2023 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 3.06 DIDDLY SQUAT! vs PUT 'EM IN THE BOOKS!

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Please vote for the cover that you prefer

Poll ended at Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:16 am

DIDDLY SQUAT! (New York Daily News)
2
67%
PUT 'EM IN THE BOOKS! (New York Daily News
1
33%
 
Total votes: 3
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Benjamin Grimm
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2023 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 3.06 DIDDLY SQUAT! vs PUT 'EM IN THE BOOKS!

Post by Benjamin Grimm » Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:16 am

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Vote for the cover that you prefer. Voting will run for seven days.

DIDDLY SQUAT!
New York Daily News, July 15, 2023.
Winner of Round 1.17
Winner of Round 2.04
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PUT 'EM IN THE BOOKS!
New York Daily News, June 3, 2023.
Winner of Round 1.11
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Re: 2023 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 3.06 DIDDLY SQUAT! vs PUT 'EM IN THE BOOKS!

Post by A Boy Named Seo » Tue Jan 09, 2024 10:12 am

McNeil's "McNeil Face" perfectly captures the sentiment of the moment on that cover.
great googly moogly!
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Re: 2023 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 3.06 DIDDLY SQUAT! vs PUT 'EM IN THE BOOKS!

Post by bmfc1 » Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:12 pm

The McNeil cover is clever but a cover with the great Howie Rose (over a cover about pooping) deserves the win.
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Re: 2023 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 3.06 DIDDLY SQUAT! vs PUT 'EM IN THE BOOKS!

Post by Benjamin Grimm » Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:00 am

Okay, this is going to be controversial, but something unorthodox happened.

Earlier this morning, with the voting tied at 7-7, I converted this thread to an Announcement, asking for a tie-breaking vote. That vote was placed within a couple of hours, giving DIDDLY SQUAT an 8-7 lead. When I went to restore this to being a Standard Topic, the voting got corrupted somehow. The database still reflects the 15 votes, but for some reason the display here in the forum only shows two votes. I don't see a way to fix this, so the voting will have to be cut short, and the win will be awarded to DIDDLY SQUAT. (It was unlikely that any more votes would have been forthcoming, but we'll never know.) Enthusiasts of PUT EM IN THE BOOKS will be justifiably outraged, and this will be discussed for decades to come, but the situation is what it is.

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