Madness is Marching

Great games for the last two days remind me of why it's such a bummer to usually have to work during the great event known as March madness. This has been a spectacular year, not for my brackets, or anyone else's I imagine, but the games have been just amazing. Not every year do we get the treat of a 14 & 13 seed knocking off a 3 & 4 respectively. CBS does a good job, but they allow you to watch any game online for free, so there's no complaining from this guy on that front. It makes me want to take off work Th/Fr. of next week to continue this trend of sitting around watching great college basketball.

South Park came out with another classic episode that was hilarious. Season 14 and the show has transformed from 8 year-old kids swearing like drunken sailors for laughs into a show that rips apart current issues and sheds a comical, and normally correct, light on them. I constantly have to tell people that South Park is incredibly topical and simply the best show on TV. I can't understand how people who aren't offended by the topics and language DO NOT like South Park. It blows my mind how people just call it a stupid cartoon and can't appreciate the genius of approaching complex/touchy issues with cartoons to give themselves a free pass to do whatever they want. They were out of line by making Elin Woods ugly, she is a DIME.

Went to the Brewers home turf for spring training and watched Suppan get shit-rocked for 5 earned in the first inning. There is NO WAY that man can occupy the 5th starter role for the Brewers. We're just going to have to eat his salary and release him, or keep him around for long relief/ only play if we are up or down by 6 runs or greater. He just has nothing special and anything he leaves up in the zone gets destroyed by OK players. It looks like batting practice for the most part. I honestly lose sleep knowing how much he gets paid to suck ass.

I'm reading Juicing the Game and the book does a great job of explaining the steroid era, even digging deeper into the strike/labor issues that I was too young to really know about. I'm really enjoying reading up on it on the flight/ before I go to bed/ in the bathroom. It's nice learning about a topic that everyone has an opinion on, but probably knows nothing/very little about.