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And you got three of our five NOAH-riffic questions!! Perhaps not as easy as Seawolf might have hoped, but he didn't ring in for any! Please be assured that Frayed Knot will be banned from any future tapings of the show after shouting a potential answer from the audience!

We're going to go to the judges on this, ... and the judges are saying ... YES!! Another $800 for you, and we're just going to show you the last question! [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR]\[TR][TD] This Yale grad was unable to find work as a lawyer, so he became the "Father of American Scholarship and Education" instead.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ..Noah, the Biblical ........Patriarch ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

Good choice! Looking for that Daily Double! [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] Many commentators have explained away his excessive drinking, claiming he had no way of knowing about the intoxicating effects of wine.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

Ok, times up. We were looking for Who is Noah Bambach? Noah famously directed and wrote The Squid and the Whale. Noah ... Bambach ... . [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] .......Who is Noah ........Baumbach? ......... [/TD][/TR][/TABLE] Ben's still got the board!

Bzz. Bzz. Time's up. Anybody else like to grab the board? [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] This screenwriter/flim director has two Oscar nominations. Perhaps he should name all his films after sea creatures.[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

We need a little more.

[TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] This screenwriter/flim director has two Oscar nominations. Perhaps he should name all his films after sea creatures.[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

OK, fine.

Hey, man, somebody else gets to grab the board.

BZZ! BZZ! I'm sorry. We were looking for the great Frenchman Yannick Noah. Chance for someone else to get on the board! [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD]......... ............Yannick ..............Noah .........[/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$1000[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

THERE'S THE BUZZER!! Two minutes for someone else to chime in!

I'm sorry. You caught your host ... out of the room. doing something. [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] ............. ............... ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD] Apart from 23 singles and 16 doubles titles as a pro, this celebrated tennis player has also made a name for himself as a prolific recording artist, and the father of an NBA All-Star.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$1000[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

I hope you answered in the form of a question. To be fair, to best represent Jeopardy!'s time limit on responses, your response must be timestamped within one minute of the answer being posted. Please stand by.

Um ... we didn't cut to a commercial. [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] .............TREVOR ...............NOAH ......... [/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 600[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$1000[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

That's good for $400 and the board is still yours!

[TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD] Born a Crime is the title of this comedian's memoir. . [/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 600[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$1000[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

OK, let's do this. [TABLE][TR][TH]NOAHs[/TH][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 200[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 400[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 600[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$ 800[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][TR][TD][bIGPURPLE]$1000[/bIGPURPLE][/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

Beyond Syndergaard, I'm not sure NOAHs would be a particular easy category.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Meet your newest https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/12/mets-promote-ben-zauzmer-to-assistant-gm.htmlAssistant General Manger, Ben Zauzmer. He's had a seriously meteoric rise in professional baseball and, fun fact, is also the Nate Silver of Oscar predicting. https://twitter.com/JAYSAWW/status/1475590744517849089 I think you grabbed the wrong string for that vid, but I celebrate this. Zauzmer is the exact sort of guy an organization hires as a consultant or special advisor, but it's pretty cool to see him get the Asst. GM chair.

Yes, but ratios matter. This one was summat overlong. And the setup:punch proportion didn't quite work for me. Ferrell's unself-aware semi-famous guys with shamelessly off-the-rack personas (Ron Burgundy, Ricky Bobby, Chazz Michael Michaels), are usually of the American variety. He gets a wig, he comes up with a name, and the part almost plays itself. You recognize folks you know, folks on TV, folks so maddeningly shallow that you want to tear down the whole American apparatus. And perhaps just a little, you recognize yourself, or at least, somebody you kind of might have been like 20 years ago, and the bullshit you perhaps bought. And that's good satire. Eurovision music culture certainly has parallels in America — somewhere between American Idol, Vegas, and Super Bowl halftime bullshit — and as fascinatingly insane as it might be to an outsider, it's still very foreign, and so you don't really get the punch in the face satire should give you. Somebody else with a funny name across the ocean is getting punched, so it feels kind of bullying to enjoy it too much. I gave it 2.5/5 My wife is charitable to anything that puts Ferrell in a good wig (and this does), and so might have liked it a little more. Side-plot about Icelandic belief in elves also enhances the proceedings.

Icelandic boy grows up dreaming of writing and performing the winning song in the titular Eurovision Song Contest. Most of the town thinks he's an idiot, but a local mute girl is so taken in by his dream that she learns to sing and join him on his quest. Overdramatized production numbers ensue. https://s29288.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/eurovision-poster-750x419-1.jpg>

In many ways the lockout has been a friend to the Mets. Seemingly behind on the offseason due to the absence of a field staff and anything more than a skeletal management team, the Mets did an impressive job catching up and making a move in the last weeks before the locky began. And then, when the transaction freeze began, the Mets could pivot back toward seeking their manager and coaching staff without worrying about working at a philosophical cross purpose with the team they put on the field. The team, for the moment, was and is mostly frozen in amber. But the current inaccessibility of the players is a thing. We've already seen the odd Christmas greeting with the Mr. Met Extended Family, clearly an effort forced by the team's inability to use active players in their promotions. It's not as annoying with the Mets because they've always kind of been lousy at winter promotions, but the absence is there. Christmas hyjinks and stock market bell ringings are out. I'm a big fan of articles in which a writer imagines what player the Mets should get, calls up a prominent Met, and gets a quote saying, "He's a really good player," then writes an article about how terrible the Mets are because they haven't gotten this player that their most prominent player thinks they should get. This year, nothing.

Good time to fondly recall the Mets 2013 holiday greeting/hostage video. [media=youtube]h9vIbwaJ6F0[/media]

Tom was a union man. Maybe he's been locked out.

Nice to see reports of comings instead of long-ago goings. Transactions, 12/7/2021 [td90]Direction[/td90][td90]COMING[/td90][td90]Transaction[/td90][td90]Signed Away from NYY, Projected for Binghamton[/td90][th]Position Group[/th][th]=#FF8000]Relief Pitcher[/th][td90][/td90][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/w_180,g_auto,c_fill/v1/people/640737/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][td90]Name[/td90][td90]Kevin Gadea [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/panamanian-flag-small.jpg[/fimg][/td90][td90]DoB[/td90][td90]12/6/94[/td90][td90]B/T[/td90][td90]R/R[/td90][td90]High Level[/td90][td90]=#FF0000]AAA (2021)[/td90] https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=gadea-000kevKevin Gadea was actually a really shiny prospect with Seattle. As (mostly) a starter from 2013–2016 in the Mariner system, he put up a 2.64 ERA in 225 1/3 innings, while his strikeout rate regularly climbed before peaking at 12.9 at his last level in A ball. Now, if that stat line were a woman in museum, I dare say you'd approach her talk about things — Miró and Chagall and stuff. But this stat line was not an imaginary woman in a museum. It was just a numerical representation of a flesh-and-blood pitcher — a pitcher with an elbow. And you know where this is going, except you don't. Yes, you might expect, Kevin Gadea injured his elbow, and required surgery to repair the UCL. But what you might not have guessed is that recuperation from that surgery, along with the blight that is the Covid pandemic, led to Mr. Gadea missing FOUR consecutive seasons. FOUR!! That, you may feel, practically qualifies the guy to have achieved honorary Met status already. He finally got back on the field last season, throwing 41 1/3 innings out of the bullpen for the Yankees, mostly with their AA team in Somerset. Delightfully, his strikeout numbers were back over 13-per-nine, but his walk numbers were uncharacteristically high as well. Still, an exciting reclamation project who still needs reps to get back on his feet. As it stands, he looks to return to AA initially with the Mets, but certainly has a better chance than most of making it to Queens before the season is out. Fair warning: He most recently has gotten hit pretty hard with Caracas this winter in the Venezuela Winter League over 11 2/3 innings. You mostly likely want to write that off to a small sample, but considering his history, it's got to be noted. Transactions, 12/13/2021 [td90]Direction[/td90][td90]COMING[/td90][td90]Transaction[/td90][td90]Signed Away from WSN, Projected for Syracuse[/td90][th]Position Group[/th][th]=#FFC2C2] Outfielder[/th][td90][/td90][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/w_180,g_auto,c_fill/v1/people/594953/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][td90]Name[/td90][td90]Daniel Palka [fimg=50]http://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US-flag.png[/fimg][/td90][td90]DoB[/td90][td90]10/28/91[/td90] [td90]B/T[/td90][td90]L/L[/td90][td90]High Level[/td90][td90]=#FF0000]MLB (2019)[/td90] Danny Palka is a textbook example of a leftyhandd three-true-outcomes corner outfielder/firstbaseman. He'll probably Mark Johnson his way up to the big league team this summer (hitting 27 homers in his one full season of big-league ball already qualifies him as the team's sixth outfielder), but he'll probably make too much wind to stick. Look for at least one prodigious and heroic clout from the guy, though.