Laura

Dobson PM'd me his corrected picks and I edited them into his entry, so he should be good to go now.

Josh Hamilton came on strong in the later picks.

I somehow missed this the first time through the thread. CONGRATS!!! :good:

I'm locking the thread. Once I've had a chance to go through and make sure that everyone has submitted a valid WC, I'll post the list. Thanks everyone for entering!

I'm working through the list now and confirming the wild card picks. LAST REMINDER -- about 45 minutes left to submit your HR Derby team in the Events Forum!!!

Thanks, Truffle, for catching that. I've PM'd Dobson to change the pick. Group A Alex Rodriguez Group B Matt Holliday David Wright Group C Adrian Gonzalez Aramis Ramirez Nick Swisher Group D Jason Bay Kosuke Fukudome Troy Glaus Gary Sheffield Vernon Wells WC: Josh Hamilton

I'll list them after the deadline closes. If there's any problem, I will contact the person by PM to fix it. In the past I've confirmed each one, but I just haven't had time to do that this year.

Good question ... uh, stay tuned for the answer ...

I wanted to give people a full week to make their entries. Since it's a full-season contest and we have restrictions on the first & last weeks, I'm not going to worry about the one game before the deadline. I would think you can make changes until the contest thread is locked at the deadline by editing your original entry. What NC said. If you have any changes to your roster before the deadline, just edit your original post in the entries thread.

Reminder -- entries are due by noon tomorrow!

Yay! Thanks, Banedon!

I'll ask about fixing it. For some reason it's not affecting my posts, maybe due to the mod status.

It looks like the settings are the same as the other forums. Southpaw had the disable BBCode box checked when he posted the message before. Are the BBCode settings not working for others?

Thanks! Fixed -- Bonds is in Group D only.

The 2008 HR Derby Contest has been posted in the Events Forum. The Deadline for entering is Noon CT on Tuesday, March 25 -- so get your entries in soon!!

Put 2008 HR Derby talk HERE

SAMPLE ENTRY Group A: Fielder Group B: Soriano & Berkman Group C: Dye, Hall & Rios Group D: Zimmerman, Utley, Fukudome, Sexson & PFeliz WC: PM'd to Laura

Contest The goal: Build a HR team to collect the most MLB BOMBS! Pick a roster of 12 hitters. The first 11 hitters must include: --1 batter from Group A --2 batters from Group B --3 batters from Group C --5 batters from Group D The 12th hitter is your Wild Card and can be any player not listed here. You don't have to pick a WC player on a 25-man roster, but you obviously risk not accruing HRs if your player is stashed in the minors. Post your first 11 selections in this thread. The deadline for posting is Noon Central Time on Tuesday, March 25. The thread will be locked at the deadline. You must PM me your Wild Card selection! Do not post it with your entry. It WILL NOT COUNT unless it's PM'd to me by the deadline. I'll edit your WC selections into your posts after the deadline. RULES Throughout the season, you may make 4 adds/drops to your core roster of 11 players. The following rules apply to adds/drops: --You must drop a player to add another player. A drop/add is one transaction. --You must post your transaction in the HR Derby transaction thread. The transaction becomes effective at midnight CT the day you post it. You will accrue the dropped player's HRs in any game started by midnight CT that day. You will accrue the added player's HRs for any games starting after midnight CT the next day. --No transactions before noon CT April 1 and after noon CT September 21. --If you only post an add without a drop or there's any other problem deciphering your intent, the transaction isn't finalized until it's straightened out. --You may make 2 transactions before the All-Star Game and 2 transactions after the All-Star Game. These transactions apply only to the core roster and not the WC player. It's use or lose it -- if you don't make 2 transactions before the All-Star Game, you still only get 2 transactions afterwards. --The player added must be drawn from the same group as the player dropped. --No clones. You can't have the same player more than once. --MLB rules for stats will be followed for any games postponed, suspended, etc. --You can only change your WC player once and only at the All-Star break ... so choose carefully! --Southpaw19 will be providing periodic updates throughout the season. If you have any scoring questions, please post them in the discussion thread or PM him. Final decisions on scoring are up to him. Winner --Anyone can enter. The winner has to be a member in good standing (in other words, not banned) at the conclusion of the season in order to collect the prize. -- The winner will have his/her choice of an autographed Big Stick Rawlings bat, players TBD ('06 = Jeremy Hermida and '07 = Alex Rios). --A tie at the end of the season goes to the premium member. If that doesn't break the tie, it goes to the person who posted their HR Derby team first. --You can change your HR Derby team as often as you'd like before the deadline. Just EDIT your original post instead of posting a new team. If you enter two teams, only the first team will count as your entry. Finally, many thanks to Southpaw19 -- without his help, there wouldn't be a HR Derby contest this year! GROUPS Group A Player Team HR (2007) HR (2006) HR (2005) Rodriguez A NYY 54 35 48 Fielder P MIL 50 28 2 Howard R PHI 47 58 22 Dunn A CIN 40 40 40 Ortiz D BOS 35 54 47 Group B Player Team HR (2007) HR (2006) HR (2005) Pena C TB 46 1 18 Holliday M COL 36 34 19 Thome J CWS 35 42 7 Berkman L HOU 34 45 24 Braun R MIL 34 0 0 Cabrera M DET 34 26 33 Beltran C NYM 33 41 16 Soriano A CHC 33 46 36 Lee C HOU 32 28 32 Pujols A STL 32 49 41 Konerko P CWS 31 35 40 Rollins J PHI 30 25 12 Teixeira M ATL 30 33 43 Wright D NYM 30 26 27 Ramirez M BOS 20 35 45 Young C ARI 32 2 0 Morneau J MIN 31 34 22 Group C Player Team HR (2007) HR (2006) HR (2005) Uggla D FLA 31 27 0 Burrell P PHI 30 29 32 Gonzalez A SD 30 24 6 Griffey K CIN 30 27 35 Phillips B CIN 30 17 0 Hawpe B COL 29 22 9 Jones C ATL 29 26 21 Ramirez H FLA 29 17 0 Dye J CWS 28 44 31 Hunter T LAA 28 31 14 Ordonez M DET 28 24 8 Greene K SD 27 15 15 Guerrero V LAA 27 33 32 Rowand A SF 27 12 13 Beltre A SEA 26 25 19 Jones A ATL 26 41 51 Ramirez A CHC 26 38 31 Thomas F TOR 26 39 12 Atkins G COL 25 29 13 Martinez V CLE 25 16 20 Matsui H NYY 25 8 23 Delgado C NYM 24 38 33 Hafner T CLE 24 42 33 Hart C MIL 24 9 2 Rios A TOR 24 17 10 Sizemore G CLE 24 28 22 Tulowitzki T COL 24 1 0 Upton B TB 24 1 0 Lee D CHC 22 9 46 Swisher N CWS 22 35 21 Group D Player Team HR (2007) HR (2006) HR (2005) Bonds B 28 26 5 Cust J OAK 26 0 0 Hardy J MIL 26 5 9 Sheffield G DET 25 6 34 Fields J CWS 24 1 0 Zimmerman R WSH 24 20 0 Granderson C DET 23 19 8 Guillen J SEA 23 9 24 Markakis N BAL 23 16 0 Utley C PHI 22 32 28 Wigginton T HOU 22 24 7 Bay J PIT 21 35 32 Byrnes E ARI 21 26 10 Cameron M MIL 21 22 12 Duncan C STL 21 22 1 Garko R CLE 21 7 0 Guillen C DET 21 19 5 Ibanez R SEA 21 33 20 LaRoche A PIT 21 32 20 Lowell M BOS 21 20 8 Peralta J CLE 21 13 24 Sexson R SEA 21 34 39 Willingham J FLA 21 26 0 Feliz P SF 20 22 20 Glaus T TOR 20 38 37 Kent J LAD 20 14 29 Fukudome K CHC 0 0 0 Kinsler I TEX 20 14 0 Nady X PIT 20 17 13 Posada J NYY 20 23 19 Uribe J CWS 20 21 16 Wilkerson B TEX 20 15 11 Blake C CLE 19 19 23 Cano R NYY 19 15 14 Ellis M OAK 19 11 13 Francoeur J ATL 19 29 14 Martin R LAD 19 10 0 Buck J KC 18 11 12 Hermida J FLA 18 5 4 Kouzmanoff K SD 18 3 0 McCann B ATL 18 24 5 Tejada M BAL 18 24 26 Gomes J TB 17 20 21 Helton T COL 17 15 20 Jacobs M FLA 17 20 11 Pence H HOU 17 0 0 Abreu B NYY 16 15 24 Cuddyer M MIN 16 24 12 Kearns A WSH 16 24 18 Wells V TOR 16 32 28 Chavez E OAK 15 22 27 Blalock H TEX 10 16 25 Transactions (last updated 04/18 12:35pm CT) Poster Date Trans # Drop Add Golden Thunder 04/13 1 Phillips DLee Andy 04/14 1 Markakis Utley Locke's Eye... 04/14 1 Cust Utley abmillis 04/15 1 Fields Zimmerman NcCubFan 04/15 1 Soriano cabrera Andy 04/17 2 Soriano CPena ZFan38 04/17 1 Swisher DLee Vance... 04/17 1 Soriano Cabrera Wekse 04/18 1 Cust MJacobs Past HR Derby Champs 2006 - UMFan83 2007 - Wekse

Sorry, guys. I went with the cubs.com link that was posted. The spring training broadcast info has always been a bit iffy.

Thanks! I've updated Friday's & Saturday's game to reflect the broadcasts.

If not, there's a link to MLB Multimedia Guide (which includes gameday audio) and the XM Broadcast schedule in the Spring Training sticky above.

Ditto. I'm hoping that if a namechange does happen enough people do this that it makes some kind of impact. Hopefully. Too bad it won't be named Tribune Field, then.

Z in midseason form

Does Gameday have it? There's no broadcast showing up on the MLB Media Guide for today.

I think it's Rocket's turn ... I'll PM vance & doublecheck.