Welcome to the Ding Dong Challenge, a game were we try and correctly predict who will hit the most home runs in a given week, keep score throughout the entire season, and win a free, awesome t-shirt.

My apologizes for this being a day late, I was way too wrapped up in defending Daenerys’ life choices yesterday and totally forgot that I have dingers to count. I don’t feel too bad about it because...

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This is a SUPER special week(s) of the Ding Dong Challenge!

As those who play Fantasy Game of Thrones know, I will be traveling starting this Friday and thus won’t be able to grade this week’s Fantasy GoT and Ding Dong Challenge. As none of you know, this trip will actually be three weeks long (it’s vacation time!) and so I won’t be able to grade a Ding Dong Challenge until June 10th. So, instead of not having the challenge for three weeks, I’ve decided to spice it up for this round and have it run the three/really four weeks I’ll be gone.

This week, instead of drafting one Elite and two Everyone Elses, draft THREE Elites and THREE Everyone Elses. This team you’ve built will run from now till June 10th and then I’ll compile all the dingers your team hit through that roughly month long span. And what are we calling this magical month of dingers?

MONSTER DONG WEEK

But first, let’s quickly recap last week:

Congrats to Calvin C, who despite getting his lineup in a day late, still managed to score the most homers thanks to Alex Bregman and J.D. Martinez’s big weeks. This is of course crushing to see since J.D. has long been my boy and I decided to pick the stupid rookie Michael Chavis over Martinez. STUPID PETE! (I don’t mean to call you stupid Michael Chavis. You’re a great guy it seems.)

ONTO MONSTER DONG WEEK!!!!!!!!

Remember, you’re now drafting THREE ELITES off this list and then THREE EVERYONE ELSES (anyone not on this list) for basically the next month.