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August 24th, 2006

The Big Papi prediction contest

Filed under: David Ortiz, Contests by Seth Mnookin @ 3:24 pm
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With about 78 percent of the season’s games done and gone, Big Papi is leading the majors with 45 home runs and 119 RBIs. That puts him on pace for a not shabby 58/153.

But will he end up there? What if Manny’s not in the lineup protecting him? What if his ED acts up? What if he strains a groin muscle legging out a triple? For all your intrepid future predictors out there, here’s your chance to guess where Papi’ll be on the morning of October 2. And just like on “The Price Is Right” (except for the dishwashers and Bob Barker), the person who’s closest without going over will get a signed, personalized copy of Feeding the Monster, shipping and handling included. (Or, if you’d rather read about the Times, a personalized, autographed copy of Hard News.) For simplicity’s sake, home runs and RBIs will count equally, so someone who’s off by 2 home runs and 3 RBIs will be counted the same as someone who’s off by 5 RBIs. Post your predictions in the comments section of this post by Sunday at noon, EST. One entry per person, etc etc etc. And no more arguing about Sean McAdam.

(If you post your guess and it doesn’t get posted right away, that’s only because I’m not sitting at my computer all the time. Appearances to the contrary. Don’t worry — it’ll go up.)

12:30 pm Sunday update: Well, that’s it for entries — we’ve got 52, and I’ll set the crack FTM Blog number crunching team (read: me) to work on this as soon as the season’s over. In the meantime, I hope all of you have the book already. It’ll only make the winning copy that much more rewarding. Or something.

52 Comments »

  1. 60/160

    Comment by scotthp49 — August 24, 2006 @ 3:50 pm

  2. 53 / 142

    Comment by knuckler1 — August 24, 2006 @ 3:54 pm

  3. 57 HRs & 142 RBIs :)

    Comment by maranara — August 24, 2006 @ 3:55 pm

  4. 55/155

    Comment by jvaitk01 — August 24, 2006 @ 3:56 pm

  5. 51/143

    Comment by retnapi — August 24, 2006 @ 4:01 pm

  6. 54/147

    Comment by dewey24 — August 24, 2006 @ 4:06 pm

  7. Put me down for 57/140

    Comment by TimmyMac — August 24, 2006 @ 4:06 pm

  8. My prediction is 53 homers, 163 RBI

    Comment by woolleyman — August 24, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

  9. 54 & 154

    Comment by Retire_Number_14 — August 24, 2006 @ 4:35 pm

  10. 54 dings, 144 ribs.

    Comment by StuckAtTheCask — August 24, 2006 @ 4:39 pm

  11. 56 home runs, 145 RBIs.

    Comment by Neil — August 24, 2006 @ 4:46 pm

  12. 54/154

    Comment by 24dewey — August 24, 2006 @ 4:47 pm

  13. 56 HR, 149 RBIs

    Comment by katesox — August 24, 2006 @ 4:57 pm

  14. 55/141

    Comment by deversm — August 24, 2006 @ 5:16 pm

  15. 59 clouts, 157 rbi

    Comment by waitingforbeckett — August 24, 2006 @ 5:20 pm

  16. 56/146

    Comment by toddzilla9 — August 24, 2006 @ 5:24 pm

  17. 55/150

    Comment by twoomnmgy — August 24, 2006 @ 5:47 pm

  18. 54/145

    Comment by miles44 — August 24, 2006 @ 6:04 pm

  19. 54 HR/145 RBI

    Comment by edsox2004 — August 24, 2006 @ 6:05 pm

  20. 53/144

    Comment by TheNinth — August 24, 2006 @ 6:08 pm

  21. 57 HRs, 149 RBI

    Comment by cr99 — August 24, 2006 @ 6:59 pm

  22. 61, 161

    Comment by thedan911 — August 24, 2006 @ 7:09 pm

  23. 55 & 155. Depending on the official scorer….

    Comment by hopdog — August 24, 2006 @ 7:50 pm

  24. 56 & 150

    Comment by Jack — August 24, 2006 @ 7:59 pm

  25. 56/160

    Comment by chargeMEup31 — August 24, 2006 @ 8:46 pm

  26. 65 / 164

    Comment by s1c — August 25, 2006 @ 1:52 am

  27. I’m going with 65 dingers and 164 ribbies

    Comment by s1c — August 25, 2006 @ 1:54 am

  28. 56 / 148

    Comment by kidAoptimistic — August 25, 2006 @ 7:54 am

  29. HR: 56
    RBI: 152

    Comment by aliber — August 25, 2006 @ 8:28 am

  30. 58/156 And Vanna White was on the Price is Right?!? This is mind-blowing…bigger than Pluto not being a planet…My Very Educated Mother Just Sat Upon Nine…? Anyway: 58/156

    Comment by gmschmidty — August 25, 2006 @ 8:33 am

  31. 55/ 155

    Comment by YAZFAN — August 25, 2006 @ 8:59 am

  32. 57 Hr’s, 157 RBI

    Comment by CursedNoMore — August 25, 2006 @ 10:04 am

  33. 53/140

    Comment by Randy Kutcher — August 25, 2006 @ 10:33 am

  34. 58/153

    Comment by Bill Pratt — August 25, 2006 @ 10:35 am

  35. 56/151

    Comment by kml1258 — August 25, 2006 @ 10:55 am

  36. 57/155

    Comment by wemissoc — August 25, 2006 @ 11:10 am

  37. 52/147

    Comment by Shalomar — August 25, 2006 @ 12:16 pm

  38. 62/159

    Comment by Tom Baron — August 25, 2006 @ 12:23 pm

  39. 61 / 151

    Comment by djarm18 — August 25, 2006 @ 12:26 pm

  40. 53/149

    Comment by modonnel — August 25, 2006 @ 12:32 pm

  41. 56/149

    Comment by madjackblack — August 25, 2006 @ 12:55 pm

  42. 61/159

    Comment by VinzClortho — August 25, 2006 @ 4:19 pm

  43. 52 141

    Comment by sdillard — August 25, 2006 @ 6:00 pm

  44. 54 hrs / 145 rbis

    Comment by anneball — August 25, 2006 @ 7:09 pm

  45. 58 hr, 148 rbi.

    Comment by 111875 — August 25, 2006 @ 11:58 pm

  46. 52/140

    Comment by geigerm — August 26, 2006 @ 12:35 am

  47. 59/143

    Comment by Peter_Rustin — August 26, 2006 @ 2:06 pm

  48. 56, 162 RBIs

    Comment by MikeVaBeach — August 26, 2006 @ 2:27 pm

  49. 59 Hrs 157 rbis

    Comment by bardyak42 — August 26, 2006 @ 6:38 pm

  50. 49 Hrs and 143 Rbi

    Comment by souljade — August 26, 2006 @ 8:05 pm

  51. 57 hrs 151 rbi’s

    Comment by umassjosh — August 26, 2006 @ 11:45 pm

  52. 54 and 140

    Comment by Eli G — August 27, 2006 @ 6:30 am

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