Ken Jennings will soon be featured on a Topps card, according to the Jeopardy! champion's blog.
I’m apparently going to be one of the “honored champions” in Topps’ 2007 line of Allen & Ginter cards. I wonder if there’s ever been a game show winner on a baseball card before, or I’m some kind of Jackie Robinson of nerds here.
Wait, help me out here. Is Ken saying he was the first black man on Jeopardy!? (ahhhh so much punctuation) Wait, no. I understand now. I didn't realize that baseball card industry had a nerd barrier.
I like where he's going here. If Ken is Jackie Robinson, then Michael Larson is Babe Ruth, and that dude from Quiz Show is Shoeless Joe Jackson. And Will Leitch on Win Ben Stein's Money was Carlos Beltran in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS facing the Adam Wainwright breaking ball of Jimmy Kimmel.
And that wasn't very nice and I'm sorry. I feel especially bad about writing anything complimentary about Kimmel. Adam Wainwright isn't nearly smarmy enough to warrant that comparison.
(Big ups to Monday Morning Punter of KSK for filling in for 289 in the imagery department)
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Note to self: sell all of your stock in Topps.
Is this really what Topps had been reduced to?
Wait, what does that say for people who collected baseball cards? Do I owe Ken Jennings 40 acres and a mule?
MMP lurves Ken Jennings and his weekly trivia contest.
Time to break the nerd barrier of this post by pointing out that the modern era’s sports card nerd barrier was broken in last year’s Allen & Ginter set by spelling bee champion Wendy Guey:
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’87 was a lovely year for topps. i’ve got that set in my closet somewhere
Don’t start, Rob.
Leitch was on Ben Stein’s money? That is priceless. Where is the Youtube video of that? You can count on me Tivoing every episode of Ben Stein I can find until that shows up. Or Will could just save us some time and post the video on Deadspin, Im sure he has it on tape somewhere.
Ken Jennings is the greatest hero in the history of heroes.
Do you think they’ll dress him up in a baseball uniform? I think it would be hilarious to see him holding a baseball bat cross-handed or standing on the mound peering in to get the sign from the catcher…
@ Peter mcSheisty:
Your avatar gives me nightmares.
I have no idea who Ken Jennings is but judging from the photo i’d say he’s the world’s most unconvincing suicide bomber. I bet when he presses the detonator he gives himself an electric shock and his trousers fall down.
I will trade you one Ken Jennings rookie card for the Carl Yazstremski with the big sideburns card.
Man, I don’t who posted first, but I hope the Kimmel comment in this post and the sun comment on Deadspin starts some kind of blogging gang warfare. There is nothing better than a little gang warfare.
No, no, no, I’ll trade you an Omar Vizquel rookie card, with the head bitten off.