Each night the local late night news presents a trivia question to the hack sports guy after he gets done butchering the day's highlights. On the weekend, the backup hack sports guy takes his shot at the trivia questions. My guess is the only reason the backup guy is still employed is that he's no threat to the primary sports buffoon. That is demonstrated almost every weekend when he stumbles through trivia questions that the primary buffoon usually answers correctly. Last weekend's question was: "Which player was on a pre-World War I baseball card that recently sold for over $1 million at an auction?" This is easy for any card collector to answer. And I can even point out an error in the question. The card in question -- the T206 Honus Wagner -- actually sold for over a million dollars in 2000, which is now 12 years ago and no longer "recent." But the poor weekend sports boob's answer was this: "it's either Christy Mathewson or T...
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