{"id":289,"date":"2004-03-18T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/03\/let_the_games_begin\/"},"modified":"2004-03-18T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T13:11:30","slug":"let_the_games_begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/18\/let_the_games_begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Games Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My NCAA Tournament picks are done.  I have Kentucky, Wake Forest, Mississippi State and Stanford going to the Final Four.  It was tough to pick Miss. St. over Duke since I haven&#8217;t even seen Miss. St. play.  But I have seen a lot of Duke, and while they are an incredible team when everything is clicking, they&#8217;re pretty average when everything isn&#8217;t clicking.  I&#8217;d also like to see St. Joseph&#8217;s get to the Final Four, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll happen.  Their rebounding is too weak, IMHO.  And I almost picked Georgia Tech over Kentucky.  Tech has been very impressive in their games against Duke this season, but I think Kentucky will still be able to beat them&#8230; barely.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sticking with Stanford to win it all over Kentucky in a close game.  I hope we don&#8217;t do our standard choke-in-the-second-round-act this year.  You should be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com\/men\/283532\" title=\"My 2004 NCAA Tournament Picks\">see my complete brackets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  Wyclef for President!  If you saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/chappellesshow\/\">Chappelle&#8217;s Show<\/a> last night you know what I&#8217;m talking about.  You <i><b>know<\/b><\/i> that song gets no radio play.<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/\">Mark Cuban has a blog<\/a> now.  This should be fun to watch.  I wonder how long it&#8217;ll take him to rack up some more NBA fines via what he writes on his blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My NCAA Tournament picks are done. I have Kentucky, Wake Forest, Mississippi State and Stanford going to the Final Four. It was tough to pick Miss. St. over Duke since I haven&#8217;t even seen Miss. St. play. But I have seen a lot of Duke, and while they are an incredible team when everything is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/18\/let_the_games_begin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the Games Begin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":295,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/22\/upset_city\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":0},"title":"Upset City!","date":"March 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Needless to say, my NCAA Tournament brackets are totally jacked up. Not only did Stanford, who I picked to win it all, lose, but Kentucky, who I had losing to Stanford in the championship game, got upset this weekend as well. I can't recall there being so many major upsets\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":284,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/08\/brain_dump\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":1},"title":"Brain Dump","date":"March 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't posted in a week now because the market's kept me so busy and I've been trying to track down some obscure bug in my MT installation that's causing me to get 'Server Error 500\" when I publish or add a comment. I still haven't figured out what's going\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Just for Fun&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":267,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/20\/who_would_have_thunk_it\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":2},"title":"Who Would Have Thunk it?","date":"January 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I was just checking out this week's NCAA Men's Basketball polls and was pleasantly surprised to see Duke and Stanford ranked 1 & 2, respectively, in both polls. I have to give Stanford coach Mike Montgomery much dap on his record at Stanford through the years. He arrived at Stanford\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":288,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/ncaa_tourney_who_wants_some\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":3},"title":"NCAA Tourney&#8230; Who Wants Some?","date":"March 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been trying to find a bloggers' NCAA tournament pool with a lot of members, but it seems like there are a lot of different pools with just a handful of people in each. Oh well. I've decided to join two of them, and the pubic 'Fans of Stanford' pool\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":298,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/29\/a_bright_light_snuffed_out\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":4},"title":"A Bright Light Snuffed Out","date":"March 29, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been in a daze all day today after receiving the news that a dear friend of mine, Okokon B. Okon III, was murdered last night here in Atlanta. He was the victim of what appears to be a senseless crime. As usual, he was being productive. He was attacked\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":274,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/06\/hell_of_a_game\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":5},"title":"Hell of a Game","date":"February 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There's nothing like a good college basketball game. I just finished watching the Duke\/North Carolina game. That game never disappoints, and tonight's 83 - 81 overtime win by Duke sure lived up to the tradition. I can't wait for the rematch in a few weeks, and this type of action\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}