Dear Mr. Judge,
Just say "yes" to the Home Run Derby.
Please.
Please say that you were just being polite earlier this week when you told reporters that you hadn’t made up your mind about participating in the event. "I haven't really thought about it yet," you said.
This could be another example of what your teammates like about you -- that you are respectful and understated, that you aren’t shoving everybody out of the way to be the biggest guy on the stage.
You are the biggest guy on the stage, of course, the biggest position player in baseball history at 6-foot-7 and 282 pounds.