Is baseball back?
The playoffs this year were certainly entertaining, even if your team wasn’t involved.
I haven’t seen any figures about TV audience numbers, but I hope you saw some of the games.
As for the winners of the MillersTime Baseball Contests, here are the results:
CONTEST # 1 – Are you a ‘Homer’ or not?
Contestants Jeff Friedman, Rob Higdon, Joe Higdon, Maurray Maniff, Jesse Maniff, Nick Nyhart, Brandt Tilis, Matt Wax-Krell, and Dawn Wilson all ‘proved’ they were not Homers. The rest of you need to sharpen up a bit on your objectivity. A few of you need a lot of work.
Dawn Wilson is the winner. Her answers about the Dodgers were spot on, except she slightly overestimated their regular season record (104-58 vs 98-64). She will get a copy of either Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100 or his new book, Why We love Baseball. (Let me know which you’d prefer and your mailing address, Dawn)
Contest # 2 – True / False Questions
No one got all five of the questions right, most missing the first one: One of these two teams will NOT make it to the World Series: La Bums or New York Yunkees..
Four of you got four of the five questions correct: Jeff Friedman, Mary L, Nick Nyhart, and Brandt Tilis
Jeff Friedman is the winner as he was the first one to submit that answer, two days ahead of Mary L, and three weeks ahead of last minute submissions by Nick Nyhart and Brandt Tilis.
If Jeff can make it to DC for a Nats game, I’ll get the tickets, and he’ll buy the food and drinks. If he’d rather go to a game at Fenway, we can arrange that.
Contest # 3 – Name Division winners in each league
The best anyone was able to do was to get four of the six winners correct.
Nick Fels is the winner over Elizabeth Tilis as he submitted his choices four days ahead of Elizabeth’s.
He will get a copy of either Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100 or his new book, Why We love Baseball. (Let me know which you’d prefer and your mailing address, Nick.)
Contest # 4 – Five questions about the 2024 playoffs
Jeff Friedman, Zach Haile and Nick Nyhart had the Dodgers winning over the Orioles in six. Brian Steinbach had the Dodgers over the Rangers in six. Dawn Wilson, Elizabeth Tilis & David Price all had the Dodgers over the Astros. Ed Scholl thought the Braves would beat the Yankees. Jesse Maniff had the Yankees beating the Braves in six. But No One had the Yankees and the Dodgers in the WS.
By the power invested in me by me, I declare NO Winner in this category this year.
Contest # 5 – Make a specific, detailed, and prescient prediction about the 2024 MLB season. I’m still working on this question and will winnow the answers down to the finalists. The actual winner will then be chosen by 2024 MillersTime contestants.
