But the first two days, they never let us down. I just watched Saint Louis come back from 16 down to tie North Carolina State. Or, more accurately, I just watched North Carolina State author one of the more amazing choke jobs I can remember. My heart rate is elevated, and I don't give a flying fuck who wins this game.
Sports are cool.
Muppet Peeps, as well. Enjoy Day Two.
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In no one cares news, I went 15-1 yesterday.
ReplyDeletepicked the tribe to beat sparty, didn't you?
ReplyDeletepipe down
ReplyDeleteI've got the day off today. I'm fairly certain some afternoon beers will be involved. That's after I finish a few pages in my grammar workbook, of course.
ReplyDeleteBecause I've got the day off I'm at the gym much later than usual for a weekday. And who else is here at this time? The motherfucking Canadian Crew team. Dagger.
ReplyDeleteThe good news is that there is a Crew.
ReplyDeleteNot 5, not 4, not 3, just 2. 2 MC's who are claiming the fame, and all other things won't be the same.
watch out for 12 inches of snow, mark
ReplyDeleteThe Canucks have doubled in numbers since I arrived. They're everywhere! Like a bunch of Bebe's kids with weird accents.
ReplyDeleteBebe Neuwirth?
ReplyDeleteBest part of the Wolfpack choke job was Mark Gottfried choosing to leave ACC POY TJ Warren in with 4 fouls and his team down 1 & in a must foul situation coming out of a timeout. Mark Gottfried is an awful basketball coach but that might've been a new low.
ReplyDeleteIn the event y'all are checking...I'm making the chili that you gave recipe for...perhaps stupid question, but when u say "chuck" do you mean chuck roast that you cut up and added with other meat OR chuck roast, ground in addition to the other grd beef??
ReplyDeleteHelp fast!!
Donna, it was cubed chuck roast we had gotten from our CSA. We ALSO had ground beef in there AND andouille sausage, sliced up.
ReplyDeleteGot it! About to leave store- hoping to win chili cook off at church tomorrow!
ReplyDeletePinewood derby race and chili cookoff at church-that's how we roll :-)
good luck, hope you win, and happy chili'ing
ReplyDeleteohhh, mercer, mercer me...duke ain't what they seem to be, nooooo.
ReplyDeleteactually, after watching them lose at wake forest, duke is exactly what they seem to be.
EAD Duke
ReplyDeleteMercer!!!! Same conference as Florida Gulf Coast. Might be time to start picking said conference champ as one of your regular upsets.
ReplyDeleteNo offense to Mark's interesting morning, but I just won the random celebrity encounter of the day. Details possibly forthcoming in a post tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI owe it all to King George's Seafood Buffet.
And I second what Marls said at 2:31.
None taken. I see the Canadian Crew team on a regular basis as they train down here 4-5 months a year. I hate the Canadian Crew team.
ReplyDeletepretty happy with my TN to sweet 16 pick right now
ReplyDeleteThose pics of the white guys on Mercer celebrating are intolerable. I don't know who's worse - #3 dancing or #20 celebrating. I expect to see Chris Mims emerging.
ReplyDeleteMakes me hate them almost as much as Duke, which I inexplicably picked to go to the Finals.
My guess is you saw Jeter while visiting Dr. Ahmad.
ReplyDeleteBrooklyn Decker's bracket is in surprisingly good shape. And by "bracket" I mean her bracket.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbssportsnetwork.com/sites/fwbb/brooklyn_bracket_p.html
I too took the day off to run some errands before I go to San Francisco for a meeting on Monday. I'll have all day Sunday to myself. Any suggestions for food and drink?
ReplyDeleteFurther, one of my errands panned out better than expected, resulting in me doing one of the coolest things I've done in years. Potential zfiller. I know you're all trembling with anticipation.
What's with this cliffhanger bullshit?
ReplyDeleteI'd guess TR's bitterness with Mercer is related to his Duke pick. Ill know for sure if he didn't enjoy the Mercer pg doing the robot behind his coach & Rachel Nichols during the post game interview. Chapelle Show style robot is always a winner.
ReplyDeleteZ- my old college roommate lived in SF for about a decade. Ill get some recs. where are you staying?
I think zman and tr saw each other. they're both internet semi-famous.
ReplyDeletevick to the jets. were i a jet fan, that'd get me a little bit excited.
ReplyDeleteShut up
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck are the Jets thinking? The NY Post writers are creaming in their pants over the QB controversy. The headline writers are already putting together samples....
ReplyDeleteVICK-Tory
Doggin' It
VICK-6!
Jets are a wild card contender w/ an average QB. Hard to hate the move, b/c we don't know if Geno'a any good and this is a bad-ass front seven on defense.
ReplyDeleteZman - if you're feeling adventurous, rent a bike and go over the Golden Gate Bridge. No uphill pedaling involved. Take the bike down a hil into Sausalito, a cooler-than-cool little town that would be a fun place to live if you were a functionally alcoholic poet. Eat and drink there and tell people your name is Junot Diaz. When you want to leave, take the ferry back across to SF.
i'm serious. you'd rather have geno smith than mike vick? that's crazy talk.
ReplyDeleteCha Cha Cha in the Haight has provided a ton of great nights. Just beware the sangria. Killer.
ReplyDeleteAlcatraz is one of the few tourist attractions anywhere that holds up every time. It's really a must. Get the headphones.
Irish Bank is a great Irish bar in an alley. O'Reillys also not bad.
House of Shields in the Financial district.
Steps of Rome. Saw Andy Garcia there. He's like an Italian Rob in stature.
Watch the monsoon come in at the tonga Room at the Fairnont. Hokey. Drunky.
A burrito in the mission.
Just walk through the Haight and inhale. Old school record store as well.
So much more. Miss it bad. Going for the first time in a decade in August for Outside Lands. Get some.
Believe the place is called Town Hall, down by the Moscone Center. Phenomenal food and cocktails.
ReplyDeleteZ....head down to marina blvd and cruise/walk around. Go watch the crazy effs at aquatic park swim laps in their speedos and then go dip your toes in the water. I second the bike ride across the bridge but it is only flat if you start there. Probably against advise of your orthopedic.
ReplyDeleteAlcatraz tour is actually pretty cool too.
Echo Danimal's marina call. The marina green, you can walk there from the wharf, then head up to Lombardy street, that wacky, wacky street!!!! Or get beers somewhere.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you want REALLY wacky....go to Lombard Street.
ReplyDeleteNo, Danimal, that's too crazy. It's all crooked!!
ReplyDeleteTyping is Fundamental. TIF
Baylor uniforms kill Mosquitos.
ReplyDeleteMedina Green? I've been to SF before, hit Sausalito and boozed like a wino. I've ridden a bike once since I got my driver's license so the bridge ride is out. But these all sound like great ideas, thanks. I'm staying in the financial district but I'm not afraid of cabs or Bart (joke for two).
ReplyDeleteI'm happy w/ Vick, Rob. Will make Geno earn the job. We just need a RB now. Pats' run defense looking weak, so we need a guy who can carry it.
ReplyDeleteYou can almost feel the presence of God Shammgod hovering over Providence's perky performance.
ReplyDeleteI always respected Dean Smith, but it's fun to hate on Roy Williams.
The Bills are all over Sanchez.
ReplyDeleteI'll never get why Infiniti changed all their cars' names to Q. I have no idea what any of them are called now.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think Michael Vick is a piece of shit. But yes, I'll admit as a football move this helps the Jets. But seriously, fuck that guy. And his idiot brother too.
ReplyDeleteKnicks might actually lose to Philly tonight. Would be fun.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could do that spin move.
ReplyDeleteKnicks had a 17 point lead with less than 6 mins remaining. They went scoreless in 12 straight possessions. Too bad the Sixers threw it away.
ReplyDeletefucking carolina
ReplyDeletehavoc
ReplyDeleteBeing a male cheerleader for a big-time program: Awful or not awful?
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to say a DIII school?
ReplyDeleteon the one hand, you're pretty jacked up and get to lay hands on hot cheerleaders. on the other hand, you're a male cheerleader. i'm leaning awful.
ReplyDeleteMark, do male cheerleaders have groupies at Florida?
ReplyDeleteIn basketball, you basically sit and watch from close up most of the time, get on TV a lot, get to fondle lady cheerleaders and are encouraged to stay fit.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the UVA dudes, they're just watching the game right now. No pom-poms or bullhorn. It's a bit appealing.
Dude on UVA just hit a sweet hook shot. Rarely see that today.
ReplyDeleteBreeze through in the Q/45 by my side.
ReplyDeleteAlso, ride bikes and drink wine? Does TR think Zman is a woman in her 40s?
Male cheerleaders didn't get much play at Florida from what I could tell. Other than great seats for sporting events I don't see a ton of upside in the male cheerleader gig.
ReplyDeleteGalactic is playing at The Fillmore tomorrow night and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are there from Thursday to next Saturday.
ReplyDeleteCoastal Carolina playin. Not looking at a bracket but do any other low seeds like Coastal get the benefit of playing a couple hours from home? They are closer to Raleigh than their 1-seeded opponent.
ReplyDeleteSo no Orlando for you Mark?
ReplyDeleteNo. My Mom's 70th birthday was today so I have a bunch of family in town this weekend. Stupid loving family.
ReplyDelete5 foreign nationals on Coastal.
ReplyDeleteDrinking beers on pullout sofa in hotel room. Kids and wife in 2 adjacent bedrooms. Winner.
Oh my god VCU
ReplyDeleteGood boy Mark.
ReplyDeleteCoastal soon realizes what's going on and begins puking on themselves right?
Remind me to tell my wife that I may have peed in the sink.
ReplyDeletethe tribe thinks vcu just collapsed.
ReplyDeleteHoly shit....just saw VCu play. Nice foul. No trutv.
ReplyDeleteI wish the bills traded their sixth round pick for Matt Schaub. Sweet Jesus.
ReplyDeleteNC Central but we called it the yard.
ReplyDeletevcu's collapse was 10x worse than the tribe's. so we got that going for us.
ReplyDeleteRequiem for the Big East is so goddamm good. I remember the 80's Big East better than I remember any other college b-ball era or conference.
ReplyDeleteAnd for Danimal, do what you gotta do by any means necessary. Creatively drinking and sports-watching in a hotel room w/ wife and kids is an art form.
My goodness. Ralph Sampson? Not talking here either. Seems about right. Loved him tho.
ReplyDeleteteej, should we offer mark sanchez the starting job on the gtb intramural team?
ReplyDeleteLooks like UVA has some female cheerleaders posing as men? Is that the same?
ReplyDeleteGosh damn it I should just pull this cooler over to my bed. It's so heavy though.
ReplyDeleteRachel Nicholls is naughty.
ReplyDeleteWould make peein a lot easier though wouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteJust poured the "I'll regret this one tomorrow" scotch. I am totally fine with the Cavaliers being the first 1 seed to get knocked out.
ReplyDeleteOhhhif I had a scotch I'd have 3.
ReplyDeleteCoastal has no shot. Both teams are back to what they are.
teetering on the edge one more drink, tr. it's a bad idea. it's probably gonna happen.
ReplyDeleteThe Lowe's commercial with the ceiling fan gets me every time.
ReplyDeleteCranberry juice Rob?
ReplyDeleteOn your vatech/ buzz Williams tweets....early word is buzz will get more jack than Beamer. Rumor is 2.5. Just sent my pal a txt (humble brag alert....the a.d. That hired him). He's apparently been given the checkbook.
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected for now t.r....hanging around.
ReplyDeleteNot enough has been made here about Cleanthony Early's name.
ReplyDeletehow do you know babcock, danimal?
ReplyDeleteBefore I lived in Incester, I lived in Harrisonburg. He was my BFF. He came to the apple capital after I moved and experienced the glory. Buckles knows him.
ReplyDeletewhy aren't we discussing a gtb summit in blacksburg? other than the fact that it's a shithole full of mouthbreathers?
ReplyDeleteWhen visiting winc it was usually when the parental units were AWOL. We got into some trouble here and there, theoretically of course.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I am the only one, but am fond of bburg.
ReplyDeleteThis game is over.
I spent one weekend in Blacksburg/Radford during my sophomore year of college. Good times.
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