the tournament is totally nuts

i made several different final four picks in various pools, and at this point none of them are even close.  i was right about something though, back before this thing started i wrote a blog saying that nobody has any idea what will happen. http://lucidsportsfan.blogspot.com/2011/03/bracket-advice-nobody-knows-anything.html

here are the elite 8 matchups by seed:

2 vs 4

3 vs 5

2 vs 8

1 vs 11

and in most pools you could have picked USC to get this far and still gotten all the points, even though they lost the play in game the VCU.  the whole thing is an absolute crap shoot, and anybody who tells you otherwise is lying

yankees add millwood, i take back everything bad i said about their rotation

well it looks like the questions regarding the yankee's shaky starting pitching staff have been answered.  today they added veteran kevin millwood.  that guy is awesome.  in '99 with atlanta he won 18 games with an era of 2.68 and a whip of 1.00, pretty nasty numbers. 

although come to think of it, last year's stats in baltimore might be more relevant than 11 years ago: 4-16, 5.10 era, 1.51 whip.  hmm.  not quit as good.

this blog is huge in hungary

that's right, i have 37 hits this week from hungary, far and away the most of any country besides the US.  do i have friends there that i don't know about?  maybe a stalker?  or is hungary just full of spiders/celtics/90210 fans?

comment on this blog if you feel like it, i want to see if the comments are working better now.  and follow me on twitter @lucidsportsfan

glitch in the matrix saves goal

ok, so i first saw this on barstool sports last night.  and i didn't want to write about it because i'm trying to be original.  then it became the front page of yahoo (which is one of the all time top 3 things i hate, but that's another blog for another time), and i really didn't want to write about it.  but i have watched this clip like 4 million times, and it's one of the most unexplainable things i have ever seen.

it happened 3 days ago.  i'm kinda surprised it's not a bigger story.  the only explanation i can think of is that the puck hit a groove in the ice and changed direction.  but is that even possible?  i've never heard of that happening.  something is not right here.  this is scary.

celtics forget the score, lose game for no reason

ray allen - "i know we were down big early, but then we played well after that.  there was a time late in the second quarter when i hit two 3's in a row, and the crowd went nuts.  i assumed we had a huge lead at that point, but apparently we were still behind by 2." 

ok, so i made that quote up, and the headline too.  but it totally makes sense.  i was at this game, and i have no idea what happened.  it was weird.  freaking tony allen.  for the record, i'm officially giving up on the #1 seed.  and if it comes down to LA vs BOSTON round 3 in the finals, it looks like they'll have home court again.

does blogspot suck for trying to leave comments?

a few people have told me that they've had a lot of difficulty leaving comments on the blog.  so if you read this, try making a comment and see what happens.  if it doesn't work, write on my facebook link and let me know what happened.  or tweet me @lucidsportsfan.  i think i may have to switch to a new website, i get the feeling there are better more user friendly options out there.

ok, i am officially scared of the bulls

most of the season i paid no attention to them.  a few weeks ago i started wondering if they might be a legit contender.  now, i am seriously worried.  chicago DESTROYED atlanta last night.  on the road, in the second night of back to backs.  it was 72-43 at halftime.  i don't think it'll happen, but i really hope the celtics can edge out the bulls for the top seed in the east (it may well come down to who wins their last meeting april 7th in chicago).  not so much because i think boston needs home court advantage, but more so because i want the heat to play the bulls in the second round.  i can't believe i'm really about to say this, but i think i would actually root for miami in that series.  right now they don't scare me half as much as chicago does.