I’d like to announce the first ever MetsGeek Essay Contest. The contest is open to everyone, and it’s your opportunity to flex your writing muscles. Some of you perhaps write casually or professionally, others may have written little since high school or college. Regardless, here’s your chance to show us what you’ve got. The best entries will be posted on the front page here at MetsGeek for everyone’s enjoyment (and criticisms), and the readers will vote for their favorite. The essay deemed the best by your peers will win a copy of the New York Mets 1986 Collector’s Edition DVD Set, a nine-disc collection featuring Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS, all seven games of the epic World Series against the Red Sox, and a disc of extras.

The rules:

1. Entries must be at least 750 words in length and can’t exceed 1,500 words.
2. Spelling and grammar *do* count, so get someone to proofread your work before sending it in.
3. Essays should be Mets-centric, but that’s the only real criterion. They can be stat-oriented, historical, biographical, analytical, etc.
4. Entries must be received by Monday, January 8th.
5. Entries must include your first and last name. If you are a regular commenter here at MetsGeek be sure to include your username so others can recognize you.
6. One entry per applicant.

No special treatment will be given to regular commenters here, so don’t be shy about submitting your work even if you have never participated in the discourse here. Content is the most important thing, but I can’t stress enough the emphasis we will place on proper writing and cogent reasoning.

Entries should be e-mailed to submissions[at]metsgeek[dot]com, and can be sent as plain text or MS Word attachments or merely pasted into the e-mail.

Good luck, all!

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25 Responses to “Announcing the Inaugural MetsGeek Essay Contest: Last Day!”

1. Comment posted by sweetlew on December 19, 2006 at 1:07 am (#197609)

   Sure…launch it the week I am going to be billing 90 hours….rat finks!

   Ha…Happy Holidays!

   Oh yeah…yay for me, I’m first!


2. Comment posted by the loose cannon on December 19, 2006 at 1:12 am (#197610)

   Can it be fiction or does it have to be non-fiction?


3. Comment posted by the loose cannon on December 19, 2006 at 1:19 am (#197611)

   Because I’m just dying to write an essay on Heath Bell and Royce Ring being secret agents for the U.S. department of agriculture, responsible for breaking up an illegal cattle trading ring based out of the Shea Stadium parking lot during the 2005 season.


4. Comment posted by the loose cannon on December 19, 2006 at 1:22 am (#197612)

   Oh no! I compromised my fictional tale of a wayward lefty and a porky righty learning the ropes of the major leagues while breaking up a cattle smuglers ring based out of the Shea Stadium parking lot. Can’t you all see, this stuff just writes itself.


5. Comment posted by the loose cannon on December 19, 2006 at 1:24 am (#197613)

   I’m talking to myself now I know but they can enlist Mike Difelice to wear a wire and get vital info from the cattle thugs. I think I could even write Ice and Offerman into my tail.


6. Comment posted by the loose cannon on December 19, 2006 at 1:26 am (#197614)

   im so tired, my grammar sucks and I’m having verbal diarrea. I better go to bed. Later

7. Comment posted by Ricardo Gonzalez on December 19, 2006 at 7:28 am (#197619)

   This ought to be fun.

8. Comment posted by U-Right on December 19, 2006 at 9:20 am (#197623)

   nothin goin on. bored


9. Comment posted by Eric Simon on December 19, 2006 at 9:26 am (#197624)

   Can it be fiction or does it have to be non-fiction?

   Whatever you like.

10. Comment posted by BryanB on December 19, 2006 at 9:28 am (#197626)

    I compromised my fictional tale of a wayward lefty and a porky righty learning the ropes of the major leagues while breaking up a cattle smuglers ring based out of the Shea Stadium parking lot. Can’t you all see, this stuff just writes itself.

    Chris,
    Considering where Shea is, you might want to change it to bird smugglers, I was at the USDA Quarentine in Newburgh yesterday and got a calender with tips on Avian Bio-security. (Think Bird Flu as the sinister threat n your plot)


11. Comment posted by Wdwrkr35 on December 19, 2006 at 9:28 am (#197627)

    Spelling and Grammer counts, that counts me out, as well as run on sentences, that just paste comment after comment together, with dubious facts and an odd slant on the mets as i have seen them through the years, oh yeah I forget to capitalize alot too,typing with 2 fingers can do that, juxtipositioning letters alot because my two fingers dont type at the same speed, the comma is a great invention, see, see, see, man why did I take english 101 at 8am in the morning 3 semesters in a row?

12. Comment posted by Danny on December 19, 2006 at 9:37 am (#197630)

    I am going to try to put something together. I am a freaking perfectionist and not a great writer, so this is a difficult assignment for me. If I can carve out a few hours, I may take a run at it.

13. Comment posted by FMF on December 19, 2006 at 9:49 am (#197636)

    I wrote something for my college news paper at the end of 2004-early 2005 called 10 reasons why the mets won’t make the playoffs, or something like that. At the end, I predicted they would in 2006. Can I submit that, or does it have to be something more recently written?


14. Comment posted by Lunkwill Fook on December 19, 2006 at 10:49 am (#197681)

    Can it be a 750 word expose on the greatness that is Michel Abreu?


15. Comment posted by the loose cannon on December 19, 2006 at 11:36 am (#197723)

    Can it be a 750 word expose on the greatness that is Michel Abreu?

    That would be smokin’


16. Comment posted by Lunkwill Fook on December 19, 2006 at 1:14 pm (#197837)

    Once, Michel Abreu wrestled a grizzly bear. With Brian Boittanno.


17. Comment posted by the loose cannon on December 19, 2006 at 1:26 pm (#197839)

    Once, Michel Abreu wrestled a grizzly bear. With Brian Boittanno.

    LMAO.

    Michel Abreu was offered the role of superman but decided to pursue baseball instead

18. Comment posted by Tom Ace / Tom in the QC on December 19, 2006 at 1:35 pm (#197844)

    this is a great idea especially with the holidays coming up. I plan on giving it a shot but I’ve been exhausted with school exams so It might take me a couple of days, hopefully you are giving us that much for this assignment.


19. Comment posted by Eric Simon on December 19, 2006 at 1:59 pm (#197872)

    I plan on giving it a shot but I’ve been exhausted with school exams so It might take me a couple of days, hopefully you are giving us that much for this assignment.

    Entries aren’t due until 1/8/07, so take your time.

20. Comment posted by Erick on December 19, 2006 at 4:55 pm (#197977)

    Can we do as some of my students do and copy someone else’s essay from a website and paste it in with our own names?

21. Comment posted by Big Dom on December 19, 2006 at 9:00 pm (#198214)

    The Subway wars could be interesting.
    Shot gun that idea. Best of luck to all.

22. Comment posted by andy on December 19, 2006 at 9:26 pm (#198238)

    In keeping with mets tradition, no matter how good the essay starts out, will it have a great ending?

23. Comment posted by argonbunnies on December 20, 2006 at 3:51 am (#198288)

    No one’s called dibs yet on Wild Life of a Sidearming Superstar: The Jeff Innis Story yet? I’m stunned. Maybe they’re afraid of the inevitable “I can top that” autobiography by Scott Sullivan… or Innis’s uncanny (albeit scaled down) resemblance to Jeff Weaver…

24. Comment posted by tom totem on December 20, 2006 at 2:22 pm (#198449)

    No one’s called dibs yet on Wild Life of a Sidearming Superstar: The Jeff Innis Story yet?

    Terry Leach is all over it.

    Hey hey no cribbing from the Ed Hearn book!!

25. Comment posted by zubin in ga on January 8, 2007 at 3:36 pm (#210295)

    Does Sidd Finch count??????????

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