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Finally, the Rumpelstiltskin of the tournament can weave chalk into gold, unless Kevin Love rains full-court chest pass threes all game. John Caliperi and Ben Howland would like to reserve their respective Final Four fortunes of years past. But remember: Larry Brown looms above all. And that's fine, so long as there's not a repeat of the dilatory pacing of the 50-45 UCLA win over Mem-PHUS Tuh-nuh-SEE in the tourney two years ago.
Joey Dorsey has to play down his embarrassing domination at the hands of Greg Oden last year and Darren Collison needs to shake the specter of last year's performance in the title game. Each will have their hands full dealing with the likes of Kevin Love and Derrick Rose.
I'll be blogging the game from a bar in Adams Morgan in D.C., celebrating the [undisclosed] birthday of some blogger woman. (I hope she enjoys the glass ceiling I got her!) But, anyway, yeah, Adams Morgan. If there's a delay, it just means I've tripped over the mounds of douchebags.
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I approve of the use of deadspin widescreen.
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So how much time this week do you think Jim Nantz spent working on his impromptu one liners?
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES, yes, yes, YES, yes, yes, yes, yes, and I'm spent.
Not at the Pour House? For shame.
Maybe it's me but I find the socks the UCLA Cheerleaders are wearing incredibly sexy.
(And Happy Birthday from one sarah to another Sarah. Enjoy 21+? again. Because that 21+10 is a bitch.)
@UkraineNotWeak: So I'm not the only one thinking that I'd ask them to keep the socks on?
Maybe it's me but I find the socks the UCLA Cheerleaders are wearing incredibly sexy.
The socks are fine, but everything else needs to go.
@Brazil Thrill:
I DEMAND IT!!!!
@UkraineNotWeak: What about the little V at the front of the Memphis gals' black pants...Could be dangeroussssss.
I assume the hamster is in Final Four form, too.
As one who has over 61.5 in the first half, I like the pace of this game so far. Do believe UCLA will be slowing it down because they can't play at this pace.
@Scout: Better than taking a chance with the So-Cal chicks and whatever STDs they picked up from their last away game at USC.
Christmas Ape- glad to see you like the pics. I'm a lil' bummed that I'm not in San Antonio to take some more. Although if Memphis continues to shoot 70%, then it will have been the right decision for me to stay home.
At the rate that I'm drinking while watching this game, it's highly unlikely that I'll be conscious for the UNC-Kansas matchup.
@UkraineNotWeak: @Brazil Thrill: @44 in a Row: Oh, Yaz. The socks are hot. Rest of the outfit, agreed, has to go. I'm thinking change the socks to b/w and add ref's jerseys. But only just long enough to barely cover the backside. Sneek a peek a cheek...
/scribbles this down in sketchbook...
Oh oh, sounds like Billy Fudge is back with a bad case of the "should haves".
"Swirling Dervish"?
Everybody say hi to Ape on the dance floor at Tom Tom.
Anyone else see Howland throw up the Shocker?
@Dieter: It's like whirling, but creamier.
@Brazil Thrill:
Did you see that f### up by the umps in the Met/Brave game? They got it right in the end but the initial bad call screwed up everything afterwards. He didn't come close to catching that ball.
@longefellowes: I actually think that outfit works well in motion. When UCLA & USC played in the Pac-10 tourney the USC girls were wearing a similar outfit, except I think it was a one-piece. I damn near needed an IV to get through that one.
Um, are you allowed to set picks via hugs?
I hope you got her some Windex too, that glass ain't going to clean itself.
@Boy Howdy: That's what I call a solid screen!
Wait, check that, Billy Packer calls it a solid screen. I call it a foul.
@longefellowes: You could call your new sexy ref creation "Whistling Dixie".
@UkraineNotWeak: I didn't even know they were playing. TBS?
@Brazil Thrill: Winner! Man, I love you guys. Anytime I get stuck for ideas, I know where to ask...
@Brazil Thrill:
Fox Game of the Week.
@Dieter:
A solid screen is a wall.
@longefellowes: With shorter ref jerseys and black booty shorts you would have the Miller Lite More Taste League ref unis. Actually, the socks were not socks, they were those leg warmers that strippers wear now, above black stilletos.
I got a good look when they had a promotion thing at my neighborhood sports bar during Week 2 of the NFL season.
HELLO
@UkraineNotWeak: Grand fuckin' slam right there!
@Dieter: See, and now you can claim it as "research" for an artist you know...
@Lizabelle: Hiya!
So why isn't Ape live-blogging this? Did Rick Riley get to him too??!?!
@longefellowes: Glad to help a talented artist any way possible. ;-)
Working on anything new?
Ok, so I'm going to be an hour late to work tomorrow. So I've been trying to get a hold of my boss all day, but her blackberry is apparently off. I strongly dislike my boss. Would it be a total asshole thing to do if I called my boss's boss and was like, yeah, her blackberry is off (she's on call this weekend) and I needed to let someone know i'd be late.
@Brazil Thrill:
It's during situations like that that I love to read the in game comments over at Metsblog. The second guessing, panic and sense of doom among some Met fans during the fourth game of the season is mind boggling. There are truly insane people commenting on these boards.
@Brazil Thrill: Working on finishing another mini to send off for reproduction (so that I can sell some items at a lower price point at my next show), and also working on a Cleopatra sculpt. That one is going sloooooow
@longefellowes:
Just don't lose the socks!!!
@Lizabelle: But does your boss' boss consider it more of an asshole thing to not tell anyone at all? Cuz, see, the way I see it, you tried. And you're just being a responsible employee by following the chain of command until you can either talk to someone or leave a message informing of your impending lateness. Anything that gets Ms. Snarky (potentially) into trouble is just a co-incidental side effect.
@Lizabelle: After all the shit she's put you through it sounds perfectly reasonable.
@longefellowes: I just went to your website. Wow!
@Lizabelle: But beware that she will be out to even the score. Would she feel indebted to you if you covered for her?
Why I hate Fox: because they show me the same damn Dodger team I see every damn day. Why can't I get, say, a Mets game?
I smell another UCLA second half ekeing out.
Got my first half over.
@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Eh I'm just going to book the later train and if she has an issue with it, she can see the e-mail/voicemail I left her at 1pm today.
@UkraineNotWeak: no no, white socks with black stripes. now i have to mentally go through all the football foul signals to give her a suggestive pose.
@Scout: Thanks!
@Signal to Noise: You dint want today's Mets game. Unless you like Buck and McCarver...
@longefellowes: Facemask call, tugging down on her shirt.
@UkraineNotWeak: Yeah, it's funny how sensitive people can be about 1 regular season game in a sport where you play 162 of them.
@longefellowes: Awesome. They use different materials when you get them reproduced, right?
@Lizabelle: If?
So...I guess Nibbles conked out on Xmas Ape.
Halftime Jumbo Slice?
Mrs Brady!!! (the later years)
@longefellowes: I could have tolerated the morons for a bit.
And of course, Chevrolet gives its award to "Psycho-T." Jesus, he's so gritty and gutsy!
@longefellowes: How about an astronaut?
More fellatibrough. Fantastic.
Look at how Tyler Hansbrough hustled though that award acceptance speech!
Nice to see Davis win the coach of the year though, rather then a shmuck like Cal