Good luck. Enjoy March Madness. Reboot. “Like that, he’s gone.”

March 12, 2017 Filler

Thoughts for the day…

Well, thoughts for the month…more to come.

Greetings and salutation, people. Thanks for coming aboard (the boat). Let’s turn and burn.
This is a special blog. Stay tuned.
I think I have underestimated Michigan bball this year. Lowest seed (8) to ever win the Big Ten title and they are gelling at the right time obviously.
I think Michigan should wear their backup practice jerseys for the entire tournament.
URI got their first NCAA bid since 1999. Hurley gets it done.
Dammit. UK is looking very dangerous. At the right time. I think that when Monk is on, there is nothing more beautiful in basketball. He can carry them to special places.
Control your freaking players. Arkansas played SO classless in the last 90 seconds today.
I kind of wish my company was called Six Winds instead of Four Winds. It would be so cool working for a company that exemplified the number of wins you need to win it all in March.
Trade. Won’t trade. Free agency. Houston. Denver. I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow and read more about where Romo is going. That is sarcastic.
Remember Jordan Cameron owning fantasy for like 3 weeks a couple of years ago? I do. Dude just retired at age 28 for getting four concussions in four years. There will be many more players to do this.
Reason #1045 to never turn off a game. The Wizards came back from 21 down to win on a last second shot. Houston-Buffalo taught me THAT for the final time.
I think my favorite three days of the year are Selection Sunday, the NCAA Championship, and Sunday at The Masters.
I have 10% of data left on my phone. How is that possible? I clean up my phone every Sunday, have less apps than 95% of the population (the 5% are the homeless), and don’t know what to do.
Quietly, the Lions picked up two very nice OL.
Since I plan on dying, owning a bar there, Belize articles never get old to me. http://www.sanpedroscoop.com/2017/03/the-eight-craziest-adventure-tours-in-belize.html
Israel is good at baseball? Israel is 4-0 at the WBC? Israel beat Cuba? Bizarro World. Up is down.
I stopped by Moe’s Bagels on way back from WP. I felt for the first time ever that there were more employees than customers.
I have “rw td w” written on my blog Google Doc. No idea. I am sure it needed to be coded and it was brilliant.
The Oregon Ducks losing Boucher is monstrous depending on where they fall-they better get a #2 seed and be regional.
Is the media purposely spacing out Mayweather-McGregor taunts/ tweets/etc.
Part of my reboot is going off ALL social media. FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc. I will be back, but rebooted. I am going off the grid for the rest of March.
I KIND of planned on not paying attention to sports anyway, but it would have been nice if WP place at least had cable. Come on.
This weekend was my last weekend where I am the only guy attending. I have about 25 things to say, but let’s just say I really, really had to beg to hear Ice Cream Man by Van Halen. Everything else was girly.
I KILL that song.
I was very excited about the dive bar right by Cooler’s place, but the place had no games and colored table tops…not my future place. I need an adjective-animal as the name, at least two bar video games, and someone named “Jerry” or “Jenks” sitting at the end bar spot.
Do you remember a time when the Spurs and Warriors would be the game of the week? Injuries, sits, and I feel bad for fans there.
I will start saying things I can’t say in my blog in acronyms moving forward. IHAAMAL.
See? That is harmless.
I like the song Panda by Designer.
You know I love Deadspin. Bear. 4:44 of your life. Do it. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/sleepy-bear-has-lots-to-do-1793173047#_ga=1.248409220.2020370227.1488921927
The Browns and always better on Deadspin. http://deadspin.com/god-help-them-the-cleveland-browns-are-trying-to-outsm-1793158868
Alabama basketball is going to be very, very good next year, and I might take a $10 flyer on them winning it all at probably 300-1.
I wish I had the energy to fully comment on this. Actual friends of mine.Finally popped this open and one caught my eye:Lobsters don’t die natural deathsI was once LAMBASTED for posing the question: “do birds ever die of natural causes?” Of course I meant ‘do they ever die of old age,’ but it was not taken that way. I still stand by the fact that no wild bird has ever just died because it was old.
Since I am totally off social media, now you have to email me directly to get in the knockout pool for MM.
So, I have decided that it is impossible for all OTHER teams to be this stupid. Root for the Pats, because them having cap space, getting Cooks, and still having draft picks and money is just unfair.
Great. Give Tom Brady another good receiver. Great.
I am a man and will admit the chorus of the new Katy Perry song HAS me. LOVE it.
I am just going to buy a HUGE box of El Yucateca hot sauce and call it a day. I cry during the meal, but it is utterly delicious.
MJ, my sales engineer, thought that Kermit actually invented the song “It’s not easy being green.” Some guy named Frank did it I hear.
Seriously, if you have about 1% of yourself who thinks Eminem can’t truly rap, listen to No Favors. Legit and then some.
I think Jenga is the best test of where you are at in a day in life more than any other game.
I would get a “tick” for that, but that is an inside joke.
Wife and I are arguing. It must be real, because why would I EVER start a spat RIGHT before March Madness? That is just stupid.
I loved watching the Baker Mayfield video. You?
Sean Miller, I am a fan, and I get where you are coming from, but calling a play with .9 up that amount is just dumb.
Josh Hart is a class act.
When I am gone until April 4th, I promise to keep writing, change the format, but only include what I REALLY want to say on April 4th.
Be right back. Bracket will be released right about…now.
Brain is now overloaded. You have no idea what my brain does after the bracket is released, and kind of glad that Lindsey is not here and in WP right now…
My initial thoughts on the bracket…
If Nova and UVA play, it will be a great positional game.
I like UVA’s bracket. No one is really big or too fast for them. They have a shot at the Elite 8. Problem is Duke is their opponent if they make it there.
Cuse should be in and USC should be out. One team was 9-8 in last 17 games. The other team was in the Final Four last year, and beat three teams in the top ten at that time. Throw out the bad losses.
BUT, 84th RPI would have been lowest in a long time, and 2-11 on the road/ neutral is bad. Jim, How about schedule some more road games? Just a thought.
Wisconsin-Va Tech will be one of the most entertaining, highly contested, BORING first round games…ever.
East Tennessee State will win one game.
Remember, SMU has a Duke transfer, and they are very, very good. They will play Duke.
Remember. Look at WHERE they play.
Remember. KU plays in Tulsa and then KC. Put them in your Final Four regardless of their front court depth. Guard play wins titles.
Remember. Oregon just had a recent big time injury. If you think you want to pick a different team, do it. I have them losing to Creighton.
I have UL advancing only because I see no one besides Michigan who can beat them in that area of the bracket.
We could get Michigan State-KU SECOND round? Wow.
At least they TOTALLY separated MSU and UVA for this year. Thanks.
I think UNC should have been a #2 seed. But, I am more bothered by the fact that they gave Duke the weakest #2 seed.
Really? UK-Northern Kentucky? No sarcasm I am sure.
If you ARE going to be sarcastic, then how did you NOW put Butler in the same area as Nova (beat them two times this year)?
The seeding of Wichita State is absolutely ridiculous.
But, I don’t remember a year where there is little to no conversation about who got left OUT. Pretty clean aside from seeding.
Who would have thought? ALL year, I gave Joe Lunardi shit for having UCLA as a #3 seed. What did they get? #3 seed.
If K. State and Cincy end up playing, I will take the under of 110.
If you are not excited about Northwestern making the tourney for the first time in the last 78 years, then there is something wrong with you.
Of course, I think Vandy takes them down in the first round but I hope I am wrong.
I like the Zags draw. Problem is the same that Seth Davis has with me. We pick the Zags too far every, single year.
I had UCLA and UNC several times in my initial bracket. I changed my UNC pick to KU because of guard play, and really want to pick UCLA, but defense wins titles, and although they are better, they would be the weakest defensive team to ever win the title. Can’t do it.
Really? FSU-FGCU? You will read all week about FGCU upsetting them. Know this. FSU is TOO big, and way too athletic.
The top 3 seeds in UNC’s region have won TWENTY FOUR titles.
I try to hate John Calipari, but when they do an interview with him, I will admit he is very likable.
Remember. Your bracket is doing better than about 70% of America if you don’t tear it up after the first weekend. Just get 12-13 of the Sweet 16 and you are fine.
Whenever you doubt a game in the Elite 8, look at the free throw shooting percentage. You need to nail the gimmes at the end of the game, and there WILL be at least one close game.
Pics before my hiatus…
My tradition is not printing out anything. It is taking a yellow sheet of paper and making my own lines with a Sharpie.
I just saw a commercial for Passengers. Going to video. Glad I skipped THAT movie.
Bad pic, and this happens when I am not on the trigger, but one of the 4-5 people I trust in this world. Good hanging out with him yesterday.
MLATW (code).
I was on the trigger on this one. Great pic of B.C.
The tunnel on the way back up to the tube slide.
I have looking around for this guy for a pic forever.
No understood why I asked her to do this photo opp. I will tell you why. Her name is Annette. I had her pose on “a net.” That is as funny as I get.
CO mountain towns are similar but all different in their own way.
Perfect on two levels before last night and about four levels today.
CO just is awesome.
Every time I think I shouldn’t be a pro photographer, I catch one of these.
I think it is funny when the person who tells you to watch “This is us” is the most confrontational person you have ever met.
Every time I think about moving, I wake up to this.
The ladies at our Friday dinner spot (one of the best Mexican dinners I have ever had).
The girls on their way to the tubing experience.
I actually forget who won. I was focusing on the pic.
And finally, this is that hot sauce I will live on for evermore.
Oh, and the little surprise for NOT those who only read this thing because of email alerts. My bracket. Preliminary and will change, but I thought I should go on the record before I go off the grid. KU.
That’s it. Wow. That is REALLY it for a while. Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed. Will I blog tomorrow? That is a CLOWN question, bro. Onward and upward. Peace.
Talk to you on April 4th. Reboot. I am retooling this blog because I DO have a dream with this thing (I WAS happy just writing it, but now have more expectations), I am retooling myself personally and becoming ripped due to two a days every day starting tomorrow, and I of course will not mind the month off to focus on March Madness. I have deviated off the track slightly and need to get back to business on all accounts. Off FB, Twitter, Instagram officially now. Hence the theme that wasn’t thought about until I literally just wrote these words. I will miss you all. April 4 next segment. Peace Take II.
Wahoowa. Peace Take III.