Back to the point of this article, I am starting to get fucked in my NCAA pool. I only got one game wrong the first day and was still in the lead in my pool up until midday sunday. But than the worst possible thing happened. Kentucky, somehow blew a 4 point lead with their vaunted senior leadership to the fucking University of Alabama-Birmingham. I had Kentucky in the finals. Every other year of my life I have picked Kentucky to choke somewhere because I hate them. Finally, I decide to pick them to go far and they lose in the second round. Why did I finally pick them to do well? I was tired of getting fucked over by them by winning. Sure last year it worked out for me, but Kentucky couldn't possibly do worse than they did last year? Well I suck because they shit the bed. I also picked Kentucky for several other reason, primarily because of all the possible final fours I was pondering, they fit in well with the conservative approach I was taking this year in an attempt to win a pool two straight years. I was also trying to go against my big east bias. This has also caused me to pick Duke to get to the final four. But it is important to note that Kentucky has not fallen lower than Mississippi on my lists of states. Its not as low as Texas but no state that stayed in the union (Kentucky was a border state that didn't secede) has ever reached Mississippi-Texas level.
But what really pisses me off now is that I didn't pick Syracuse to repeat. I think they can do it, and if I had picked them again I would have alot more fun rooting for them. Now I have to bank on some improbable scenario, mostly that Kansas loses soon, to get back into my pool. I had dreams of granduer where I would win two straight pools and I let that get into my thinking too much. I should have just been a man and picked Syracuse to go all the way and just fucked everything else. They might not win it all, but if they did and I had picked them again I would have been annointed "the man" and worshipped by 18-28 year old men everywhere for my improbable pick for my favorite team two years in a row. Now I'm just some dick who picked UCONN like half the nation.
And I had plans for the $500 for first place. Other than buying groceries and paying bills with it I was going to get back to geneseo and have fun like I was in college again. Now I've trapped myself to a lifeless law school existant where the mundane boredom of gas bags is broken up with games of Tony Hawk 3 and mastrabating to the spice channel.