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 $1,000,000 in cash.
I’m also doing my own little pool/league and if you win the league, you get $20 via paypal from me!
How to join the Amazing League:
1) Send me a message via the spudart contact form
2) I’ll send you an invite to join our private league via mlb.com.
3) You click on the link in the email and join the league.
So far nobody has ever defeated me in Beat the Streak. One year I got an 11-game streak. Last year I won with 12 games. Think you can beat that? If you get the longest streak 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. One year, we had about 10 people in the league.
Here’s a tip to anyone who is considering playing BTS (Beat the Streak): Start a player who is playing against the team with the worst ERA in baseball. As of May 4th, The Yankees have the worst team ERA in baseball. The Orioles are second worst and the Indians are third.
Building off moose’s tip, instead of ERA, look at what pitching staff has given up the most hits. You can see an updated chart at mlb.com sortable team stats: pitching: hits allowed. Right now the Orioles lead the pack with 307 hits allowed. Here’s the top ten: 307: Baltimore Orioles 297: Cleveland Indians 280: Minnesota Tw-ins 278: Houston Astros 272: Toronto Blue Jays 271: Te-xas Rangers 271: New York Yankees 269: Florida Marlins 267: Boston Red Sox 263: Los Angeles Angels I’ve been picking players who are facing the Orioles. Last year the worst pitching staff was the Pittsburgh Pirates. I successfully employed the Pittsburgh Pirate stategy last year, and it earned me the championship in the Amazing League. Right now I’m using the Baltimore Oriole strategy.
Moose, your current streak is a league high FOUR GAMES. Right now I’m sitting on a two-game active streak.
I now have the longest streak in the league with FIVE GAMES. Will I make it six tonight? Paul Konerko of the White Sox will answer that.
I can’t believe you relied on a white sock to maintain your streak and it paid off. My longest streak end at 4 last week with melvin mora getting a big bagel.
Melvin Mora? Why are you relying on that old goat? Melvin Mora? For real? Your streak deserves to die when you pick MELVIN MORA. C’MON. YOU KNOW BETTER. Melvin Mora. Yes, I went out on a limb with a White Sock. But nobody was playing the Orioles, so I had to go with the next worst pitching staff (in terms of hits given) and that’s the Indians. I seem to recall Paul Konkero being a good hitter for BTS. And he has, my streak is now SIX GAMES. I’d really like to beat my all-time high of… oh crap i don’t even know what my all-time high is.
Everyone in our league has an active streak. ryanwestrom has a 3 game streak active, i have a 4 game streak active, and spudart has a ten game streak active! yesterday’s picks that allowed everyone to keep going: spudart: Willie Bloomquist dascenzofan: Joe Mauer ryanwestrom: Adam Jones I have Justin Morneau going today.
Willie Bloomquist. You know it. Today I go with Scott Rolen of the Blue Jays against the White Stockings.
matt’s streak ended at 10. mine ended at 5. ryan’s ended at 3. Nick Markakis ended my streak going 0 for 4 yesterday.
I’m starting Big Poopie now that he has a new nickname. Nothing can stop Big Poopie.