2018 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 5.01 SEMI-FINAL

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Winner of http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27533Round 1.12

Winner of http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27625Round 3.02

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27799Round 4.01

MIDNIGHT BADNESS

New York Daily News, June 3, 2018.

The Cubs score six runs in the 14th inning as another strong outing from Jacob deGrom is wasted.



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Winner of http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27562Round 1.21

Winner of http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27601Round 2.03

Winner of http://www.thecranepool.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27639Round 3.05

Winner of http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27806Round 4.02

A WRIGHT TO REMEMBER

New York Daily News, September 30, 2018.

David Wright says good-bye.



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Midnight Badness has a better picture, better overall design, better headline, and was more indicative of the season it chronicles. VOTE FOR BADNESS! #TeamBadness

[Centerfield]

I agree about design, headline, and better indicative of the season.



But not the picture. The Wright picture is nice. The only drawback is that Jack Renheimer is behind him and not, say, Conforto.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I feel like this is the real final here, these are the two best covers left IMO.

[Guest 41Forever]

Went with a salute to the Captain.

[kcmets]

Went with BADNESS.

[bmfc1]

=Centerfield post_id=1171 time=1547567502 user_id=65]The only drawback is that Jack Renheimer is behind him and not, say, Conforto.

[G-Fafif]

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=Centerfield post_id=1171 time=1547567502 user_id=65]The only drawback is that Jack Renheimer is behind him and not, say, Conforto.

[Centerfield]

The only drawback is that Jack Renheimer is behind him and not, say, Conforto. This. Jack Renheimer should not be commerated for all time on the winning cover. Prospects. Journeymen. Legends. Obscurities. Future Hall of Famers. Former All-Stars. Players who had won awards. Players who were winning awards. Ring-wearers from elsewhere. Thirty-four catchers who caught Met pitchers. Fifty-one pitchers who recorded Met saves. Forty-two third basemen who followed the trail he blazed to the Met hot corner. Twenty-four men who were on the Met roster he joined July 21, 2004. Three-hundred thirty-one men who'd thereafter attach themselves to the Met roster he was a part of, he was the center of, he would work his spine off to return to before September 30, 2018. Accepting the definition of teammate as anybody who was a Met while David Wright played, healed, rehabilitated, strived and captained as best he could, nearly a third of everybody who has ever played for the New York Mets has been a teammate to David Wright. And David Wright was a teammate to every one of them...even Jack Reinheimer.

It's funny that we get to hang out here on a message board with Greg. It's like having LeBron James as one of your buddies and he plays in your pickup games that you have in the driveway. Usually he just fucks around dribbling with one hand and holding a beer in the other, but then once in a while he does some crazy spin dunk and you're like "oh right, he's LeBron James".



Oh right. That's Greg from FAFIF.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Did anyone really cry at DW's final appearance?



I was sad myself, but I also couldn't shake that part of me who also knew how manufactured an event the last appearance was; manufactured in part so as to generate the kind of back-page populist win you folks are now stroking them back for! It's a Fake News circle jerk!



VOTE FOR BADNESSSSSSSS!!!!11

[batmagadanleadoff]

I had written Wright off two years before that last game. You think the Red Sox would've kept third base in limbo for two years, what with the lethal offensive production a big market team has the right to expect from that position? What a pathetic franchise this is under the Wilpons.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Did anyone really cry at DW's final appearance? I was sad myself, but I also couldn't shake that part of me who also knew how manufactured an event the last appearance was; manufactured in part so as to generate the kind of back-page populist win you folks are now stroking them back for! It's a Fake News circle jerk! VOTE FOR BADNESSSSSSSS!!!!11

I cried! Sure it was manufactured, but a huge part of that manufacturing was not for us, but so that broken man could trot around in a fresh uni on perfect grass in front of a packed house one last time. How many times in life do we get a heads up that something's going to be over and then get to acknowledge the ending while it's happening?! It was a circle jerk! OF EMOTION!

[bmfc1]

This. Jack Renheimer should not be commerated for all time on the winning cover. Prospects. Journeymen. Legends. Obscurities. Future Hall of Famers. Former All-Stars. Players who had won awards. Players who were winning awards. Ring-wearers from elsewhere. Thirty-four catchers who caught Met pitchers. Fifty-one pitchers who recorded Met saves. Forty-two third basemen who followed the trail he blazed to the Met hot corner. Twenty-four men who were on the Met roster he joined July 21, 2004. Three-hundred thirty-one men who'd thereafter attach themselves to the Met roster he was a part of, he was the center of, he would work his spine off to return to before September 30, 2018. Accepting the definition of teammate as anybody who was a Met while David Wright played, healed, rehabilitated, strived and captained as best he could, nearly a third of everybody who has ever played for the New York Mets has been a teammate to David Wright. And David Wright was a teammate to every one of them...even Jack Reinheimer. It's funny that we get to hang out here on a message board with Greg. It's like having LeBron James as one of your buddies and he plays in your pickup games that you have in the driveway. Usually he just fucks around dribbling with one hand and holding a beer in the other, but then once in a while he does some crazy spin dunk and you're like "oh right, he's LeBron James". Oh right. That's Greg from FAFIF.

I know. I read his reply and felt sorry for the sap he beautifully eviscerated and then realized that it was me.

[G-Fafif]

Where would you rather have had Jack Reinheimer at that moment -- in the field?

[G-Fafif]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Did anyone really cry at DW's final appearance?

I shed manly tears when he pinch-hit the night before. After a two-year string of updates about what he was doing to get there and how his return was always beyond the horizon, to see him finally walk to the plate and be the player we lived with for so many seasons was to be emotionally gratified. If the farewell was manufactured, it was about time the Mets made something beautiful.



The only thing I don't love about the Wright back page is the awkward phrase "waves farewell," as if we don't see he's waving.



Alternate headline that I think would have fit logistically and spiritually (with maybe a touch of kerning):

HOME FANS BID CAP ADIEU Last night for Wright brings out crowd for fondest farewell

[Benjamin Grimm]

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The Cinderella run of MIDNIGHT BADNESS continues, as it scores its second consecutive upset, knocking the heavily favored A WRIGHT TO REMEMBER out of the competition. MIDNIGHT BADNESS now advances to the finals, where it will likely face Newsday's SMILE HIGH.



The pictures tell the story...



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[Centerfield]

This is some terrific work BG.



How do you photoshop a cover onto hairy bellies? Amazing!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thank you! But... I'm not sure why you think it's Photoshopped...