2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

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Please vote for up to three covers

Poll ended at Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:53 am

WILD PITCH (Newsday)
0
No votes
BEYOND UGLY (New York Daily News)
3
7%
Worst team in the whole f--king MLB' (New York Post)
5
12%
STRAWBERRY'S FIELD FOREVER (Newsday)
7
17%
SECOND WIND (Newsday)
3
7%
BIG FLIES (Newsday)
0
No votes
LONDON BROILED (Newsday)
1
2%
ROYAL PHLUSH (New York Daily News)
2
5%
PICCADILLY CIRCUS (New York Daily News)
11
26%
FIRST TIME, LONG TIME (Newsday)
8
19%
MAKING A SPLASH (New York Post)
2
5%
 
Total votes: 42
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2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by Benjamin Grimm » Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:53 am

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Vote for the tabloid covers that you like the best. You may select up to three choices. Voting will run for seven days.

WILD PITCH
Newsday, May 30, 2024.
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BEYOND UGLY
New York Daily News, May 30, 2024.
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'Worst team in the whole f--king MLB'
New York Post, May 30, 2024.
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STRAWBERRY'S FIELD FOREVER
Newsday, June 2, 2024.
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SECOND WIND
Newsday, June 4, 2024.
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BIG FLIES
Newsday, June 6, 2024.
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LONDON BROILED
Newsday, June 9, 2024.
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ROYAL PHLUSH
New York Daily News, June 9, 2024.
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PICCADILLY CIRCUS
New York Daily News, June 10, 2024.
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FIRST TIME, LONG TIME
Newsday, June 14, 2024.
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MAKING A SPLASH
New York Post, June 14, 2024.
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by metirish » Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:00 am

Some very good ones today
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by Edgy MD » Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:36 am

As a longtime advocate for Newsday to outline their big white letters, I have to give a thumbs down to their blue-and-orange outline on BIG FLIES.

I salute them for trying a flanking maneuver, and this may look great when they wrap Jets-based headlines in green and white or green and black, and Giants in blue and red, but ... I'm calling this a noble failure. It's sort of overbranded and underbranded at the same time, and feels like I'm pulling some cheap canned beans off the bottom shelf in the supermarket.

I may feel a little different it didn't clash so harshly with the red Newsday banner up top and red Budweiser sign below.
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:53 am

glove-gate the only event worthy enough to be back-paged by 3 papers
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by Edgy MD » Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:01 am

It was pretty worth it, too.

If the netting wasn't there, this would have just been a side-story — an offhand, somewhat petulant and wasteful gesture by a frustrated athlete reduced to a moment of childishness. But the effort and mindfulness it takes to toss it over a 20-foot barrier, with the half-smiling aplomb that suggested he was fully in control when he made that choice, kind of made this a heckuva story built around a pretty marginal figure.

The only paper that went with a shot of him actually in the act opts not to come up with a clever summary headline, and instead uses his (disputed) quote, so that's disappointing. The quote would work better in a sub-head.
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by Edgy MD » Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:10 am

Lost headline opportunities.

BYE, BYE, GLOVE
JORGE THROWS AWAY GLOVE,
METS THROW AWAY JORGE


NO GLOVE, NO LOVE
METS RELEASE EMBATTLED RELIEVER
AFTER GLOVE-THROWING INCIDENT


WHAT AN EXIT!
LOPEZ LOSES GAME, GLOVE, JOB
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by whippoorwill » Thu Nov 07, 2024 11:31 am

Good examples!
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by bmfc1 » Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:45 pm

“PICCADILLY CIRCUS” is a gem.
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Re: 2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.07 May 30 through Jun 14

Post by Benjamin Grimm » Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:09 am

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