In a recent post to the influential "Dorks on Sports" weblog, Dork 2 suggests that the rules of Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby are characterized by "arbitrariness" and "caprice." His/her/its argument: whatever bass-ackward, multi-round, non-aggregating tallying method MLB employs is a suboptimal system for determining the event's "winner" if a player can hit way more home runs than his opponent and still lose.
What Dork 2 fails to appreciate, however, is that similar logic would condemn the very lifeblood of the American democratic process: the Electoral College, which our Constitution's framers brilliantly devised in order to ensure that the person whom most voters want to be President won't always win. What next, Dork 2: a "National Popular Vote" movement for the Home Run Derby? Then maybe we nationalize our oil companies?
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