president obama, making his selections. with andy katz. it's been an all-sports wednesday for me, at least so far.
i've officially made my picks for this year's tournament! the POTUS and i are in complete agreement on the outcome in the WEST. we mostly agree on the MIDWEST, except I'm picking bc over michigan state. we definitely don't see eye-to-eye on the EAST and SOUTH, but that is because for better or worse (lately, worse), i'll always pick duke over nc. i have duke coming out of the east (assuming a pitt upset by ok state. haha! i did say upset) and oklahoma coming out of the south and winning the whole she-bang over louisville.
you're seeing the duke connection at work again, yes?
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on an even lighter side, I happened to take a facebook quiz, "which MLB star are you?"
i don't take these quizzes very often (honestly!), but the subsequent comments from friends relating to this one were so...colorful! there were 6-8 mostly ridiculous questions along the lines of, "if you were a baseball player, would you be a superstar or an underrated team guy," "if you made a ton of money as a baseball player, would you bling yourself out of town or would you share it with the community?"
i am CURTIS GRANDERSON: "Your pretty well at every different aspect of the game - one hell of a balanced baseball player, but you're not the best. Still, you are also very nice, kind, and involved in the community." (i didn't bother correcting their grammar.)
photo courtesy of positivedetroit.blogspot.com. photographer unknown.
i was hoping i'd be bernie williams (humble, musically inclined, beautiful base runner...) but since he doesn't play anymore (except for pr in the wbc, which doesn't count) he was probably not an option.
but i rather like being curtis granderson: diligent, team player, global ambassador for MLB during the off-season, children's book author...i am officially a fan.
here's a link to an si feature, by albert chen, from a couple of seasons ago.
and the barack-etology video via espn.com.
