March Badness

It does happen to be the week of the greatest sporting event ever created, so its hard to be completely down on the month of March.  However, I cannot help but notice a few glaring omissions from regular March festivities.

1.   Maryland was in fact so crappy to watch play basketball, they were uninvited to the NIT for God's sake.  A high profile program with a winning record (albeit not by much) was not highly regarded by the second rate basketball tournament during the Madness.  Wow.  As the end of the season neared, I certainly realized that this season was essentially the polar opposite of last season.  We had shooters, we had play makers, we had grit.  This year, we don't even want to go to the College Basketball Invitational.  And we've reached a new low.

2.  A funny thing happened on the way to the basketball tournament.  The NFL as we know it ceases to be a well-oiled juggernaut.  It has now become a schoolboy game of nanny-nanny-boo-boo, as each side sticks their tongue out at the other trying to figure out who has the bigger dick.  I think its pretty near impossible to side with the owners here.  How greedy can you get?  The players are the engine that makes the league go.  Well, concussions and messed up knees aside, let's take money back from the players to build gaudier, Middle-eastern prince-style stadiums that are totally unnecessary.  The fact that they don't even want to provide financial proof of their "decline" in profits, pretty much proves they are just representing capitalism at its best. 

Despite the fact that the owners are greedy bastards, I am just fed up with this whole thing from both sides.  Between the players and the owners, someone has to be smart and rational enough to figure this out.  This is the biggest display of immaturity I've ever witnessed.  This is over billions of dollars.  Ask me to split the money.  I can find a way.  I would love to find a way see if I can turn 1 billion dollars into more billion dollars.

And so, here is a limerick I have composed to keep this as cheeky as possible:

There once was a bunch of dicks
Who liked to go get their kicks
By demanding more cash
To throw in their giant stash
And reinforcing the fact that they're pricks

The players don't want to concede
Extra money the owners don't need
Why give it away
When they have no pensions anyway?
It's the epitome of greed

But now I don't even care
Because negotiations have gone nowhere
Its threatening to stall
The best part of fall
Forget you, to me this is unfair

~Fin


Ok, I just watched the end of Season 15 of The Bachelor.  Sigh.  Really, what a March.  When's the next Caps game?