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If you watched Monday night’s Home Run Derby and spent any time on social media during the event you learned a few things:
(1) People really love Clay Bellinger’s mom.
(2) New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hits a baseball really, really hard and really, really far.
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And (3) a whole lot of people were very upset with Olympic softball gold medalist Jessica Mendoza’s calling of the Derby for ESPN.
https://twitter.com/statcast/status/884630959672487937
Like really, really upset…
https://twitter.com/EspnDrunk/status/884569286982778880
For anyone who didn't like Chris Berman well you got your wish… Jessica Mendoza 😰 #HomeRunDerby
— Fake SportsCenter (@FakeSportsCentr) July 11, 2017
GET JESSICA MENDOZA OUT OF BASEBALL
— Tori Willlingham (@toriwillingham9) July 11, 2017
…. espn wonders why they are losing their audience.. it's because you make moves like Jessica Mendoza calling the HR derby. Horrible move
— John Dowd (@JohnDowd1337) July 10, 2017
Jessica Mendoza needs to shut up. It's like she's never seen a home run before. #BringBackBerman
— John (@JHeintz732) July 11, 2017
We lost Berman for the home run derby and gained Jessica Mendoza. If that's not a metaphorical kick to the groin idk what is
— Rick Liñtoñ (@rsl3breds) July 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/brianw_19/status/884567557663019008
https://twitter.com/RichDonahue/status/884572296660307968
New drinking game: Take a drink every time Jessica Mendoza says "wow"
— Joe (@TurfwayJoe) July 11, 2017
(Me? I was just super happy that Chris Berman was not back, back, back so literally any other voice in the booth for ESPN was fine with me.)
Some people even switched over to the Spanish announcers’ feed over on ESPN 2 and ESPN Deportes…
https://twitter.com/AndyRuther/status/884569947573112832
couldn't do Jessica Mendoza/Aaron Boone, had to switch to Spanish on ESPN2, 12 times better and I have no clue what these guys are saying
— Mike Flanagan (@flano0) July 11, 2017
Retweet to save a life https://t.co/De1xoqc8Px
— Kent (@RealKentMurphy) July 11, 2017
Turns out that they were well rewarded because, as usual, the Spanish announcers and broadcaster Ernesto Jerez in particular, killed it.
This Spanish call of Aaron Judge's bomb is pure gold pic.twitter.com/aMmI7q4z8p
— Kent (@RealKentMurphy) July 11, 2017
H/T Total Pro Sports