2024 TABLOID COVER DERBY: YEAR TEN

[Benjamin Grimm]

The third round of the tenth Tabloid Cover Derby is now complete, and we are down to eight surviving covers. Our "Elite Eight" is more evenly distributed among the three tabloids than ever before, with three covers each from the Daily News and Newsday, and two from the New York Post. In our most lopsided year, 2022, the Daily News had seven of the eight, but the lone exception, Newsday's MISERY, held on to be the winner.

All three of Newsday's covers are from the postseason, and all of the remaining postseason covers are from Newsday. The aforementioned MISERY is the only postseason cover to ever win the TCD; 2015's YES-PEDES and 2016's CES BOOM BAH! were both from regular-season games.

Another fun fact: Four of the eight remaining covers feature players with their mouths wide open: ALONSOMG! (Pete Alonso), LUIS ARM STRONG (Luis Severino), HAIR FORCE WON! (Jesse Winker) and SUPERMANEA (Sean Manaea). If NO MERCY! had prevailed in its close race against CALIFORNIA DREAMIN', it would have been five of eight.

Fourth-round voting will begin tomorrow, January 21.

ELITE EIGHT

Year	Daily News	New York Post	Newsday
2015	4	4	0
2016	5	1	2
2017	3	1	4
2018	4	2	2
2019	4	0	4
2020	4	2	2
2021	3	0	5
2022	7	0	1
2023	3	1	4
2024	3	2	3
Totals	40	13	27

The matchups for the fourth round will be:

January 21: CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' (Newsday) vs NO SLEEP TILL THE BRONX (Daily News)
January 22: PICCADILLY CIRCUS (Daily News) vs HAIR FORCE WON! (New York Post)
January 23: LUIS ARM STRONG (New York Post) vs ALONSOMG (Newsday)
January 24: SUPERMANAEA (Newsday) vs THROW BOMBERS FROM THE TRAIN (Daily News)

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2 of the 8 are from the same 2 game series (Mets @ NYY).