Wednesday, March 23, 2005
In the form of a question
"Jeopardy!" is currently in the midst of a gigantic, 3-month-long tournament in which they've invited scads of former champions from throughout the 21-year run of the show back to see who gets to play in a special 3-day-long match against Ken Jennings. So on tonight's show, a 5-time champion from 1989, a 5-time champion from 1995, and the College Tournament champion from 1993 were faced with this Final Jeopardy! clue, in the category Major League Baseball:
"The team names of these 2 expansion clubs start with the same 3 letters; one might catch the other."
Only the 1989 champion got it correct. (The college champion got one of the two.)
thatbob: Which makes me wonder, when does an "expansion club" just start being thought of as a club? I thought the Mariners were around when I was (broadly) a kid.
Levi: Depends on how broad you were in 1977.
thatbob: For almost all of 1977, I was 2 years broad.
Jim: Given baseball's love of history, as long as there are people who still remember when the Angels didn't exist, they're still an expansion club. (They were the first expansion team in modern baseball, in 1961, along with the team that's now the Texas Rangers, but then was the Washington Senators, replacing the other Washington Senators, who had moved to Minnesota and become the Twins.)
"The team names of these 2 expansion clubs start with the same 3 letters; one might catch the other."
Only the 1989 champion got it correct. (The college champion got one of the two.)
Original comments...
thatbob: Which makes me wonder, when does an "expansion club" just start being thought of as a club? I thought the Mariners were around when I was (broadly) a kid.
Levi: Depends on how broad you were in 1977.
thatbob: For almost all of 1977, I was 2 years broad.
Jim: Given baseball's love of history, as long as there are people who still remember when the Angels didn't exist, they're still an expansion club. (They were the first expansion team in modern baseball, in 1961, along with the team that's now the Texas Rangers, but then was the Washington Senators, replacing the other Washington Senators, who had moved to Minnesota and become the Twins.)
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