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Amazin' Avenue Caption Contest: The Final Vote

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5:50pm: The voting has concluded and we have a winner. Congratulations to longtime AA-er cjmulrain as we all had a good laugh at the expense of the Mets' front office. The winning caption:

Mark Anthony: "After I told him I’m actually a singer, I don't play baseball, Omar upped his offer to 3 years, $36 million."
Beltran & Pedro: "Hahaha. Classic Omar."
Johan thought bubble: "I wish I had just re-signed with the Twins."

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It was a challenge to whittle the fifty or so caption contest entries down to a handful, and not for the reason you think. Here are the 'best' captions for the picture shown above; the entry with the most votes will win a copy of the Bill James Handbook 2010 courtesy of ACTA Sports.

The poll will be open until 5pm today. Good luck.

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Choose the best caption
Pedro Martinez (rear left), Carlos Beltran (left front), Johan Santana (right rear), enjoy a moment of levity while Marc Anthony (right front) tells them that the skin rejuvenation cream he sold Sammy Sosa, was actually plain skin bleach.
27 votes
Mark Anthony: "After I told him I’m actually a singer, I don’t play baseball, Omar upped his offer to 3 years, $36 million." Beltran & Pedro: "Hahaha classic Omar." Johan thought bubble: "I wish I had just re-signed with the Twins"
67 votes
Johan Santana gradually finds Carlos Beltran’s impression of Rick James less and less amusing.
15 votes
Johan thinks to himself, "Yeah, right, funny stuff… I wonder what Frenchy’s up to tonight?"
6 votes
Johan: "Yo Carlos, I’m happy for you and I’ma let you finish, but Omir Santos tells one of the best knock knock jokes OF ALL TIME."
29 votes

144 votes | Poll has closed

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It's kind of funny that a pretty big reason Johan didn't resign with the twins

(at least allegedly) was because he didn’t think they were committed to winning and he wanted to go to a winner…

that worked out well for him.

by Gina on Nov 30, 2009 6:00 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Kudos to the winner

Gas prices today are a lot like a pitcher's ERA. Anything under 3 is amazing, under 4 is pretty good and anything 5 and up is something you want to avoid.

by Bobby Baseball on Nov 30, 2009 6:06 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

btw, whatever happened with the AAOP contest?

Gas prices today are a lot like a pitcher's ERA. Anything under 3 is amazing, under 4 is pretty good and anything 5 and up is something you want to avoid.

by Bobby Baseball on Nov 30, 2009 6:07 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Congrats.

Even without prizes, we should have caption contests, just because they’re funny.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 30, 2009 11:04 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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