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Amazin' Avenue *SECRET* Swag Contest

Not content to simply give swag away at the end of the month, I've decided to hold occasional secret contests to give swag away throughout the month as well. To keep things lively, I'm not going to announce what the secret contests are until they are over. Think of them as "pop" contests; the best presents are the ones you never knew were coming!

This installment of the Amazin' Avenue Secret Swag Contest will award a prize to the user who:

Posted the most game thread comments in the Mets' four-game series with the Dodgers

The Mets are finally on a roll, winning three of four against the Dodgers and five of six overall. We had a pretty good turnout this week in the game threads, particularly Sunday night's nationally-televised affair. As for the series' overall comments, the top five contributors to the game threads over that time were:

Rank AA User # Comments
1 itsmetsforme 87
2 Simons 58
3 JoshNY 41
4 Greenpoint Ian 41
5 DoctorK16 28

Congratulations to itsmetsforme, who led the way with 87 comments in the four game threads. His prize is an autographed copy of 100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die by Matthew Silverman. Matt was kind enough to send us some copies to give away, so you guys are the beneficiaries of that generosity.

There's plenty more swag to give away, and no telling when the next secret contest will start or end. Hooray for mystery!

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Congrats, itsmetsforme

That’s an awesome prize. I barely commented at all during the first 3 games.

Fight J-Roll the A-Holl!

by Prince on Jun 3, 2008 6:54 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

this is cool, congrats

I love the secret contest idea. Just as a small suggestion, maybe a future one of these could move the focus away from sheer quantity and towards quality of the individual contributions? (Not intended as a knock on itsmetsforme, who posts great stuff.) Maybe a secret award to the longest comment in a thread, or the most links posted to the sidebar, or most analysis, or best firsthand game report, or something? I don’t know, just think it would be nice to reward commenters for thoughtfulness and insight and humor as well as volume.

by anonymous on Jun 3, 2008 7:07 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.

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by sireric on Jun 3, 2008 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary

I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide

by Simons on Jun 3, 2008 8:04 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

good work

I had a hard time deciding which of those most deserved my recommendation.

by anonymous on Jun 3, 2008 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

LMAO

I saw that there were 16 new comments and thought,’That’s weird.’

Fight J-Roll the A-Holl!

by Prince on Jun 3, 2008 9:10 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

it should've been

most airplane references in one game thread. FFS.

nonetheless, a good idea.

by gogomets on Jun 3, 2008 9:32 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i plan to follow my sucess by posting very little

and winning next months secret contest for least posts.

it’s a nice promotion,especially since when a publisher sends me something, i keeps it all to myself.

I.M. Forme

by itsmetsforme on Jun 3, 2008 10:23 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

CONGRATS Itzy!

I’ll have to educate myself on this SWAG thing.

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jun 4, 2008 1:41 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

FYI

I e-mailed your address on file here. Lemme know if you got it.

by Eric Simon on Jun 4, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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