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What's the coolest possible way to hit a home run?

BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 19: A general view of Oriole Park at Camden Yards during a fireworks display after the game between the Houston Astros and the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Friday, August 19, 2016 in Baltimore Maryland. (Photo by Dan Kubus/Baltimore Orioles/MLB Photos via Getty Images) (MLB Photos/Getty Images)

The following is a transcript of a segment from this week's episode of the Cut4Cast podcast. To hear more of the Cut4 staff's weekly banterings about which position player is the best at pitching or how baseball would work in outer space, subscribe to the Cut4Cast by clicking here.
Earlier this week, Eloy Jimenez destroyed a stadium light with a home run during the Class A Advanced Carolina League's Home Run Derby. It was pretty cool ... but was it the coolest way to homer? This week on the Cut4Cast, Dakota Gardner, Gemma Kaneko and Jessica Kleinschmidt discussed the ultimate epic dinger. 
Gemma: Do you think it's cooler to hit a home run like [Jimenez]? Here are your options -- you hit a home run and you break a light, or you hit a home run and you also hit the cover off the ball but you don't break a light. Which would you rather do?

Dakota: This is tough. I will say, last week I made my feelings about ripping the cover off the ball well known. So I hesitate to seem like a hypocrite saying something else, but it would be cool if I could rip the cover off the ball and destroy the lights.<o:p>
Gemma: No, you get one or the other.<o:p>
Dakota: I will say, the positive is I just like destroying things, and so potentially destroying the lights in the stadium fills that need. I guess I would go with that. I don't know. Jess, what do you think?<o:p><o:p> 
Jessica: Oh gosh. That's a tough one too. I know she wants me to choose one or the other, but if you hit the ball hard enough into the lights, something would happen to the ball, I would assume. I don't know. I like the light factor. I'm a sucker for like the Nicholas Sparks fireworks after the baseball game, so I would probably do the lights coming out because I would be like, "Look what I just started. I caused some drama."
And that happens right in the instance. Sometimes you don't see the cover being hit off the ball for a while. So I feel like if you can see the instantaneous light popping, I would be pretty pumped with that. Also, I have a better chance of doing neither one of them.<o:p>
Gemma: I like that you adapted. I feel like now in this fantasy scenario, it's that you hit a home run, you hit the cover off the ball, it goes into the light, the cover catches on fire from the light and then the ball keeps going because I don't know why. But it does, and it's like a shooting baseball star.
Dakota: I like the idea of this being linked to Nicholas Sparks too so when you arrive back at home plate, your lost love is standing there, and you're reunited right at home plate.<o:p>
Gemma: And then they immediately die because, again, it's a Nicholas Sparks situation.<o:p>
Jessica: That's true. There's a little bit of happiness when you pop in the Nicholas Sparks movie. You're like, 'Hmm I've never seen this. I wonder who's going to die.' You know.<o:p>
Dakota: This is all very good. This is good brainstorming. You're fitting right in here at the Cut4Cast. I think it's cool. More stadiums should be wired, and I agree that we should wire them such that if one light explodes, they all go out. And that sets off a mechanism that plays the theme from The Natural. I think we're all in agreement on that, and we can finally move on from this important issue.<o:p>

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