Bored

Poor Wazzu, would have been nice for them to at least get to the Sweet 16 after they were expected to be garbage as usual this year.

And VCU ties Pitt with 1:40 to go. This is insane.

Signed up for the N.L. league as the Scrappy McClutchies.

The draft is 20 rounds so we have 5+ left.

We've had a ton of upsets in the first two rounds but one World Champion has survived to make it to the Sweet 16 and that is the '83 Orioles who took care of the '89 Blue Jays in five games and are on paper the tournament favorite now. The '86 Red Sox lost the '80 Yankees and no ball through Bill Buckner's legs although he did go 3 for 46 in the tournament. The upstart '86 Indians pushed the '88 Red Sox to seven games but they could not join the '88 Pirates as a 16th seed into the next round although there was one milestone in the series as Ken Schrom (!) pitched a shocking no-hitter in Game 2. Here's the boxscore: BOXSCORE: 1986 Cleveland Indians At 1988 Boston Red Sox Indians AB R H RBI AVG Red Sox AB R H RBI AVG T.Bernazard 2B 5 2 3 1 .351 W.Boggs 3B 3 0 0 0 .360 B.Butler CF 4 0 0 1 .303 M.Barrett 2B 4 0 0 0 .290 J.Franco SS 5 1 3 2 .382 D.Evans RF 3 0 0 0 .143 J.Carter LF 4 0 0 0 .424 M.Greenwell LF 3 0 0 0 .360 A.Thornton DH 5 1 2 0 .281 E.Burks CF 3 0 0 0 .240 M.Hall RF 5 0 2 1 .226 T.Benzinger 1B 2 0 0 0 .250 P.Tabler 1B 3 1 1 1 .214 J.Rice DH 3 0 0 0 .250 B.Jacoby 3B 3 1 1 0 .379 J.Reed SS 2 0 0 0 .250 C.Bando C 4 0 1 0 .200 R.Gedman C 3 0 0 0 .136 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 38 6 13 6 Totals 26 0 0 0 Indians......... 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 6 13 0 Red Sox......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 Indians (5-3) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA K.Schrom WIN(2-1) 9 0 0 0 3 1 0 5.30 Totals 9 0 0 0 3 1 0 Red Sox (5-2) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA M.Boddicker LOSS(1-1) 7 9 5 5 3 5 0 3.94 D.Lamp 2 4 1 1 0 0 0 6.75 Totals 9 13 6 6 3 5 0 T- 2:50 LEFT ON BASE- Indians: 9 Red Sox: 2 DOUBLE PLAYS- Indians: 1 Red Sox: 1 DOUBLES- J.Franco(3rd), A.Thornton(1st) STOLEN BASES- T.Bernazard(1st) SACRIFICE HITS- P.Tabler WALKS- B.Butler, J.Carter, B.Jacoby, W.Boggs, T.Benzinger, J.Reed STRIKE OUTS- J.Franco, J.Carter, A.Thornton, P.Tabler, C.Bando, D.Evans GIDP- J.Franco, J.Rice BALKS- D.Lamp Again stat lines are for both rounds. (9) 1988 Boston Red Sox def. (16) 1986 Cleveland Indians 4-3 Game 1: Red Sox 8, Indians 1 Game 2: Indians 6, Red Sox 0 Game 3: Red Sox 3, Indians 2 Game 4: Indians 5, Red Sox 1 Game 5: Red Sox 2, Indians 1 Game 6: Indians 5, Red Sox 4 Game 7: Red Sox 5, Indians 1 Mike Greenwell: 15-42, 10 R, 4 HR, 8 RBI Bruce Hurst: 2-0, 0.82 ERA (13) 1987 Toronto Blue Jays def. (12) 1985 New York Yankees 4-2 Game 1: Yankees 7, Blue Jays 5 Game 2: Blue Jays 6, Yankees 2 Game 3: Blue Jays 6, Yankees 2 Game 4: Yankees 9, Blue Jays 4 Game 5: Blue Jays 7, Yankees 6 12 innings Game 6: Blue Jays 5, Yankees 2 Lloyd Moseby: 15-53, 11 R, 3 HR, 7 RBI Jimmy Key: 4-1, 2.57 ERA, 3 CG (6) 1980 New York Yankees def. (3) 1986 Boston Red Sox 4-2 Game 1: Yankees 2, Red Sox 1 Game 2: Red Sox 2, Yankees 1 Game 3: Yankees 9, Red Sox 0 Game 4: Red Sox 2, Yankees 0 Game 5: Yankees 2, Red Sox 0 Game 6: Yankees 4, Red Sox 1 Willie Randolph: 15-35, 8 R, 4 2B, 2 3B, 8 RBI Tommy John: 3-1, 1.17 ERA (2) 1983 Baltimore Orioles def. (10) 1989 Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 Game 1: Blue Jays 5, Orioles 2 Game 2: Orioles 4, Blue Jays 1 Game 3: Orioles 9, Blue Jays 6 11 innings Game 4: Orioles 3, Blue Jays 1 Game 5: Orioles 6, Blue Jays 5 11 innings Eddie Murray: 13-45, 9 R, 2 HR, 5 RBI Storm Davis: 2-1, 2.23 ERA, 34 SO, 2 BB A.L. East Semi-Finals (13) '87 Blue Jays vs. (9) '88 Red Sox (6) '80 Yankees vs. (2) '83 Orioles Up Next: National League Sweet 16

Dick Vitale and Billy Packer suicide watch begins...now.

Krankor's pick is Johnny Estrada And my pick is Scott Thorman

God I hope Brook Lopez doesn't jump to the NBA after just one year because Stanford does have pretty much their entire team returning so they could be very, very good next year. With his size and skill set he has a good chance to be a lottery pick but hopefully he realizes he's not exactly Greg Oden either and still needs time at the college level.

When it comes to scheduling CBS wants every part of the country to have a game in each timeslot so that's why Stanford ends up here and UNLV has a 9:25 AM PST start tommorrow. But when your getting ass raped like this the start time and location can't be used as a primary excuse. Sure it'd be more competitive if the game were in Spokane with a 2:30 PM PST tip but the result wouldn't be different. Woo hoo Stanford just matched their biggest run of the game, 4-0.

Christ it is 41-13. I knew there was a chance Stanford could get hammered but I could never imagine it'd be this bad, this quick.

Yay both Lopez twins with two fouls already. Stanford has zero ball handlers on their team, or at least no good ones, and Louisville is completely exploiting it. What has just been disgusting is the complete lack of effort on defense. I was hoping Stanford would play with a nothing to lose attitude since they weren't even sure they'd be here, and it since it is essentially a road game, but they are playing like a team that knows they don't belong.

Any small hope that Kentucky fans would show up to boo Pitino is gone. It sounds like it's 95% Louisville fans in the arena right now. Robin Lopez already in foul trouble which is pretty much every game for him. Louisville looks like a team that only had to travel 45 minutes for their game and Stanford looks like a team that is having to play before 10:00 AM.

Primary games I have today: Stanford/Louisville Oral Roberts/Washington State Weber State/UCLA Gonzaga/Indiana One thing I hate is CBS treats the entire state of California like everyone is local so no matter how out of hand the UCLA game gets they'll keep us there. Thank god for MMOD.

James Loney

After three #1's were bounced in the first round I guess it's not a surprise that the '88 Dodgers wouldn't last past the second round. What was a surprise was that all three Dodgers' teams that advanced were eliminated in this round including losing both match-ups to the hated Giants who unexpectedly become the first franchise with two teams into the Sweet 16. The '80 Astros cruised again as they needed just five games to beat the '83 Braves are now 8-1 so far. Stats are for both rounds. (9) 1987 San Francisco Giants def. (1) 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 Game 1: Giants 4, Dodgers 0 Game 2: Dodgers 4, Giants 3 Game 3: Giants 6, Dodgers 5 Game 4: Giants 7, Dodgers 1 Game 5: Giants 9, Dodgers 3 Candy Maldonado: 14-40, 8 R, 2 HR, 8 RBI Rick Reuschel: 3-0, 0.38 ERA (1 ER in 23 2/3 IP) (13) 1985 Cincinnati Reds def. (12) 1980 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 Game 1: Reds 5, Dodgers 2 Game 2: Dodgers 2, Reds 0 Game 3: Dodgers 5, Reds 3 Game 4: Reds 7, Dodgers 3 Game 5: Reds 9, Dodgers 5 Game 6: Reds 8, Dodgers 6 Dave Parker: 14-44, 3 HR, 9 RBI Tom Browning: 4-0, 1.71 ERA (3) 1989 San Francisco Giants def. (6) 1985 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 Game 1: Dodgers 5, Giants 2 Game 2: Dodgers 4, Giants 2 Game 3: Giants 6, Dodgers 5 Game 4: Giants 2, Dodgers 0 Game 5: Giants 14, Dodgers 0 Game 6: Dodgers 10, Giants 4 Game 7: Giants 6, Dodgers 0 Robby Thompson: 17-50, 5 HR, 9 RBI Don Robinson: 4-0, 1.55 ERA, 2 SHO (7) 1980 Houston Astros def. (15) 1983 Atlanta Braves 4-1 Game 1: Astros 15, Braves 7 Game 2: Astros 5, Braves 3 Game 3: Braves 1, Astros 0 Game 4: Astros 3, Braves 1 Game 5: Astros 14, Braves 4 Joe Morgan: 14-38, 4 HR, 10 RBI J.R. Richard: 2-0, 0.55 ERA N.L. West Semi-Finals (13) '85 Reds vs. (9) '87 Giants (7) '80 Astros vs. (3) '89 Giants Up Next: A.L. East Quarterfinals

They have to seperate one of the games each day because they don't want to tip off a game being played on the west coast that early in the morning and those two games are in Sacramento and Spokane. They will only be available in those school's local marktes so they aren't national telecasts.

This division/region was completely blown to pieces in the 1st round but this round things almost went to form. The '86 Angels did what the '89 A's were supposed to do and that was sweep the '87 Mariners. The other three series all went at least six games with the one upset by the '83 White Sox as they eliminated the '87 Twins in seven games. Interesting thing about that series is every game was won by the road team, the complete opposite of the '87 World Series. That now leaves no World Series teams left in this division/region. Again stat lines are for both rounds. (9) 1986 California Angels def. (16) 1987 Seattle Mariners 4-0 Game 1: Angels 4, Mariners 3 Game 2: Angels 5, Mariners 0 Game 3: Angels 4, Mariners 1 Game 4: Angels 4, Mariners 0 Brian Downing: 11-37, 4 HR, 7 RBI Don Sutton: 2-0, 1.40 ERA (12) 1988 Minnesota Twins def. (13) 1982 Kansas City Royals 4-3 Game 1: Twins 3, Royals 0 Game 2: Royals 5, Twins 3 Game 3: Twins 11, Royals 1 Game 4: Twins 11, Royals 9 13 innings Game 5: Royals 3, Twins 2 10 innings Game 6: Royals 8, Twins 6 Game 7: Twins 8, Royals 2 Tim Laudner: 20-53, 3 HR, 12 RBI Jeff Reardon: 1.93 ERA, 5 SV (6) 1983 Chicago White Sox def. (3) 1987 Minnesota Twins 4-3 Game 1: White Sox 9, Twins 2 Game 2: White Sox 8, Twins 1 Game 3: Twins 9, White Sox 1 Game 4: Twins 12, White Sox 1 Game 5: Twins 5, White Sox 4 Game 6: White Sox 14, Twins 7 Game 7: White Sox 6, Twins 2 Rudy Law: 19-54, 14 R, 11 SB Floyd Bannister: 3-1, 4 GS, 32 IP, 42 K (10) 1984 Kansas City Royals def. (15) 1981 Texas Rangers 4-2 Game 1: Rangers 3, Royals 0 Game 2: Rangers 5, Royals 1 11 innings Game 3: Royals 3, Rangers 0 Game 4: Royals 6, Rangers 1 Game 5: Royals 10, Rangers 4 Game 6: Royals 4, Rangers 3 Willie Wilson: 17-47, 7 R Bud Black: 2-1, 1.30 ERA, 4 GS, 3 CG A.L. West Semi-Finals (12) '88 Twins vs. (9) '86 Angels (10) '84 Royals vs. (6) '83 White Sox Up Next: N.L. West Quarterfinals

Laudner actually had a halfway decent year with a 99 OPS+ but I did have to do a double take when I first looked at numbers thinking I was looking at the wrong player.

Aww Syracuse can't even get a #1 seed in the NIT. East #8 Delaware State at #1 West Virginia #5 Alabama at #4 Massachusetts #6 N.C. State at #3 Drexel #7 Marist at #2 Oklahoma State North #8 Mississippi Valley State at #1 Mississippi State #5 Providence at #4 Bradley #6 Utah State at #3 Michigan #7 Toledo at #2 Florida State West #8 Austin Peay at #1 Air Force #5 Fresno State at #4 Georgia #6 Hofstra at #3 DePaul #7 Vermont at #2 Kansas State South #8 East Tennessee State at #1 Clemson #5 Appalachian State at #4 Mississippi #6 San Diego State at #3 Missouri State #7 South Alabama at #2 Syracuse

Aww Dickie V only has Duke getting to the Sweet 16. Very brave of him. I also love his logic that the West is the toughest region because it has the biggest name schools.

STANFORD GETS IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 teams from the Pac-10 already announced with a region to go. I think Stanford is getting in.

First bubble team in, Old Dominion.

Corey Hart Um, I mean this one:

Akron didn't play a single team in the RPI Top 50 all year and didnt play a single non-conference game against anyone in the RPI Top 100. That's how you get 25 wins.