MLB.com has a game called Beat the Streak where you try to put together a hitting streak to beat baseball’s legendary record of 56 games. Choose one player every day who you think will get at least one base hit. If your player gets a hit, your streak is extended. If he fails to get a hit, your streak ends and you can start a new one.
Be the first eligible participant to get a hit in 57 straight games and win $100,000 in cash.
Join my Amazing League to see if you can beat me. To get a password, contact me. Make sure you leave your address in the form, so if you win, I can mail you twenty bucks.
I once got an 11-game streak last year. Think you can beat that? If you get first place in the Amazing League, you get $20. It’s totally free to join my league. I’m offering the twenty bucks out of my pocket just to make it interesting. Last year, we had about 10 people in the league.
2001-2005 Beat the Streak Leaders (as of June 13, 2006)
- 43 games 2005 Mark Gray
- 42 games 2005 Tony Deceanne
- 40 games 2004 Ken D’Introno
- 40 games 2005 John Quinlan
- 39 games 2004 Robert Rushton
- 38 games 2001 Stanley’s Streakers
- 38 games 2003 Derek Coderre
(Don’t worry, these people were not in the Amazing League. We topped off at something like 13 games)
So far, here’s the players in the league: wells123: Lisa Wells (my girlfriend) spudart: Matt Maldre (me) dascenzofan: Erik Maldre (my brother) wells123 has the longest streak so far with five games. I had four going into yesterday’s game, but Victor Martinez let me down with a 0 for 4 performance, despite his .364 average. And what is up with dascenzofan? He’s only got a two-game streak. Get yo’ game together!
yea, i’m really bad at this game. I currently have a four game streak going where I haven’t got a hit. And the four players are quality starters: Andruw Jones, Lyle Overbay, J.D. Drew, and Ichiro Suzuki. Today I have Brad Hawpe going. -dascenzofan
Oh! that’s cool. We can have an award for the person with the most consecutive days of no hits. Dascenzofan is leading with four games. To available for contention for this award, you must pick a legitamite player (No Neifi Perezs!) and that player must get zero hits for the day.
Thank you Ichiro! My current streak now is now at six. That ties the league’s season high streak by lisa. Can I break it tonight? I’m going with Ichiro again!
PSSSSSSYYYYYCCCC! I didn’t go with Ichiro last night, instead it was Blalock and he extended my streak to a league leading 7 games. Tonight I go with Miguel Cabrera. He went 11/31 the past seven days, and yesterday he went 2/5.
yah and now you are beating me 🙁 i’ll have to surpass you, it would be a shame if you won your own $20
Wooo! Cabrera got a hit extending my streak to eight games! Tonight it’s Mark Loretta’s turn. I see that Erik (dascenzofan) is quietly building up his streak to new heights with four games. That’s a new PB for him this year. There’s someone outside our league that is leading all of current streaks with 26 games. I’m rooting for this person, because I want the top person with 28 games to go down. I don’t like that person’s name. I’m not even going to mention it here.
Double digits. I’m now onto 10 games with Miguel Cabrera going 2 for 4 last night. I have him going up again tonight. It’s too bad that everyone else’s streak in our league yesterday ended. I would like to see someone topple 10 games.
i am not happy. my streak stopped at 5. I originally had Marcus Giles as my pick. He went 2 for 4 yesterday. I should have left things alone. But since i was going to the cubs game yesterday, I figured yesterday morning I would change my pick to a cubs player so i can root them on during the game. I went with Juan Pierre. He went 0 for 5. During the game, I thought that I didn’t actually make the change; that i got distracted by something else and didn’t actually make the switch to pierre. Unfortunately, I did officially go with Pierre. So not only do the cubs lose the game 5-3 with Neifi Perez trying to bunt in the 9th with two outs and runners on 1st and 3rd, but I lose my Beat the Streak streak.
I did a switch out for today. I had Vernon Wells in, but he’s now 7 for 25 in the past week with going 0 for 4 yesterday. So I put in Derek Jeter again, which makes me really nervous, because it would be just like Jeter to screw with my 11-game streak