NCAA Tournament:
Ok, so the Huskies aren't in the tournament, but it's still one of the greatest sports events in the world, up there with the Superbowl and the World Cup (Sorry Olympics, you're not that interesting. In fact I'd probably put the Masters and Wimbledon before you).
My personal Final Four picks were: Florida, Kansas, G-Town, and Ohio State. I know, 3 number 1's, and a number 2, but I think that the 1 seeds, with UNC included, have too much NBA talent to not pick them. I only picked G-Town because they're on a roll, are playing great team ball, and they're bracket is so hard with UNC, Texas, and USC, I figured UNC would struggled against USC/Texas while Georgetown would breeze past WSU/Vanderbilt.
All the number one seeds made it to the Sweet Sixteen, as they should. Ohio State needed a miracle three to get into overtime, but Conley took over in overtime and pulled OSU up big even with Oden out. UNC looked like it had a tough time against Michigan State, but eventually they're 4 or 5 NBA caliber players led by Psycho T pulled it together in the end to take over the game. Kansas had some trouble with Kentucky, but I think Kentucky's a real good team, especially for a 8 seed. Kansas, like UNC, just has too much talent to lose this early. Florida also had a scare against Purdue, but Horford and Brewer just took over in the end.
They're haven't been too many upsets so far, but UNLV beat Wisconsin, Virginia Commonwealth beat Duke, and Winthrop beat Notre Dame, though most people probably predicted the ND upset. I'm not surprised that Duke got upset because VC had a great record, even though they played nobody, so it's hard to tell how good they are, and I'm not surprised that Wisconsin lost because without Brian Butch, the Badgers have no inside presence, and the scoring is left to just Taylor (who looks like Chris Rock to me) and Tucker.
For the Pac-10, Stanford got crushed by Louisville, but Louisville is an underachieving team, while Stanford is an overachieving team that barely made the tournament so while most people poitn that out as the Pac-10 being undeserving of 6 bids, I say it's one game, and the odds were severely stacked against Stanford. Louisville also played right next door while Stanford had to travel 3,000 miles. Oregon, UCLA, and USC breezed through the first round, even though USC had to played Texas, a favorite among the lower seeds making it to the Final Four. WSU fell victim to tough scheduling and lack of offense. They had to play ORU, probably by far the toughest 14 seed, and then they had to play Vandy, a team that was on fire earlier in the season. Lastly, Arizona lost to Purdue despite having possibly the best starting lineup in college basketball. I don't know if it's Lute Olsen, or if it's Mustafa Shakur's poor play down the stretch, but Arizona quietly went about as one of the biggest dissapointments of the season.
Mariners:
Bloomquist is on fire still, hitting around .450. Lots of people are calling for Morrow to start sometime this season. Felix looked up and down yesterday, he struck out 6 in 6 innings of work, and had 8 GB to 1 FB, but sucked it up for an inning, thought it was partially due to bad defense apparently.
People I'm worried about from what has happened in Spring Training are: Jeff Weaver, Richie Sexson, Jeremy Reed, Chris Reitsma, and Kenji Johjima. Weaver's stuff is looking flat apparently, Richie can't hit crap right now (he better not hit .200 for 2 months like last year), Reed is playing horrible when we need him to play well for trade bait, Reitsma is awful and Hargrove will probably use him a lot because he is a veteran, and Johjima is not throwing anyone out apparently.
People I'm excited about are: Ichiro!, Adrian Beltre, Jose Vidro, Felix, HoRam, and George Sherrill. Ichiro! is looking great, and this might be his last year, AB has been having some good at-bats and is looking like he could hit 35 hrs, Vidro isn't looking like such a bust, though Snelling hit the snot out of the ball doesn't help, Felix should be dominating this year, HoRam is looking solid, especially since I've heard rumors that Soriano can't hit 90 on the radar right now, and Sherrill is now veteran enough that barring injury, he should have a great year and tons of innings.
Coming up: Football Mock Draft and scouting report, though it won't be amazing because the Seahawks don't have a first round pick.
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I hate the idea of Bloomquist doing well during Spring Training, as it will only lead to the disastrous move of giving him a lot of playing time (or worse, a starting spot) during the regular season. Why haven't the Mariners figured out that Bloomquist is not and will never be a solid contributor for a team trying to contend in the mediocre A.L. West?
I like the idea of him doing well because we have an adequate sub who can sub for Lopez, Betancourt, Beltre, Ibanez, Ichiro, and Guillen all in just one guy. I don't like it because Hargrove will use him too often.
I also don't like it because I'd rather use Morse at SS, 3b, 1b, and Reed as the main 4 OF.
in the tourney, my final four is florida, ohio state, pitt and...texas.
A lot of people had Texas, but that section was the toughest to predict I think. USC is a great underrated team, and then Texas would have had to beat UNC, then Georgetown, which is why I picked Georgetown because all they really had to beat was WSU, which they don't anymore.
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