I'm going to write throughout the day, because I have nothing better to do and it'll give me a little more to do while sitting around watching the NCAA tournament.

The only two games on right now are 12 Clemson/5 West Virginia, and 9 Old Dominion/8 Butler, and I have rooting interest in both. Clemson/West Virginia is the only game in which I'll be cheering for the favorite, mainly because Clemson was a team that had to play an extra game, and I figure that if they win... it'll only validate the idea of putting extra teams into the tournament. Also West Virginia has a player named Thoroughman.

As for Butler/ODU... well, the Wall Street Journal put together a bracket determiner that eliminated any bias by leaving out the team names and just including stats and pros/cons about each team. This is what I came up with. Although i figured out generally which team was which after a bit, and then started going for upsets shortly after that for the hell of it. But nonetheless... Old Dominion somehow became a Final Four pick for me. I'm assuming that this will be correct since I am wise in the ways of college basketball.

1:55: Well there goes Old Dominion.

I find myself bored and simulating the entire tourney on this one website that I find to be too cumbersome. I have to select each team to play its opponent for every single game, and... it's taking quite a while. But it humors me, so...

I've done this one for the NBA playoffs hundreds of times. Which might seem like a lot... and it is. But I want to get the Memphis Grizzlies to the finals. They have advanced to the Conference Final quite a few times, but then they always lose to the Lakers. Jackasses...

Right now Morehead St is down one point to Louisville. They're not going to win, since I'm assuming Louisville has a pretty decent chance of making a deep run into the tournament, but if some of Louisville's key players break a few bones...

2:55: OK, so Morehead St actually won. And strangely enough, they won after one of their starters got injured halfway through the 2nd half. Not that I would actually wish harm on any players or anything... but should Morehead St put me on their payroll? Probably.

And then I finished my little simulation.... and Louisville was in the title game, which thus completely throws out the entire experiment. At least they lost to Missouri... who are an 11 seed and would be (as far as I know) the only double digit seed to win the tournament. Also making the Final Four: 1 Ohio St (fair enough), and 11 Gonzaga (much less likely).

I am beginning to see grass in my backyard. It's almost as if spring might actually come this year...

5:19:
This commercial has been playing constantly on all four networks.



It is perhaps the creepiest commercial I have ever seen in my life, and I will probably never ever go to NAPA Auto Parts now, out of fear of seeing a guy who looks like a perverted serial killer start singing at me.

Usually that's not what commercials ought to do.

There's been a lot of good games so far today... three have already come down to the final second, and this Richmond/Vanderbilt looks like it will as well. Which is great and all, because all I hope for is upsets and good games... but if this ratio of high quality games continues, it's going to make me feel really bad when I skip out by watching Community and Parks And Rec.

Whose grand idea was it to schedule anything against the NCAAs anyway?

I mean, I know you need to fill your programming schedule, but you might as well realize that not a lot of people are going to watch. So just admit defeat and schedule reruns. I'd probably make a terrible network exec.

This Richmond/Vanderbilt game won't end...

There we go.

Richmond wins, which means in the second round, it's going to be them (a 12 seed) vs. 13 Morehead St. Which means that one of them will be in the Sweet Sixteen. This is a great development.

9:14:
I'm glad the games started sucking the exact moment I needed to go and watch Community/Parks.

11:23:
I turned on the Michigan St/UCLA game just as Michigan St. was about to clinch the 20 point comeback and send it into overtime, but then they choked it away. I feel as if this is my fault a little bit.

Sorry Michigan St.