2024 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 2.02 STARTING STRONG vs LUIS ARM STRONG

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Vote for the tabloid cover that you like best.



STARTING STRONG

Newsday, March 2, 2024.

Winner of https://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33890Round 1.04

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LUIS ARM STRONG

New York Post, August 18, 2024.

Winner of https://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33932Round 1.14

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[Bob Alpacadaca]

The photo is great, but I don't get the Luis Armstrong headline. Is it a riff on Lance Armstrong?

[metirish]

Louis Armstrong the great trumpeter

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Bob Alpacadaca]

Satchmo!



Now I get it.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

How is "starting strong" getting any votes? They are both Sevvy covers-- one is a March spring training game, the other a clutch in-season CG. One has a good pun the other isn't even clever. One photo captures an emotion the other doesn't.



What am I missing?

[metirish]

Great points

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: How is "starting strong" getting any votes? They are both Sevvy covers-- one is a March spring training game, the other a clutch in-season CG. One has a good pun the other isn't even clever. One photo captures an emotion the other doesn't. What am I missing?

These are typically my feelings about most Newsday back page covers.



Some people just go nuts for those springtime blue jerseys and orange caps, I guess.

[bmfc1]

Ironically, these are the choices today as Severino leaves for ATH.

[kcmets]

I went ARM STRONG, but geez I really dislike those jerseys...

[Benjamin Grimm]

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