Brent Rooker's Controversial End in the Home Run Derby

First off, it's a hard result to accept given that even the broadcast was unclear on what was going to happen, and how they waited until after Olson's round to let the public know that Raleigh would be moving on to the final four.

Also, the technology cannot be that perfect with distance down to inches. Clearly a swing-off would make the most sense, but potentially the MLB wanted a reason to advance their home-run leader to the following round, and not the clearly less known, small market slugger in Brent Rooker. A swing-off would have been high drama, but apparently MLB wanted who would advance to be a surprise.

Social media would blow up with many upset tweets from celebrities and people around baseball like Dallas Braden, Vinnie Pasquantino, and many upset MLB fans across the world.

It's unfortunate that MLB didn't just let the two settle it in a swing-off, rather than trusting technology down to the smallest decimals. As Braden said, they don't have the technology for an entire strike zone yet, but they can say with precision to the inch how far a home run travels?

Baseball has a knack for pushing the bigger names and teams from the East coast more often, so this is all too familiar territory for A's fans to have their guy overlooked because of a rule that wasn't even clear from the beginning.