There’s going to be a big delay tonight, at least for some of us. It’s almost 7 and they’re just starting the 4th quarter.
This may be my last season with this show. I do enjoy it, but the network’s inability to schedule their programming so that it is on when it is scheduled to begin interferes with the rest of my Sunday evening.
Yeah, it’s a real problem in my house as well. If it starts any later than 8:30 or 8:35, I just can’t let my kids stay up to see it, which of course upsets them greatly. Yes, they can watch it online tomorrow night, but it’s not the same. Life was easier when it was on during the week.
That has to be the worst word to hear now, “Recalculating.”
I feel just a little bit old now…I learned to type on a “no-1” oldstyle typewriter. Seeing none of them have the first clue how to make “1” was crazy-making.
No surprises tonight. Not upset with the outcome or anything. It was a nice ending to an okay season with very nice touches (like the clues that aren’t just “go here”).
I figured out pretty early on, based on the hindsight interviews, who had won.
Not the team I most wanted to win, but I wasn’t against any of them.
That was a well-earned win; close second coming out of the flight sim task, then no big mistakes. That’s some mighty fine Racin’, there.
Despite being in his home city and taking taxis, I still expected Marcus to get lost. We saw him trying to figure out how to type a ‘1’, then nothing until the finish. I wonder how long he was there.
No football metaphors until the next season, at least. Hooray!
And for anyone looking for a partner to enter the Race with, I would like to point out that I’m a pilot and learned to type on a manual that didn’t have a ‘1’ key. I would have owned this leg.
I was born and went to college in Atlanta.
I would not have known where or what “the DUMP” was. I doubt too many Atlanta natives would know that trivia. The Home Depot “Dump” was relatively close to the Margaret Mitchell house (5 miles). Might be called a “Mild” Goose Chase.
I think I would have figured the 44-715-74 clue without too much help since I was huge Hank Aaron fan.
Delay of game penalty. Ejection. Game Over.
I can navigate like nobody’s business, I can drive a stick, swim, and I am relatively good with animals.
I am highly claustrophic, somewhat fearful of heights, and get easily irritated at my partner for not pulling his weight. (and can suck out on the river on poker night, we miss you)
We are good be the first first Doper team on TAR. 
I need a partner who likes sharks, bungee jumping, and dancing in public.
I’m working on it. I’m back in Boston; need to find an apartment, get my stuff moved in, and then I can start settling into routines like poker nights again.
For all of his bullshit platitudes about “Never Quit, Never Give Up” did anyone else notice Marcus sulking at the typewriter like a spoiled little bitch?
He TOTALLY quit when it was apparent he wasn’t going to win.
His wife Amani seems like such a positive, lovely person, but he seemed to epitomize the attitude of pampered athlete, who pouts and whines when things don’t go exactly their way.
(I actually felt really sorry for Jeremy and Sandy, who blew a 20 minute lead by running around a warehouse furniture store called The Dump; They looked SO mollyfocking clueless)
I was trying to figure that out, but they don’t give you much time before Phil spills the beans. I might have figured out the numbers, but then you don’t always know where that’s supposed to take you. I might have tried to go to the site of the old ballpark, although I think it’s close to the new one.
I wonder if it would be good training to TiVo the show so you could pause it and try to work out the clues and such.
Heh…that was a consignment/thrift furniture store or I’ll eat my hat. That wasn’t new furniture, no way.
ETA: I’m wrong, but only partly. It’s apparently more of a factory-seconds, overstock, etc., furniture store. Kind of a Big Lots for furniture.
its in a pretty upscale part of Atlanta. Midtown and Buckhead.
How does your hat taste anyways.
Like soggy, smoky wool. 
I had to laugh at Phil’s description of the final map task. Something about it being so difficult it could change the whole race. That and the editing of the taxi rides of the first two teams made me feel like it wasn’t at all close. Team number one must have been so far ahead for them to have to resort to all that to generate some television suspense.
Nope.
The next race will be Spring 2012.
Heh. It’s actually being run right now. Racers were seen in LAX last week.
Be very glad if you’ve never seen one of the annoying commercials for The Dump!