Damn you New York Mets … I wanted to see the four-way clusterfark that would have occurred if the Mets had won yesterday. Instead, we only get one bonus game tonight.
Any Home Runs hit by Colorado Rockies Garrett Atkins, Brad Hawpe or Matt Holliday in tonight’s NL Wild-Card play-in game against the Padres will count towards the regular season stats and (by rule) the Home Run Derby Contest standings.
What does this mean? Well, it doesn’t affect the top spot in the full year Derby and the second half Derby contest is done too. The Great Hambino is your winner. But if Empire of Dirt can get two Home Runs out of his Holliday/Atkins combo he will pass Master-Batters for 2nd Place. M-B holds the HR/AB tiebreaker.
| Full Year | Team | 2nd Half | 2nd Half | 1st Half | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 507 | Great Hambino | 251 | Empire of Dirt | 270 | Triple Crown |
| 499 | Master-Batters | 248 | Great Hambino | 269 | Master-Batters |
| 498 | Empire of Dirt* | 244 | Bash Brothers | 259 | Great Hambino |
| * Still Alive |
By the way, the best summation of the Mets late-season collapse comes to the blogosphere from an HRD blogroller. The Legend of Cecilio Guante sums it up perfectly …
The expression on Mikey McD’s face after getting cleaned out by Teddy KGB in Rounders is the only adequate analogy I’ve been able to come up with that about covers it.
If you’ve never seen the movie Rounders, here’s the clip for reference. Mike (Matt Damon) is the Mets and Teddy KGB (John Malkovich) is the Phillies. By the way, if you haven’t seen Rounders, there’s something very very wrong with you.
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October 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
That’s a dumb rule. The play-in game does not count for the regular season stats, so why does it for HRD? I guess the only way rules get changed is by having them mess somthing up.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:51 pm
sorry…I think they do count for the reg season….please disregard my last post……..but I still think it’s a dumb rule in general. Wild card weekend in the NFL are pretty much play-in games and those stats don’t count. Same with the 65th vs. 64th play-in game in the NCAA tourney. I think the MLB players need to strike about this.
May 26th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Interesting to hear what happens at the meeting today – will Willie stay or will Wille go?