March Madness!

Gawd I love March Madness.

Right now I am watching Cal State Fullerton taking it up a notch against the Badgers. Even when it's boring March Madness is still awesome. At it's absolute worst it is better than 99% of my days.

Duke pulls one out of their ace at the end to avoid total humiliation.

Beasley made USC just look silly. Ball goes up, Beasley comes down. Beasley shoots, Beasley scores. Rinse and repeat.

Xavier gave me a good heart attack. Only in March Madness can give you "good" heart attacks....it's definitely an indication of some kind of masochistic streak in me. Which is a big red flag; I should probably avoid those types of emotional accelerants so often associated with addiction: gambling, beer, spicy food, picking the best March Madness brackets again and again and again, winning Fantasy Football leagues, etc.

With college hoops there is this air of youth/inexperience that permeate the tourney. Once you get to the professional levels the players are no longer playing, they are going to work. March Madness on the other hand encompasses all of that naive passion and uncontrollable excitement you felt when you didn't know any better; when a game was still pretty important to your world view. So taking the ups and downs vicariously is a quickening of sorts...maybe...

....or just another excuse to drink beer. I can't decide. But it's still fun to watch and still a good escape.

I miss the hot wings though. Oh Barrel House why have you forsaken me? Whatever that crappy joint is now is fully crap-diddly-astic.