Day 550

• There is now belief, on the first day of Jeopardy!'s new season, Mayim Bialik will be the new host.  Randy West has put that information out there, reporting she's probably going through at least November sweeps on the syndicated version -- UGH...   
• So, for the 50th season opener for The Price is Right:  Million-Dollar Pay The Rent with one BRUTAL winning setup (but they DID have one -- contestant correctly walked at the last with $100,000), one other pricing game with a huge prize (a $50,000 swimming pool package), and slightly inflated Showcases.  Yip-pee....  *sarcasm*   
• Apparently, according to sources, this was actually intended to be the TUESDAY show, not the opener.  Does this mean someone WON the million and they're saving for it, or was this the best they could come up with for the opener?
• And it wouldn't be Mets-Yankees without a bench-clearing incident -- last night, after a Gioncarlo Stanton home run.
• Another Conor McGregor incident, this one at the VMA's last night.  *sigh*  Will someone put that Irish idiot in the damn slammer before he kills somebody??  (Or is it too late for THAT already?)   
• Current report is that the Houston Texans will sit DeShaun Watson for the season.  Good...  
• Thanks to my anonymous friend for finding this...  More of what we have to go up against:

• PS:  That statement has nothing to do with the poll number -- just the window.
• The Ryan Fitzpatrick era in Washington lasted part of one game.  Off to the IR with a hip injury.
• The SEC has fined the University of Arkansas $100,000 for the field storming by the fans after their win over Texas last weekend.
• I'm not 100% surprised this happened, bluntly:  It appears as if USC has had enough of the coaching -- Clay Helton has been FIRED two games into the season after a two-touchdown loss to Stanford.
• Ah, the first Monday Night Guffaw of the season, didn't take three minutes:  Ravens DC Don Martindale was called "Wink Martindale" by one of the announcers.  :)
• Speaking of game shows...  Mike Richards Boycott Watch:  The first of the five shows of the Mike Richards Full Hosting Era on Jeopardy! saw ultra-champ Matt Amodio get win #19 -- and, this time, he was able to convert Final Jeopardy for a $25,000 win, instead of a loss of the same amount on another "lock game".  So it's now 19 wins (joint fourth on the all-time list with two other men, #3 is 20 before we get to Holzhauer and Jennings) and $67,800 for the show (Archivist Andy Saunders notes that is the sixth-highest non-Holzhauer total) and total winnings so far of $642,601.  That is third all-time regular season, according to the show, behind the two-million-pluses of Holzhauer and Jennings.  And when all play, including tournaments, is taken into account, the show's website notes Amodio's total is sixth all-time -- with fifth less than $14,000 away.
• A number which I often look at is the average win, which, for Amodio, is $33,821.
• Two numbers of note:  At that average, Amodio would get to a total of one million dollars if he kept winning until two weeks from tomorrow (September 28th).  
• Wikipedia (as of the time of writing this, it may be changed soon), with some dispute of the methodology, places the 10th highest total American game-show winnings winner as John Carpenter of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? fame at $1,250,000.  (General convention, and the same convention which allows Thom McKee to be named the highest winner and not Rob Griffin -- who won the $1,000,000 Tournament on The Joker's Wild in 1980 and won $500,000 (half to a charity, in the same manner as Carpenter's $250,000 second win on Millionaire's Tournament of Champions) to go with an amount he won on the show to make the Tournament -- is that neither winnings by a couple or team as a full enterprise nor pre-designated-as charity winnings are included.)  Using the convention of "no charity winnings", the #10 winner of all time would actually be Adam Rose from The Price is Right, who won $1,153,908 in 2008.  That number would take win #35 for Amodio (October 5).  If Carpenter's full $1,250,000 is the standard, then #10 on the list would be reached with win #37 (October 7).
• According to Libertarian site Karl Denninger's Market Ticker:  The number of governors now against the mask mandates is up to 27 -- Denninger is actually proposing a blockade to prevent the other 23 states from getting any vital supplies.  Oh, that'll work, Karl...  You better hope you can ferry an entire country's (or at least the 27 states) worth of supplies through ports like Houston and New Orleans and Miami, because forget getting anything through New York City, Baltimore, San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle!!  New Hampshire would be an impossibility, and trying to get anything to Ohio or Indiana would probably get shot out of the water in New York State's waters.