BradInATX

We have a guy who drafted all top 3 seeds until the late rounds when they were all gone and he had to start taking lower picks. He has Baylor, Illinois, Iowa, WVU, and Arky. It's probably a decent strategy to make sure you're in the hunt, especially if it's a chalky year. Nothing you can do to defend against someone drafting Loyola the year they went deep and getting a bazillion points. But there's not always a Loyola.

There probably should be. These dudes are taking their bodies to the very extremities of human capability already. They should have shortened the season and left more gaps to put makeup games in and the like. It's not like a shortened season would ruin the year. Oh no, we only have 6 months of NBA instead of 9!

I've heard there's pretty decent availability down here if you're so inclined.

Nice little 80 sq ft house on town lake with a raised patio. Hear they're asking $800k for it and are getting offers around a mill.

It always cracks me up when dudes accidentally hit a 3 off the glass and then flex their way back down the court. Mother fucker, you missed by two feet and got lucky. Random thought of the day brought to you by whiskey.

False negatives, maybe? Anecdotally I know two people who tested negative for Covid when they starting feeling symptoms, before testing positive later. It would only take one dude bringing it into the practice gym to give it to the whole team, it's a perfect environment to spread it.

I predict that I am drinking The bracket where I did this is currently in first place. Let's fuckin go.

Covid had a better tournament run than Ohio State.

How do you feel about their next couple of potential games? I picked them first in our version of the seeded draft that @Wulaw Horn does. This game has been a mixed bag but they look strong when they find the gas pedal.

Breaking my no neg rule for this one. God damnit, slorch, nobody likes hockey.

No argument here except your loose definition of soccer as a sport. Purely on an island, first weekend of MM is the best shit ever. I don't like moving it a day back though, taking Thurs/Fri off and making it a 4 day booze weekend was part of the point.

Best postseason in sports. Fight me

I guess you can put the toothpaste back in the tube after all

Madness is back in 2021!!!

Fun morning already with some competitive games. My wallet needs Colgate out but they're fun to watch.

Almost every TV service has a way to do that. Maybe ask your husband?

When we had Dish they had a feature that let you create your own channel guide limited to certain channels, so I always had one with the four channels of March Madness. You'd just hit channel up or down to scroll through. It kicked ass. Today I've just got two TVs going on the back patio and another game going on the laptop. I figure in every quadfecta of games there will be a shitty one most of the time so I'm good. I don't need to see Drexel get pounded by Illinois.

I'm two beers in and just pour an old fashioned and I just want to say.. fuck I missed March Madness.

#1 on Arky looks like his parents were siblings. I mean they probably are, but still.

The scoreboard top right of the Colgate Arky game is covering up half of the ball flight on most shots. Shit is lame.

I fell asleep in the third quarter. Did MSU continue the infighting all game long? Draymond can tell us how that's normal all he wants but that shit looked toxic to me. Looked to me like Izzo lost control of his team.

Agreed. I don't think that either the "he's a redneck Trumper" or "the media sucks" belongs on this thread is my point. There are threads for both of those things already. I agree that this is a great opportunity to talk about sex trafficking, etc., so let's talk about that rather than more droll politics-adjacent conversations about religious nuts and the shitty media.

And the media isn't going to stop doing what they do because of an anonymous poster either, and yet you've chosen to focus your energy on the media's perceived lack of coverage about it (which I mostly agree with you about), rather than the sex trafficking itself. But here's the thing, there have been discussions about sex trafficking. Very recently a rich asshole was busted frequenting those places and taking advantage of sex trafficked women. And guess how many posts there are by you, Newdoc, or the rest of the "the media isn't giving proper coverage to sex trafficking!!" crowd there were on that thread? Zero. So again, there's a very real discussion to be had about sex trafficking. But it's plain that that's not what's important here, rather that it's just a tool being used to advance a tired anti-media talking point that distracts from real issues that we have as a country. Continued partisan intellectual dishonesty. The media is terrible, but let's not use manufactured outrage about a very real problem to advance our agenda against it. When we do that, we do a disservice to the actual real problems. FWIW the posts jumping to conclusions about him being a redneck inspired by Q or Trump or whatever are agenda-driven as well and they don't belong here either. It's pretty clear that the dude was just a nutjob who had mommy issues about getting shitty handjobs at massage parlors. His politics don't matter and shouldn't be part of this thread.

And yet you chose to make the central theme of your post a tantrum against the media, not an actual attempt to open up a line of discussion on sex trafficking. You've shown your cards about what's important to you. Your "outrage" is a convenient means to rail on the media.