It’s the minor leagues, where half the point is to sell merch! The new Hunstville team is called Rocket City Trash Pandas (seriously). The mascot is a raccoon in a makeshift trash can rocket, and it has nothing to do with how many of them live in Alabama

Yes.

Or option 3, eating popcorn?

He might have been able to brace for it or even dodge it had that damned curly W not passed right through his field of vision moments before impact...

I think it was more a strategy so that he could win if they both got it wrong, since he could guess the amount of her wager being enough to top him by a dollar if they were both right. He just hedged, knowing it was his only real shot left

Maybe they’re just here to report the news as they find it? Before I saw this I had already seen a New York Times Facebook post promoting their article about it and gotten a buzzing notification from the Washington Post app bragging about having a spoiler to share

Some part of me kinda expected him to ultimately lose just shy of Ken Jennings’ record, but the producers' decision to have his nephew/lover stab him like that was still a lazy way to wrap up the arc