Wait Wait, Don’t Taft Me

Wait Wait, Don’t ‘Taft’ Me: Our favorite NPR quiz show featured some unexpected baseball trivia.

To everything, there is a season… just not as many

To everything, there is a season… just not as many

Wait Wait has got your sports stars right here

“Wait Wait” tries to take care of your post-Super Bowl sports jones.

Wait Wait, tell me again

“Wait Wait,” tell me again

“Ouchies” redux

On the most recent Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Peter Sagal played “Not My Job” with Iranian stand-up comic, Maz Jobrani. Here’s the slightly-edited transcript. SAGAL: Well welcome to the show, Maz. We have asked you here to play a game we’re calling? CARL KASELL, host: Here, let me open that bottle for you. Ugh, [...]

Sagal says, “So long, Steinbrenner.”

Sagal says “So long, Steinbrenner.”

Wait Wait: Vuvuzelas?

Peter Sagal on vuvuzelas

Wait Wait: Olney make believe

Sorry, I can never keep that name straight. The natural tendency is to dyslex it into “only.” ESPN baseball writer/broadcaster Buster Olney was the guest on the latest Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me‘s “Not My Job” segment. I felt kind of badly for him. There was zero response to Peter Sagal’s introduction. I mean “crickets.” [...]

Wait Wait: Mark McGwire segment

Our favorite game show host, Peter Sagal, included the recent shocking news about Mark McGwire on the latest episode of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. In the “Who’s Carl This Time” feature, sidekick Carl Kassel offered the quote: “I used very very low dosages. There was no way I wanted to look like Lou Ferrigno [...]

Catching up with baseball fan Peter Sagal

I was catching up on my Twitter and found an entry by our old friend Peter Sagal referring to an interview he gave to the NY Daily News‘ “Touching Base” blog. It was quite an in-depth conversation, he notes,  “In which I wax on, at great length, about baseball.” While reading through it my spider [...]