jose Cano, who was surprisingly effective against the Yankees slugger.
"I was just trying to work the ball to both sides of the plate, change speeds, keep him off balance," Cano's father may have said. "Hitting is all about timing, so a pitcher's job is to disrupt the hitter's timing, so that's what I was trying to do. It helped to have the crowd behind me."
It's all pretty none-sensical, I know. But KC fans apparently picked the right victim, because Cano proceded to hit zero (0) home runs in the Home Run Derby, so KC fans got one chance after another to laugh and jeer and lustily boo Robby Cano.
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