I once tried out for “Jeopardy!” Passed the test and went on to the practice game. They said I was “in the contestant pool” but they never called me. Since then I’ve had one boss and four coworkers who have gone on “Jeopardy!”, all of whom won at least once and two of whom were five-time champions. Meanwhile, I roam the Earth as a Trivial Pursuit hustler. Coulda been somebody. Coulda been a contender. Alas.
But I won’t let my life’s biggest disappointment put a damper on this, which actually sounds pretty cool:
There should be rooting interests too, because they’re doing it as a bracket-style thing, with a representative from each club, one from MLB.com and one from the Hall of Fame. But don’t think you’re going to have Adam Dunn facing off against Ozzie Guillen here. It’s way more likely that you’ll have the Tigers’ bright young media relations guy matching wits with the Mariners’ assistant to the travelling secretary. UPDATE: here’s a list with all of the participants and more details.
Which I think is way more fun, actually, because people will fall in love with these guys like they do reality show contestants. Some will be endearing, some will be off-putting. It should be kinda neat.
At least if we don’t get overload. According to the press release, tthere will be two new episodes every Tuesday through Thursday at 9:00 p.m. ET from January 24 through February 23, leading up to the start of Spring Training.
That’s a lot of those shows, but it’s not like we have anything else to do.
