[Tuesday Morning Update: This addition stuff is apparently verrrry difficult. I crunched the numbers last night and hope the amended figures below are actually correct.]Here at G:TB, it's hard to tell what we're worse at, picking this year's games or doing basic math. Here's what I have as the amended 1st round totals:
Rob (East): 5-3, 25 points
TJ (South): 5-3, 23 points
Dennis (West): 4-4, 20 points
Whitney (Midwest): 4-4, 14 points
All I have to say for myself is that my homeriffic pick of ODU going to the Sweet 16 wasn't nearly as bad an idea as ignoring the advice of everybody in the world except Wheelhouse Geoff and taking Notre Dame. Those 12 points sure would come in handy about now.
Here are the first weekend totals up to the moment:
TJ (South): 9-3, 50 points(!)
Dennis (West): 7-5, 38 points
Rob (East): 7-5, 36 points
Whitney (Midwest): 6-6, 26 points
Please, someone, check my math. Not my strong suit.
TJ's gotten himself pretty much in the clear with some stellar prognostication. He could whiff from here on out and I'd still need to be perfect to top him. If my numbers are true, here are each of our respective maximums:
TJ: 93
Dennis: 75
Rob: 65
Whitney: 65
Odds are with the jobless guy buying the employed guys lunch. Well picked.
i was told there'd be no math.
ReplyDeleteman, what a thoroughly unsatisfying day of hoops action. if the big guys are gonna win, at least let the games be close (note that we here in the nation's capital saw little to none of the unlv/wisconsin and texas/usc game, so we didn't even get to watch the upsets progress - and the tennessee/uva result wasn't an upset).
also, i'd submit you've got better odds of avoiding the basement than i do. i've got all my eggs in the hoyas' basket at this point - if they lose to vandy, i'm well and truly fucked.
ReplyDeleteI'm not cooked yet, but I don't see the Hoyas getting taken down by the Commodores, especially the way things are going in this tournament . . . meaning I will need my original and wild prediction of the Ducks taking the region to come true. Stay tuned.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about Brass Balls Law...
ReplyDeleteThanks to Dennis' Sirius radio, we were treated to Pete Gillen doing the first half of UVA/Tenn, and I must say it was one of the more entertaining/confusing color jobs I've heard in awhile.
ReplyDeleteI've got to say, I'm pretty happy for both Lon Kruger and Tim Floyd, who both made such disastrous jumps to the NBA I never thought we would hear from them again (I always knew that Calipari would resurrect a program through some solid cash advances). Which is a nice way of saying, "Tubby, enjoy Sacramento, and we'll see you back in the Big 10 in 2009".
ReplyDeleteG:TB public service announcement:
ReplyDeleteSinbad is not dead. I repeat, super funny man Sinbad is not dead, though his career has been for over a decade.
First, Syracuse gets bumped to the NIT in favor of poo-poo Arkansas and Stanford squads, and now I can't even watch their NIT game because it's on ESPNU. Sweeeet....
ReplyDeleteThe Nats have demoted Larry Broadway in favor of Dmitri Young. Cap Hill bars rejoice.
ReplyDeleteslow day here at the g:tb factory. you guys 'avin a laugh?
ReplyDeleteI finally saw Borat last night...niiiiiice
ReplyDeleteDid You Know???
ReplyDeleteAccording to sources, Coach Gibbs uses the finger-quotation-marks every time he mentions quarterbacks coach Bill Lazor in a team meeting.
a team of retarded monkeys (or blogger employees) could have tallied the results of the pool faster and more accurately than we have to date.
ReplyDeleteI can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking.
ReplyDeleteReally? I live in Queens, did you put that together yourself, Einstein? Got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?
Hi TJ!!
ReplyDeleteHow did we miss this?
ReplyDeleteThe Maryland Nighthawks made history in their final game with the tallest starting five in basketball history: 7-foot-9 Sun Ming Ming, 7-foot-7 Gheorghe Muresan, 7-foot-1 Ayu Adigun, 7-foot Deng D'Awol and the little fella, 6-foot-8 Barry Mitchell. They beat the Cape Cod Frenzy 132-128.
Barry Mitchell? Really? They couldn't find one more 7 footer to fill out the starting five?
ReplyDeleteAnd TJ, how did you not attend this? I would've expected a full recap (with pics).
Apparently I need to get on the Nighthawks mailing list...
ReplyDeletedagger - that would've been a beautiful thing to see.
ReplyDeleteI think we G:TBers might have been a little disappointed. Gheorghe played fewer than five minutes, and it appears he only had the ball for a total of 12 seconds. He took one shot, missed it, and had an assist.
ReplyDeleteActually, just to see him out there again would've been a treat.
Yep, the 2007 Washington Nationals season is going to be an epic disaster:
ReplyDeleteJason Simontacchi appears to be well on his way to earning the Nationals' third spot in their rotation, according to the Washington Post. John Patterson will be the Opening Day starter, and Shawn Hill (gulp) appears to be the second starter. It's worth noting that Simontacchi, who underwent major shoulder surgery in the fall of 2004, hasn't pitched in the bigs since then, and hasn't started a game since he pitched for the Cardinals in 2003.
60 wins is starting to look like "pie in the sky" for these guys...
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me, I had a double case bet with Heath and Dennis stemming from Atlantic City. This guy says it's a LOCK the Nats lose 100 games; those two think otherwise. I am gonna be a big winner.
ReplyDeletethough you may win the bet. You're never gonna be a big winner, son.
ReplyDeleteDo you want to have a good trip to DC young man, or a bad trip?
ReplyDeleteA good trip, I guess.
ReplyDeleteThis place could really use some new content...
ReplyDeleteHey TJ,
ReplyDeleteIt looks like your boy Bargnani is out for awhile after his appendix nearly burst. That's what you get for stealing him from me...jerk.
Time to find another soft European to replace him on my squadron...
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Vlad Radmanovic is available. Oh wait...how about Darko?
ReplyDeleteWill Dickie V be going too?
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