Kyle Schwarber joins Bryce Harper in the Home Run Derby

The Bryce Harper/Fanduel story is hair-raising. We have to kill online sports betting with fire.

Incredible summation of the culture in the AI recap of a search for “FanDuel Harper.”

I will restate my desire to see them do the Home Run Derby with the hottest bats manufacturers can come up with. I'm talking CF composite -5 or -8 bats pressurized with nitrogen too hot for certification, just complete Wild West shit. Bats so hot the middle schoolers in the outfield need body armor.

munetaka murakami's going to participate in the home run derby so at least we've got that to look forward to

Perfectly possible Harper was going to announce he was doing the Home Run Derby anyway, but I’m sure it didn’t hurt to get a headline out there about him besides “man sends encouraging message to compulsive gambler on behalf of gambling outfit.”

We removed our earlier message regarding Bryce Harper. Given circumstantial evidence we wondered if he could not have known the tape was for FanDuel, but he did know.

my first reaction seeing this is that the FanDuel host, trying to keep the customer on the hook, paid for a personalized Bryce Harper message on Cameo or something and slapped their watermark on it, like how a casino host will set up a big client with a backstage passes at a concert, but still, yuck

Bryce Harper just announced on Instagram that he’s in Monday night’s Hime Run Derby.

Most home runs in first 5 seasons with a team:  Babe Ruth, NYY: 235 Mark McGwire, STL: 220 Kyle Schwarber, PHI: 219 Ralph Kiner, PIT: 215 Alex Rodriguez, NYY: 208 David Ortiz, BOS: 208 Albert Pujols, STL: 201

Jordan Walker is indeed competing in the Home Run Derby, the Cardinals announced. He’s the first Cardinal to do so since Albert Pujols in 2022.

Kyle Schwarber is joining Bryce Harper for the Home Run Derby in Philadelphia. philliesnation.com/2026/07/phil...

This is a huge bummer, but it should also clear the way for Kyle Schwarber to start the game at DH and for Cristopher Sánchez to start on the mound

For the first time since 2017, i will not be doing television at the Home Run Derby, so instead I am using my powers for good, not evil: writing about how to predict the Home Run Derby

it's fun that most of the responses to the "Bryce Harper tells the guy who gambled like $20 million away on his phone and had his life ruined that he's doing great and everyone is proud of him" story post are about how the story is paywalled and shouldn't be

BRYCE HARPER: Hey Tommy, it’s your boy Bryce Harper here to say I hear you’re making a lot of bets lately haha. Well keep it up. Uh. Yeah I hope your family has a good holiday and uh. Keep betting on fankings or whatever