7/13/2009 -- Home run or nothing!

We had a reasonable enough turnout on the eve of le quatorze julliet -- 15 teams started and 12 finished our reasonably easy quiz.  Of course, many in the crowd had an eye on the TV, where St. Paul's favorite son couldn't quite get it done in the Home Run Derby.  It's still fun to watch his swing, though.

In third place, after a tiebreaker win, with 100 points, here's DJ Zalk.

Okay, I spent a lot of money on this damn camera.  Why hast thou forsaken me, auto-focus?  This is a group of regular customers who have never sampled our trivia night.  Well, except for the guy in the cap, who is apparently the DJ Zalk in question.  They were closest on the tiebreaker question, which was, "How long was it between World Series wins for the Red Sox in 2004?"  They also did quite well on the picture round.

In second place, with 104 points, here's Discovery69.

My alternative name for this group would have to be Strength in Numbers.  This crowd has swelled from their usual team, but what the hey.  The more the merrier, I guess, although with that much brain power they should be figuring out answers for more weighty questions than discounts for cyclists at brothels in Berlin.  I have to give props for the Royals T-shirt, though.

In first place, with 108 points, are the newcomers known as Pig Floyd.

See, this is disappointing, because you don't get the payoff for the team name in the picture.  The woman in the burgundy hoodie is wearing a t-shirt that features a pink pig with "Pink Floyd" written underneath.  I guess the A/C was cranked too high.  Their mastery of the subtle differences between Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson is what pushed them over the top.  As an addendum to that, I'm pretty sure that that last sentence is the only place in the whole wide blogosphere where the word "subtle" is used in connection with "Peter Griffin" and "Homer Simpson".  I'm not going to waste time Googling it, though.

See you next week.  If you haven't figured me out by now, one of the categories I'm hatching for that quiz should give you a window to my twisted soul.  Be there!