Red and White is for the Polish version of Race.

My thoughts on Race #1403:

So for the 2nd straight episode of Race, it was all about the Asians. But unlike the last episode, they were the dumbest and unluckiest people on the face of the earth, and got very lucky to stay in the race.

First off, we found out that they had a 100-minute lead (!) at the start of this leg from their dominating performance in #1402. But it went all downhill from there, as they jumped on a flight for Romania all by themselves. Only problem is: Lufthansa mechanics obviously can't do shit. So they get to join the rest of the lead teams on the next flight out of Munich to Bucharest. One team, however, was not on that flight. We'll come back to that later.

Anyways, the Asians wind up getting the first taxi out of there but they can't quite find the roadblock: a gymnastics challenge. Guess who got out of that challenge first. THAT'S RIGHT: Mel and Mike, who I would guess watch gymnastics furiously at the Olympics. They move on to the train station to take a trip to Transylvania.

Meanwhile, the Asians end up getting into the gymnastics room in 8th place. Tammy chose to do it and struggled mightily, as the stress was getting to her. It didn't help that Victor was barking orders the entire time. This would become a theme of this episode. They got to the train station still in 8th, but they got lucky as an early morning train bunched up the 8 teams together. Yes, I know there are 9 teams in the race at this point; keep reading.

The next route marker in Transylvania was a detour. Choice #1 made you load a horse cart with some gypsy belongings, and trying to avoid Borat in the process. Choice #2 made you drag a coffin off a hill and open it to reveal some frames you drive a stake into. Find a flag and you win.

The gays and the couple (Amanda/Kris) went to the gypsies, cause, after all, the gays would probably fit right in. The gypsies' random musical instruments and stuff they made the teams tow made me giggle unstoppably.

The Asians, among other teams, went for the coffins, but they made a crucial error as they went for white and red markers on a trail up a mountainside instead for the yellow and red arrows that you should always look for. Believing in his own mind, Victor went up this wrong path for hours despite Tammy's pleas to turn around. The big brother/little sister complex was clearly in play here and after self-defeating himself, Victor FINALLY turned around and got through the challenge, despite misplacing the key for a while.

Meanwhile, the gypsy move (the midgets and the blacks also chose this route; everyone else went for the coffins) turned out to be the correct detour choice in this leg; the 4 teams that went for the gypsies all finished in the top 5, including Mel and Mike, who won the leg and get to go to Costa Rica, and Amanda and Kris, who suffered a minor delay in misplacing their fanny pack with their passports and stuff. This probably cost them the win in this leg cause they can outrace the gays for sure. A sobbing Victor and Tammy stepped on the mat in 8th place, as the Asians hope they can rework their relationship.

Where was the 9th team, you ask? Committing 2 cardinal sins of the Race. Brad and Victoria gambled on a quicker flight to Amsterdam in hope they would make a narrow connection to get to Romania faster. But as fate would have it, their Munich to Amsterdam flight was delayed, making the transfer impossible and forcing an overnight layover at AMS. As a result, the geezers never caught up and were eliminated hours after Tammy and Victor checked in. What have we learned from Brad and Victoria? 1. You don't go extremely westbound (MUC to AMS in this case) in an eastbound race, it will cost you in the end. And 2. Narrow connections are gonna burn you in the end because of all the customs BS that you have to go through.

So now we are down to 8. The Asians were my favorite to win it all but now I don't know. We'll see if they regain their composure in #1304.

#1403 Finishing Order:
1. Mel/Mike (trip to Costa Rica)
2. Amanda/Kris
3. Kisha/Jen
4. Margie/Luke
5. Mark/Michael
6. Christie/Jodi
7. Jaime/Cara
8. Tammy/Victor
9. Brad/Victoria (eliminated)

Over the weekend in sports:
Pistons finally get a quality win in Boston. But I think it's too late to save their season, as the NBA's economic contraction has hit the Pistons hard in their quest to bid for 2010 free agents.
Kyle Busch wins in his hometown of Vegas. He's looking to pick up his regular-season form right where he left off last season. Note I said regular-season.
Wings lose 8-nil to the Predators on the same week they defeated San Jose at home. That's not the way you're gonna win the West.
Albert Haynesworth is going to be a Redskin and $100m richer. But Washington will still suck.
Liverpool loses 2-nil away to Middlesbrough. I think we can now just give the crown back to Manchester United where it's going to go for a 3rd straight year.
Speaking of United, they're 40% of the way to total football domination after a penalty kick win in the Carling Cup final over Spurs. The way their defense is playing, who's to say that they won't complete the quintuple?
Nobody cares about who won the Tiger-less WGC final.
Michael Phelps says he'll swim in May in his 1st eligible event. I'm sure they'll put up hash marks to mark where he's supposed to start.

Tomorrow about 8am ET -- TEB's first Raw review, and boy should it contain some fireworks.