Ivan Frakkin' Lendl!

I've found a good purpose for the blog. Ranting about lost trivia nights. Trivia nights are great fun. But they can also be quite anguishing when you ... Oh, I don't know, finish in 3rd place and have about 4 or 5 answers you were [[[this close]]] to getting right. U2's album that went to number one the day after it was released? Joshua Tree (we over-thought that one). The team OJ Simpson played his last game for? San Francisco 49ers. The two words Jim Henson morphed to create the word "muppets"? "Puppet" and "Marionette," of course! (Not "music," after all.) Rickey Henderson played his last game for the Dodgers. Morgan Freeman's name on Driving Miss Daisy was Hoke. The one that really got me, though was, "Who finished 1985, '86, '87, '89 as the number 1 tennis player in the world?" Not that I follow professional tennis and not that I know who finished number 1 any given season, but the fact that I could list every tennis player in the '80s I could think of and not come up with Ivan Lendl... IVAN LENDL! ...just makes me weep for my trivia skills. And sports is the one category I'm supposed to bring something to the table. Fix two of these wrong answers and we're in the money. Instead, we pay the bill for our burgers and go home to try to sleep (and apparently write anguished blog posts).