Poll
Question:
Who should the cover athlete be?
Option 1: Yasiel Puig
votes: 3
Option 2: Chris Davis
votes: 6
Option 3: David Ortiz
votes: 7
Guys, I'm going to be doing some box art again this year, and I thought I'd get some community feedback on who the cover athelete should be? We don't have to go with an official award winner (Cy Young, MVP, etc), just a great player who had a great season and we feel for whatever reason should grace the box cover for 2014.
That said, the MVPs were:
McCutchen and Cabrera
The Cy Youngs were:
Scherzer and Kershaw
Discuss!! Once we have a list of nominees, I'll put it to a vote.
I reserve the right to veto any of the nominees, though if they are reasonable, I won't do that.
Nominees
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Yasiel Puig
Paul Fucking Goldschmidt
David Ortiz
Andrew McCutchen
Chris Davis
Max Scherzer
Clayton Kershaw
Troy Tulowitzki
Puig or Trout
I'm banning trout this year since he was last year's cover athlete, but I'll accept Puig as a nominee...thanks...
P.S. I'm not 100% against it, but I'd also like an alternative to Miggy since he's gracing the cover of MLB: The Show 14...that said, he'll be one of the nominees...
Gary Varsho
Veto. Current players only ;)
Paul Fucking Goldschmidt.
Quote from: fknmclane on 12/19/13, 01:31:33 PM
Paul Fucking Goldschmidt.
Jesus, yeah, that's a killer slash line:
.302/.401/.551
It was a big year that garnered the top prize, I nominate David Ortiz.
Ortiz would be an EXCELLENT player in RBI
Chris Davis
Charlie Lisk
So far, I'm really liking Chris Davis and Paul Goldschmidt...Relevant, but will never garner the full media attention needed to grace a video game cover...
Plus if I had to like an AL team, for some reason I find myself liking the Orioles.
Troy Tulowitzki
Chris Davis seems like a good choice.
Canseco
Tulo is another good one...
Quote from: fathedX on 12/19/13, 03:17:27 PM
It was a big year that garnered the top prize, I nominate David Ortiz.
I agree. Big post-season numbers.
Coco Crisp!
Quote from: Turd on 12/19/13, 02:40:30 PM
Quote from: fknmclane on 12/19/13, 01:31:33 PM
Paul Fucking Goldschmidt.
Jesus, yeah, that's a killer slash line:
.302/.401/.551
I nominated him because I'm a fkn homer but also because power is the name of the game in RBI. Chris Davis is also a great choice.
You are a homer, but I like the spirit. He'd never even get a mention at a big name studio.
Chris Davis is leading the race right now in my mind.
Hunter Pence
i like puig
Pedroia.
Uehara
Jose Fernandez
I added a puhl with my top 3 options for the cover athlete. Let yer fkn voice be heard!
Papi
Postseason belonged to David Ortiz.
It did very much so. I still like young shiny rookies or crazy stat stories which is why papi was my third choice.
Pretty sure Chris Davis gets a free vote just for his wife:
(http://www.playerwives.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chris-davis-wife-jill-davis-150x150.jpg)
(http://www.playerwives.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chris-davis-wife-jill-davis-2.jpg)
Put his wife on the cover
I was just about to type that when someone decided to come and ask me to do some work and I got distracted. The fkn nerve.
Pete Kozma.
I started working on the cover in photoshop last week. It was tied then with Ortiz and Davis, so I broke the tie and went with Davis. I already spent and hour or so on it, I don't want to redo all my work.
And now Chris Davis shall incur the RBI jinx. :D
Bummed it won't be Papi, that would've been sweet.
Quote from: Turd on 01/21/14, 10:57:11 AM
I started working on the cover in photoshop last week. It was tied then with Ortiz and Davis, so I broke the tie and went with Davis. I already spent and hour or so on it, I don't want to redo all my work.
I know you're already done with the cover and all but since it will be Derek Jeter's last season it would've been nice to see him on this years cover. Just sayin'.
Yeah, sorry, no yankees will ever grace the cover of my game ;)
Good call
In fact, just to spite the Yankees, maybe a switch to David Ortiz is in order... ;-)