A Half-Assed Statistical Analysis Of The Half-Assed Home Run Derby's Half-Assed Announcing

Chris Berman said the word "BACK" 78 times last night, 66 of which were in reference to home runs. That's about .62 "BACK"s per homer, a figure we assume is much lower than in previous years. Here's a breakdown of each player's traditional and Berman statistics (distance data from MLB.com):

Matt Kemp and Rickie Weeks were the only players whose "BACK" total exceeded their home run total — chalk that up to sympathy. If you just can't get enough Home Run Derby meta-analysis, here are the correlation coefficients between each statistic in the above table.