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VYPE Pick'Em Challenge: Week 2

VYPE Pick'Em Challenge: Week 2
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Week Two of the VYPE Pick'Em Challenge is here and it was the newcomer to the VYPE Media team that came in with a bang in the opening week.

New VYPE West Houston reporter Dennis Silva II only missed on one pick in the opening week. So, congrats to him but it is a long season. Here comes week two.

Current Standings

Dennis Silva II / (4-1)

Matt Malatesta / (3-2)

Joshua Koch / (3-2)

Todd James / (3-2)

Matt Reese / (2-3)

The Pickers

Matt Malatesta headlines this group. Malatesta is the VYPE Media Chief Content Officer and one of the founders of VYPE. Joshua Koch is the Managing Editor of VYPE Houston Magazine and is entering his fifth season of covering high school football in Houston. Matthew Reese is the Digital Editor of VYPE Media and host of the VYPE Scoreboard Show on ESPN 97.5 FM every Friday night from 10-11 p.m. Todd James is the VYPE North Houston reporter and also VYPE videographer and producer. James produces the weekly Locker Talk Facebook Live show and corresponding Locker Talk Podcast. Dennis Silva II is the newest member of the VYPE team and brings years of experience of covering high school sports across the state.

Each week these five pickers will make their selections on what are deemed some of the top games of the area. So let's see how they picked Week 2.

 

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Dusty Baker collects more hardware. Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images.

Dusty Baker has won the fourth Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Baseball Digest.

The beloved Baker retired following the 2023 season after spending 56 years in the majors as a player, coach and manager. He was honored Thursday with an annual distinction that “recognizes a living individual whose career has been spent in or around Major League Baseball and who has made significant contributions to the game.”

Willie Mays won the inaugural award in 2021, followed by Vin Scully in 2022 and Joe Torre last year.

“Receiving this award is a tremendous honor,” Baker said in a news release. “I never thought that I’d be in the class of the people that received this award. I know that my late mom and dad would be proud of me. This is really special.”

The 74-year-old Baker broke into the big leagues as a teenager with the Atlanta Braves in 1968 and played 19 seasons. He made two All-Star teams, won two Silver Slugger awards and earned a Gold Glove in the outfield.

He was the 1977 NL Championship Series MVP and finished fourth in 1980 NL MVP voting before helping the Los Angeles Dodgers win the 1981 World Series.

Following his playing career, Baker was a coach for the San Francisco Giants from 1988-92 and then became their manager in 1993. He won the first of his three NL Manager of the Year awards with the Giants that season and spent 26 years as a big league skipper, also guiding the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Nationals and Houston Astros.

Baker took all those teams to the playoffs, winning 10 division crowns, three pennants and finally a World Series championship in 2022 with the Astros. He ranks seventh on the career list with 2,183 wins and is the only manager in major league history to lead five franchises to division titles.

In January, he returned to the Giants as a special adviser to baseball operations. Baker's former team is 7-18 under new Astros manager Joe Espada.

“On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am honored to congratulate Dusty Baker as the 2024 recipient of Baseball Digest’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He joins an incredible club," Commissioner Rob Manfred said. "Dusty represents leadership, goodwill, and winning baseball. His ability to connect with others, across generations, is second to none. He is a championship manager and player. But, most importantly, Dusty is an extraordinary ambassador for our national pastime.”

Baker was selected in voting by an 18-member panel from a list of candidates that also included Bob Costas, Sandy Koufax, Tony La Russa, Jim Leyland, Rachel Robinson and Bud Selig, among others.

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