one of my favorite times of year- march madness. conference tournaments start this week, meaning i'll be watching semifinal matchups of conferences i've never heard of between schools i've never heard of, all to see who ultimately will draw the coveted #16 seeds in the ncaa bracket.
while the conference tourneys are fun, if nothing else for the sheer excitement of the players and the sparse crowds they play in front of, my absolute favorite day of the year is the first thursday of the ncaa tournament- this year on 3/20. as thursdays are my early day around here, my usual routine for the past few years has been to leave here at noon, hit the mcdonalds drive-thru for a burger and a shamrock shake, and park myself in front of the TV hopefully just in time for the usual 12:20 tipoffs for the first games. at sometime around midnight, i get up and go to bed.
maybe this year, i'll bring the laptop home and post updates as the day goes on. i'm sure you'd love that.
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I haven't worked a Thursday or a Friday of the tourney's opening weekend in twelve years, my friend.
Greatest weekend of the year.
Because I don't have my own blog, I am going to hijack yours with a mildly tangential thread. As with the coming of the tourney, also looming are the Olympics, which was brought home this weekend when Lady K was watching the gymnastics' America Cup. And no more than 30 seconds in did it all come rushing back: how ridiculous are Tim Dagett and Elsie Schlegl? So hyperbolic. Dagett, in dicussing Paul Hamm's amazing (me: dubious) come from behind all-around victory four years ago in Athens called it the "most amazing event in sports I have ever seen."
Now, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and credit that when he says "I have ever seen" he means witnessed live. But even Al Trautwig was calling BS on this as he gently reminded Dagett, "And you were a member of the gold-winning men's team of 1984." I laughed. Even Trautwig, who lets these two idiots yammer on uncontested was like, "Let's dial it back there,Tumbly McGee."
Dagett and Schlegl are just inane and they suffer from a common problem with color commentators, in that they believe, having been hired to explain the arcane aspects of the sport, need to talk all the time. Which lead Dagett to compliant one American gymmast's toes.
It's going to be a laughable, maddening time in ol' Beijing.
What the hell were you doing watching gymnastics??? What, no race cars on??? It's like I don't even KNOW you anymore!!!
In my defense, we have one TV and the missus was watching. I was in the room reading the newspaper and paying 1/2 attention to what was going on.
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