It’s that time of year again, everyone! We’re about a month from the beginning of another season of baseball! As we have done each of the past few years, we would like to extend an invitation to you to send us an audio file of your Central League standings predictions for the upcoming season.
Here are the rules/procedures:
1) Introduce yourself and where you are sending from (country, city if you want), and give us a run-down of your prediction for the Central League standings from sixth through first. Include reasons or comments if you want, but keep your recording under two minutes, please.
Also, as a tiebreaker, fill in this blank: Sheldon Neuse and Johan Mieses will combine to hit __ home runs in the 2023 regular season.
2) Send the mp3 (or another easily playable file extension) to thehanshintigers@gmail.com no later than March 26, 2023, 11:59 pm JST. The first 10 audio files submitted will be aired during Episode 169 of the podcast. If there are more than that many, they will not be aired but will still be entered in the contest! Predictions in text format are also acceptable but are way less cool.
3) Listen to the show (which is coming out a day or two before Opening Day) and share it on your social media, and hashtag #HTEN! Oh, and follow us if you are not currently doing so!
4) This season, someone will absolutely be declared the winner, whether the prediction is perfect or not! We have a point system that works as follows: For every correctly predicted spot in the standings, you receive two points. (In other words, a perfect prediction yields a score of 12.) For the teams you do not predict right, one point is deducted for each spot you missed them by. For example, if you pick the Tigers to finish 4th and they finish 1st, you get -3. The predictor with the highest point total wins the contest!
You will be contacted by H-TEN after Game 143 and lavished with praises and prizes!
Send your questions to us by email as well, if you have any. Looking forward to hearing from all of you!
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