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Even more lame: Cindy is disappointed that Ernie is doing it because she types faster than him. So, let’s stop and summarize. We have three teams with varying degrees of not being as awesome as the sorely-missed Andy & Tommy. The one team that I like has stalled out on the first task. The team that I’m apathetic toward is several miles away from the correct location (17 miles if you trust Google Maps – yes, I looked it up, which is what Jeremy & Sandy should’ve done). Finally, the team that I actively loathe is already so far ahead they will undoubtedly win the race.

My fingers are crossed in vain for an epic typing mishap the world hasn’t seen since James Cameron wrote Titanic. The Southern gentleman, who will be judging Ernie’s typing, Stonewall Jacksons him when asked for assistance. It’s not "epic" but it may slow down the engaged couple’s momentum.

But Ernie could be asked to chisel the clue in stone and still beat Jeremy & Sandy, who are STILL searching the store for their clue. Jeremy has gone as far as looking in the "used" furniture section because the clue said the "former residence." You can’t see it but I am truly shaking my head at these fools.

And I keep the head shaking going as Amani & Marcus have now been in the flight simulator longer than it took them to fly from Panama to Georgia. This may be an exaggeration…emphasis on the word “may.”

The typing is proving problematic for Ernie. So, it’s not easy but that doesn’t make it any less lame. He'd better get a move on because Jeremy & Sandy finally abandon The Dump (the store) and are headed to "the dump" (Margaret Mitchell’s house) thanks to a local woman’s iPhone.

Ernie overcomes the lack of ‘1’ on the typewriter after a few incorrect substitutions and they get out of the dump before Jeremy & Sandy arrive. With his freshly typed clue, they must figure out that the numbers 44, 715, and 74 stand for Hank Aaron’s jersey number, number of record-breaking career homeruns and the year he broke the record, respectively. Their destination is the outside wall of Turner Field. More Internet searches are in their future.

Once they hit Margaret Mitchell’s house, Sandy heads upstairs for the Roadblock. She has a better handle on the task than Ernie until the “1” shows up.

Finally, Amani & Marcus have successfully landed their simulator. The bad news is that it took 12 attempts and Marcus crashed enough passengers to film 100 more seasons of Lost. He finally separated the task from the race, which calmed him enough to complete it.

Despite the devastating setback that surely lost them the race, Amani shares the fault and praises him for not giving up. This type of support just makes it even more of a bitter pill that the nice guys won’t finish first.

Sandy passes her Civil War-era typing course and gets their clue and Ernie & Cindy are finally turned on to the significance of the numbers to Hank Aaron. They pull up to Turner Field with the good ol’ fashioned map memory challenge. The twist is that one person is elevated on rope and has to maneuver around the map (that is basically on a billboard) marking their destinations on the race. The other person can help but must yell from the ground below. Phil claims that this challenge could change the course of the race but I don’t buy it.

Cindy climbs the map and begins plotting their Amazing Race journey. Ernie is just letting her do all the work from memory. Amani & Marcus are at the Roadblock with Marcus typing.

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