2022 TABLOID COVER DERBY: YEAR EIGHT

[Benjamin Grimm]

The eighth year of the Tabloid Cover Derby is tentatively scheduled to begin on Tuesday, November 1.

There will be at least 26 first-round polls this year. Maybe one or two more if the Mets make enough back pages over the next six weeks or so. (Last year there were 24 polls in the first round.)

Format will remain the same. The winning cover, as always, will go to Stockholm. The player featured on the winning cover will get a gigantic box of Rice-A-Roni.

The stakes, obviously, could not be any higher. You won't want to miss it!

[bmfc1]

This post made me very happy.

[whippoorwill]

I like the chickens

[Centerfield]

My favorite time of year!

[MFS62]

It's the most wonderful time of the year
With ol' Ben Grimm qvelling
Back page headlines he's telling
It's the most wonderful time of the year

It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those strikeouts and mound meetings
When teams rise and fall
It's the hap-happiest season of all

There'll be manager roasting
Key errors for toasting
And rooks in the big show.
There'll be game winning stories
Compared to the glories of the
Pennant races long, long ago.

It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much pennant blowing
And votes will be glowing
When selections we fear
Might be the cover of the year

It's the most wonderful time of the year
With ol' Ben Grimm qvelling
Back page headlines he's telling
It's the most wonderful time of the year
It's the most wonderful time
Yes the most wonderful time
Oh the most wonderful time
Of the year

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Now that song is stuck in my head!

I'm wondering which we're more likely to see in the next few weeks? Photoshopped images of deGrom in a Yankee uniform or of Judge in a Mets uniform? Place your bets!

[kcmets]

That's pretty catchy, MFS...

*golf clap*

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Lefty Specialist]

I've got Stockholm Syndrome already!

[MFS62]

I'm starting to get schpilkes. (A tingling feeling)
Or, maybe its just gas.
Later

[Fman99]

Finally, some newsworthy baseball content.

[kcmets]

Hoping Backpack Girl has a placard coming the next day or so.

[Centerfield]

Seems like Ben restocked on models.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Don't worry... Our friends Shelby and Marissa and Jerry and Bob and the rest will be back once the polls start closing and results start coming in.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Benjamin Grimm]

[kcmets]

I think I was strongly encouraged to get off that guy's lawn in 1971.

[MFS62]

Kase, you can play on my lawn any time.
Just please don't leave any candy wrappers or divots.
Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Benjamin Grimm]

The team of Tabloid Cover Derby Models got together recently to practice their placard-holding skills. This is the first time that all seven have been in the same place at the same time!

[Benjamin Grimm]

[kcmets]