2016 Tabloid Cover Derby Round 1.2.2 May 12 through May 17

[Benjamin Grimm]

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

UH-OH
Newsday, May 12, 2016.



SULTAN OF SWAAT
New York Daily News, May 12, 2016.



TWO BYE TWO
New York Post, May 12, 2016.



EDGE OF RUIN
New York Daily News, May 13, 2016.



GOOD THING HE DIDN'T DO PEDs!
New York Daily News, May 14, 2016.



ROCKIE ROAD RAGE
New York Daily News, May 15, 2016.



ROCKED
Newsday, May 16, 2016.



NATIONAL GUARD
Newsday, May 17, 2016.



CAPITOL HILL
New York Daily News, May 17, 2016.



MURPH'S UP!
New York Post, May 17, 2016.

[MFS62]

I went against (my) tradition of not giving the Post credit for anything.
But Two by Two was two good to pass up.

Later

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I liked the Sultan of Swaat with the two As in swat. Pretty clever!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Swaat, Two, Rage... Moiph and his Gnats can go f...

[Centerfield]

Road rage and Sultan.

I really love how we get to re-live the season with these covers. Even if we weren't voting it's fun to just browse these.

I think this is when we started realizing the Mets offense wasn't as good as we thought in April. Injuries and Conforto taking a downturn.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Centerfield wrote: I really love how we get to re-live the season with these covers. Even if we weren't voting it's fun to just browse these.

I think so too. It's a fun way to recap the events of the past year. As I've said before, I think these covers are their own kind of pop art, and I like having them tell the story of the season. In the first round, the voting is just a bonus. It's in the later rounds, where the nostalgia ends and the gloves come off, that it becomes all about the voting, and shit gets real!

[Ceetar]

Rockie Road Rage. That's fun.

[Fman99]

Nats on the cover? Fuck no.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm bumping this poll because it's currently tied. Voting will end on Saturday morning.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Bumping this for the final time. If it's still tied tomorrow morning, I'll post a tiebreaker poll.

[Centerfield]

Wait. So only the winner moves on? Not the top 3?

Wow, I am slow top pick up these rules.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yes, that's right. Only the winner moves on.

There are 32 first-round polls, to determine 32 finalists. After that, starting with the second round, it's NCAA-style one-on-one single elimination.

[Centerfield]

All this time I thought it was like Round Robin, where the top 3 covers from Pool A move on, or something like that.

That is pretty tough. I bet some of these second place covers could go pretty deep.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I guess it would have been more clear if, when a poll closed, I would post an update saying this poll has closed and this is the winning cover.

But with a new poll being added to the forum every day, I don't want to add further clutter by bumping each poll as it closes. The polls that expire just fade gracefully to the back pages. Instead I periodically update the main thread as I did the other day.