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2013 Season Crystal Ball Challenge Predicting the playoff results at the end of the season? Child's play! What we really need to see is just how good your crystal ball is right now. First, select a winner for each division and two wild card teams from each league. Then select the League and World Series champs at the bottom. Prizes will be awarded when this season is in the books. (See the official rules below.) Good luck and Win Twins! Official Rules 1. Only one entry per screen name and email address. Duplicate entries will be discarded. 2. All entries must be received before the first pitch is thrown on April 1, 2013. Extended to April 15! 3. Entries will be scored based on their overall accuracy. Most accurate overall submission wins. 4. A formal scoring algorithm may or may not be developed, but basically, Rick or his algorithm will decide the winners. 5. All entries will be visible to anyone visiting this page once the entry period ends. 6. Any ties not resolvable in a more logical way will be broken by random drawing. 7. Winners will be notified by email. 8. Any issues which arise will be resolved by Rick, whose decision is final. |
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."– Rogers HornsbyExplore the Site This site currently contains Random Image  Home plate mount from Met Stadium (Source: LP, courtesy Clyde Doepner)
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Reflections on the last days of a bad baseball place. 78 pages, with over 50 full color images. Available on Amazon. Random Image  Many people will approace the park from this direction and it's a pretty great first glimpse. It features all the design elements in modestly condensed form, and still manages to look like a ballpark (instead of something else).
"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move."– Satchel PaigeRandom Image  These two sections are within a few feet of one another.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."– Tommy LasordaRandom Image  A view from up (and in) the street.
Research Library Random Image  Knothole non-view #2
"Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will."– Harry CarayRandom Image  Here's the field of posts which will support the third base side of the grandstand. Some walls have started to appear about where the Northstar riders will enter the park.
"All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon."– Branch RickeyRandom Image  "I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us."– Walt WhitmanRandom Image  "Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain."– Casey StengelRandom Image  "You talk about the magic, the aura, but what really makes a stadium is the fans. Concrete doesn't talk back to you. Chairs don't talk back to you. It's the people who are there, day in, day out, that makes the place magic."– Bernie WilliamsRandom Image  |