{"id":290,"date":"2004-03-19T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T12:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/03\/im_number_85830\/"},"modified":"2004-03-19T08:04:33","modified_gmt":"2004-03-19T12:04:33","slug":"im_number_85830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/19\/im_number_85830\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Number 85,830!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was some great basketball yesterday in the tourney and I&#8217;m pretty happy with <a href=\"http:\/\/tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com\/men\/283532\">my picks<\/a> after day 1.  I currently have 13 out of a possible 16 points, and am ranked first in the SportBlog pool, second in the Barefoot And Naked pool, and 220!?!?! in the Fans of Stanford pool.  I&#8217;m amazed at how many people had perfect picks yesterday.  Yahoo shows the overall leaders and all of the top 50 people have perfect scores so far.  Overall I&#8217;m in the 89th percentile and ranked #85,830.  I&#8217;m happy that all of my second round winners are still alive.  I nailed the Phoenix region, but missed one game in each of the other regions.  Let&#8217;s see if I can move up in the overall rankings to at least the top 10,000.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I also <a href=\"http:\/\/tivocommunity.com\/tivo-vb\/showthread.php?s=14ed85a1f7b47dec702d2d8ba59ae5ea&amp;threadid=164175\">joined a $$$ pool set up by a guy at the TiVo Community<\/a>.  I&#8217;m tied for second place in that one.  I&#8217;m looking forward to winning that cash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was some great basketball yesterday in the tourney and I&#8217;m pretty happy with my picks after day 1. I currently have 13 out of a possible 16 points, and am ranked first in the SportBlog pool, second in the Barefoot And Naked pool, and 220!?!?! in the Fans of Stanford pool. I&#8217;m amazed at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/19\/im_number_85830\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m Number 85,830!<\/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":288,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/17\/ncaa_tourney_who_wants_some\/","url_meta":{"origin":290,"position":0},"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":291,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/20\/some_quick_ncaa_tourney_notes\/","url_meta":{"origin":290,"position":1},"title":"Some Quick NCAA Tourney Notes","date":"March 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Ouch! I took 5 losses in my brackets yesterday. I tried to get cute by picking a few upsets and I paid for it. Now I'm ranked #357,453, a slip of 271,623 places and into the 55th percentile. 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It seems that Mo Dee, like many of us, was moved to make his own list after seeing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10282364","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":353,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/08\/anil_wins_the_nigritude_ultramarine_contest\/","url_meta":{"origin":290,"position":5},"title":"Anil Wins the Nigritude Ultramarine Contest","date":"July 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I was happy to see that Anil Dash won the second round of the SEO 'nigritude ultramarine' Google challenge. For some reason Goolge's love affair with weblogs still fascinates me. 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