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Amazin' Avenue Homerun Derby Contest Results

Prince Fielder won last night's All-Star Game Homerun Derby with 23 total homeruns (six in the finals), but more importantly, two of you have won prizes in the Amazin' Avenue Homerun Derby Contest.

Eight people correctly chose Fielder as the winner, so we had to go to the first tie-breaker for total homeruns by the winner. Amazingly, three people tied for the closest total with 24 (just one shy of Fielder's actual total), so we had to continue to the second tie-breaker, which was the total homeruns by the runner-up Nelson Cruz. Cruz swatted 21 homeruns overall, which squid92 nailed to take home the grand prize.

Second prize went to gogomets, who missed Cruz's total by just one homer.

Congrats to our winners and thanks to everyone for playing. As the 2009 Mets teeter on the brink of irrelevancy we'll find other creative ways to give away some comforting swag.

Num Username Derby Winner Winner HR Runner-Up HR
- * ACTUAL RESULTS * Prince Fielder 23 21
1 squid92 Prince Fielder 24 21
2 gogomets Prince Fielder 24 22
3 jasondg Prince Fielder 24 19
4 Jsz Prince Fielder 26 25
5 Lolwut Prince Fielder 27 25

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gogomets had to be pissed...

Had to assume an easy win with that prediction. Wow, congrats guys, that was almost exactly spot on!!

You may have Utley, Howard, Rollins, Hamels, and Lidge...but, WE have Fernando Tatis, baby. Two grand slames in one inning. Hello??

by ZaBlanc on Jul 14, 2009 1:24 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Once again, how come the All Star uniform fit Prince Fielder, but his team can’t get one that fits! It distracts me everytime I see highlights of him.

by WebBard on Jul 14, 2009 1:59 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

and no congratulations to those who picked stupid AGon, like me,

and his grand total of 2 HRs. wow, you beat infielding defensive specialist Brandon Inge, who pulled a Mike Piazza (ohfer), good job AGon, you jerk.

Lets hope that when gut check time comes again the Mets will pass it with flying colors.

by kendynamo on Jul 14, 2009 2:07 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I feel your pain

I wasn’t in the swag contest but I did have $1 on Gonzalez.

by TheBigStapler on Jul 14, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

good,

I though I was the only one.

by alexSVK on Jul 14, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Congrats

Well I wasnt part of this contest but its always nice to tell the bozo Phillies fans I work with that Prince Fielder was gonna win and not Howard…of course they couldnt wrap their minds around the fact that someone other than Howard could win.

by dirtydave6986 on Jul 14, 2009 3:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Thanks, guys.

If I had had to guess the runner up, I wouldn’t have done nearly as well, I’ll tell you that much.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Jul 14, 2009 4:09 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

nice job squid

agreed on picking the runner-up. cruz looked good out there though.

by gogomets on Jul 14, 2009 5:31 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Congrats

congrats squid. I was to optimistic about the total of homers. Fourth place isn’t bad though. I wonder what the total number of entrants was?

by Jsz on Jul 15, 2009 9:22 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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