PARTICIPATION IN SCORING ASPECT IS STRICTLY OPTIONAL SO FEEL FREE TO FIND THE CACHE AND WATCH ALL THE ACTION FROM THE GRANDSTAND.
Welcome to the 2018 home run derby! Every Saturday morning a new cache will be released. After it is published you will have roughly a week to find it and select a slugger to represent you in that week's edition of the home run derby. Select one player and include his name in your log. The number of home runs he hits the following week (starting the Friday after cache publication) is your score; don't worry, we will handle all the scoring. The series will be cumulative points from April through September, with a week off over the All Star break.
The "catch" is every player must be unique, so FtF has choice of any player, second to find will have second pick and so on. The cache hiders will also be playing so the cache owner will select fifth each week.
This is week 1 of the series (1 of 25). All scoring will take place Friday, March 30th through Thursday, April 5th. Participation in the derby is strictly optional so feel free to find the cache and watch all the action from the grandstand. Game on!
The 2018 MLB opening day is March 29th, one day before our derby’s scoring period. There are two significant things about that date. First, it is opening day for all 30 MLB teams this year, first time that has happened since 1968. Second, it is the earliest opening day in MLB’s long history. The extra early start is due to a collective bargaining agreement, giving the teams an additional 3 to 4 days off this season. Mom was always a big fan of opening day and would take the family downtown every year for Detroit’s opener in old Tiger Stadium. Another steep family tradition was that when attending a sporting event, no matter the score, no matter how much your home team was winning or losing by, we stayed until the bitter end. Those two traditions collided the year it first snowed on us on opening day. I don’t ever remember being colder in my life.