I used to work with VCs a lot - I’d represent them sometimes and represent their companies sometimes.  And many of them are really good people who happened to make some good bets and became super wealthy.  They’d always want their investments to pay off but also tried not to be assholes or mercenary about the…

but only friends and lovers of FryCookOnVenus are thrilled to hear about his semi . . . 

After the first act, I thought, Oh, that Phoenix will not be rising any time soon.  Second act proved me wrong. I could never have anticipated the dance party of the last act.

High five, fellow old person!

I get it. It hasn’t aired where I am either and I guess if I were a devoted viewer, I’d set up a news blackout so I would avoid checking social media, turning on the radio, taking public transit, walking on the street while this streak was in progress because once it was public (in this case, at the end of an airing…

“viral clip appears to show JH’s defeat”, “Breaking: Jeopardy! champ JH loses on Monday’s episode”, “Spoiler Alert: JH’s Jeopardy run comes to an end”, “JH was on a pace to break ‘Jeopardy’ record today. Then this happened”, etc. These are all over the place. I am not sure you can report this w/o including an obvious…

Brilliant but I kept waiting for someone to get hit by a bus.  Doesn’t that always happen on Deadspin?

Fair enough but that sounds exhausting b/c there are so many other outlets with the same news so outrage toward Deadspin must have to be repeated over and over. Not by you but other aggrieved viewers.

It aired some hours before I wrote my comment. I probably should have said that rather than “some time ago” but that’s what I meant. Do you think that Deadspin will turn out to be the ONLY outlet to report this before 4p EDT? What about those of us on the West Coast? Would we be able to complain because we learn the…

if it airs in one single place so in one single place it is public, it is it the responsibility of all reporting organizations to keep the spoiler from everyone else?  That’s a mighty responsibility for something of so little real significance (or something of major significance).  Someone was going to spoil this news…

Someone was going to be the source of the spoiler.  It was inevitable.

About 3 hrs is how I am using “some time” in this era of news cycles. I could have said some hours ago. My question is the same though - even if the rest of the country or most of the country airs at 7p/730p, not all of it does so the news was going to circulate. So unless everyone has an active Jeopardy news block…

Most surprising thing about this post are the comments. I know that people put on news black outs around sporting events or series finales but I never thought that would happen for something like Jeopardy. I mean, the article says that it aired some time ago so this is in the news but people are still upset about the…

Not sure if this was mentioned but, if so, worth re-mentioning. And if not, think about this for a minute or several b/c it is incredible and one of the most amazing aspects of Bob Gibson’s MAGICAL season of 1968 (I think of this whenever there some reference to guys not getting pulled):

How about all words in the Championship Round said by Benicio Del Toro as Fenster from Usual Suspects?

I’m in my 50s and I have been close to a couple but have only managed to snag one foul ball. Last weekend, my 17yo daughter was in the seats we have had since 2000 (she’s been going her entire but this was the first time she’s been at a game without adults) and caught a foul ball. I was happy for her. Her older…

It’s in the tummy next to the poop.  And then it makes a left or a right, as appropriate.  Geeze, US education . . .

Son, where I come from, the balls are not involved with the pee.

You laid the groundwork, had the mid-story conflict, and brought home the sad, sad resolution.  This comment was a beautiful life’s work.

And the Warriors win their 4th in a row.  (finished that for you)