After the solid effort produced yesterday by all members of the Gheorghosphere, I felt you earned this. Happy Spring, Happy Tourney Day 2...and Happy Me, because soon Dennis and I will be hitting the road with the Commodore for some Atlantic City fun.
Ante Up! Yap that fool!
292 comments I believe is the all-time high water mark.
ReplyDeleteIt's got to be.
ReplyDeleteAnd we would've cracked 300 if Illinois had completed that nice comeback. Well, actually, that was a Western KY collapse - they acted as if they'd never seen a full court press.
I stand corrected...we fell 30 short of the record last night.
ReplyDeleteMy hatred of all things W&M resurfaced today, my bitterness percolated up from the deepest regions of my bowels. I need transcripts from all the schools I attended. Grad school and law school, no problem. Go online, fill out a form, tell them how many you want, they mail them to you for free. Not so for W&M. They only accept requests by mail. It's as if the telephone, fax machine, and internet weren't invented yet. And they charge $5 for each transcript. Everything about the school is inconvenient.
ReplyDeleteIs the NBA Draft post the all-time comment leader?
ReplyDeleteAnd, yeah, once again TJ has made my day.
Yap that fool, indeed.
Mark, you were 100% right last night - it is the NBA Draft post. 321 comments. And I just read through them all again...it's quite an entertaining waste of 20 minutes:
ReplyDeletehttp://gheorghe77.blogspot.com/2008/06/gheorghe-loves-draft.html
Yeah, that was a pretty good night as I remember it. Lots of folks had their fastball working deep into the evening.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I was the one who was 100% right last night on the NBA draft comments. I was also the guy who said Nova would win by double digits when they were losing in the second half.
ReplyDeleteI am also the guy who swore Drew Gooden and Nick Collison would be great NBA players and wished the Knicks traded up to get them. Nick Collison's 19-21 performance in a losing effort in the 2003 championship game remains an under-the-radar fantastic performance in recent Final Four memory. Too bad that Kansas' run that year was marred by Roy Williams' lust for the UNC job.
Sorry Zoltan, I brought up the NBA Draft post earlier in the evening.
ReplyDeleteI was proud that one of my posts held the comment record (Was I intentionally holding back comments last night in order to hold on to the record? Maybe), its should be clear that my values system is way out of whack and I take pride in all the wrong things: Blog posts, tattoos, basketball knowldege, and the ability to use the word fuck in a multitude of forms.
Oh and Zoltan, Roy Williams could give a shit about North Carolina.
ReplyDeleteMark, this is not your fault cause you don't know these two at all, but TR (nee Rhymo) and Zoltan are two verrrry different individuals.
ReplyDeleteOh, I know they're different. I just mistakenly typed in Zoltan where I meant TR (stop changing your name, dick). They're both old W&M assholes that I don't know, who live in NY/NJ so they're pretty much interchangeable in my hazy little brain.
ReplyDeleteI actually live in Boston but the rest of your description is accurate.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's close enough for me. The next G:TB summit will really help clear up all this confusion amongst our staff.
ReplyDeleteThat GTB summit is being help in Akron, correct?
ReplyDelete...And it comes full circle.
ReplyDeleteWell done Geoffrey.
Or held...
ReplyDeleteFYI - It will be the Eagle and Jimmy Spanarkel doing the 'Cuse game at 12:20 PM today. I've missed the shit out of those guys.
ReplyDeleteTJ, thank you for posting that YouTube. As I mentioned during Gheorghemas, it's my favorite thing in the history of the Internet. When Bert comes in at the :34 mark, it makes my day.
ReplyDeleteI want to have mulatto babies with Jhonny Flynn.
ReplyDeleteTeej, you should leave your hood and your autographed picture of you and Al Campanis over at the Wheelhouse, buddy.
ReplyDeletethe cuse struggling to get it done.
ReplyDeleteand by 'it', i mean play this game with a straight face.
North Dakota State got into the big dance in their first year of eligibility -- despite this picture.
ReplyDeletedanger, ben woodside. danger, ben woodside.
ReplyDeleteUtah St just refusing to score points.
ReplyDeleteMarquette 26, Utah State 18. At the half. These guys are lighting it up.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably going to be the best window of the day. Damn schedulers and their damn afternoon games.
ReplyDeleteOK State/Tenn is a damn good game.
ReplyDeleteand they just cut away?!?
ReplyDeleteyeah, um, golden eagles? i'm gonna need you to hang on. kthxbye.
ReplyDeleteThis game is obscene.
ReplyDelete6 sec left in ok state game and i'm watching a timeout for the marquette game?!?
ReplyDeleteglass!
ReplyDeleteTwo fun endings. Like when Mrs. Swint and Mrs. Doyle visit.
ReplyDeleteTaco Bell Arena? Really Boise?
ReplyDeleteThe early afternoon sessions were not particularly kind to my bracket.
ReplyDeleteIn other news, Greg texted me this morning to say that if I didn't watch all the Yacht Rock episodes then TJ and he would "hate my guts forever". I still haven't quite decided what I'm going to do.
is greg asking if the taco bell arena is truly representative of boise, or is he chastising our corn-fed midwestern brothers and sisters for their choice of sponsor? also, the meximelt: gift from the lord or toxic gut bomb?
ReplyDeleteI think you know what he's asking, Rob. And, I know this may be hard to believe but, I've never had a Meximelt. Possibly the only menu item at the Bell that I haven't tried. The Taco Bell that was less than 200 yards from my high school probably got about 50% of my earned wages in high school.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I appreciate Da'Sean Butler's mother's Irish spin on the name.
ReplyDeletec'mon, mark. play along.
ReplyDeleteI hate the technical foul for hanging on the rim. If I could dunk I'd hang every time.
ReplyDeleteIn the WVU-Dayton game, one of my favorite Sniglets just occurred.
ReplyDeleteVoitlock (voyt' lok) - n. When the basketball gets lodged between the rim and the backboard.
Rich Hall, genius.
E Tenn st showing some moxie!
ReplyDeletesome innnnnteresting doings in the afternoon session. be vewwy quiet, etsu's hunting panther.
ReplyDeletei'm in a pool w/ a top payout of $750, and i'm the only person in the pool with oklahoma as the champs. luck be a griffin tonite.
ReplyDeletehello boys. just thought you'd like to know Shlara took the day off and is chillin on my couch watching games with me. At the moment we're just talking about you, but we'll be getting to the games shortly. Nice to be back.
ReplyDeletelikewise, nice to have you back. and many thanks for the invite.
ReplyDeleteTons of heart on display by E Tenn St!
ReplyDelete"He just slithers beautifully!"
ReplyDelete"They're showing some wear and tear from time off." How the hell does time off induce wear and tear?
ReplyDeleteETSU is all over the offensive glass. Is no one else watching this?
ReplyDeleteI am watching...but have been focusing on the Flyers and the 'Neers...which has been an awesome game...if you like neck and neck sloppiness.
ReplyDeleteif that's a hillbilly joke, geoff, kudos. if not, you missed a tap-in.
ReplyDeleteI figured you were watching a show about cufflinks on Bravo.
ReplyDeleteQueer eye for the really queer guy is on at 815.
ReplyDeleteThat's a backbreaker. Going 11-22 from the line doesn't help.
ReplyDeletec'mon over rob. we'll be here all night.
ReplyDeletemy bracket is done so we'll be switching to bravo in a minute.
Over/under on infantile jokes the Gheorghe staff will make about Morehead State is 3.5 . . . place your bets.
ReplyDeletei'm at pto bingo night - you guys jealous? does whitney's last post count as the first of the morehead jokes?
ReplyDeleteWe're still driving to AC...just a tad antsy at the moment...but Snoop's "Ain't No Fun" is blasting, so I've got that going for me.
ReplyDeleteAnybody else fall just a little bit in love with Chris Wright during that WVU-Dayton game?
ReplyDeleteSunday's Pitt-OK State game will be a fat point guard matchup for the ages...
ReplyDeleteMaybe the NCAA can get Khalid El-Amin to throw up a ceremonial jump ball?
ReplyDeleteOr Jameer Nelson, if he's not too busy rehabbing his shoulder by throwing nachos in his fat mug.
ReplyDeleteSuch a hater.
ReplyDeleteMorehead is really giving it to Pitino and the Cardinals...
ReplyDeletePortland State has a white guy who's 5'6".
ReplyDeleteSomewhere, Rob is smiling as he reads this.
Speaking of Morehead, they could've made a killing with those hats by The Game (the brand not the rapper) that just said the school's name or mascot across the front. You know the ones I'm talking about, a popular one read 'Cocks' for South Carolina.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I never quite understood why so many guys thought it was cool to wear a hat with 'Cocks' prominently displayed across the front. But I digress, as for Morehead, well, I'd have worn that hat. Somebody in marketing dropped the ball on that one.
anyone in america have an easier job than charlie sheen?
ReplyDeletemy apologies for whiffing on a morehead joke on comment #69.
ReplyDeleteWait . . . Charlie Sheen wasn't a Morehead joke?
ReplyDeleteMorehead would be appreciated
ReplyDeletefor their 1st half efforts, but they'd be appreciated more if they'd sneak back into it. Down 16 now.
To Mark's point, the dumbest T-shirt I saw when we were boozing it up in Columbia was "You Can't Lick Our Cocks [USC Football]". Sure. Based on the girls we met, they might as well have been going to Morehead State.
ReplyDeleteman, credit where credit is due. steve lavin nailed this usc/bc game while on the radio this afternoon, down to the fact that usc's big, athletic guards would give tyrese rice fits.
ReplyDeleteThink Teejay's passed out on a table in AC yet?
ReplyDeleteI don't think he is yet.
ReplyDeleteHow many minutes go by in the Cleveland State game before we hear the name Kevin Mackey mentioned? I say no more than three.
ReplyDeleteAnd do they include the crack whore aspect of the story?
no, siena's about to play. i think he's 6 red bull & vodkas deep and bouncing off the freaking walls. dennis likely has a leash around teejay's neck to keep him from hurting himself.
ReplyDeleteI figured Teej was pounding in anticipation of the game, maybe enough to knock himself out cold before tip-off. Or that maybe he'd pull a "Rob 1988 Red Sox playoffs Bacardi vomit couch shower" type fiasco.
ReplyDeleteHoping, really. We need a good story 'round these parts.
Siena looks really good early in all aspects except shooting the basketball into the basket.
ReplyDeletenoooo. we're getting cleveland state/wake instead of siena/ohio state. dagger.
ReplyDeleteWhat's blotto TJ's game of choice?
ReplyDeletebaby deacs get behind early and i can see them getting rattled.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad Wake is the G:TB darling (and going far in my brackets). Cleve State is a team I could really root for.
ReplyDeleteKnicks have now lost back-to-back squeakers, by a combined total of 53 points. But, in all fairness, they had to play Sacramento at home after facing a raucous crowd in Rutherford against the Nets.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite NBA team sucks morehead than yours...
aaaand...over
ReplyDeletenow we're at 1 kevin mackey mention and 1 picture. no crack whores as yet.
ReplyDeleteKevin Mackey mention! 4 minutes in!
ReplyDeleteah, the old 'johnson fake'. wasn't that onterrio smith's move?
ReplyDeleteBottle of inviso-Jameson for anyone who can remember what Mackey's teams' style of play was called (without cheating).
ReplyDeleteThe Vikings marauding the Deacs. Unbelievably strong so far.
ReplyDeleteACC not looking too keen on the whole thus far.
wake looks turrrrible.
ReplyDeletei'm gonna go with mack attack for the win. though i truly can't remember.
ReplyDeleteIt's early, but Bobby Mo is looking to make a fool out of Mark.
ReplyDeletesay goodnight, bobby
ReplyDeleteWow. 11-0 run makes me the fool.
ReplyDeleteThe flat screens added to the Showboat gaming floor came in huge during the first half. However, despite Dennis' succes at the craps table, Kuato and I have meandered home to the seventh floor to watch the second half...and down vodka/red bulls in 6 oz styrofoam cups.
ReplyDeleteI said to myself that if Wake cut the lead to single digits by halftime, they'd win.
ReplyDeleteThey're gonna win.
some people might wait before jumping right back on the horse, but not whitney.
ReplyDeleteKenny Hasbrouck has to get in the flow, real soon, or this is gonna end badly.
ReplyDeleteway too many easy baskets for osu.
ReplyDeleteRossiter needs to Billy Curley this game up...
ReplyDeleteCome on.
ReplyDeletewhy are we watching halftime of msu/bobby mo when other games are going on? grrrr.
ReplyDeleteWow, you're not getting Siena/OSU right now?
ReplyDeleteSucks to be you.
Teej, glad to have you back commenting tonight. I was gonna say there was a shortage of scatalogical and mildly bigoted jokes without you. Our own David Dukey, if you will.
ReplyDeleteDown 11 with 14:28 to go...
ReplyDeletethree games at 41-30 now - spooky.
ReplyDeleteNo, spooky is the fact that everytime I look at a clock it says 9:11.
ReplyDeleteNow that's weird.
OK, honestly, who else had more than one guy on that triple double list?
ReplyDeleteWell, that was an awful...ly unique possession exchange?
ReplyDeleteAnybody else starting to hate TJ for his Siena love?
ReplyDeleteSo much hate.
ReplyDeleteIt's my gift. I can't blame you though. I went against the Big 10 in nearly every possible instance.
ReplyDeleteI know. I read your post.
ReplyDeletemichigan state's on a 21-0 run. that's hard to beat.
ReplyDeleteWe got thabeet...we got thabeet...
ReplyDeleteWhoever the creative mind behind the "Bud Lights During a Work Meeting" commercial is, he or she definitely spent some time working for the Federal Government.
ReplyDeleteI want to make tall white stiff babies with Ryan Rossiter.
ReplyDeleteJaVale's cousin. For real?
ReplyDeleteThis "Federal Government" sounds amazing...
ReplyDeleteSiena making TJ look smart...no easy task, by the way.
ReplyDeleteWait, does a spring break shark attack occur on Harper's Island?
ReplyDeleteWhat's the over/under on "Harper's Island"? Four weeks?
ReplyDeleteJust die already TJ.
ReplyDeleteThis one is getttttttin gud
ReplyDeleteSiena's half court trap is killing the Buckeyes right now.
ReplyDeleteYou know I just might (soon), and if I do, it's on you buddy...
ReplyDeleteGo Saints
A Wizards mention and Shlara perks right up. A tip for you potential suitors out there...
ReplyDeleteThis is why I don't think I could ever go to Vegas for this weekend. Eventually, I'd just end up in my room watching basketball.
ReplyDeleteI'm okay with that, TeeJay.
ReplyDeleteMark, you would camp out in the sports book. you wouldn't even need a room
ReplyDeleteVery intently. Standing right in front of the flat screen.
ReplyDeleteI need my space. And I might like drugs too much...maybe.
ReplyDeleteHey Shlara, a Leonard Hamilton team just blew a 20 pt lead quickly...
ReplyDeleteYeah...that feels good. I didn't even consider my thoughts on the Big 10 when picking that game.
ReplyDeleteFuck this.
ReplyDeleteTJ...when you hear the announcers say "Ubelis" do you throw up in your mouth ...just a little?
ReplyDeleteNice try, TJ..
ReplyDeletecedric jackson is killing wake. and ian eagle wants to have his babies.
ReplyDeleteWake. It's what I'll be having for my bracket after the Vikes see this through. Criminy.
ReplyDeleteNo more procreation jokes. My bad.
ReplyDeleteteejay's exasperated because he can't get into the minibar, not at the game.
ReplyDeleteRob, I thought we'd lost you for the night. Welcome back to the TJ-Mark lovefest.
ReplyDeleteCleveland St beat Cuse on a 69 footer in December. They beat Butler. And now apparently they will be beating my championship game participant Wake.
ReplyDeletethe mark/teejay/shlara bizarre love triangle is worth staying up for.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to disturb your slumber
ReplyDeleteMark doesn't answer his phone, or else you'd have a podcast on your hands.
ReplyDelete"Run-and-stun" was Kevin Mackey's game plan. He came up with it while an assistant at BC working for whom? Yes, Gary Williams.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's one to grow on.
Kevin Mackey sounds like a rapist I used to know...
ReplyDeleteEvan Turner, Ohio State. Biggest Ohio State fan I ever knew? Evan. Construction company he was working for when he kicked it? Turner.
ReplyDeleteEerie. Lake Eerie.
we haven't had a game go overtime in the first round. c'mon, saints.
ReplyDeletespeaking of evan.
ReplyDeleteRob, you're reading my mind!
ReplyDeleteSaints and Deacons looking to be on the ass end of these games. God must be watching MLS.
ReplyDeletehold the phone.
ReplyDeletei just downloaded 'saints' by army navy. doing what i can, teej.
Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ReplyDeleteI just had to hang up on TJ because he was a few seconds ahead of my feed and I didn't want to know what happened with Hasbrouck.
ReplyDeletei love it when the bench players do that arm lock thing...
ReplyDeleteHow 'bout some OT...bitches?
ReplyDeleteI just drew a picture with my daughters' Burnt Sienna crayon. Doing what I can, Teej.
ReplyDeleteHate me all you want, but this is good...
ReplyDeletePush off bitch
ReplyDeleteRossiter is pretty much the definition of goofy as it relates to basketball.
ReplyDeleteThat Rossiter kid looks like he should have starred in Superbad with Micahel Cera
ReplyDeleteI didn't know Cera was French...
ReplyDeleteI loved Rossiter as George-Michael Bluth.
ReplyDeleteUbiles.
ReplyDeleteHi mark!
Holy crap, Shlara. If you're reading my mind and Rob's reading yours... ew, there's gross implications there.
ReplyDeleteLittle known fact: Toney Douglas is actually a distant cousin of our very own Dennis.
ReplyDeletewhile she's on kq's couch. yeah, i don't like where this is going.
ReplyDeleteUgly ass BJ Mullens with the game saving board...dagger.
ReplyDeletemore overtime. this is fun.
ReplyDeleteCome on, who else wants a miss and double OT?
ReplyDeletestupid Wake. screwing my brackets.
ReplyDeleteronald moore. onions!
ReplyDeleteOh my!
ReplyDeleteIt's a production of Orgy and Bess... Tonight in Gheorghe's comments section.
ReplyDeleteRaftery + Drunk + Buzzer Beater = Awesome
ReplyDeleteI meant screwing up my brackets. I can't type, as Mark pointed out earlier. They didn't offer that class at W&M.
ReplyDeleteWow. TJ's gonna pull something. (That he's in a hotel room with men makes that phrasing problematic.)
ReplyDelete"Hey, is that an apple..."
ReplyDeleteWisconsin-FSU is in OT right now too. Nice night.
ReplyDeletetoney douglas. also onions.
ReplyDeleteI can understand a 3 seed like Villanova playing so close to home, but Ohio State getting such an advantage is all kinds of wrong...
ReplyDeleteAs much as it pains me to say this, Toney Douglas is probably the most underrated player in the country.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the first time in my life I've ever rooted for Wisconsin.
ReplyDeleteYeah!!!
ReplyDeleteHis name is Trevon Hughes.
ReplyDeleteAnd his name is Hughes? Aww yeah!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I left that shitty craps table when I did...
ReplyDeleteI just talked to Teej. He seems loose, relaxed, and ready in case we go to 3OT.
ReplyDeleteNo need. Hughes took care of business.
ReplyDeleteohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ReplyDeleteRonald Moore!!!!! Double onions!!!!
ReplyDeleteMan am I gonna get high
ReplyDeleteand now teej is looking for someone to hug. glad i'm 300 miles away.
ReplyDeleteI'm hugging ichiro...and cheech...and greased up deaf guy...
ReplyDeleteThanks to Wake, the gambling part of this tournament is over for me. At least our client will be happy.
ReplyDeleteCleveland State is my rooting interest now.
Hasbrouck just apologized to Obama for screwing up his bracket...nice.
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