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Amazin' Avenue Caption Contest: The Final Vote

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  

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  

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  

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  

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