Live Blogging The First Day of the NCAA Tourney..I guess

Kid Butterball, 5:41 - Me and Goo are flying out for business tomorrow morning and I'm staying over his house tonight because our flight is at nine o'clock in the fucking morning, which means I'll have to wake up no later than 6:30 am. What am I, a fucking farmer?

Anyway, I gotta leave for his house in an hour and I haven't packed (or, as mentioned earlier, showered) so my sandwich has to be rushed. For some, this sandwich might be considered a triumph, for me it is a miserable failure. Roast beef, pepper jack, fresh mozzarella between two slices of sourdough toasted on the Foreman Grill.

Where is the lettuce? What about sliced tomatoes? There's no fresh cilantro nor a sprinkling of lemon juice. I am ashamed.

I don't even have time to watch the only game on right now. Dammit.

6:50 to go in the 1st half of Cornell-Stanford. Stanford up 24-15. I had the Big Red in the Final Four. Fuck.

Kid Butterball, 5:25 - I called up Goo and told him to contribute to the live blog.

Goo: There's only one game on (Cornell-Stanford) in between now and seven. Why would we start now?
Me: Because game blogging isn't about the games. The games merely serve as background noise.
Goo: That's not how they work at all.
Me: Fag.

Cornell-Stanford is underway. I'd like to watch this uninterrupted but I haven't showered nor eaten today...I better go eat.


Kid Butterball, 5:03 - I guess I'll start doing a live blog. I've been watching all day/writing my brilliant Joe Johnson essay. For those of you who aren't watching and have decided to use us as your only resource for NCAA updates (millions of you, I'm sure) there are no upsets yet through the first five games. By the way, I'm 6 for 6.

Kansas drowned Portland St. Xavier beat Georgia and I bet a few assholes in my pools had Georgia in the sweet 16. I couldn't name a single person on that team despite watching highlight after highlight of them in the SEC tournament. Michigan St over Temple was easy, no Don Chaney, no care. Pitt made quick work of Oral Roberts. Can they go to the Elite 8? - I don't know, but my booze budget depends on it. Marquette won over Kentucky, UNLV just destroyed Gary Waters' old crew (Kent State) and Purdue survived a mild scare, sending Baylor home.