Previously: Lots of ads for Miller Lite, Subaru, McDonald's, and EOE's newest masterpiece, "Melrose Placemakers".It's still day 10 and Team Exodus makes plans to head to Milwaukee and try again in Lake Forest the next day. Milwaukee is Greg's hometown and he has numerous connections there.
Meanwhile, Team Cake heads back to Wrigley Field for more punishment. Things don't go any better and they do a little squabbling amongst themselves. They head for a nearby restaurant/bar where they find food, drink, and people willing to help their cause. Charles gets an itch to try the swimming medley again, so they procure a ride to Northwestern to try at their pool. The PR guy there was nominally helpful, but couldn't get any help from either of the coaches to open the pool for them. So they try the Bears again and find success, if they're willing to wait until tomorrow. They stay with a friend of a friend of a friend of Charles (I think) and get a ride for the next day.
Team Exodus enjoys Milwaukee at night as Greg shows them around town. There is much merriment and steam blowing. Stacey shows us her moves again and the camera is lovin' it.
Day 11, bright and early, Team Cake heads to Lake Forest to attempt to catch some passes. Fortunately for them Team Exodus is not there. They're not because...
They're in Milwaukee having a rough morning. Finally they head off for Lake Forest to finish what they started yesterday.
Team Cake is in the practice facility getting ready. Team Exodus is waiting outside. Chris Chandler is a little confused, but apparently it's first come first served. Warmup goes OK, except for Annmarie, who couldn't catch a cold. Chris is pessimistic about her chances of catching one for real. Now it's time to catch them for real - three chances for each team member, and each team member must catch it. Charles leads off and he catches one in good style. Kristin also caught hers on the first try. That left it up to Annmarie. The pass is up... looks good... it goes zinging by. Looks like she didn't see that one. But she caught the second try and they celebrate like they won the Super Bowl or something. But they haven't won anything yet; indeed, they haven't even finished this task. So they interrupt their celebration to let Kerri catch her pass. She does, and they continue celebrating. The two teams are tied 7-7.
Team Exodus receives the smack call and they're disheartened, especially Stacey, who muffed the passes the previous day. So they go for their backup plan - on to the practice rink for the Blackhawks, where they will try to make a goal from center ice. The manager was unhelpful at first but slowly came around. There are others on the ice, so they wait and wait and wait. Finally they get their chance. Stacey is still down about her previous failure, and she's first to go here. The shot is long enough but she hooked it wide. Now she feels worse. Eric hits one that looks good but slams into the goalpost. That doesn't count. It's Greg's turn and his shot is through. Exodus takes the lead at 8-7. Team morale gets a boost.
Elsewhere in metro Chicago, the Cake & Bakers get a ride to the train station, where a guy from England buys them tickets back to Chicago. Jolly good that. They take a short walk to Union Station, where the plan is to take Amtrak to St. Louis. One small problem - they need $119 to buy the tickets and they only have about an hour to do it. Charles keeps his eye on the money while it is collected and gets the #2 line of the line (I used #1 for this summary title) - "I got my girls walking the street". Yes you do Charlie. They collect their money and buy the tickets. They think the train ride is nice and relaxing.
Team Exodus heads to Milwaukee again, but this time they have toll booth troubles. They get through them and try the free throw task. Dan Gadzuric is in town and agrees to keep score. Stacey's the leadoff person again. She makes her first one, then misses the next two. Oh, get on with it and go to the next person, shall we? But wait - she makes one, two, three, four, five, six in a row. Last shot - can she do it? Slo-mo... yes! Now Team Exodus is up 9-7. They head to Greg's parents' house, where Dad agrees to let son drive the car to Minneapolis.
Team Cake arrives in St. Louis in the evening and needs to go to Chesterfield. Fortunately they met a helpful frat guy on the train who agrees to take them there. They go to Kerri's uncle's house. Larry is cool and Kristin is glad to see a mellower side to Kerri.
The calendar turns to day 12. Team Exodus tries the basketball medley in Minneapolis. Loren Woods is there to score. The main court at the Target Arena is set up for the WNBA, which is no good, so they head to the practice facility. The team remarks that warmup goes well. But how will they do when the pressure is on? Doug gives it a good try but falls short. Stacey and Eric also try but fail. It's all in Greg's hands. He gives it his all, but couldn't do it. No Subaru for them and now they're stuck.
NEXT: Team Cake goes to meet with the Rams, Exodus thinks about playing Twister, Cake encounters bad weather in Kansas City, and one team finds themselves in South Dakota.
There is just a HUGE twist in this whole deal... but I can't say what it is yet - also, anybody curious about how or why I was driving if I supposedly didn't have my liscence?Anybody laugh when I was asleep at the wheel?
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>There is just a HUGE twist in this whole deal... but I can't
>say what it is yetI'm intrigued. I am sure it will be revealed in due time, or at least you will be able to tell us when this run is over.
>Anybody laugh when I was asleep at the wheel?
I snickered.
>also, anybody curious about how or why I was driving if I >supposedly didn't have my liscence?
Yeah, I was wondering about that. What's the story?
Hi, everyone, this is my first post, I just wanted to let you all know the board is awesome, and it's great to hear perspectives from both audience and competitors.Anyway…
Yes, I was very curious about your driving status during episode 6. Didn't anyone else know how to drive? Also, the run-in with the tollbooth guy could have resulted in a real mess--that's my guess for the huge twist. By the way, the show kind of made that scene confusing--can you tell us what happened?
<i>also, anybody curious about how or why I was driving if I supposedly didn't have my liscence?</i>do i wanna know??? o well, if you don't say it in the final shows, you can say it on here, when its over
<b>Anybody laugh when I was asleep at the wheel?</b>
i didn't see the show, but i probably would've laughed
btw great summary realitybites
FYI:On ESPN's BBD2 page (espn.go.com/eoe/bbd2), they have a photo of Cake dumping Gatorade on a coach, but it wasn't featured in Tuesdays episode. So Cake is not down and out yet!
Yeah - ESPN.com goofed up. I called the production company yesterday and they weren't happy about the picture on the site.No team CAKE isn't even close to being out of it. This is as tight as can be, and south dakota is a long state full of people who have no clue what reality TV (or cable for that matter) is.
As for why/how I was driving - well, it was driving my roomates car that we borrowed so I felt that I should be the driver...conveineintly, a duplicate Wisconsin liscence of mine was in his car...wow how did that happen?
The twist has nothing to do with the toll booth. I seriously had no clue what that guy was saying, but I knew he wasn't commenting on how nice he thought my shirt was.
He wanted me to pull over at the state troopers station off the freeway...fat chance. Well, it wasn't my car - what the hell did I care...my roomate is concerned however (it's OK, I bought him a case of beer -
Thus - the twist lies with...well, I'll just wait another week to fill ya'll in.
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Does the big twist have anything to do with playing Twister with our new Governor? Mr. Pawlenty went along with that? You know Jesse (old Gov) never would've.Great to see you in Mpls - at last a real show came to our place! Just a couple questions - When were you in Mpls? And are you able to have any contact with any local media when you visit cities? Just wondering - because there was no local mention regarding BBD2 team being in town and I wonder if you got ahold of a local sports (like KFAN) radio station that would broadcast information - such as need money, need meals, or need place to stay - I'd have to think that the locals would come through for you. Just a note - Loren Woods is no longer a T-Wolf (was he a nice guy - he seemed very accomodating). Also why didn't you go back the next day to try that bb task again?
I love this show - can't believe it is so short and put on at such a horrible time (poker is in prime time???) Can't wait till the continuation next week!
The twist does have something to do with playing twister...thats about all I can say right now.Oh, let's see...when were we in Minneapolis - well best I can remember it was around May 10th-ish.
We aren't necessarily restricted from contacting local media...course, we really didn't think aobut it much either. We never kept much of a time schedule - we just needed to get places, and we ARE resticted from setting things up. For example - I couldn't call a station and say "Hi, we're doing this race (blah, blah, blah) and we need people to feed us etc.." we can't set things up that way.
As for Loren Woods...very cool guy. Genuinely nice and willing to help. He was a fan of the show...which helped.
Why didn't we go back the next day? well the twist will explain that a little. Also - and you may have noticed this, the last phone call we made to team CAKE was following the completion of task 8. After that phone calls stop. So we have no clue how the other team is progressing...staying in Minnesota another nite would've been a waste of time...trust me.
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