Picking Nits
Prize taxes; gym valuation; bank service; Patches’s age; timeline; uniforms; double fault; betting
In the discussion (10)
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- The director’s drink-throwing cameo has such good aim he should join the team; mocking a costumed pirate seems especially odd in Las Vegas.
- Goodman tanning fully clothed would leave terrible tan lines.
- Fifty-to-one championship odds and a sportsbook accepting a hundred-thousand-dollar wager from a participating captain seem implausible.
- Taxes on the fifty-thousand-dollar prize would leave the team short, and two million dollars seems insufficient to buy control of a large gym chain.
- A bank sending a person to help a small business with paperwork seems implausible today; Average Joe’s is debated as run-down versus surprisingly busy, clean and adequately equipped.
- The1954training film would make Patches roughly ninety; Goodman’s1987flashback plus six years implies1993, conflicting with Armstrong’s later wins.
- The new uniforms resemble the earlier qualifier shirts so closely they might simply have been washed; existing gym or softball shirts are a possible explanation.
- The final double-fault rule is unresolved: Goodman stepping over the line should seemingly void his throw rather than force sudden death, and Peter never visibly crosses.
- The sportsbook wager is again challenged, and Peter’s passivity makes his business ownership implausible; inherited wealth is jokingly suggested for him too.
- Peter enters Kate’s house uninvited, while Kate later enters his hotel room without a key; an already-open door is the proposed explanation.