So maybe I'm optimistic because we get an extra hour of daylight beginning Sunday. Although Daylight Savings Time beginning with snow on the ground? This is going to take some getting used to. But really, I'm surprisingly OK with the Tampa debacle yesterday. Probably because I didn't accept that guy's offer at the PGA Grille to buy his ACC Tournament tickets for $200 which would have also involved me shelling out much more for non-refundable airfare and hotel. I really feel for all those Terp fans who trekked down to Tampa thinking we'd at least make it to Saturday. Done by 4:30 Thursday. But here's are a few things:
1) The team stunk in every way possible yesterday. It's not like a few of our wins this year where one or two areas of the game were suspect. Yesterday, our guards looked confused against the zone, we couldn't grab a rebound to save our lives, and we were bricking free throws like somebody at a rigged carnival game where the cylinder of the basket is smaller than the ball. Really... we have to go up. Right? Right????
2) Yesterday proved to me that the ACC really is the most top-to-bottom strong basketball conference in the country. The Big East doesn't even bring 4 teams to it's tournament. The Big 11 has creampuffs like Penn State, Iowa, and Purdue. The entire SEC West except for LSU is just a gaping hole of bullshit basketball. The Big 12 gives the world Nebraska, Colorado, and Missouri. There's a reason the ACC dominates the ACC/Big 10 challenge every year. We'd dominate against just about any conference in the country. So we lost to the bottom-seeded team in the conference. It's not like we lost to Villa Julie or Goucher.
3) I'm convinced that my non-Terp friends take some schadenfreude ("sour grapes" for those non-native German speakers) glee in calling me right after a loss. I just picture them standing on the other side of the phone grinning, with their own vision in their head of me at the top of a big clock tower loading up my rifle and pointing down. I'm led to this conclusion based upon the fact that I get many more calls after the Terps lose a gut-kicker than after they win an incredible game. I'm going to start keeping a list and when I find out that one of these people has just gotten kicked out of their home by their wife in a few years, I'll be the very first to call "just to make sure they're OK."
4) If we're going to fall, please let us fall to a 6. God, the 5-seed is the place where teams go to die in the Tourney. The 6 seed has a tough matchup with an 11, then a 3. But I'd rather take the overseeded teams at 11 and 3 than the underseeded teams that the 5-seed has to play at 12 and 4.
5) Quick Idol note since J-Red didn't publish his thoughts: We're all treated to a few more weeks of Sanjaya looking awkwardly uncomfortable. This should be good times. Sabrina got jobbed. This is why I believe that people who vote for Idol should only have their presidential votes count for 1/2 a vote. In the words of Kent Brockman, "I said it before people, and I'll say it again. Democracy just does not work."
March 9, 2007
Friday Ramblings
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Give me a U!!!!!!!
Helloooooooooo 8 seed!!!! Sorry Terps fans, looks like a round one exit at the hands of the likes of Michigan St. Tough, but appropriate way to spoil the disappointing, underachieving, Jones, Strawberry, Ebekwe class.
HIIMMMYYY!!!!!!!!
Sense no one responded to the 8 seed comment, it seems like we're all in agreement that Maryland going to end up there, and get bounced in the first round.
This guy's brilliant. He can "sense" no one responded to his comment. I actually did, but for another message.
As for Idol, the good news is that DialIdol is no longer an accurate indicator of who is going home. It seems to me that Idol has doubled or tripled the available phone lines. Fewer busy signals make DialIdol far less accurate. I'm not too upset with any of the results so far. Not ideal, but Antonella leaving was such a pleasant surprise that I'll forgive them for Sundance before Sanjaya and Sabrina before Haley.
And schadenfreude is different from "sour grapes". It's more like taking pleasure from harm that befalls another. Like, I feel good when Duke, the Redskins, or the Nationals lose. Even better when they lose in some horrible way or are accused of cheating or taking a cheap shot.
Responding to your comments is about as useful as responding to the cracked out guy on West Baltimore Street who is screaming at and chasing passing buses and talking to passing pedestrians in a language that is only remotely close to English. That's about how much sense it makes to even follow your rationale that Maryland is now an 8-seed.
The ACC is weak.
The only team that even has a chance at making the final four is UNC, and that is probably about 6-1 odds right now.
The Big East is heads and shoulders above the ACC this year. Georgetown, Pitt and Marquette all stand better chances of making the final four than anyone in the ACC other than UNC.
Over the next few years, the ACC will continue is rapid decline, as the team that the conference was known for, Duke, is going to have 3-4 rough years ahead. UNC will always be strong, but guys will keep leaving there to go to the NBA early, so they will not be able to restore the ACC to the decent conference it once was.
It's very typical that Maryland fans think that because they lose to a horrible team that must mean the conference is "deep". It is deep alright, deep with mediocrity.
The ACC's glory years are done, get used to it.
HHHIIMMMMYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
That guy's little signature should say "TIMMMMMMMY". I didn't know you were doing charity work with the mentally "less fortunate" Jeremy. Or is this another fine example of MD Law?
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