The Crane Pool Forum

Vote for the tabloid cover that you like the best. Voting will run for seven days.

LATE SHOW
New York Post, July 7, 2022.
Winner of Round 1.14
Winner of Round 2.07



'BACH IN THE NY GROOVE!
New York Daily News, August 4, 2022.
Winner of Round 1.17
Winner of Round 2.10

Worm's eye vs. bird's eye shots.

I went for LATE SHOW. That photographer did their job.

Might be the first time a Kiss song has been used as a Mets tabloid headline!

I feel like I'm voting in California after the race has already been called, but LATE SHOW get its. Great action shot that fills the page. The headline text sits behind Dom's slide because the action is that good. Plus Nimmo's butt.

'BACH is kinda the opposite. Nice shot of Pete and Dan bro'ing down like bros do, but the headline and sub-headline take up at least 60 or 65% of the page and sit over the image because no big deal really.

Word. I don't know what folks are thinking.

I could speculate that we're treating LATE SHOW like a really good family photograph that we just feel awkward about potentially displaying, because one of our siblings' ex is featured and it forces us to relive how it all went bad, and perhaps we could have done something, though we're not sure what .... but that's just speculation.

Whatever it is, though, LATE SHOW is just so, so much better.

Hey, everybody, I've got an idea — change your votes.

A more compelling case cannot be made! Change your vote, people!

Nimmo/Butt 2023!

Nah I just like vogelbach better!

The needle has been moved by 1 vote, even with whippoorwill's defiant Vogel-support! YES WE CAN!

LATE SHOW has now added 2 votes, as mail-in ballots begin to trickle in. John King has been summoned to dissect this massive shift in the CPF electorate.

This poll marks the elimination of the last remaining New York Post cover in this year's competition. In the eight years of the Tabloid Cover Derby, the Post has never won a championship. The Post made it to the finals twice, in 2016 with SEEDS OF LIFE and in 2017 with IN THE BIG INNING. The two covers lost to the Daily News' CES BOOM BAH! and GOD OF BLUNDER, respectively.