CHOKE, American Style

Wow, the US had a 2-0 lead with about 45 mins to go and gave up 3 goals. I mean to be honest, they choked...which is kind of amazing that America would ever even be in any kind of position to choke in a world tournament final against a team like Brazil...but still a choke is a choke. What sucks even more is that it's pretty unlikely that they'll ever get an opportunity to do this again. i mean i know NEVER is a long time, but yeah it's just NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Not when our best athletes play football and basketball and the interest level for Soccer ranks behind pretty much every single other sport on television.

Its sad, this was Team USA's moment and they blew it. it reminded me of the Falcons getting into the Superbowl, you knew that when they lost it they were never ever going back.

Still I think people might actually pretend to give a shit when the World Cup rolls back around. Let's hope all these extremely lucky and flukish breaks mean something other than they got extremely lucky with some flukes.

Ok, back to not caring about soccer.

one random question for the universe: so when the US was up 2-0 were soccer fans all over the world rooting for America to pull off the upset against THE world power of soccer in the same way people would be rooting against Team USA in Olympic basketball? or is the world naturally just set on hating America and getting any kind of joy they can out of one of our failures? my guess is yes for option two.

Breaking Down My Bracket of Fail...aka Setting Money On Fire In The Name Of Fun

here are my picks round by round, region by region. do yourself a favor and use this as your model of who NOT to pick in your own bracket as i have NEVER WON an NCAA Tourney Pool EVER in about 17 years of filling these things out.

MIDWEST REGION

2nd round matchups

Louisville
vs
Ohio State

Arizona
vs
Wake Forest

West Virginia
vs
Kansas

Boston College
vs
Michigan State

Sweet 16 Matchups

Louisville
vs
Wake Forest

Kansas
vs
Michigan State

Elite 8 Matchup

Louisville
vs
Kansas

Region Champ

Louisville


WEST REGION

2nd Round Matchups

UConn
vs
BYU

Purdue
vs
Washington

Utah State
vs
Missouri

Maryland
vs
Memphis

Sweet 16 Matchups

UCONN
vs
Washington

Missouri
vs
Memphis

Elite 8

UCONN
vs
Memphis

Region Champ

Memphis


EAST REGION

2nd Rd Matchups

Pitt
vs
Tennessee

FSU
vs
Portland State

VCU
vs
Villanova

Texas
vs
Duke

Sweet 16

Pitt
vs
FSU

Nova
vs
Duke

Elite 8

Pitt
vs
Duke

Region Champ

Pitt


SOUTH REGION

2nd Round

North Carolina
vs
Butler

Western Kentucky
vs
Gonzaga

Arizona State
vs
Syracuse

Clemson
vs
Oklahoma

Sweet 16

UNC
vs
Gonzaga

Syracuse
vs
Oklahoma

Elite 8

North Carolina
vs
Syracuse

Region Champ

North Carolina



FINAL FOUR

Me and The Prez are thinking the same way on our Final Fours. Obama's a baller, so i'm feeling good about this.


Louisville defeats Memphis

North Carolina defeats Pitt

North Carolina vs Louisville for the title

The Louisville Cardinals are your 2009 National Champions. and Kentucky fans shoot themselves in the face.

JRSUICIDE is Rich As Shit...or at least can afford his rent and bills for another month.

Kick Out The Jams, Motherfucker! SEC Tournament Style

and so it begins...the quest to be the tournament champion of the biggest CLUSTERFUCK of a BCS level Basketball conference...it's much like being the skinniest fat kid or the coolest member of Menudo. this year's SEC tournament is taking place in Tampa and it'll have to conjure up a tornado hitting their stadium and have a miracle run by one of the SEC's worst teams if it wants to match any of the drama from last year's SEC championship.

what we need to know: there are 2 locks from the SEC right now...LSU and Tennessee, neither team has much to gain from the tournament other than seeding in the NCAAs, so you can probably just cancel out either of them from taking home the tournament. instead there's a dogpile of next level teams all fighting it out for that final AT LARGE bid to the big dance. if the SEC gets more than 3 invites we will all be surprised. in the chase for spot #3 are the Florida Gators, South Carolina Gamecocks, Auburn Tigers have the strongest claim and Kentucky Wildcats, Vanderbilt Commodores, and Mississippi State Bulldogs all could have outside shots or could be out and out tournament champs. right now South Carolina would be the most likely to get that at large bid...you could even call them Lock-ish thanks to a 21-8 record (and a 3-2 record against top 25 teams). Auburn is the hottest team having won 8 of their last 9. Florida is the team with the most street cred because of their recent success. and Kentucky is Kentucky...don't doubt that if the Wildcats could somehow make it to the Tournament finals that they won't get a spot.

smart money: bet on South Carolina to win the tournament and eliminate the hopes of any and every other SEC bubble team.

worth believing in: Auburn is the hottest team, if they can make a run and knock off a team like South Carolina or Florida they may just get an at large bid, but I'd rather just have them win the whole thing and not worry about it.

the team that'll probably just go ahead and win this shit: Vanderbilt

the wild card lousy team that'll pull a Georgia this year: Mississippi

but let's be honest, i don't watch basketball and i have no idea what i am talking about.

if Auburn can get to the finals then "You Are Forgiven" the Who style.

seriously the performance of "A Quick One While He's Away" is so awesome that the Rolling Stones cut it from the Rock N Roll Circus because they felt upstaged. pussies! so worth the 7 and a half minutes. if you wanna see the real action just cut to about the 5:50 mark and enjoy the trashing. anyways, with all the lame rock bios that have come out in the last few years when is someone gonna pull their head out of their ass and make an awesome biopic about Keith Moon?! it's the role Jason Schwartzman was born to play.


come on. it would be awesome. Make It Happen Hollywood. quit fucking around with bad versions of Comic Book movies.