2015 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.2.4 Jul 3 through Jul 12

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Vote for the tabloid covers that you like the best. You may select up to three choices. Voting will run for seven days.

Cubs complete their sweep of the Mets and talk of "Panic City" begins.

Bill Madden calls upon Sandy Alderson to "fix the embarrassment" that he built.

Steven Matz does it again.

Jacob deGrom has a "dominant win" over the Giants.

Steven Matz is injured. He won't even throw for another three weeks.

Noah Syndergaard strikes out 13 batters in a win over Arizona.

Newsday manages to refrain from putting "POW! BATMAN!" on its back page.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Amazin', Shining, Rest this morning.
Get off your Alderson is one of the lamest thus far.

[Guest cooby classic]

I don't get the Alderson one

[Benjamin Grimm]

They're using "Alderson" as a euphemism for "Ass". Very lame.

I wonder how the people who composed the "POW! BATMAN!" pages for the News and the Post felt in the morning when they each saw their rival's back page. They each probably thought they were being so original and clever.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: They're using "Alderson" as a euphemism for "Ass". Very lame.

See I read it as a very lame attempt to suggest Sandy is high and mighty, and holier than thou, and needs to be taken down a few pegs. "GET OFF YOUR ALTAR, SON."

Awful, but it beats ALDERSON=ASS. I mean, how do you get there? They both have an A and an S, but Alderson has a bunch of other letters.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wonder how the people who composed the "POW! BATMAN!" pages for the News and the Post felt in the morning when they each saw their rival's back page. They each probably thought they were being so original and clever.

I was wondering what it says about newspaper readership that they (both!) thought they could find deeper meaning and relevance by referencing a TV farce that was canceled 48 years prior.

[Centerfield]

From this sampling of covers it looks like the Mets have only pitchers.

[Centerfield]

And only four pitchers at that.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: They're using "Alderson" as a euphemism for "Ass". Very lame. See I read it as a very lame attempt to suggest Sandy is high and mighty, and holier than thou, and needs to be taken down a few pegs. "GET OFF YOUR ALTAR, SON." Awful, but it beats ALDERSON=ASS. I mean, how do you get there? They both have an A and an S, but Alderson has a bunch of other letters. I wonder how the people who composed the "POW! BATMAN!" pages for the News and the Post felt in the morning when they each saw their rival's back page. They each probably thought they were being so original and clever. I was wondering what it says about newspaper readership that they (both!) thought they could find deeper meaning and relevance by referencing a TV farce that was canceled 48 years prior.

Some channel I never knew about until about a week ago on my cable showed some BATMAN (1966) today. I watched the episode (guest villain Mr. Freeze, the Eli Wallach version -- there were two other MF's) and saw the wackiest thing I ever saw on Batman. Even wackier than the shark repellent Batman pulls from his utility belt to fight an obviously rubber shark. I hadn't seen this show in so long that I didn't even remember this scene and so I experienced it as if I was watching it for the first time ever.

Here's the scene:

Commissioner Gordon dials up Batman on the hotline, while simultaneoulsy, Chief O'Hara dials Bruce Wayne on the regular phone. Both Batman and Wayne are needed in order to coordinate some crazy plan to nab Mr. Freeze. The whole episode is off the rails crazy and centers around Mr. Freeze's attempt to acquire some top-secret ice-making formula from some top scientist. Ice-making formula. Anyway, back to those phone calls. The police brass decides to have Batman and Wayne talk to each other to hash out these intricate plans. There are apparently, no multi-line phones in 1966, at least none that can connect to the Batman hotline, so the Commissioner takes the two headests, turns one upside down, and puts them next to each other so that Batman and Bruce can talk. On the other end of all of this is Adam West, having a conversation with himself, going back and forth making subtle voice changes so as to appear that Batman and Bruce are not one and the same while all the while, Commissioner Gordon is listening in.

Did you know that that Batman TV show won an Emmy? It did. In the comedy category.