A minute on the web

Happened to mention baseball a while ago, and I'll let you in on some little known corners of the Web. They're called game day threads, and they consist of comments from baseball fans who are watching their bat-and-ball heroes march to victory or bumble to defeat.

Some sites keep the threads reasonably clean and sensible. Then there are other sites, like Lone Star Ball, a fansite for Texas Rangers partisans. The game day threads on this site run to tedious profanity and rock-bottom idiocy. In other words, the threads are funny and/or sad, depending.

Last night the thread was rocking because Rangers hurler Yu Darvish almost pitched a perfect game. Amid the general hysteria, one poster dropped this ironic note: "You guys seeing this ep of Minute To Win It on GSN? Damn, this is legendary stuff."

By the site's standards, this was a witty comment. Funny thing, though. It's quite possible that more people were watching the legendary Minute episode than the Rangers telecast. Sure, it's an unfair comparison because GSN was broadcasting nationally while the Rangers were only televising on a regional sports net.

But Guy Fieri might have had the last laugh.