"Here we go...crap."So the day has come. 64 teams enter, one leaves. I pretty much consider my favorite time of the year (fuck you Christmas with your cheer and happiness. Just give me my bottle of scotch and leave me alone). Besides, I don’t need presents when winning other people’s money is much more satisfying. I feel like I’m a winner, until I realize I’m a winner in something completely trivial. Shit. Now, seriously, give me my bottle of tequila (since it’s more of a spring kind of drink) and leave me alone….
Other than money, there’s also pride on the line. We’re in a little bloggers bracket, if you haven’t heard. Actually, you probably haven’t heard of it, because, according to the Bears Necessity, we don’t get many readers. So I’m sure five of you know the deal with our wager against the other blogs, but the other ten readers we have probably don’t. Basically it’s us against The Sports Lounge, Bears Necessity, Gossip on Sports, Battle of California, and Apples and Moustaches. Winner gets to post on the loser’s blogs for a day. We also set up a little side bet with Bears Necessity, where whoever does better gets a week of posts.
With so much on the line, I decided that we needed to call everyone up to combine our college basketball knowledge to make one bracket that overflows with crazy stupid smart picks. Unfortunately, the combination of our brain juices doesn’t lead us to “crazy stupid smart” picks, but more like amateur, not so intelligent picks based simply on who lost to who and not on matchups or anything that involves expert knowledge. Whatever. Since when did gambling become a science anyway? Oh yeah, since poker became popular.
Thus, we all got together and combined our powers, kind of like the Planeteers, but not gay. U12, me, Ace of Spades, and Ms. Auto gathered in a chat room to make our picks. Eazy-E was not present, probably because he realized how uncool the situation was. Damn him. And it was St. Patrick’s Day. Fuck, we’re losers.
We had a basic voting structure, one blogger, one vote. Unfortunately this failed miserably since many picks came out to an even 2-2 vote. I told you we weren’t very good at this. When there was a tie, most of it came down to arguing for five minutes and then a coin toss. Great. Some highlights during the process:
When discussing about George Mason vs. Notre Dame:
Kccal: So Notre Dame?
U12: The only problem with that is George Mason did put up a fight against some good teams and they beat U$C.
Kccal: They did?
U12: Unless that’s another USC…..
A few minutes later…
U12: …which it is.
Kccal: South Carolina.
U12: Oops.
Kccal: They should really just use the $ to replace the ‘S’ to make things less confusing.
Our college basketball knowledge is grand, what can I say? Somehow when discussing a Tennessee vs. Butler match up, 3 6 Mafia came into the conversation since they’re from Tennessee. U12 pointed out the 3 6 stands for 666 Mafia…
Kccal: Man, they should just be 666 mafia then.
U12: But then white kids won’t buy their albums because they’re devil worshipers.
Kccal: No, white kids will buy more albums since they’ll think it gives them street cred.
U12: Oh yeah…
We decided that the coin toss method didn’t work to do tie breakers, so we did something even more ridiculous: online paper, scissor, rock. How do you that, you ask? Quite frankly, I’m not even sure how we did it.
U12: Okay, how about rock paper scissor?
Ms. Auto: How is that going to work?
U12: Type in the one you want and someone else type in 1 2 3. Then we'll just hit enter at the same time.
U12: LOL
Kccal: Oh god.
Ace of Spades: 1
Ace of Spades: 2
Ms. Auto: 3
U12: Rock
No response…
U12: Damnit, lets try this again.
Ace of Spades: 1
Ace of Spades: 2
Ace of Spades: 3
U12: Paper
Kccal: Rock
U12: OWNAGE
Kccal: Shit.
Kccal: I saw that you put paper before I pressed entered. I was temped to cheat.
Yeah…Um….Yeah… We did have one college insight though about Kansas:
Kccal: Man I don’t know about Kansas making it to the final four. I guess it's just because they're Kansas. I know they’ve been really good all season, but still. It’s like if the Buffalo Bills had a perfect season, I wouldn't be surprised if they still lost the Super Bowl.
Ace of Spades: Or the Chiefs.
Kccal: Hey don't clown on the Chiefs just because they have an awesome QB in Brodie Croyle.
It’s tough being a Chiefs fan. Well after pretty much all of this, we finally completed our bracket:
We’re totally going to win now, as you can see we have a plethora of knowledge when it comes to making college basketball picks. Man we are screwed.
Stay tuned for updates throughout the day as we reveal how the other blogs picked…
UPDATE: We got lazy. Just stay tuned for score updates tomorrow.
From Around the Blogs:
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A's spring training info [A's Nation]
Our gambling addiction (uh, I mean bloggers pool) update:
Gossip On Sports responds to the trash talk [Gossip on Sports]
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