Got RIT of 'em

So I was all excited to get home from work at 8 p.m. last night and fire up the DVR for my second UW hockey game since the last time they were in the Frozen Four in 2006. And then they kicked the shit out of something call Rochester Institute of Technology. They won 8-1. Not much of a game. Bucky plays for the National Championship on Saturday. Good times. Should have put $10 on them in Vegas. Damn.

Hey Twinkie, where was the Fighting Sioux? According to my perusal of Yahoo!, they were busy agreeing to no longer exist. There, there buddy. I went through this with my high school (the Indians) in or around 1989. You will live. I personally think that the Fighting Sioux is less offensive than the Indians or especially the REDSKINS on the racism scale, because it is concentrating on one tribe, who is native to the area. I also saw that while William & Mary is allowed to keep the name "Tribe", they had to change their mascot from a Native American feather to a Griffin. Which doesn't make any sense at all.

In other, non-college hockey related news, the Brewers took advantage of a rather messed up system that screws young talented baseball players (and which the NFL should really look into, although the NFL screws older players) by signing Yo to a 6 year 42.5 million dollar deal (or a 5 year, 30 million dollar deal if he sucks/or wins a Cy Young). While they are paying him more than they need to this year (if you include the bonus $1.75 mil v. $450k), if he pitches anywhere near a number one starter, they are going to be coming out well for the rest of the deal. He certainly would've gotten a huge raise in arbitration for all three years, and a deal far surpassing that even if he is average (we are paying Wolf and Suppan $22.5 mil combined) for the final two years. This is muy similar to the Braun deal. GREAT job by the Crew. Now cue the elbow tendinitis and inner ear infections. Looking forward to seeing Brewer baseball this weekend. "Big" series against the Cards this weekend, with two games on National TV.

I laughed out loud when my first J.J. Hardy Twins highlight was him grounding into a double play. Get used to that Twins fans. (Then I looked up his stats and saw he is hitting .313 with 2HRs. Well fuck you, it won't last).

Finally, SIX DAYS until my working for $3.00/hr ends, and my pay gets bumped up to my usual $6/hr.

Am I Crazy?

...For thinking that Creighton still has a very legit at-large shot? Four games left, only one on the road (at last place Missouri St.), three winnable home games. I said a month ago, that if they win out in the regular season, they would get an at large, which at the time seemed ridiculous because they were coming off a terrible loss and had ten games left. Well, they've won six straight, including the absolute violation of the Egyptian dogs in Carbondale on national television on Saturday, and are now 21-6. 26 or 27 and 7 would look pretty freaking good, especially when the committee will have to choose between them and a 10 or 11 loss Michigan or Penn St.

...for believing that 3-2 the rest of the way will get Wisconsin in? And really, they should win two against Indiana (who is abysmal) and beat Michigan at home.

...for being excited for baseball on February? I literally looked to see when the Brewers first spring training game was. I think it probably has to do with the fact that I've been locked in my office about 60 hours a week for the past few weeks, and I'm looking for a reason to be preoccupied by something else. It also probably has to do with the fact that I have a totally different feeling heading into the season due to the playoff run last year. Not that I think they will make it again, but last year was the first year ever that I made the Brewers appointment viewing from April to October, and found out what it feels like to have something to root for during an entire baseball season. Something I hadn't had in my whole life, really.