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Contest: Guess the 2012 Opening Day Lineup!

I last held this contest prior to the 2010 season and it was a pretty well received. Check out the original post and the announcement of the winner to see what went down last time. The premise is easy: the person who most accurately predicts the lineup on Opening Day wins. The prize is a framed 11X14 photo of Brooks Robinson courtesy of PhotoFile.com. And of course bragging rights over your fellow Camden Chatters.

Here are the rules:

  1. You get one point for each player you correctly identify as being part of the starting lineup on Opening Day. That's each position, including the designated hitter and the starting pitcher, for a total of ten possible points.
  2. You get one point for every correct spot in the batting order that you place each hitter. That's a total of nine possible points.
  3. Positions count. For example, if you have Robert Andino batting leadoff and playing second base, and he bats leadoff but plays third base, you only get the batting order point. If he plays third base and bats ninth, you get zero points.
  4. In the event of a tie, there will be three tiebreaker questions for you to answer. Each question will act as its own tiebreaker, it won't be comprehensive. For example, if duck and zknower are tied for first place and duck correctly answer the first tiebreaker question and zknower does not, duck wins and the other two questions are disregarded. If they both answer question 1 correctly/incorrectly, we move on to question two.
  5. The contest begins the moment this post is published and will run until 5 p.m. EST on Sunday, January 8th.

Feel free to put players who aren't currently Orioles in your lineup (Prince Fielder? I hear the O's are in the mix) or players who might start in the minors if you think they'll make the team. Remember there is a lot of off-season left and who knows what Dan Duquette has up his sleeve.

Click through the jump to fill out your answers via Google Docs. I know it's fun to see what everyone else thinks, so feel free to put your choices in the comments if you like, but for logisticial purposes using Google Docs makes my life a LOT easier. If you have any questions or need clarification, also put that in the comments.

Good luck!

Star-divide

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How about posting a link to the Google Docs after the competition is over so that we can laugh at each other?

I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James

by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 3, 2012 10:02 AM EST reply actions  

ah yeah

I knew last year didn’t sound right but i couldn’t remember

by kba26 on Jan 3, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions  

I filled mine out....

Then read yesterday’s Open Thread.

Oops. Oh, well. Hopefully we get a good return for Jones, then losing miserably at this exercise won’t feel so bad.

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.."

by tflach2 on Jan 3, 2012 10:27 AM EST reply actions  

A few hours later, and I'm back in the game... Yay hot stove!

Or cold stove… since my lineup is all guys on the current roster.

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.."

by tflach2 on Jan 3, 2012 1:50 PM EST up reply actions  

I went outside the lines ...

1. Tulo SS, 2. Cano 2B, 3. Kemp DH, 4. Bautista DH, 5. Pujols 1B, 6. Braun LF, 7. Zimmerman 3B, 8. Hamilton, CF, 9. Wieters C. … and Strasburg the starting pitcher.

I had to get Wieters a little help.

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is. - Happy Chandler

by ThreeRunHomer on Jan 3, 2012 12:09 PM EST reply actions  

you really think they'll play Zimmerman at third and leave Longoria on the bench?

plus, I really think the O’s are going to give Clayton Kershaw the Opening Day start after they went out and traded Xavier Avery and L.J. Hoes for him.

by AndrewTorrez on Jan 3, 2012 1:32 PM EST up reply actions  

Avery AND Hoes?

We wuz robbed!

To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa

by James F on Jan 3, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions  

As a Phillies fan first, O's second, I'm sick and tired...

Of these “dump the farm system to win now” people!

You can’t give up on key figures of our future like Chris Tillman and Dan Klien!

by Jokes & Burns on Jan 3, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions  

good lord people

The number misspellings of Wieters so far is APPALLING

by Stacey on Jan 3, 2012 2:02 PM EST reply actions  

Yeah

Wheaters is the best catcher in the game!

To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa

by James F on Jan 3, 2012 2:11 PM EST up reply actions  

How hard is it to type SHJ?

<hopes he didn’t fat finger his own entry>

Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08

by 33 on Jan 3, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions  

Hrmm... I think I effed it up.

I haven’t spelled it wrong in a while, I think I even said ‘i before e’ in my head, as my hands typed ‘ei’.

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.."

by tflach2 on Jan 3, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions  

Look on the bright side

Nobody (hopefully) is gonna be attempting Duchscherer or Jakubauskas this season :P

by zsiv on Jan 3, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions  

Because the Hot Stove is so EFFING HOT RIGHT NOW

I’m gonna wait until Sunday morning, and then probably forget about it.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 3, 2012 2:57 PM EST reply actions  

Baltimore, home of the cold stove.

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is. - Happy Chandler

by ThreeRunHomer on Jan 3, 2012 8:01 PM EST up reply actions  

The Buck and Duq Show

It would be interesting to learn more about the interaction Showalter and Duquette are having this winter. If Adam Jones really is getting traded, then that seems to be a Showalter decision.

by SwampyMcGee on Jan 4, 2012 4:03 AM EST reply actions  

don't know why

but this title reminded me of duck hunt dunno why

by mdterps0325 on Jan 4, 2012 10:06 AM EST via Android app up reply actions  

is there any chance

Carlos Pena will land in Baltimore? cause if not i’m screwed….

by dan o'hare on Jan 4, 2012 7:34 PM EST reply actions  

Yes, I included Brian Roberts

I fully expect the team to pout him out there Opening Day because fans want to see him. If he can button his shirt, he’s in the OD lineup.

And I fully expect him to not play another game this year after about April 11.

"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.

by duck on Jan 7, 2012 4:47 PM EST reply actions  

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