Saturday, March 17, 2012

BLACK FRIDAY

What if they had a tournament and Duke wasn't in it? Would it count? No Duke, no UCONN, no Notre Dame - what's going on? Who is Creighton? Who is St Marys? Lehigh? We even came thisclose to LIU-Brooklyn ("I got your seeding right here!"). Now THAT would have been interesting.

Now we go into round two, when they separate the men from the boys, except where no men show up, like South Florida/Ohio or Xavier/Lehigh. It will still be exciting. Why?

*** 10 REASONS I LIKE MARCH MADNESS***
#10 The fans. They root for the underdog. They root for the favorite. There is no automatic loyalty, you have to earn it.

#9 The games are usually close. You can't bring your seeding or press clippings on to the floor. Lehigh played like they never heard of Duke (Of course, so did Duke).

#8 The players actually get excited and they show it, especially the underdogs.

#7 The players cry when they lose. That's because of the effort they put in.

#6 The coaches really get into it, running up and down the floor, yelling at players and pushing assistant coaches around.

#5 The mascots. Okay, some are just embarrassing, but they can get close to the cheerleaders without a problem.

#4 Sometimes the crowd noise drowns out the announcers. I wish it was more often.

#3 The little 5'6" guard who takes over the game. And it happens a lot.

#2 There's a lot of games and I can channel surf and miss the commercials (Hooray!).

#1 The cheerleaders. They get excited and cheer over the least little thing and they're not paid. They paint their faces and have great pom-poms. They are unabashed fans and sometimes that can be embarrassing.















I don't think Mom & Dad are going to be all that happy when you make the face page of roadrunner with this picture.






***TELL ME IT ISN'T TRUE***
Andy Pettitte has signed a minor league contract with the Yanks. Okay, it's only for $2.5 million, hardly lunch money for NY, but still. He's 39 years old, has no fastball and hasn't thrown a ball in anger in a year and a half and they still sign him? I'm gonna go oil up my third baseman's glove.

***DWIGHT HOWARD COMMITS TO ORLANDO***
He's been giving a good impression of Bret Farve, (I want to leave-I want to stay) for months now. He's finally decided that he's staying and will play for Orlando next year. “I’m very loyal and I’ve always put loyalty above anything.” Right. But only for a year.

***THEY SAID IT***
"For the first time in NCAA history, three teams with seed numbers 13 or higher won their first round games. Does this mean that weaker teams are getting better? Or that the seeding committee is getting worse?" -- Janice Hough
"Massachusetts authorities say they have broken up a canary-fighting ring. Canaries fighting? You'd think they'd be too yellow." -- RJ Currie
"Next step: Superstar defenders demanding larger bounties. We'll have bounty holdouts. "I'm not gonna cripple a guy for a lousy $2,000. Talk to my agent." -- Scott Ostler
"President Obama today released his NCAA bracket. He is a huge basketball fan. But privately, White House aides are worried that if he spends so much time on this, it could affect his golf game." -- Jay Leno
"The best race in the AL East this season would be Michael Pineda and CC Sabathia sprinting to the postgame buffet." -- Dwight Perry


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