Mega Quiz adds just enough - new characters, round formats etc - to fend off cash-in accusations.
Seriously, what's with the hued, dim off-lighting and the debate-in-the-round format?
Sweet Lou came back and noted that the first-round format (soon abandoned) of two games in one city and three in the other was an advantage to the Mariners, which turned out to be prophetic.
On a more personal note Montgomerie also fancies the four-round format because it would give him the best opportunity to clinch the one remaining place at Sandwich available to any player, not already exempt, finishing in the top five.
Instead of launching its new slate in the fall, Fox will open its television season on June 8, after which it will shift its programming to a year-round format.
The Braves, whose annual trips to the postseason began before the current two-round format, have been saying something similar for years, but the criticism, especially in Atlanta, has not diminished.
As a result, baseball had to improvise, reverting to a 2-3 first-round format in which the higher-seeded team opens on the road for two games and then goes home for as few as one or as many as three, if needed.
The current seven-round format totals about 250, leaving a vast countrywide bin of talented discards that general managers, coaches and scouts start madly ferreting through, like a group of shoppers who have been granted a limited after-hours spree for bargain-basement gems.
Here's how our roster took shape, drafting from the ninth overall position in a snaking 30-round format: 1.9 – Jose Bautista, 3B: He's the top player on my board heading into the 2012 season, and while there's some concern about his batting average, power is at a premium in the player pool.
The Bush campaign had actually given the new theater-in-the-round format that it used at the restaurant a name, "One on One With Governor Bush," but the banner bearing those words was no more conspicuous than the sign that said, "No Food Taken from Tables Unless Boxed or Bagged by Your Waitress".
