I finally got around to sorting out the winner of the fifth 2024 MillersTime Baseball Contest:

Contest #5: Make a specific, detailed, prescient prediction about the 2024 MLB season.

I had intended to have the decision of a winner voted on by the contributors to the contests this year. But there really wasn’t much to decide as most of you were not even close to be prescient.

Ed Scholl is easily the winner with his prediction: “The Rangers and Diamondbacks (AL and NL pennant winners in 2023) will either not make it to the postseason or be eliminated in the first round.

Neither of the 2023 pennant winners made it to the postseason in 2024. This marked the first time since 2007 (17 years!) when neither team from the previous year’s World Series even appeared in the playoffs.

And Dem Bums from Brooklyn (formerly) wiped out the Bronx Yunkees, four games to one. A pox on them both. Hopefully, neither will make it to the playoffs or to the World Series in 2025.

Ed, a previous winner, will join me for a Nats’ game (of our mutual choice) in 2025. I’ll buy the tickets, and Ed will by the food and drink.