Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tired of Bracketology
Its been relatively slow in the world of Tampa sports right now. The time between the end of the NFL season and the beginning of baseball is when I hang up my fandom for a while and relax a bit since I'm not a huge basketball follower. It is march though and all fans of sport knows what that means, March Madness!!! Did you fill out your bracket? I didn't and I could care less. Sure it might be fun to take an educated stab at who's going to win the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and then compare your bracket with the secretary down the hall who made her picks based on what mascot she likes the most, but id rather catch some more zzzz than listen to any ones attempt to predict the future. Of course there will always be the 'bracket guy' who informs you to know end on how his ten brackets he filled out are doing. There should be a rule that only allows one bracket per person. Any more than that is pretty much cheating. This whole bracketology craze is getting bigger and bigger every year. Even the white house is infected. Although I am bashing the people who cling to their picks as feverishly as fantasy football geeks, I do give credit to President Obama for filling on out and letting ESPN run the hell out of it. I heard people say that he shouldn't be waisting his time on trivial things, but it makes him seem more like a cool human being rather than some robotic tool that runs our country. I cant wait for this March Madness to be over and baseball season to start , but until them Ive got Uconn taking the title over North Carolina 81-79.
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First i agree with that Obama statement. People are always looking for something to bash Obama with, so what he filled out a bracket, just because he is president doesn't mean he doesn't watch basketball. Anyway i hate(more like dislike) college basketball for two reasons; there are toooooooo many damn teams and player to keep up with, half those players aren't good enough to make it in the NBA, and two the good teams stay good and the bad teams stay bad. Once in a while you might get that underdog that comes out of nowhere, but unlike the NBA and NFL there are no trades, mid-season trades trades for picks none of that. So the big schools always recruit THE BEST players in the nation and the big schools are always the ones who make it down to the sweet 16 elite 8 final 4 etc... BORING... a lot of my friends make the argument that they play more defense in college than in the NBA. COMPLETELY disagree, i would like to see anyyyyyyyyyy college point guard, including Stephan Curry try to give Chauncey Billups the business. Uh Uh not happening. Chauncey will send him back to Davidson crying. And i like Curry that's whats funny. While i am at it i might as mention Derrick Rose in Chicago, he's the man and one of the few rookies now-a-days, excluding the King James of course, who has played so well early in his career
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to argue with you on this one. I love filling out the brackets for the madness. I literally sit there on opening day and watch every game. If you ask me it is the best time of the year for sports. I like what you said about the secretary picking based on mascots. My girlfriend watched me fill out my bracket and she said North Carolina would win it all because their uniforms look the best, and they would beat Michigan St. cause she liked the guy Sutan's name. What is that? If she would have filled out a bracket she might have one the whole thing at our work! I did not listen and picked Pitt to take it over Louisville, obviously not good picks, but none the less March Madness owns!!!!!
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