if second place is the first loser, then is it bad that i am hoping for the bronze?


and so it goes. my hopes for back-to-back pool wins, for three out of four, for my own little bracket dynasty are no more. following the results of this weekend, the best i can now hope for is third place. the silver lining remains, of course, that the basketball will kick serious butt on saturday and hopefully monday (the one game i should actually be able to sit down and watch). but so far as my pool goes, the leader and kiker are out of reach. the best i can hope for is a jump from sixth to third. i wish i could realistically look back and say that if only kansas had taken care of business, i would still be right in it. but i can't. because in that same thought process, two other images pop up. the first? if some guy from xavier hit his last free throw, ohio st. would be out too. the second? if jeff green was called for a travel, there's another final four pick flushed and i would be sitting with florida as my lone representative. so, with the way things have gone this year, between third and sixth is probably right about where i should end up.

i can't say the brackets have been a complete washout (pun intended for the one person that will get it). it looks like i am going to take the home bracket wager and get out of doing the laundry for a week. i'll enjoy that. and so, as far as my journal goes, i bid farewell to the ncaa tournament. 'twas fun. see ya next year.

one sports related snippet. did anyone else catch my own personal us soccer pariah landon donovan score three goals (all world class) this weekend? wow. go get 'em, tiger. string a few games like that together and wear the sweet new uniforms more often and i might just take you off my shit list.