Tabloid Cover Derby 2018 (Year Four!)

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Tabloid Cover Derby is back!

In a press conference today at the subway station near Citi Field, it was announced that the 2018 Tabloid Cover Derby will get underway on Monday, November 5. This is the fourth year that America has been voting for the best Mets tabloid cover. Attending today's announcement was Hollywood superstar Mario Van Peebles and Mets ace pitcher Jerry Blevins, along with local Mets fans Daphne and Erika, holding a banner commemorating the three previous winning covers. Also attending were the officers of the Mets Canine Corps, from left to right is Trina (President), Cupcake (Treasurer) and Rambo (Vice President). This year's winning cover, as always, will be displayed in the lobby of the CPF's international headquarters, Kran Pool Forum Internationella Huvudkontoret in Stockholm, Sweden.



In 2015 and 2016, there were enough covers published to support 32 first-round polls. A dismal 2017 reduced that number to 16 first-round polls. In 2018, the number of Mets covers bounced back a bit, as did the team's won-lost record. This year there will be either 21 or 22 first-round polls, depending on how much off-season news the Mets make in October and November. The ten (or eleven) covers that get the highest percentage of votes in their first-round polls will get a second-round bye, while the remaining covers compete against each other for the right to advance.

It all starts on November 5, so stick around after the World Series! You'll be glad you did!

[MFS62]

All other contests pale by comparison.
How did you get Rambo to show up? I thought he was on a book tour.


Later

[Guest 41Forever]

Brilliant!!

[Centerfield]

Wow BG. You really have a gift for this.

I nearly fell out of my chair when I opened this thread and saw Mario Van Peebles.

[Centerfield]

Let me tell you this...it's no coincidence that the best player is called the MVP

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

lolllol

[Lefty Specialist]

Benjamin Grimm wrote:

There's just so much going on there that I have to giggle.

[bmfc1]

It was nice of Mr. Van Peeples to show up at 10 AM. I was impressed that all of the dogs looked at the camera but of course, they aren't just dogs, they are officers.

[Centerfield]

bmfc1 wrote: It was nice of Mr. Van Peeples to show up at 10 AM.

It's Peebles! Come on folks!

Peeples is smoking hot 80's icon Nia Peeples.

Nia still looks pretty good today.



Can we invite her to the coronation?

[Benjamin Grimm]

We'll have to check with Trina, Cupcake, and Rambo.

[bmfc1]

Centerfield wrote: bmfc1 wrote: It was nice of Mr. Van Peeples to show up at 10 AM. It's Peebles! Come on folks!

No disrespect meant to Mr. Van Peebles or the TCD staff.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I started this thread on my phone where my screen was big enough only to contain the narrative, and so I imagined the photo as I read and it just kept getting better. Subway station... Mario Van Peebles (!) ... Daphne and Erika (!!!)... canine corps. (!!!!)...

And so, kudos to the writing as much as the shot. I also love the description "America has been voting" when it's like, 12 of us.

[Edgy MD]

Mr. Peebles, as usual, wanted too much $$.

[G-Fafif]

America anticipates voting November 5 and will try to remember other elections November 6.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Fman99]

Finally something I can jerk off to, besides 100,000 pages of pornography I mean.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wow! You really must like newspaper covers!

[Guest cooby]

LOL

[Benjamin Grimm]

PREVIOUSLY ON THE TABLOID COVER DERBY


2015
Inaugural competition sees Daily News cover YES-PEDES defeat CON4TO!, also from the Daily News. Winning cover is unveiled at a ceremony in Stockholm, attended by David Wright, U.S. ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski, Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and the ghost of Swedish actrees Ingrid Bergman. Cover later goes on world tour of great art museums, including the Louvre in Paris.

Total number of covers: 377 (Daily News 135, New York Post 124, Newsday 110)
Final Four: YES-PEDES (Daily News), CON4TO! (Daily News), TEAM OF DESTINY (Daily News), N.Y. CITI (New York Post)


2016
Second season of TCD announced in special ceremony featuring Rusty Staub and former Miss Sweden, Camilla Hansson. Daily News wins for the second year with CES BOOM BAH! defeating SEEDS OF LIFE from the New York Post in the final round. The 2016 ceremony takes place inside the Royal Palace in Stockholm. Terry Collins is joined by Sweden's Queen Silvia, CPF receptionist and Swedish reality show star Maja, children from the Järfälla branch of the Kran Pool Barn Klubb, and the ghost of Swedish actress Greta Garbo. Ceremony marred by unrest outside in the streets, with crowds protesting the early exit from the competititon of all urine-related Matt Harvey covers.

Total number of covers: 381 (Daily News 150, New York Post 117, Newsday 114)
Final Four: CES BOOM BAH! (Daily News), SEEDS OF LIFE (New York Post), 11th HEAVEN (Newsday), METS IN A LANDSLIDE (Daily News)


2017
With fewer covers, the third Tablod Cover Derby is downsized from 32 first-round polls to 16. For the first time this year, covers are seeded by first-round vote percentage instead of chronologically. Opening ceremony attended by Marty Silver, former Shea Stadium ticket booth worker, and Bev Donaldson, who had been employed at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm. Winning cover is again from the Daily News. GOD OF BLUNDER makes history as first bad-news cover to win competition. Winner is unveiled on a side street in Stockholm. On hand are Kingsport Mets mascot Slider (thanks to funds raised by school children of Sullivan County through car washes and bake sales); Family Ties star Tina Yothers; former ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog; CPF receptionist Maja; and the ghost of actress Cate Blanchett, who, curiously, is neither Swedish nor dead.

Total number of covers: 208 (Daily News 83, Newsday 67, New York Post 58)
Final Four: GOD OF BLUNDER (Daily News), IN THE BIG INNING (New York Post), TRESPEDES (Daily News), THANK YOU, CARDS (Newsday)



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2017

[Guest 41Forever]

The highlight of the off-season!

I can only imagine how much time goes into this project. It’s enjoyed and appreciated!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm still protesting the shameful defeat of YOU GOTTA RELIEVE

[Guest d'Kong76]

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Rusty be like all hummina hummina hummina...

[Centerfield]

I forgot how funny some of these are. Terry Collins looking visibly uncomfortable next to Maja. And each time I open this thread I laugh about MVP.

This thread has our best stuff. Which is good because that conflict of interest argument is our worst stuff. Our absolute worst stuff.

Funny they are the top two threads.

[Benjamin Grimm]

41Forever wrote: The highlight of the off-season! I can only imagine how much time goes into this project. It’s enjoyed and appreciated!

Thank you! Since this isn't fully automated like Schaefer is, it does take up some time, but since it's partially automated, perhaps not as much as you're imagining.

We'll be underway before long! The first poll will be posted on Monday morning. Jay Bruce! Adrian Gonzalez! Todd Frazier! You won't want to miss it!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The first poll will be posted on Monday morning. Jay Bruce! Adrian Gonzalez! Todd Frazier! You won't want to miss it!

I'm so excited I could pee! Sorry, I'm older than Fman haha...

[Benjamin Grimm]

And we have our first three Round One winners.

Each of these covers will advance, either to the second round or directly to the third round, depending on their final ranking after all polls have closed.

Of these three, MICKEY'S CLUBHOUSE has the highest ranking and YOU NOAH NOTHING is at the bottom, but there are many precincts that have not yet been heard from.

Early exit polls indicate a voter preference for pictures of men with their arms folded.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm thoroughly enjoying this again this year. 95% of the covers I've
never seen so it's a cool trip down season-memory lane. (even if 2018
wasn't the most memorablesque of campaigns)

[Centerfield]

d'Kong76 wrote: I'm thoroughly enjoying this again this year. 95% of the covers I've never seen so it's a cool trip down season-memory lane. (even if 2018 wasn't the most memorablesque of campaigns)

Me too. Last year I didn't think I would enjoy the TCD at all considering what a crap year it was. Turns out it was the highlight of the year. This year I fully expected to enjoy it and I am.

But um, these are some crap covers.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I don't think I voted for any of 3 advancers. Can some of the 2nd place winners still make a run?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nope!