Kids, I apologize for the delay in the blog, but my 9-year-old (Happy Birthday, Max!) and I were in mourning after Sunday night's episode of Amazing Race, and we needed some time to ourselves.

Now, we are directing our grief at the loss of Max's beloved Globies in a more positive direction, and by that I mean we are hoping that anvils and grand pianos fall on the heads of Sam and Dan. Because two bigger d-bags have never existed in AR history, and yes, we are including Jonathan and Victoria in that statement.

First of all, even after all these weeks of racing, I'm not sure which one is Sam and which one is Dan. So I don't know specifically which whining mongrel burned Big Easy during the F-R-A-N-Z challenge, but it doesn't really matter. Because this pair is really one monster with two heads. Two whining, annoying, hypocritical, lying heads. Imagine being upset that Meghan and Cheyne tried to take your taxi, mere hours after you stole Brian and Ericka's taxi? Imagine coasting off of someone else's ability, mere minutes after you complain a team does that to you? Imagine promising someone to work together and then ... not.

(Although Flight Time and Big Easy had certainly developed a track record of agreeing to work with teams and then getting ramrodded by them).

And so we — and Phil ­— were very sad to say goodbye to FT and BE, and were certainly shocked that Brian and Ericka are in the Top 3.

The questions that will be debated for centuries will be, "Should the Globies have taken the 4-hour penalty? Would Big Easy, admittedly no eastern European scholar, have NEVER gotten the word "Franz" in even slightly less than four more hours of trying? And based on how long it obviously took Miss AmEricka to schlep beers, could they have caught up if he had kept trying?"

I will say that while it appears inevitable for a Meghan-Cheyne victory, despite what the previews for Vegas try to make us think, I am enjoying the dark horse aspect of Miss AmEricka. I never expected them to make it past the first few legs. I loved her during the beer schlepping, with her "American attitude." And really, let's all party in Prague when we get the chance.

So this crappy season comes to a close Sunday, and here's hoping that something really bad happens to Sam and Dan in Vegas. Because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.