Thread by @kavithadavidson

I love the #HRDerby more than I like most people

I'm not the only one struggling with these camera angles, right?

While I have you, read @danconnolly2016 on Trey Mancini's journey back from cancer theathletic.com/2413122/2021/0…

Here's @nickgroke in 2018 on Trevor Story hitting the longest home run in the Statcast era theathletic.com/508318/2018/09…

Uh, did that Nike ad just postulate a hypothetical future in which sports will be declared a human right? Because Ban Ki-moon already did that in 2016 un.org/press/en/2016/…

Oh COME ON count the last-second dinger for the tie

This also could be heard from my apartment

https://twitter.com/ThreeTwoEephus/status/1414750040703315972

Polar Bear ORBITING

How can someone hit the ball that hard that effortlessly my lord

Pete Alonso is a machine but Dave Jauss was also [whatever the opposite of dealing is]

"I gotta represent New York right here in Colorado" -Pete Alonso on hitting dingers to Mobb Deep and Nas

Poor Salvador Perez

Alonso vs. Perez in the first round is like drawing Serena vs. Naomi in a quarterfinal

Now's a good time (well, after the Derby) to read @Ken_Rosenthal on Juan Soto, Vladdy Jr., and Tatis Jr. being the present and future of baseball theathletic.com/2632591/2021/0…

Sigh, I miss Kevin Long

And of course, read @rustindodd on Shohei Ohtani (which @dcone36 called the best thing he's ever read on the guy) theathletic.com/2665880/2021/0…

WHAT TIME IS IT?!

Oh no

GRIFFEY HAS SPOKEN

OH MY GOD

Okay but, can we please not overexhaust the unicorn

THIS IS TERRIBLE FOR BASEBALL AMIRITE

Bahahahahahahahahahaha

Kevin Long trying to change Soto's eye level 🤣

Pete Alonso hit a home run every 7 seconds and somehow that wasn't the most exciting thing in the first round of this #HRDerby

Don't boo Juan Soto, come on, son. Respect the oppo power

Dear ESPN: We're watching a bunch of guys born in the '90s hit home runs and we just watched a bunch of guys born in the 2000s get drafted -- we don't need to watch a commercial for a horror movie called "Old" #HRDerby

I'm just waiting for @jessicawluther to realize there's another round after this one

The New Yorker in me is pulling for Alonso but the Washington Heights in me is pulling for Soto, help

Can't wait for some beat writer to accuse Pete Alonso of showboating

Trey Mancini 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Thank you to that Sunday Night Baseball ad for featuring Yankee fans who are actually New Yorkers

Sigh, how can anyone not love this sport

So seriously how many HR Derbys do we think Pete Alonso can win

Please tell me Steve Aoki gets plunked in the celebrity softball game

Alright, back to Ted Lasso. G'night, folks!