So, Congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines, college basketball champions. Just for fun, I fill out one of those bracket sheets every year, even though I am not the hugest basketball fan; I don't pour over every stat or look over those computerized Pomeroy ratings and what not; I just go with my gut feeling. This year, that meant, among other things, that the team with the best record (Miami Ohio at 31-1) would advance to at least the top 16 (They didn't; they lost in the first round), that High Point would upset Wisconsin (They did!), and that Connecticut would return to the final four (They did) and that TCU would beat Duke (They did not.). I got a lot of things wrong, as it turns out, with one key exception: Michigan was something like 29-3; my dad was a Michigan alumni, and I wanted to see dad's alma mater win a championship. So I picked them to win the whole big shebang. And they did! I shoulda put money on it, but again, I'm not enough of an expert to really risk that kind of bet, and I don't really gamble much anyway.
As a kid, I was tall for my age, but I was never much of a basketballer. Too lanky; you know the whole "White Men Can't Jump" cliche? Well, that was me. Some of these little short guys would toast me in 2 on 2 games, even though I would be a head taller than them, plus my shot wasn't all that consistent. We lived on a hilly street with no park nearby, so maybe if I had a basketball hoop as a kid and had practiced more, I would have been decent, although probably not nearly good enough to play for dad's alma mater or anything like that.
On another note, This blog had over 140 views today, and something like 60 yesterday, despite my not having actually posted anything since Friday or Saturday. At the same time, I got a message from a bot asking me if I was interested in submitting to "Her" despite her living on the opposite side of the country. And yes I know "She" was a bot; yesterday I got a message, but today its "Profile Does Not Exist." I think there is a coincidence; whenever the site is besieged with dating site bots, they will auto-scan everyone's profile. Again, shout out to Villanelle and the staff for having to deal with this kinda crap.