Wednesday

I've messed this up before, but my records and recollection have this as Mother's birthday.  She would have been 105 today.  Happy birthday, Margaret.  You are Mother of the Day! 

And this is also the first day of Spring.  Funny.  As a kid, I always thought the seasons changed on the 21st of those months.  Actually, with the temps we're experiencing here this week, the season hasn't changed except on the calendar.  The local fish-wrap has a story about the ski place on the Illinois side making snow this week.  Yeah, that's a sure sign of Spring.

The memory wall in the basement on Maplecrest tells me that it is this coming weekend that was the one for FFF March Madness for a few years when we had the chance to pull it off.  DSM and MSP were good times.  Actually, this may be the anniversary of 4's visit to the ditch on I-80 just West of DSM.  A scary night, but a memory too.

As I mentioned on Twitter last night, those First Four games are being televised on TruTV which seems a little odd to me.  I had initially thought that TruTV was a CBS-owned enterprise, but checking Wiki, I see that it is own by Turner Broadcasting.  And CBS and Turner have an agreement on broadcasting the early rounds of the tournament.  Whatever.  I guess the $$$'s just aren't that big for the First Four, and junkie's will find the channel, regardless of the camouflage.

I also finally picked up on the subtle notation that they have come to call the First Four the "First Round" of the tournament.  When they had the Selection Sunday show, the talking heads kept making reference to the second and third round games, and I couldn't figure out their math.  The NCAA and CBS are so snooty when it comes to these kind of things.  Like they always hated the term "the play-in game".

Kentucky proved with an exclamation point last night that they didn't deserve a bid to The Big Dance when they failed to show-up for "the little dance (NIT)", and dropped their game to Robert Morris.  Robert Morris?  Calapari is such a schmuck.  Never thought he was much of a coach.  But he's always been able to recruit.  This current bastardization of the game, One-n-Done, wasn't his idea.  He's just operating in a flawed system.

Anyone have deposits in Cyprus?  Good luck with repatriating those funds.

If you hadn't noticed, RevKev has posted a couple of times recently.  He needs your support!

Make it a good Wednesday.

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