15 Feet.

15 Feet.

The Cast

By The Fillerbuster

26 March 2021

(This was done on a tired Friday night, and wasn’t fully vetted or edited.  I apologize for any grammatical errors.)

The Pre-Sweet 16 Fillerbuster…

• Hello, friends.  The opening of Jim Nantz saying that line, with the first setup defense and hearing “getting your puppies organized” by Mr. Raftery just gave me chills.
• Once you get past the fact that Charles Barkley doesn’t know a heck about these college teams except for what he is seeing real time but THAT HE KNOWS THAT he doesn’t know much, you kind of dig everything he says after that.
• Seth Davis is of course the truth, but Wally says some really original and noteworthy comments.  Those two as an in-between analyst combo is pretty darn good.
• COVID might suck, and being forced into a bubble is not optimal, but props to the NCAA for picking where they did.  Hinkle (of Hoosier fame) looks amazing, and I kind of wish I would have made the random trip there to see if I could land tickets.  Probably not one of my brightest ideas though.  I am actually surprised I didn’t do it.  Hasn’t stopped me in the past with literally anything.  I have matured.
• My wife was out of town, and our new puppy, Jovie, sometimes gave me a look of death after the hundredth time of hearing the March Madness play at full blast on a speaker about 7 feet from her ears.
• The plan was for the puppy to like my wife more than me, and I think that March Madness solidified that initiative.
• Everything opened with VA Tech and Florida.  I was wrong on this one, as I immediately wanted to destroy any chance of a perfect bracket, but you knew as soon as it was Florida on the other side that Oral Roberts might make history.  They did.  They were the second 15 seed to make the Sweet 16.
• It is pronounced “Ays-miss.”  But, he doesn’t miss very much.  The kid didn’t come out of nowhere, folks.  He led the NATION in scoring this year.  Hoop junkies knew him already.
• I made some very good money on the money line with Oral Roberts vs. Florida.
• It is so hard to pick the upsets even when you know more about the opposing teams than a normal human being.  I had Winthrop, UCSB, and Liberty as three of my upsets.  Those didn’t pan out.
• But, I DID dodge the upsets for my Knockout Pool.  Of almost320 people in it, there are 100 left.  I don’t feel bad about losing one of my entries.  I was going to pick Purdue or Ohio State if I backed off Tennessee.  And the fact that I snuck in Houston and Nova in round 2 on a day of upsets made me happy.  Two out of three in this pandemonium is just fine with me.
• I like to pick the first day to sit back and root for upsets openly in the second day.
• St. Bonaventure surprised me.  I thought they might lose, but they have the veterans to keep it tight.  They got smoked by a more athletic LSU.  They got smoked so bad, that I actually took the points and LSU in the second round.  One of my losses.
• I did fine overall as far as spreads and betting though, bracket be damned.  I netted about a grand in the four days, so good start.
• The Big Ten had problems.  Only Michigan survived the weekend.
• The Pac-12 did not have problems.  They will finally start falling only because they are playing each other.  If you wanted Bill Walton to NOT have more ammo to say his catchphrase, Conference of Champions, then it might be too late but just hope and pray a Pac-12 team doesn’t take it all this year.
• The state of North Carolina was 0-3.  THAT doesn’t happen often.  Not sure if that is how they ended up, and not going through the entire bracket and all the schools, but that is still odd.
• It is one thing when a coach motivates a Power 5 team to excel as an #11 seed.  It is another thing when it is the coach’s son who is doing the damage.  Jim Boeheim might not win this thing, but he will be spending one of his last years in the tourney as a pretty proud dad.  Buddy is KILLING it.
• Maybe I am wrong about Arkansas, but I don’t think I am in the end game.  Texas Tech had potential for the Final Four, and Ohio State got cleared out of their path.  I think they blew it.  They did what they did all year.  They were on the wrong side of a close game against a good team many times.
• Sometimes a hot team will cool off in the tourney.  And sometimes they don’t.  Wow, Oregon State is on fire.  Loyola Chicago will tame them though.
• Tale of Two Cities.  Wisconsin looked unbeatable against North Carolina, and then hit reality.  If you aren’t clear about the fact that Baylor and Gonzaga ARE the two best teams no matter who wins this thing, then you missed the Wisco-Baylor game, where the level was elevated by Baylor when needed.
• Rutgers at least won a game (for the first time in a LONG time (not looking it up as I don’t have THAT much free time)), but they weren’t up to the level of Houston yet.  Houston has built a program to stick around, and I think Rutgers is about where Houston was 2-3 years ago.
• Eastern Washington bowed out, but if you watched the game, you saw the Groves brothers.  Picture two guys who should be at a lumberjack competition before heading to a Dead show playing hoops and scoring a LOT.
• The H&R Block commercial song is giving me nightmares after the weekend.
• Are that chick’s breasts bigger in the AT&T commercials?  I know that is rude, but seriously.  Watch the newer commercials…just saying what I see.
• Illinois did the Duke floor pound thing on defense when getting smoked by Loyola-Chicago, but the looks in their faces from about 10 minutes left in told me they had already quit.
• They quit ALMOST as bad as Iowa quit against Oregon with 10 minutes left.  Maybe 15.
• To give an illustration of who DIDN’T quit, think about Iona and Ohio.  For Ohio, Preston had NBA scouts watching him fight and fly all over the place saving balls like a role player.  He was a star player and Brian Scalabrine all in one.  Pitino didn’t have to tell his kids not to quit.  They just played like a Pitino club and kept trying.
• When Preston beat UVA in the first round, there was one amazing stat I heard.  Typically, when a team has 3 turnovers at the 10-minute left mark, they are winning.  UVA was not.  Preston was making scoring plays, making assists, and also the hockey assist a couple of times.
• I never have been a Mick Cronin “fan,” but not a hater either.  To turn around that UCLA prep in one day’s practice against an Abilene Christian squad that wore OUT Texas was amazing coaching.  Props to him and his kids.  They played smart (on editing, that is a non-intended pun lol) and very calm with pandemonium being thrown at them.
• No jokes about the VCU-Oregon game that was called that.  I feel horrible for the VCU kids.  We had a feeling COVID would leave its paw prints on something, and that was the chosen game.
• Oregon didn’t look too rusty at all the next game luckily, as it was a track meet (until Iowa just gave up in the second half).
• Most people don’t care, but failed upsets like Grand Canyon, Iona, and UCSB all beat the spread nicely.
• FSU is my pick to win it now outside of Gonzaga, as you know from my last blog.  West Virginia failed me for my fourth Final Four team (which is not The Cuse), but I still like the setup for the rest of the bracket. 
• Maryland has been bipolar all year.  Seriously, check their schedule and the amount of losses after a win.  So, it would make sense that they would control UCONN’s James Bouknight before he heads to the Association and then get smoked by Alabama.
• Seriously, let me pause.  Did you all see ANY of the Baylor or Gonzaga games?  Do you non-hoops fans, who are just tuning in for this month, NOW understand why they are the best?
• Oklahoma is a damn good basketball team.  The spread was 14.  They (well, Austin Reaves) got on FIRE, and they were able to cut it to TEN.  Amazing.
• I assume you all have seen the meme of Cameron Krutwig from Loyola being a ringer for Rod Farva from Super Troopers.  Google it.  Or maybe I will post it when I post to WordPress.  Sometimes I like to add pics.
• I think I heard that Sister Jean only asked that Illinois shoot worse than 30% from three, and that happened.  At least she keeps her powers VERY exact.  And what would a Sweet 16 be without another great showing from that great woman?
• Man, I don’t see HOW I live past 100, but I would love to be traveling to tourney UVA games when I am.
• One more thing about Illinois.  Ever notice they are really good once every 16 years?  Seriously, the 1989 Flying’ Illini made a run.  Then, in 2005, they made the title game and lost.  Now, it is 2021 and you do the math.  See you in 2037, Illinois.
• Man, I might have said I doubted Bama in the long run, but I still had them in the Sweet 16, mind you.  When they hit some three’s in the last game, they looked darn unstoppable.
• Jay Wright, you are the man.  Nova was the trendy upset pick after losing Collin Gillespie, and here you are in the Sweet 16 yet again.
• Cade Cunningham and OSU (hope Ross isn’t reading this) was a trendy Final Four pick.  Now gone.  Garza we thought we would still have around.  Now, we get to watch a classy exit followed by a subpar NBA career, as athletic bigs will eat him up.  But, basically, we have no teams with stars literally CARRYING them (unless we count Oral Roberts).
• Oklahoma State is technically only playing because they are on appeal for NCAA sanctions, so their story was all about the star, but not as much about the program.
• The Dikembe block commercials are still funny and I chuckle every time, with pops or without.
• The Mike’s-Mike Tyson commercials are really good too. I like the one where the guy runs away and Mike is trying to tell him that there are more in the fridge.  For you younger folks, Mike Tyson STILL is the baddest man alive to anyone age 35-55.
• I wonder if Ohio would have kept it closer if they had an extra set of sneakers for everyone.  Ben Vander Plas is the kid who hit two BOMBS to take out UVA, and he suddenly was cold after pulling a sneaker Zion Williamson.  Google it if you don’t get the joke.  I don’t have time to explain my jokes.
• Cameron Thomas played the whole game for LSU, and he played TIRED at the end.  I am not saying that is WHY they lost, but it definitely didn’t HELP.  They faded BIG time at the end.
• CU had to play against powerhouse FSU DURING the Boulder shooting.  Had to be tough.
• USC’s win over KU gave it its third worst loss in HISTORY.  That is a long history, folks.
• I am always in a rush when I write this.  Maybe it was the worst tourney loss.  Maybe the most ever.  Not sure.  Google it.  I am just a sports guy with a full time job and a puppy who likes to talk sports.
• I had USC in my Elite 8, and they are no joke, folks.
• Consistency.  The Zags have now made SIX straight Sweet 16’s.
• This is the first time ever that Oregon and Oregon State are in the Sweet 16 TOGETHER.  Tell your friends.
• The remaining schedule is so weird.  Typically, it would be Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday all day, and Sunday all day.  Instead, we get Saturday all separated, Sunday all separated, then Monday, and Tuesday night.  Then, back to the traditional Saturday Final Four and Monday title game.  Weird.
• I hate COVID for serious reasons of course, but really hate because I knew every sporting event date every year before this crap.
• Why double digit teams?  Not as big chance to play Power 5 teams with COVID during season.  Less prep if they did.  Loyola Chicago had an add-on game against Wisconsin because of a cancellation, had to prep quickly, lost by double digits, and their seed represented what they did against Power 5 teams.  The one and only.  Just an example…
• So what happens NOW?  This is what I think.  Nothing really different from pre-tourney, but with a couple of matchup modifications.
• Creighton is undersized.  USC will not destroy Oregon like KU, but definitely advance.  Gonzaga is making coaches retire right after games.  The Sweet 16 games won’t be that close, and Gonzaga will be down early to USC, but rally to win by 10 against USC.  Zags in the Final Four.
• Abmas still has a little more magic left.  I think they take down Arkansas on a last second shot.  The Nova run has been legit and respectable, but the rubber now hits the road.  Baylor is the real deal and will exhaust them with lock down defense and then hitting three’s on the other end.  Baylor then beats Oral Roberts by 5 in a surprisingly close game that EVERYONE tunes in to watch.  Baylor in the Final Four.
• Florida State has been my pick the entire time, so I am not switching now.  They beat Michigan.  UCLA is blindsided by Bama’s run of 3’s in the second half and loses close.  Florida State beats Bama in a highly entertaining 3’s-fest in the Elite 8 game.  FSU advances to the Final Four…finally.
• Loyola-Chicago will temper Oregon State.  They are too good and experienced.  The Cuse will bring out the Buddy-Storm another time, and take down Grimes and Houston.  It will be a close, phenomenal game.  Then, as much as I love the Loyola pick with the filtered out draw, I can’t go against a hot Boeheim team this late in the draw.  The Cuse makes the Final Four, folks.
• We will talk about the rest after those items happen just as I said…or not like that, and we can reevaluate again.
• Oscar Frayer from Grand Canyon died in an auto accident this past week.  They just lost in the tourney, and he was way too young to die.
• I didn’t know that Jon Rothstein was the only media person IN the bubble.
• Keep in mind.  Kelvin Sampson (Houston coach playing Syracuse this week) was previously at Oklahoma, and The Cuse went THROUGH Oklahoma when they won it in 2003.  Revenge and then some.
• Imagine if UCLA hadn’t lost a recruit, their big man, etc.  Amazing they still made it this far.
• I just read Eastern Washington’s lumberjack man Tanner Groves in the transfer portal.  GRAB him, someone.  Wait, he is from Spokane???  Oh NO…
• And, by the way, the transfer portal is WAY out of control.  Players are using it like travelers use an airport hub.
• I read the whole article of college coaches and their rankings as a player, but there were no surprises.  Ewing was #1 and Howard was #2.
• Hunter Sallis, a five-star recruit from Nebraska, committed to the Zags today.  Man, they are going to be the next Duke.
• So, apparently Shaka Smart already left Texas before actually leaving or being fired from Texas.  Pretty fancy stuff to get the Marquette job while still employed.  Who will Texas go after?  Well, I am curious to see how much money Texas Tech will have to front up to have Chris Beard (UT alum) NOT go.

The rest of what is on my mind:

NFL:

• I am not sure what happened to Phillip Lindsay.  He ran with such Gale Sayers magic early on, and now the Broncos have totally given up on him and released him.  Never saw that coming 2 years ago.
• I am also not sure WHY I will root for AJ Green, but I hope he gets some new mojo now that he is out of Cincinnati, where the offense and QB pre-Burrow was bringing his late prime years down.
• Two weeks ago, we were trying to figure out who would win the Deshaun Watson sweeepstakes.  Today, we are losing track of massage assault claims.
• I bet you he would tell you directly if you asked him.  Sure, he likes the money.  But, Emmanuel Sanders is all about playing Super Bowl Musical Chairs.  He is with the Bills next year, and that is not a bad chair to shoot for.
• The Patriots are spending!  The Patriots are spending!  The Hoodie is acting like he won the lottery, but they ARE filling a lot of needs.  That being said, the Cam Newton keeper still wonders what he sees in practice that we don’t see in lost games.
• Well, Andy Dalton, I have never seen a chance to save your ENTIRE career like YOU have right now.  You got out of Cincy, and latched on to the Cowboys for a year AND played.  Now, you go to Chicago, with the assumption you will start.  If you retire in a few years, do NOT tell us you didn’t have a few late opportunities to get your career out of the gray area.
• Does anyone else get sad when thinking about the first year when Ryan Fitzpatrick does NOT play.  So glad he is lacing up for one more year.  The best trivia question in 20 years just makes the league more fun.
• The Bucs got Fournette, Gronk, and everyone else back.  They brought back every single starter.  If I am in the NFC and not on up and coming Seattle, I have done many rolls of eyes in the last week when reading the sports.
• Brees finally retires.  I think he might end up being a Tony Romo in the booth, so I can’t wait to hear him start.
• Dak has gotten paid 4/160, but now comes the hard part.  He has to prove that this whole saga was worth paying him the paycheck.
• The Dolphins traded with the 49ers back to 12, and before writers could finish their article, they traded with the Eagles back to 6.  When you break down the give and take, those were two hellacious moves, and they have moved into the spot where their player apparently is a good, safe pick.
• Fitzpatrick went to HARVARD. That is incredible. That BEARD! James Harden is jealous.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL:

• Les Miles has suddenly earned the Mad Hatter nickname more in the last month than he did during his whole career.
• Zach Wilson’s pro day was apparently ridiculous.  I watched some of the throws.  As a Tweet I read said, you can Sharpie him in at #2 behind Lawrence.

"That's the throw of the Pro Day season right now."

Zach Wilson showing off 🤫

(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/Xz2cWdlJV1

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 26, 2021

NBA:

• The Nuggets picked up Aaron Gordon and JaVale McGee before the trade deadline.  These are great moves without giving up too much.  Gary Harris should have advanced more by this point, Gary Clark is not a big loss, and RJ Hampton is still the unknown youngster.  They already scored big on Porter, so odds are that they wouldn’t score on both reaches “ceiling picks” anyway.  They pick up a backup center for the stretch run in McGee, and pick up a forward in Gordon that has been playing out of position and without a true passer in Orlando forever.  AND, they get a lock down defender.  They basically lost Jerami Grant, and now have upgraded.  Good moves.  They have stated loud an clear the four players they are building around.  Murray, Porter, Jokic, and Gordon.
• The Heat picked up Oladipo from the Rockets.  He will fit into the Heat culture perfectly, he brings a create-your-own-shot additional element, and he will take pressure off of Jimmy Butler so he can do what he should do full time.  Score.
• The Hawks send Rajon Rondo to the Clippers.  Dude is like Claude Lemieux back in the day in hockey.  He just blows off the regular season, and waits for playoffs and titles.  He might not lead the team that is winning in scoring, but he does the right things at all the right times when the lights are brightest.  Leonard and George will have NO excuse this year if they fail.
• The Magic also traded Nikola Vucevic to the Bulls.  LeVine now has a Robin to his Batman, and the Bulls get the best player traded in this go around.  The only downfall is that Vucevic is going on 31.  But, his three point shooting will be a great addition.  He is a stretch big man with skills.
• George Hill to the Sixers gives them several things.  He is a deadeye shooter, a leader in the locker room, and a PG that can merge with the starters or backups.
• Kyle Lowry stays put, and that is odd to me.  But, as classy as both sides have been during the process, maybe this is just a Tony Gwynn situation.  Neither really wants to miss the other, so they just keep it going.
• PJ Tucker to the Bucks gives them a corner shooter to give The Freak more space, and a locker room voice that will be listened to when their backs are against the wall next time in a playoff series.
• I was so sad to hear that Shawn Bradley was paralyzed.  Thoughts and prayers.
• Kyle Kuzma is sort of loony anyway, so I had no problem with him blaming an earthquake for a missed technical free throw.
• We won’t see the effects of Blake Griffin to the Nets in the regular season or stats.  We will see him do a special thing or two in a playoff series.  That is why they picked him up.
• SO classy that Mike Malone read the names of the Boulder victims in his pre-game conference.
• Elgin Baylor died.  For you people who have never seen tape of the guy.  He was Dr. J and Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan.  He had most of the single game records not held by Wilt that then got broken by MJ.  Elgin was special on and off the court.
• We need certain things in sports.  We need Notre Dame to be good in football.  We need Duke and Kentucky to be in the tourney.  And we know that basketball is better when LeBron is not hurt.  We are not used to it, and it changes the whole product league-wide.
• LaMelo Ball was running away with Rookie of the Year but now is done for the year.  He is the Ball family member we DO like, get better, and get ready for him to tear it up fully next  year.

NHL:

• The NHL signed a new deal with ESPN, meaning the public will have seven more years to embrace the toughest team title to win in sports.  As you know, hockey announcers are literally the best (aside from watching the refs try and stay out of the way).
• The Flyers look the worst I have seen them look in YEARS, and this was a year where they were a popular preseason pick.
• Fact.  I am NOT good at betting hockey, and would save a lot of money by just taking the night off.  Note to self.
• A ref had a “hot mic” be heard the other night, saying “he really wanted to call a penalty…”  Sad.

MISCELLANEOUS:

• After his Aussie showing, Medvedev is now #2 in the world rankings.  Fact.  This is the first non-big four  #2 since 2005.
• Fury and Joshua signed a two fight deal for the year, and I will watch, even if everyone else is sitting around waiting on UFC 10,322.
• Marvin Hagler died, and anyone who saw him fight, knows that he was one of the best pound for pound fighters ever.
• Just like the Big Four is out at #2 in tennis, Phil Mickelson is officially out of top 100 first time since 1993.
• I am still not paying SI for reading their material.  I suddenly find myself on weird sites like Sporting News and Yahoo.  Yahoo.  Ugghhh.
• The men’s tourney is all about upsets, and the women’s tourney is so weird, as it has like NO upsets early on annually.
• The Holyfield camp contacted the Tyson camp about a big money fight.  Please stop the bleeding on the has-beens fighting way past their prime.  We won’t watch.
• Meanwhile, Oscar just announced he is coming back to the ring at 48.  What is it with boxers that make them want to fight more late in their career and retire like 15 times?
• Pete Weber retired, meaning I officially now can’t name one single professional bowler for the first time in 20 years.

LOCAL:

• The OG Mac and Cheese at the Golden Goat is my new #1 in Mac and Cheese in Denver.
• Mac and Cheezery’s Polish Mac and Cheese is officially #2.
• I filled out the cheese trifecta last weekend with my wife out of town by ordering the Grilled Cheese Society on Sunday.
• The recent Denver blizzard was the most in my time since 2003.  That one collapsed roofs right by me.  I actually was able to go and retrieve a bike from my old place when my roommate kicked me out before the blizzard in 2003.
• But, the snow was gone by the third day, which is what I love about Denver.  No lingering.
• Café Rio has the best breakfast or lunch burrito…like ever.
• El Chingon’s happy hour, on Tennyson, has the best happy hour in the neighborhood.  Get the La Pistola drink if you like hot, spicy margaritas.
• Bar Dough’s Eggs in Purgatory is incredible for a local brunch if you don’t get pizza.  And, we got to finally sit in one of those outdoor greenhouses that were created during the pandemic.
• Highland Tavern in the Highlands is dive bar heaven, and they act like they care about COVID, but they really don’t.
• Acoma has the best patio locally to me, I have learned during the pandemic.

THIS AND THAT:

• I won’t pretend to write about the Boulder shooting.  You can read much better writing on the sad subject.  So weird it occurred in arguably the most loving and peaceful nation in the United States.

boulder shooting-don’t write about it. it just sucks. let others write it.

• Terminator FG, New Orleans FG (I have that written, but forget what I meant by that).  Sounded exciting though.
• Why is record and song the same thing on the Grammy’s?  I am confused.
• I learned this during our brief watching of the Grammy’s.  Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding is a  great song.
• My buddy, Greg Prete, couldn’t come to my wife’s birthday party.  Good excuse.  He got engaged.  Love that guy and miss him at work.  Congrats, friend!
• I might know less about what is cool, but I found out that Taylor Swift still wins everything.  I don’t like her, but she did two albums during COVID, which is all I asked of artists during the lockdown.
• A ship as long as the Empire State Building got stuck in the Suez Canal.  Although I can’t think of anything to say about it, I found it noteworthy.
• Deliciousness looks stupid.  Who the hell is watching these shows?
• Mandalorian is cool, and we have rebounded from Puppy Not Doing Anything In Life…Life by watching episode 5 of season 2.  It is really good.  I just don’t find it as mind-blowing as everyone else.

FILLERBUSTER

• I now know what a puppy nap or child nap window is.
• We beat the system and found a mountain town having extra vaccines.  I got my first round.  We are starting to look at vaccinated-only cruises/ vacations.
• My body has no side effects of anything ever.  I don’t complain about anything because of this mainly.  I didn’t feel anything from COVID nor the vaccine.  Now, just the final chapter of round 2.  I will assume I will be at the gym later that day.
• I workout and am strong.  My brother was in strongest man competitions and pulled trucks in several.  He just tore his pectoral muscle.  He now has tear scars on each side. What a monster.
• My puppy doesn’t seem to understand I have to work during day.  Or do Golden Retrievers naturally have sad eyes.  She is so smart, that maybe Jovie is totally poker facing me.  Not sure.
• I didn’t wear green, and didn’t even think about doing anything for St. Paddy’s Day.  Weird.  Almost out of this COVID crap, but amazing how it changed our typical lives.
• My dog only listens to me when she wants to.  I have to bring a stick to the door and then throw it in the yard just as she is running in.  Again, I think I am being played in this relationship.
• I suddenly am all about beef jerky.  Add that to the list of foods that I suddenly have grown fond of in my late 40’s.  That is what happens when your diet is that of an 8 year old.
• Serious, everyone, stop saying “super excited.”  Drives me nuts.  Just say “excited.”  The word was designed to coin the ultimate emotion, so stop trying to one-up it.
• I rarely remember dreams.  And go figure that the first one I DO remember?  I had a dream that I was a security advisor for a big speakers rally in an outdoor venue with thousands of people.  The speaker?  Carla from Cheers.
• My wife started watching this show on The Cecil Hotel in L.A.  Pretty interesting.
• Jovie is starting to bark at 450am each day.  And won’t go to sleep.  I get she is mad about me not being able to take her to parks during work days, but the payback is really hurting me.
• I lent the person across the street my favorite book by Viktor Frankl.  That person has not moved out.  I can rebuy the book of course, but can’t create all of my life-changing notes in it.
• I love my wife, and I DO love old-school rap.  But, she really needs to stop playing It Takes Two by Rob Base and Roxanne by UTFO when she wants me to make an ass of myself at a friends party.
• My friend is a DJ.  My wife had a full on professional DJ at her birthday party because he is lacking jobs anyway with COVID.  Awesome.
• We ordered (well, SHE did) the hot tub on Amazon.  Going to set it up tomorrow.  Should be fun.  Apparently, the one we bought is portable too, so we can just take it on road trips.  I foresee a camping trip that isn’t Glamping, but is in the woods with a full on hot tub.

The theme?  Well, Hoosiers is the best sports movie of all time easily.  We have a bunch of double digit seeds in the Sweet 16.  And, the whole tourney is at Indiana venues, including Butler Fieldhouse/ Hinkle.  Remember, Oregon State, Oral Roberts, Syracuse, and everyone else who is not Gonzaga or Baylor.  15 feet.  The same as the gym at home.  Good luck!

Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed.  Remember two things.  First, feed yourself, feed your family, but always, always remember to…feed the wolf.  Second,  if you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.  Will I blog again?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.  As one shepherd said to the other shepherd, let’s get the flock out of here.