March Madness is again upon us. Let’s name the BMG Sweet 16!
Apologies in advance for misclassifications, errors, and omissions. Off top of my head.
Criteria: Quality 70%, Quantity 30% (else we wouldn’t have much to read).
Eb3 Top Seed – Bye to Finals
ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY BRACKET
(only 2 competing)
Sabutai
vs
KBusch
BROOKLINE BRACKET
BrooklineTom
vs.
StomV
BIG HEART CONFERENCE CHAMPS
Judy Meredith
v
AmberPaw
COUCH FIGHT
Lynne
v
Mr. Lynne
K-12 SHOWDOWN
(*Among people who don’t seem to work for schools, and nonetheless like this stuff)
RyePower12
vs.
Petr
RED REGIONAL “MATURE” BRACKET
Peter Porcupine
vs.
JohnD
RED REGIONAL YOUNG BRACKET
Bilixi
vs.
JoeTS this comment should garner votes
TOKEN CENTRIST
EdgarTheArmenian ?
v
Mike From Norwell
Add brackets and make predictions….
Who is Final Four?
Discuss
36 Comments . Comments are closed.no high school bracket?
:)
Huh
I put LynPB and BitB in the couch fight bracket.
And you may as well have an "Editor's Bracket" with David, Charley, Bob, and (let's face it, as he's pretty much given the privileges of one) Ernie.
also, I'm pretty sure...
...billxi is over 40. That may still qualify him as a "young" Republican.
I'd vote for CentralMassDad for token centrist over Edgar. ETA would make a fine entry in the "lovable curmudgeons" bracket, though. Not sure "Mike From Norwell" is a centrist, either. Perhaps Pogo?
Other brackets: Cambridge, Cape, and "flatout loony" (I think LastHorseMan is a shoe in, though).
Oh, and most posts per day...
I miss CMD
He was the archetypical "moderate" voter that both parties lust after.
CMD's been posting again, recently
full list [here]:
make that
here
funny
i thought the same thing. i wanted to give CMD the nod. he's gold, jerry. gold. but in exile for so long. just back recently. does he still have the stamina to comment frequently? maybe he's KG, good for first 10 minutes of game, but then the knee kicks in. c'mon CMD. leave it on the floor.
LastHorseMan
should be somewhere in this mix, for all his creative efforts.
At least an honorary exhibition match?
NIT?
LOL
Do I get to be in the anagram bracket with Cos?
more brackets
Insider or Outsider
Machine or Grassroots
Here we go
KBusch over Sab. Stomv over BrooklineTom. AmberPaw over Judy. Lynne over Mr. Lynne. Ryan over Petr. PP over JohnD. Me over Bill (bill's young?) Edgar over Mike.
KBusch and stomv is a tough match. Stomv goes after KBusch with a barrage of science, math and green technology but KBusch defends with a shield of philosopher-king rhetoric and overloads stomv's soybean-powered math robot. In a last ditch effort, stomv tell KBusch that Immanuel Kant was right! KBusch, temporarily stunned, takes one to the dome. Not to be outdone, yells back "global warming is A LIE!" Stomv, suddenly angered, turns into a giant green creature, cross between the hulk and the green giant. Seeing an oppurtunity (and aware of stomv's secret alter-ego, the Green Monster) he pulls out a bottle of round-up and sprays it at stomv. KBusch to the final four.
All Amberpaw had to do was tell Lynne some stories of the people she works with an Lynne breaks down and cries. Then Amberpaw steals Lynne's wallet just for good measure. Amberpaw to the final four.
Ryan and PP have a battle using their respective methods of art. Ryan belts out a surly ballad about social responsibility and government. He sings, he croons, he lullabies. At the end of his performance, instead of confetti and balloons falling into the auditorium, newspaper pages fall. The crowd is engulfed by editorials. Ryan attempts to sing his way out but can't stop the crowd from reading. In a desperate attempt to secure victory, Ryan tosses a match into the audience, causing a gigantic fire. All of the newspapers are destroyed, but the smoke damages his voice. Ryan barely makes it to the final four.
Flash to a smoke-filled room. Edgar is sitting at a table in the back, surrounded by beautiful women. The place goes quiet as a man enters. It's too dark to see the man's face, and he makes no noise but the click as the metal heel of his boots hit the floor. He walks slowly to the back. "Edgar, I have finally found you" he rasps. "For 7 years I've followed your trail. It wasn't easy, having nothing to trace but half-smoked chewed up Cuban cigars and beaten Turkish men who feared to speak of the Armenian who fought back. Well, the jig is up." And just like that, the elusive kingpin of the Armenian mob was dead. JoeTS to the final four.
Brilliant
The idea of Amber stealing somebody's wallet is a hilarious image right there. Bonus points for the Usual Suspects reference.
Come on sab, you're creative!
Finish it. Who wins?
Nuh-uh
I'm a teacher...it's gauche to play favorites.
'smoke damages his voice. Ryan barely makes it to the final four' - Man, talk about yer Phyrric victories!
The Sweet Sixteen Can be Covered on BMG Radio
This threas reminded me of a post back in 2007. Sabutai proposed a full lineup for BMG Radio.
I laugh every time I read it.
I must disqualify myself...
I am but an apprentice to stomv, he is the master. Plus he's my friend; one reason I like him is that he's right so many times more often than he's wrong (I'm not sure I've ever seen him be outright "wrong"). I truly enjoy excellence and he exemplifies it.
Meanwhile, I must disqualify myself. I am, in fact, in the middle of moving from Brookline to Somerville. After more then ten years in the same lovely (rented) home, my wife and must downsize. Brookline has been a marvelous home; we are eager to plant our roots in Somerville. Our new home is near Tufts, between Davis and Porter Square. I'm happy to trade up from the C and D to the Red Line. Goodbye, Barney Frank — hello, Mike Capuano.
I'm going to keep the "BrooklineTom" moniker for awhile, though.
:(
Check your email (EOM)
Ditto
I'm already on record for wanting to read more Sabutai. He knows more about foreign policy than I've forgotten.
My Picks
ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY BRACKET
Sabutai
BROOKLINE BRACKET BrooklineTom
BIG HEART CONFERENCE CHAMPS
AmberPaw
COUCH FIGHT Lynne
K-12 SHOWDOWN
RyePower12
RED REGIONAL "MATURE" BRACKET
JohnD
RED REGIONAL YOUNG BRACKET Bilixi
TOKEN CENTRIST
Mike From Norwell
Boy
just finish 16 straight weeks of 5th grade travel basketball (3 practices a week, then every Saturday night @ Shea Gym in the old Weymouth Naval Air Station - my wife was overjoyed when she found out about that little game detail) and now another tournament? Better rest up.
Guess I am a centrist so in the right bracket.
Edgar can't handle pick and roll
what about the spin dribble?
Don't forget to include two of the best competitors:
lightiris and Huh. In that one lightiris wins hands down.
but what category?
Well..
...you win the Palindromic Bracket.
As for LightIris, I think she'd crush anyone else in the Veterans' Bracket.
I was hoping for a tag team event
I think she and I could clobber eb3 and johnd in the good vs. evil bracket. ;)
Heh.
I'm always up for a little game of Find An Appropriate Orifice For the Yellow Ribbon.
Albatross bracket
umm
I'm guessing that's an insult, probably based on some bizarre interpolation of this:
It is funny how many people use that particular metaphor without knowing where it comes from. This may help:
I prefer to think of lightiris and myself as bringing good luck...
I hate to say this
But I never win the couch fight. He always gets the couch, by virtue of his 3-hour-commute-a-day, so therefore, I always defer the comfy spot to the Mr. since he sacrifices a lot to keep a roof over our heads.
;)
Also, he kicks my ass in logic.
Reminds me of what a customer at my work told me regarding his marriage
"I wear the pants, but she tells me what pair to put on."
I feel like thats a winning stategy for marriage,
Charter buses
It's a same we don't have a charter buses, not schools bracket where we can run Goldstein against Charley on the MTA.
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