Final MillersTime Baseball Contest Winner

18 Tuesday Nov 2025

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Contest #5: Make a specific, detailed, and prescient prediction of the 2025 MLB season. Winner to be chosen by a vote of the contestants.

Joe Higdon is the winner : Last season without robo umps, pitching will continue to dominate, MLB will continue international expansion.

Nick Nyhart was a very close second: Cries of “Break Up the Dodgers” will be heard across the country, but there will be little MLB internal support for moving to redistributive policies of the NBA and NFL. Rather, MLB will move to market their dynastic teams to the world.

Joe gets to join me for a Nats’ game in 2026 in DC.

For those of you who may have missed the earlier post, the other four winners:

Contest # 1: Sean Scarlett

Contest # 2: Chris Eacho

Contest # 3 Ed Scholl

Contest # 4 Nick Fels

2025 MillersTime Baseball Contest Winners

06 Thursday Nov 2025

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Well that was quite a World Series, particularly the 18 inning game and the seventh game. I suppose the stronger team won, but I was hoping the Blue Jays would upset the Bums. Still, we are fortunate to be witnessing Ohtani’s brilliance. Any thoughts about Ruth vs Ohtani?

As for the brilliance, or lack thereof, of those of you who participated in this year’s contests, I’ve finally sorted through the five contests and determined the winners of the first four. I’ll need your votes for the winner of the fifth contest.

Contest #1: Are you a ‘Homer’ or not?

This one was not an easy decision as there were a number of you ( Matt Wax-Krell as well as Cooper and Grady Wax-Krell, Nick Nyhart, Dawn Wilson, Jesse Maniff, Maury Maniff, Samathana & Brandt Tilis, Matt Galati, Ben Senturia and his NO MO MO group) who were in the running. Plus, a number of others who were also close, indicating that MillersTime Baseball Contestants as a ‘group’ are not ‘Homers’.

Sean Scarlett wins for nailing his Giants’ record and how well (not well) they would do this year.

He wins a copy of Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100 or his new book, Why We Love Baseball. (Sean, let me know which book you want and your address.)

Contest #2: Name the three teams in each league that will win their Division.

Surprisingly, Chris Eacho, who for many years has foolishly touted his Bal’mere Orioles, wins with four of the six Division winners. He edged out Cooper and Grady Wax-Krell having submitted his answer nine hours earlier than Cooper and Grady!

He also wins a copy of Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100 or his new book, Why We Love Baseball. (Chris, let me know which book you want and your address.)

Contest #3: Five True/False Questions.

Ed Scholl, a repeat winner, wins with five correct answers, edging our Nick Fels, having submitted his answers five days earlier than Nick.

Ed wins and will join me for a Nats’ game in DC. Having moved from DC, he will have to come back for a game or find one we can go to elsewhere.

Contest # 4: Recurring question about the four teams making it to the League Championship series and other questions about the World Series.

Nick Fels, see above, wins a ticket to the 2026 All Star game or the 2026 World Series, having submitted his answer two days earlier than Matt Galati!

Contest #5: Make a specific, detailed, and prescient prediction about the the 2025 MLB Season.

This winner will be chosen by a vote of the MillersTime readers. Vote for one of the four predictions below and send me your vote in the next two weeks:

1. Last season without robo umps, pitching will continue to dominate, MLB will continue international expansion.

2. Cries of “Break Up the Dodgers” will be heard across the country, but there will be little MLB internal support for moving to redistributive policies of the NBA and NFL. Rather, MLB will move to market their dynastic teams to the world.

3. Shoei Ohtani will hit 40+ homeruns an steal 30 + basis, becoming the first full-time DH to achieve 40/3- season, with elite speed and protection in the Dodgers’ lineup, he’ll produce another season for the history books. (Fact: he hit 55 home runs and stole 23 bases.)

4. The Yankees will be desperate for starting pitching and will trade away their top prospects fir sine “not so great” starters, and then their hitting will fall apart as well, an they won’t make the World Series…maybe the curse of the 5th inning lives on.

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See the new post for the winner of contest # 5.

The 2023 Baseball Contest Winners

20 Monday Nov 2023

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Contest #1 – What effects will the new MLB rules AND the new scheduling have in 2023. The more specifics you list, assuming they are accurate, the more likely you are to make the top five submissions. Winners will be chosen by the readers of MillersTime.

Joe Higdon, Matt Wax-Krell, Nick Nyhart, and Justin Stoyer made it to the ‘finals’

While Nick Nyhart (No. 3) came in second in the voting and was also on target with his answers, Matt Wax-Krell (No. 2) was overwhelmingly voted the winner with this answer:

*New rules will work well.

*Players will adjust quickly (and already have in Spring Training), and fans will like them. It will make the game more like it was 40+ years ago when game times were short, pitchers didn’t wait 30 seconds to throw a pitch, and there4 was more action (more SBs, 2Bs, 3Bs, etc.)

*The new rules will be considered a success, but won’t address the issue of too many Ks.(True)

*Average game time gets down to 2:46 (in fact, it was 2:38 minutes in 2023).

*A player steals 50+ bases for the first time since 2017 (three in fact did).

For a good article on the effects of the rule changes, see: Whole New Ballgame: MLB’s new rules changed everything – The Athletic.

Matt has his choice of one of these two terrific books by my favorite baseball writer, Joe Posnanski – The Baseball 100 or his just published Why We Love Baseball. Plus, a MillersTime Winner T-shirt, if he doesn’t already have one. (The other three of you can get a T-shirt if you send me your size and home address)

Contest #2 – Are you a ‘homer’ or not? (a sports fan who is so blinded by their loyalty to their home team that they can’t be objective about the team’s prospects for the coming year:

a. Name your team

b. What will their season record be?

c. Where will they end up in their Division at the end of the season?

d. Will they make the 12 team playoffs?

e. If so, how far will they go in those playoffs?

f. What will be the reason for well or how poorly they do this year? Be as specific as possible.

This Contest was the closest of the three with nine fans definitely NOT HOMERS: Bill Barnwell, Jeff Friedman, Joe Higdon, Robert Higdon, Larry Longnecker, Ed Scholl, Brian Steinbach, and Dawn Wilson. The rest of you need to shape up and face reality.

Bill Barnwell and Nick Lamana tied for second. They each get copies of Joe Posnanski’s new book, Why We Love Baseball or his The Baseball 100. (Send me you home address, which book you want, and your t-shirt size.)

Jeff Friedman (Red Sox) and Joe Higdon (Nationals) are the Winners as each knew their teams were going to be hopeless and showed why. They can join me for a Nats’ game in DC, or I’ll try to join each of you for any regular season game elsewhere. In either case, I’ll pay for the tickets, and you buy the beer. (Jeff and Joe contact me about scheduling a game.)

All nine of those listed above as NOT HOMERS are welcome to a MillersTime Winners T-Shirt if you want one. (Please send me you t-shirt size and your home address.

Contest #3 –

a. Who will be the four teams playing in the League Championship series in 2023?

b What two teams will actually make it to the World Series?

c. How many games will the WS go?

d. Which team will win the WS?

e. What are the reasons that team will win?

About half of those submitting answers were only able to name ONE of the four teams in the Championship Series!

Only two of you, Ron Davis and Monica McHugh, were able to name two of the four.

And NO ONE had either of the teams in the World Series!

So I escape with not having to sponsor anyone for next year’s WS, but Ron and Monica can choose a Nats’ game to attend with me where I’ll pay for the tickets, and they can pay for peanuts and beer.