Emily Jones Spring 16

The Rangers get an early jump on 2016 contest, which is bad news for an unsuspecting Emily who was soaked by Elvis and Rougned. Not coming in the middle of a postgame interview, Emily was unprepared to escape the amush and ended up with a totally drenched dress, hopefully the water stayed out of the purse. Looks like the Rangers are ready to keep the Royals from winning in back to back years. Just over a month until opening day!

As the season starts, will Elvis and Rougned continue to find Emily or will it revert back to the second half of last year where she laid down the law and kept them from soaking her? Will this spring lead give her a run at Cooler Cup or will she spend the year dodging and win the Escape Artist? (After watching a lot of escapes the second half of 2015, I'm naming her the favorite to win the Escape Artist award) Lets play ball!

Pic from @Rangers, link below

Individual Reporter Scoring

Coverage/Quantity: how much the reporter ended up wearing

+ 1*2 coolers 

+2 soaked front

+1.5 soaked skirt

+1.5 soaked top

+0.5 soaked hair

Damage: how much the dry cleaning bill would be

+2 skirt 

+2 dress

Publicity/Timing: how easy was it to score, how big of a game

+ up to 3 points rating of video coverage/availability (TBD? video coming? will update if needed)

+ 1.5 photo, 1 photo, but a great after shot

https://twitter.com/Rangers/status/704036640939859968, 3 great expressions/reactions make this a (very) early candidate for CoolerCup photo of the year
+2 her own cooler

+4 spring training
-3 not on field, most likely staged- wonder if they did more than one take? An outakes/bloopers video of this one would make it Hall of Fame worthy

C/Q 7.5 D 4 P/T 4.5+?  = 16

Reporter Drink Choice

Powerade 16

Team Scoring

Rangers 16

Scoring Details

http://coolercupmlb.blogspot.com/2016/03/2016-scoring.html

2016 Scoring

First a preview of 2016:

additions to scoring:
To encourage creativity, added new damage bonus, would still need to involve cooler as well.

+ up to 5 damage points for additional substance (pie, Nationals chocolate, Dodgers baby powder)

As a "thank you" of sorts to those who acknowledge the coolers and respond to queries or provide additional details, like "dress survived" or "cold wet plane ride"

+ up to 3 points to reporter for a retweet or some sort of mention or some additional commentary on their soaking 

Along that line, adding a second possible point to post cooler selfie to differentiate high quality aftermath shots, maybe better document damage, wet shoes, hair, pants, back.
+1 or +2 for post cooler selfie/reaction

Escape artist clauses added, we'll call this the #SalvySplash clause. Goldberg dodged alot but fell victim a lot too. This is more intended to recognize the reporter who is able to consistently stay clear throughout the year and avoid a big one.

Reporter not eligible if scored a Hall of Fame cooler during the year or if in Top 5 Individuals

Complete Scoring for 2016

Individaul Reporter Scoring

Coverage/Quantity: how much the reporter ended up wearing

+ appx # of coolers on reporter instead of player *2

+ up to 2 points for visible soaking of front

+ up to 2 points for visible soaking of back

+ up to 2 points for visible soaking of top/shirt

+ up to 2 points for visible soaking of pants

+ up to 2 points for visible soaking of hair

Damage: how much the dry cleaning bill would be

+ up to 4 for off colored liquid - dark on light clothes, staining

female wardrobe

+2 wearing heels +2 wearing a skirt + 2 wearing a dress

male wardrobe

+2 wearing a collared shirt +2 wearing a tie + wearing a suit coat

Publicity/Timing: how easy was it to score, how big of a game

+ up to 3 points rating of video coverage/availability

+ up to 3 points rating of photo coverage/availability

+2 postseason - including clinching celebrations (locker room only scored if previous scores during year)

+4 all star game, spring training or another national broadcast/reporter who doesn't cover the team regularly

+4 world series

Bonus points: new ones to be added, scoring of last years included

+2 for second day in a row (+4 for the really unlucky third day in a row)

+3 for first day on job

+1or 2 for ruined/soaked styled hair - Damage points

+2 for reporters own cooler

+2 for no hitter

+1 for perfect game

+1 for fall/dirt/field impact - Damage points

+1 for away game

+2 for opposing team's reporter (Perez and Austin in 2015)

+1or+2 for post cooler selfie/reaction

+ up to 5 damage points for additional substance (pie, Nationals chocolate, Dodgers/Astros baby powder)

+ up to 3 points to reporter for a retweet or some sort of mention or some additional commentary on their soaking 

Reporter Escape Artist

Reporter not eligible if scored a Hall of Fame cooler during the year or if in Top 5 Individuals

reporter first accumulates 15 individual points

easily found video/photo evidence of an escape from a cooler scored:

+1 per cooler dodged

+1 for colored cooler dodged

+1 for celebrating/taunting escape

Reporter Drink Choice

Individual Reporter score added to year's cumulative score for Gatorade or Powerade

Team Scoring

ratings under 10 will not count unless there is a close race

victim and culprit's team gets the reporters score added to team points

once a team reaches 35 points, -2 for a reporter scoring less than 15

once a team reaches 15 points, Reporter Escape Artist points subtracted from score.

Just Baseball Recap 2015

At start of year, I attempted to make some projections at the final standings and playoffs. Looks like I'm not too great at it, outside of picking 3 division winners, and coming close on the NL Central, some were way off, especially the AL East and West

#ALEast Projections: 1. #Orioles 2. #RedSox WC 3. #BlueJays4. #Yankees 5. #Rays

*** If I'd have flipped this one, it would have looked better (5 teams a combined 10 slots wrong)

#NLCentral Projections: 1. #Cardinals 2. #Cubs 3. #Pirates 4. #Brewers 5. #Reds

*** Pretty close, but who saw both WC teams coming from here? (2 teams a combined 2 slots wrong)

#NLEast Projections: 1. #Nationals 2. #Marlins WC 3. #Braves 4. #Mets 5. #Phillies

*** Yeah, I picked the WS team to finish 4th, underestimated the SP and trade deadline moves ( 4 teams a combined 6 slots off)

#ALCentral Projections: 1. #Royals 2. #WhiteSox 3. #Tigers 4. #Indians 5. #Twins

*** Picked the winner and then basically flipped everything (4 teams 7 slots)

#ALWest Projections: 1. #Angels 2. #Mariners WC 3. #Athletics 4. #Astros 5. #Rangers 

*** Another example of flipping it to make it look better (5 teams 12 slots)

#NLWest Projections: 1. #Dodgers 2. #Padres WC 3. #Giants 4. #DBacks 5. #Rockies

*** Ruined by the Padres (3 teams 4 slots)

(Grand Totals: 7 Correct, 3 Division winners correct, 23 incorrect 41 slots off)

#NLDS Projections: @Dodgers over @Marlins and @Nationals over @Cardinals

*** Got the Cards losing correct

#ALDS Projections: @Angels over @RedSox and  @Royals over @Orioles 

*** Got the Royals winning correct

1 Correct CS team, 1 Correct DS loser

#NLCS Projections: @Dodgers over @Nationals

*** Dodgers were a covered 3rd base away from NLCS

#ALCS Projections: @Angels over @Royals

*** Shouldn't have doubted KC

#2015WorldSeries Projection: @Dodgers over @Angels in 6

*** went for a warm weather series, was a bad idea

Disappointments from 2015:

- Dodgers fail to move past 1st round again,
- Mets win robbing us a chance to see Kershaw/Greinke vs Arreita

- Padres underachieve big

- Nationals underachieve bigger

- my fantasy team

Exciting things in 2015

- Astros make playoffs

- Cubs make NLCS

- ROOKIES

- Blue Jays and Mets win trade deadline

What to look forward to in 2016

-- Cubs

 all those rookies are no longer rookies

 can they live up to the hype and deal with pressure

-- Astros

 Hoping Springer's healthy all year

-- Who will be 2016's Cubs or Astros?

 Can the Rays compete again in a tough division?

 Can the Twins build on 2015?

-- Most intriguing AL division for next year: Take you pick
  Can the Rangers repeat? Will Houston continue to rise? Will LA challenge the Texas teams?
  Boston reloaded, New York improved on a good bullpen, Toronto brings a lot back, will the Rays build on a good year?
  White Sox made some moves, Indians have pitching, Twins for real? Still Royals division?

-- Most intriguing NL division for next year: Central
  Has the Cardinals reign ended?
  Can the Cubs build on a ROY, Cy Young, NLDS win year?
  Should we just write in the Pirates as the losing wild card team?
        Or is it the West
  Diamondbacks big offseason result in playoffs?
  Giants even year success continue?
  Dodgers new manager bring longer playoff run?

3 Streaks of 3 that end in 2016?
-- Giants 3 straight even year World Series reign 2010, 2012, 2014... 2016?
-- Dodgers 3 straight division wins and DS losses
-- Pirates 3 straight WC game losses

Can we get to spring training already?

2015 Awards II

Thanks to the reporters who get the interviews, stand in there or attempt to avoid it and stay dry and the players who provide the walk offs, performances and coolers and the photographers and video guys who document it all. Thanks to those networks who provide lots of video online. Hopefully more will follow (looking at ROOT, SportsnetLA)

How long until Spring Training?

Recapping the 2015 season with some random awards:

Best Dressed for Clinch Celebration
Julia Morales' bright dress survives a complete beer/champagne soaking. Her end of the night selfie seemed to doubt it was salvageable despite her attempts at protecting with a poncho. Did she forget to put it on right away? How did the poncho fail so badly?

https://instagram.com/p/8b_p2MpShX/?taken-by=juliacmorales

It survived! pic.twitter.com/hLJO9h7diI

— Julia Morales (@JuliaMoralesRS) October 15, 2015

She reported the dress survived, but do heels recover from beer and champagne soakings? Wearing a great dress and heels on clinch day reaffirms her status as one of our favorite reporters 


Most Endurance during Clinch Celebration
The Dodgers have celebrated division clinches 3 straight years. This year they brought out baby powder. Poor Alanna Rizzo got multiple beer showers and baby powder to the face and hair. She took it all like a professional, without a poncho, soaking a blue top and grey T shirt. Maybe Alanna is slightly glad the Mets took game 5 and she didn't have to endure another celebration, although I'm sure she has enough blue dresses that losing one for a series win would've been ok.

Best Postseason photo
Britt McHenry probably was glad her playoff reporting duties ended after the ALCS, she found herself caught in a lot of Salvador's celebrations





Best Regular Season Photo
Alex Curry, in one of her rare times not able to avoid the dousing:

Best photo from #Angels #BodyArmor #shower. @Alex_Curry reactions to them are the best, even if its her getting wet pic.twitter.com/JB1rfXQ0T2

— Cooler Cup (@CoolerCup14) July 27, 2015

It's a shame she's so good at dodging, her facial expressions when she gets caught are epic


Most Surprising Reporter to be dry after interview
Julia Morales after Fiers' no hitter. Astros seem to bring several coolers for a walk off, but just some small bottles during the interview and she walked away with just a little baby powder on her dress. Was her twitter reaction partly shock at covering a no hitter without getting soaked?

What just happened? pic.twitter.com/SBPSaLWpvm

— Julia Morales (@JuliaMoralesRS) August 22, 2015

Honorable mention may have to go to Sam Ryan covering the Mets NLDS win over the Dodgers, no gear over her dress or eyes, nothing directed her way. She had to be a big Mets fan that night after seeing what the Dodgers did to Alanna earlier.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/94951848/v523458083/nymlad-gm5-wright-on-mets-32-win-in-nlds-game-5/?game_pk=446258 


Another surprise was Salvador not getting Erin Andrews in on the celebrations through the ALCS and WS. Apparently by the end of the WS she was on edge, expecting it.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/63106348/v526619883/ws2015-gm2-moustakas-on-royals-battling-vs-degrom/?game_pk=446274

Rookie of Year
    Emily Austen's new job with the Rays included a few victory dousings, mainly in the first half, either she got better avoiding them or asked them to keep her out of the celebrations.



Best Photo Sequence
Doesn't get any better than the AP photos of Kelli's shower, showing how to cover the fun before during and after. Here's one of the before, Howie's giving it away... check the link out for during and after



AP Photo Set


Best Post Cooler Selfie

Seemingly a down year for availability of the showers/aftermath, despite that, Julia continues to be great at posting many photos and selfies from on the field. She provided great commentary on her feelings after their clinching celebration (see above) and earlier in the year, provided a great post cooler selfie of a freshly patterned by Powerade dress. It's a shame ROOT doesn't provide more videos of her interviews to the MLB website.

https://www.instagram.com/p/3fjVJRpSjr/


Most Improved (staying dry)

Took a quick look at reporters who covered a team full time in 2014 and 2015, compared scores to see who fell the most. 2014 winner Alanna (60) dropped to 36.7, but Meredith Marakovits, covering the Yankees, after scoring 4th (27.5) in 2014 managed to stay completely dry in 2015, avoiding any coolers and scoring a clean 0 for the year. In previous years, Brett Gardner has been known to bring out the coolers, but despite winning enough to be the wild card team, Brett never got to Meredith this year. Her wardrobe enjoyed the 27.6 point improvement at staying dry.

2016 Look Ahead

As long as Salvador plays for KC and is healthy, Joel will be the favorite to win it all again.

The Astros look to be good for a while, I'm guessing Julia will have some more dry cleaning to do in 2016, she jumped up quite a bit from 2014 to 2015. 

Could Emily Austen's rookie year lead to more dousings in 2016? Not being the primary sideline reporter keeps her interviews from MLB video site, may loose some points there.

Will one of the teams that dried out last year (Yankees, Dodgers, Marlins) make a comeback?

Will the Diamondbacks big offseason provide another West team with plenty of shower celebrations?

Can someone challenge Perez and the Royals?

2015 Awards I

The Royals had a great year, winning the World Series. Salvador Perez was a big part of their winning for his play on the field and probably in part for his post game entertainment. He led the Royals and Joel Goldberg, their sideline reporter to runaway victories in the 2015 Cooler Cup.

Other big awards went to Emily Jones for her Hall of Fame, record breaking soaking and Alex Curry again able to avoid multiple showers this year, although not quite as perfect of a record.



Individual Cooler Cup 2015

Joel pulled away with a complete soaking late in the year, but caught enough here and there to overtake Emily's big time soaking and hold of Britt's post season run.

Individual Leaderboard:

Joel Goldberg 89

Emily Jones 61.5

Britt McHenry 57

Julia Morales 53.5

Alex Curry 37

Team Cooler Cup

The Royals ran away with the title, thanks mainly to this guy, shown here getting paid back some. 


A long world series title run included several national reporters being soaked as the Royals doubled up on everyone else.

Team Leaderboard

Royals 164.5-lots

Rangers 79.5-lots

Dodgers 55.2

Astros 53.5-3

Angels 37-5

Top Cooler 2015

Emily's red soaking won every category, taking most of 2 full coolers C/Q, the red ruining her dress and seemingly her heels D, with plenty of media coverage after she took the targeted dousing P/T. 

Celebratory shower! 💦💦💦 pic.twitter.com/icMlM2qSHt

— Texas Rangers (@Rangers) May 31, 2015

Reporter Escape Artist 2015

Joel and Emily dodged a lot of coolers, but won big awards above so can't really call them escape artists. In a late season surge, Alex dodged multiple showers during a late homestand as the Angels nearly made a big enough run to make the playoffs. She wins her second straight escape artist award.




Drink Choice:

Gatorade gets a late boost from Royals Postseason run to retain rights the "Gatorade Shower"

Gatorade: 278.5
Powerade: 219.2

Bodyarmor 37

Britt McHenry 10/23

 You've got to feel a little bad for Britt, coming into the playoffs not having watch much KC baseball, she couldn't have known what was coming every win. The ALCS clincher soaked her again, although didn't have much after the fact, looked like it could've been a lot worse.

Her twitter claimed 6 of these following the Royals two series. Only found about 3 of them. Hope she dries out in time to come back for the World Series.

C/Q 
.5*2
.5 front
.5 back
.5 top

D
+2 skirt


P/T
1 vid, no sign of her actual interview, just a montage clip
http://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/article41289897.html 
https://twitter.com/KWCHWill/status/687025505313280000
2 photo
 http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/salvador-perez-of-the-kansas-city-royals-dumps-gatorade-on-news-photo/494075206http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/salvador-perez-dumps-water-on-eric-hosmer-of-the-kansas-news-photo/493992366 
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/salvador-perez-dumps-water-on-eric-hosmer-of-the-kansas-news-photo/493992362
 http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/494009544-eric-hosmer-and-salvador-perez-of-the-kansas-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=X7WJLa88Cweo9HktRLaNXpq09x%2fexIYmbl%2fw9U7kNpPCbudKfKsJpFovolS%2f39B7AYDE0zwyTh7TOMLzDIzM1g%3d%3d
+4 national reporter

C/Q 2.5 D 2 P/T 7 = 11.5

Individual Leaderboard:

Joel Goldberg 89

Emily Jones 61.5

Britt McHenry 57

Julia Morales 53.5

Alex Curry 37

Team Leaderboard

Royals 164.5-lots

Rangers 79.5-lots

Dodgers 55.2

Astros 53.5-3

Angels 37-5

Reporter Escape Artist

Alex Curry +5 lots of showers latest homestand, she's avoided all but sprinkles

Emily Austen +3 in danger every win

Julia Morales +3

Jen Mueller +3 

Joel Goldberg +lots -at this point, I've stopped counting but he's also been soaked the most

Emily Jones +lots. if only she hadn't taken a huge soaking first

Todd Kalas - every win

Drink Choice:

Gatorade: 278.5
Powerade: 219.2

Bodyarmor 37

Scoring:

http://coolercupmlb.blogspot.com/2015/02/2015-scoring.html

Britt McHenry 10/17

Perez came in late in Britt's interview, ending it with a splash. For having a year to practice, both reporter and player seemed fairly dry. This is the ALCS Salvy, lets see your best!

It's good to see that even though the normal TV team doesn't get to cover the games, Perez stays up to his same tricks. Unfortunate national reporters aren't as practiced at knowing when he's coming. Fortunately for Britt, her coat protected most of her dress. Did the boots stay dry?

Britt's had quite the postseason, catching her 3rd splash. Will Canada be drier?

C/Q 
.25*2
1.5 back
1.5 coat
.5 skirt

D
+1 yellow
+2 skirt
+2 coat
+2 boots

P/T
1.5 vid
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13912013 bucket at end, barely made it in time
https://twitter.com/Royals/status/655531363815194624
https://twitter.com/Royals/status/695263097481793536
https://twitter.com/taxmanwesman/status/655757404521410561
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13912093 did 2nd interview wet
2 photo
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/salvador-perez-of-the-kansas-city-royals-douses-eric-hosmer-news-photo/493136514
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/salvador-perez-of-the-kansas-city-royals-douses-eric-hosmer-news-photo/493137014
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/kansas-city-royals-first-baseman-eric-hosmer-gets-doused-by-catcher-picture-id493351692
+4 national reporter

C/Q 4 D 7 P/T 7.5 = 18.5

Individual Leaderboard: Britt's having a wet postseason

Joel Goldberg 89

Emily Jones 61.5

Julia Morales 53.5

Britt McHenry 45.5

Alex Curry 37

Team Leaderboard Royals running away with it

Royals 153-lots

Rangers 79.5-lots

Dodgers 55.2

Astros 53.5-3

Angels 37-5

Reporter Escape Artist

Alex Curry +5 lots of showers latest homestand, she's avoided all but sprinkles

Emily Austen +3 in danger every win

Julia Morales +3

Jen Mueller +3 

Joel Goldberg +lots -at this point, I've stopped counting but he's also been soaked the most

Emily Jones +lots. if only she hadn't taken a huge soaking first

Todd Kalas - every win

Drink Choice:

Gatorade: 267
Powerade: 219.2

Bodyarmor 37

Scoring:

http://coolercupmlb.blogspot.com/2015/02/2015-scoring.html