Congratulations to beelzebot, the winner of the Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest for August! Actually, Michkin won the month by a landslide, but having already won the July contest he wasn't eligible for another prize. So, yay second place!

For winning the August contest, beelzebot claimed the Essential Games Of Shea Stadium DVD Set, which is a six-disc collection featuring some of the most memorable Mets games played at Shea in their entirety.

Having won a month, beelzebot is not eligible to win another monthly contest this season. However, there's a chance to win a prize every single game for racking up a perfect 100 on that day's contest, so he (or any other monthly winner) could still cash in there. It's not easy to score perfectly; you have to get all five questions right, including nailing the pitcher's game score right on the nose. However, this is a neat way for past winners to keep playing and for folks who missed a few games or joined the monthly contest too late to participate and still win a prize even if they are too far behind to win the monthly contest. We've yet to have a 100-point scorer but we've had a handful of 90s.

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I know I'm way late on this; the winner required an international delivery so I wanted to sort that out before posting the results.

Congratulations to Michkin, the winner of the Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest for July!

For winning the July contest, Michkin claimed the Essential Games Of Shea Stadium DVD Set, which is a six-disc collection featuring some of the most memorable Mets games played at Shea in their entirety.

Having won a month, Michkin is not eligible to win another monthly contest this season. However, there's a chance to win a prize every single game for racking up a perfect 100 on that day's contest, so he (or any other monthly winner) could still cash in there. It's not easy to score perfectly; you have to get all five questions right, including nailing the pitcher's game score right on the nose. However, this is a neat way for past winners to keep playing and for folks who missed a few games or joined the monthly contest too late to participate and still win a prize even if they are too far behind to win the monthly contest. We've yet to have a 100-point scorer but we've had a handful of 90s.

Here are the top ten scores for the month of July:

The full July scoreboard can be found here. As a reminder, the scores for the month are aggregated by username and e-mail, so make sure you use the same ones every day. Also, make sure the e-mail address you use matches the one you signed up with here on AA; if you signed up at SB Nation with a junk email address, now is your chance to update that to your real one.

Thanks again to everyone who participated this month. I think we all had a lot of fun, and hopefully it made the games and the game chatters here a little more interesting.

Just a note that I've updated the Swag Contest Scoreboard, which had been left in disrepair since the All-Star break. Here are the current standings:

As always, the latest game form is available at SwagContest.com, and you can read the rules here.

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.

The All-Star game may have lost its luster years ago but that doesn't mean we can't still have some fun with it. The homerun derby, too, is less exciting now that everyone isn't all goosed up on steroids (or are they?); it's basically just a well-structured batting practice featuring All-Stars instead of regular stiffs. Nevertheless, I found some stray swag lying around the house and figured this would be a good time to unload some of it during tonight's festivities.

To enter, just fill out this form; all fields are required and only Amazin' Avenue members with at least 50 total comments are eligible. If you're a long-time reader but never got around to creating an account, sign up for one now and you could be eligible for the next swag giveaway.

The winner will receive this Mets DVD and this baseball rules book. Runner-up will received just the book. One entry per person. Entries received after the start of the derby will be discarded.

This year's entrants are:

• Carlos Pena
• Brandon Inge
• Nelson Cruz
• Joe Mauer
• Albert Pujols
• Adrian Gonzalez
• Prince Fielder
• Ryan Howard

Congratulations to metslaw, the winner of the Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest for June!

For winning the June contest, metslaw claimed the Essential Games Of Shea Stadium DVD Set, which is a six-disc collection featuring some of the most memorable Mets games played at Shea in their entirety.

Having won a month, metslaw is not eligible to win another monthly contest this season. If the Mets are fortunate enough to make the postseason we will have some sort of playoff contest, so he would be eligible for any prizes there. Also, there's a chance to win a prize every single game for racking up a perfect 100 on that day's contest, so he (or any other monthly winner) could still cash in there. It's not easy to score perfectly; you have to get all five questions right, including nailing the pitcher's game score right on the nose. However, this is a neat way for past winners to keep playing and for folks who missed a few games or joined the monthly contest too late to participate and still win a prize even if they are too far behind to win the monthly contest. We've yet to have a 100-point scorer but we've had a handful of 90s.

Here are the top ten scores for the month of June:

The full June scoreboard can be found here. As a reminder, the scores for the month are aggregated by username and e-mail, so make sure you use the same ones every day. Also, make sure the e-mail address you use matches the one you signed up with here on AA; if you signed up at SB Nation with a junk email address, now is your chance to update that to your real one.

Thanks again to everyone who participated this month. I think we all had a lot of fun, and hopefully it made the games and the game chatters here a little more interesting. Here's to more fun and even more participation in July.

Back around Opening Day, we posted a reader contest.  Sixteen pairs of numbers were presented, and the goal was to choose which number in each pair would be greater by season's end.  The contestant with the most correct choices wins a prize.  If the contest ended today, the prize would be this:

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Congratulations to Endys Game, the winner of the Amazin' Avenue Swag Contest for May!

For winning the May contest, Endys Game claimed the Essential Games Of Shea Stadium DVD Set, which is a six-disc collection featuring some of the most memorable Mets games played at Shea in their entirety.

Having won a month, Endys Game is not eligible to win another monthly contest this season. If the Mets are fortunate enough to make the postseason we will have some sort of playoff contest, so he would be eligible for any prizes there. Also, there's a chance to win a prize every single game for racking up a perfect 100 on that day's contest, so he (or any other monthly winner) could still cash in there. It's not easy to score perfectly; you have to get all five questions right, including nailing the pitcher's game score right on the nose. However, this is a neat way for past winners to keep playing and for folks who missed a few games or joined the monthly contest too late to participate and still win a prize even if they are too far behind to win the monthly contest.

Here are the top ten scores for the month of May:

The full May scoreboard can be found here. As a reminder, the scores for the month are aggregated by username and e-mail, so make sure you use the same ones every day. Also, make sure the e-mail address you use matches the one you signed up with here on AA; if you signed up at SB Nation with a junk email address, now is your chance to update that to your real one.

Thanks again to everyone who participated this month. I think we all had a lot of fun, and hopefully it made the games and the game chatters here a little more interesting. Here's to more fun and even more participation in June.