Comments on: The Spelling Bee needs to get out of its mother’s basement http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Fri, 24 May 2013 16:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: sdelmonte http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308978 Thu, 31 May 2012 03:44:47 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308978 I haven’t seen the Geek Hierarchy in ages. My wife used to go to that site all the time.

]]> By: Ben http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308951 Thu, 31 May 2012 02:11:15 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308951 It makes me mad sad, because she was 6-7 GAR (girlfriend above replacement)

]]> By: umrguy42 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308939 Thu, 31 May 2012 01:31:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308939 Also… when did sabermetrics become enough of a mainstream “thing” to make it into the spelling bee?

]]> By: rcali http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308938 Thu, 31 May 2012 01:17:16 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308938 Is this the event where the most socially awkward kids you’ve ever seen pick their nose on live tv?

]]> By: bbk1000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308876 Wed, 30 May 2012 22:29:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308876 Again, it was easy by the headline to know who was behind this…the link, sad as it is, ices it.

Craig the SME, who would have thunk it….

]]> By: snowbirdgothic http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308871 Wed, 30 May 2012 22:22:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308871 I’ve got friends at WotC. They…tell me things.

]]> By: Ben http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308863 Wed, 30 May 2012 22:07:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308863 How did you know?? Who told you I like that?

]]> By: snowbirdgothic http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308860 Wed, 30 May 2012 22:03:15 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308860 But only after you ask her to dress up like Snorlax for you one…last…time?

]]> By: Ben http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308842 Wed, 30 May 2012 21:32:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308842 Crap, I’m over 6, like Pokemon, and sabermetrics. I guess I’ll be informing my girlfriend tonight that she needs to break up with me. :(

]]> By: Max Power http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308828 Wed, 30 May 2012 21:19:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308828 I believe this is the only sports blog post today with a gratuitous mention of furries. At least I hope so.

]]> By: number42is1 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308811 Wed, 30 May 2012 20:51:56 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308811 “im not a nerd bart, nerds are smart”

]]> By: Jeremy T http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308802 Wed, 30 May 2012 20:41:06 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308802 I was just about to make that same comment about her name. That’s an impressive one :)

]]> By: dianagram http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308800 Wed, 30 May 2012 20:38:44 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308800 (channeling Professor Frink) “I AM a major nerd, and I’ll prove it by running a correlation of the degree of difficulty in a contestant’s name and their finish in the bee!”

]]> By: umrguy42 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308798 Wed, 30 May 2012 20:36:43 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308798 “Actually, that’s not fair. Spelling Bee people aren’t really major nerds.”

No, no we aren’t. (Spoken by a former National Spelling Bee participant, who did NOT make it far enough to get on the ESPN coverage.)

…Actually, is it wrong of me to say with a last name like Ciereszynski, of COURSE she’s a good speller? ;p

]]> By: Stacey http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/30/the-spelling-bee-needs-to-get-out-of-its-mothers-basement/comment-page-1/#comment-308795 Wed, 30 May 2012 20:35:05 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=153831#comment-308795 Hooray for Emma!

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