Go to Hell North Carolina

I was at basketball games screaming, "Pook on Dook," before most of the people reading this were born, but when Will went to Duke for graduate school I had a change of heart.  As for North Carolina, I pulled slightly for them today because our President picked them and who wants our President to look bad other than Rush Limbaugh and his band of ditto heads sometimes known as the Republican Party.  North Carolina completely ruined at least a decade of basketball with  its four corners.  How would you like to watch a weekend or two of that?  Yet no one has suggested that anyone should apologize for being one of their fans.  I will admit to liking the game but I am a pragmatist.  On  my bracket they make it to the finals but fall to Memphis State.

 

If you mean, is it your

turn finally to apologize for being a Duke fan... Sure, anytime. UPDATE** -- Oh, when the previous post first appeared it had just the title and appeared to be from Will. My bad Clarkson... I'd never call you out like that.

Is it my turn yet?

I did not miss a game today but still lost ground in the pool.  Captain 'Cuse remains alone in his lofty post at the top of a rather motley group of pickers. many of whom seem more a home with the nose than the bracket.  Tied for second is Lauren who can pick free from sentiment because she only cares for Georgia Tech who had no chance of engaging in post season play.  There is another  guy in second who thinks it cute to kick the SEC while it is down, while failing to choose A-10 teams in his bracket.  The most amazing feat in the  history of  sMaCkDOWn is Thomas, a confessed baseball fan who disdains basketball, but is tied for second after three full days of play.  As we know anyone can luck up and be in second but how  does one end up in second in the middle of the second round and have only 420 possible points remaining?  

I may be tied for 23rd and Captain 'Cuse may be in first but my turn is coming.  Today I failed to take Satchell Paige's advice.  As you may recall, he said,  "Don't look back.  Somebody might be gaining on you."  Well, today I looked back and there was no one there.  But as Scarlett O'Hara said, "Tomorrow is another day."  

Clarkson

Is it my turn yet?

Gonzaga

Not a good year for the West Coast. I'm now stuck rooting for Gonzaga, a team from Eastern Washington, which is more or less Idaho. Snowy, sparsely populated... and the few people who do live there vote Republican. I've been inspired by the groundswell in favor of comments, and have switched my vote from nay to yea. But if we do wind up enabling comments, I hope people don't bury a great post in a comment field.

Age Grouping

I should also be in the [15-30] age grouping. The mistake was an easy one...given the maturity of my picks.

 

I noticed that nobody mistakenly put in a younger age bracket has come forward...

 

Erin Fitzpatrick

Surrogate Smack Talker

Mook,

Thanks for talking some smack on my behalf!

Since Will suggested that we Georgians relax about basketball and just
post pictures of our kid, I'll take him up on that. Chuck, since I
snuck up on you in your age bracket, the picture is of Eston showing
off his hat from his second favorite team that is not in the tournament.

I'm not sure whether picture attachments will show up on the blog from
an email, but I'm giving it a shot.

Lauren

Age Grouping

There was a typo in the age-grouping Chuck - Lauren is also in your 15-30. And she's beating you.

A Matter of Faith

I notice that despite Jeff's lip service to the A-10 with his bracket, he couldn't even bring himself to pick the upset on West VA. Asleep Forest's loss last night really put a dent in my bracket, as did FSU and Northern Iowa's demise. As per usual, I'm sitting in the middle of the field, looking to make a late run. But I seem to have taken a commanding lead on the 15-30 age group (consisting of the two Jenkins).

Not about winning

I would try to reassure Thomas that this pool is not about winning, but when he picked FSU to win it all he showed he already knew that. There's lots to root for: the ACC's demise, for one! Randy, I'm pretty sure Lawrence is a Division III basketball squad, so I'm not sure how excited you should be that GTech has a better team than Lawrence...

Irony or upsets versus solid picks

I made some gutsy choices that won. #11 Dayton, #12 Arizona, #9 Texas A&M, #10 Maryland, #12 Western Kentucky, #10 Michigan, and #9 Sienna. I am tied for second with absolutely no chance of winning and maybe no chance of the top 90%..

Why don’t I have a chance to win? I went with two safe choices, #4 Wake Forrest and #5 Florida State and they both lost. I figured if Florida State could eliminate Georgia Tech from the ACC tournament, they must be the best team in the nation so I picked them to win it all. I notice Randolph did not follow that logic. I certainly overrated the ACC to my everlasting regret.

Lucy and I returned to baseball tonight, taking Mary Croom, Luis, and Franklin to Winthrop’s game against arch rival Coastal Carolina. Winthrop lost 7-2 but we left before Coastal scored the seventh run.

Sorry for the bitter rant but I need to get back to bridge where at least if I lose it is on my own bidding and play rather than some twenty-year-old kid.

Thomas F. McDow

Cheesehead?

Call me a cheesehead!!!!!!