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  1. Posted

    Habs already blew it though :rog:

    I don't really give a shit lol. Caps haven't advanced to the ECF since 1998. Habs have done so twice since 2010.... and one was with a god awful 88-point team.

     

    Flyers in 7.

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  3. Posted

    Sure, but can you put it into the tiny hole? Can you putt accurately on the crazy lopsided green? Can you stay consistent for 18 holes? If it's easy for you, you should quit your day job and become a professional golfer. :yep:

    Now you're just talking about playing golf in general, not just hitting a golf ball.

     

    Yeah, I'd say playing golf is a lot more difficult than playing baseball, but if we're talking about making contact, it's a lot harder to hit a 98 mph fastball than hitting a ball off a tee.

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  5. Posted

    where the Habs at though? :smug:

    What do the Habs have to do with it? lol. I'm a Rangers fan too fwiw... the team that's knocked the Caps out of the playoffs 2 of the last 3 seasons. I'm not even that invested in hockey that much anymore. srs, I barely get around to watching the games. I was a much bigger fan of hockey when both the Habs and Rangers were much worse. :yao:

  6. Posted

    Caps are not gonna have an easy time in the 1st round regardless. All the teams they could potentially play (Isles, Bruins, Flyers, Wings) are more than capable of knocking them out. But really, anyone can beat anyone. Nowadays, there really isn't a big disparity between the 1 seed and 8 seed.

  7. Posted

    FWIW, I don't think the NFL playoffs are a great way to decide a champion either, or anything with a single-elimination format, but at least with football you have the excuse that series would take way too much time. I think the lack of true underdog winners says more about the lack of parity in NCAA Basketball than it does about the tournament. There's such a huge gap between the top 10-15 teams and everyone else that while many of those top teams will get knocked off well before they should one of them is still most likely to come out on top. Now look how they've done it, take UNC for example, the only remaining 1 seed in this year's tournament, the highest seed they've played is 5 seed Indiana, and look at how Syracuse made its run, they played teams seeded 7, 15, and 11 before their matchup with UVA. Sure, beating UVA took a great game and I don't want to take much away from that, but they had a cake walk thanks to Florida Gulf Coast eliminating 2 seed Michigan State and 3-seeded Utah losing to Gonzaga. At least in the NFL if you're gonna make a run from a low seed you're going through a gauntlet.

    First you were saying there's often too many fluky runs in the NCAAT and now you're claiming there's a lack of parity? What is it, dude? LOL.

     

    And Syracuse's road to the Final Four was a complete anomaly. You're trying to make it sound like any low seed that reaches the Final Four, usually gets by without playing a high seed.

     

    7 seed 2014 UCONN played a 10 seed, 2 seed, 3 seed, 4 seed to get to the Final Four and beat a 1 seed and 2 seed to win it all.

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    it's way too prone to fluky runs and about half of the teams involved have no business competing for the National Championship

     

    take this year for instance, we've got a team right now that went .500 in their conference (good enough for tenth out of 15 teams) but got hot at the right time and is now two wins away from being the NCAA Champion, in what world does that make sense?

    Because fluky runs and teams getting hot at the right time doesn't exist in other postseasons? lmao

     

    Look at SB 46. You had the 9-7 Giants that looked like dog shit for most of the year beat a Patriots team that had the worst defense of all time. Giants and Pats were far from being the top two teams that season. And it wasn't that long ago that the 8th seed 2012 Kings won the Cup.

     

    I tell you what, the NCAA tourney has LESS fluke championship runs than other sports. The champion is almost always one of the elite teams that season.

     

    Let's look back...

     

    2015: Duke (35-4), 1 seed

    2014: UCONN (32-8), 7 seed

    2013: Louisville (35-5), 1 seed

    2012: Kentucky (38-2), 1 seed

    2011: UCONN (32-9), 3 seed

    2010: Duke (35-5), 1 seed

    2009: UNC (33-4), 1 seed

    2008: Kansas (37-3), 1 seed

    2007: Florida (35-5), 1 seed

    2006: Florida (33-6), 3 seed

    2005: UNC (33-4), 1 seed

    2004: UCONN (33-6), 2 seed

    2003: Syracuse (30-5), 3 seed

    2002: Maryland (32-4), 1 seed

    2001: Duke (35-4), 1 seed

    2000: Michigan State (32-7), 1 seed

     

    Outside of 2014 UCONN (and they didn't even have double digit losses) and borderline 2011 UCONN, one of the top dogs wins the tourney, year in and year out.

     

    Who gives a shit that Syracuse made it to the Final Four? 3/4 teams are elite and each held the #1 ranking at some point.

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  9. Posted

    for entertainment value, sure, the NCAA Tournament is near, if not at, the top, but in terms of determining a champion I'd say the NCAA Basketball Tournament is probably the worst

    How so?

  10. Posted

     

     

    :mjlaugh:

     

    NFL playoffs? I mean the games are pretty hit and miss now. Not what it used to be. But still my 2nd favorite postseason behind the NCAAs. NHL playoffs? It gets really watered down and dragged out lasting 2 entire months. I mean sure there's some great series, but there's also a handful of series that are shitty and end in a sweep or 5 games. Same shit goes for the NBA, except the NBA is awful in general to begin with and I can't be bothered with tuning into a game until it's the Finals. MLB playoffs? Actually, the MLB playoffs have been decently entertaining to me in recent memory despite the fact that baseball is way low on the totem pole for me. MLB does have a nice playoff structure (minus dumb play-in games) with it only lasting about a month.

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  11. Posted

    I guess I already clinched the TGP pool? :coffee:

     

    If Oklahoma wins the Natty, I'll win my money pool which should be between $700-800. Best worst case scenario, I still come in the top 3 for a money spot, and I get to see my favorite team (UNC) win a National Championship.

     

    Overall, this maybe the best tournament I've seen. No other postseason comes close to the NCAAT. NFL, NHL, NBA, etc none compare to college hoops in March.

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    Gotta say, sports betting has definitely desensitized me a good bit. Don't really root for my favorite teams like I used to, and sports games in general don't really have as much meaning to me if I don't have action on it. :welp:

     

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  14. Posted

    with Michigan State's loss I decided we all need this: Tournament Challenge Second Chance - ESPN - Group

     

    Group Name: The Gridiron Palace

    Password: football

    Only people that need it are the ones that had MSU as their National Champion. Or if you somehow couldn't hit the broad side of the barn with most of your picks.

     

    I've been doing a bracket every year since 2007 and this is easily the best start I've had through 2 days. Even better than when I won my $600 pool in 2009. :doge:

  18. Posted

    You know yesterday was bad for trump right?

    So what if he didn't do well in the polls on a night in early March? Who gives a shit? Can't say he's really too worried when he's going out to have dinner with Bill Belichick on a Saturday night.

     

    Phil do you actually like Donald Trump? Or are you just being a troll?

    Why do all Trump haters automatically assume that if you show support towards Trump, you're just basically trolling?

     

    Why would I not like Trump? I'm not a libtard or someone that supports illegal immigrants, so Trump doesn't give me a sore vagina like he does with some Americans.

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  20. Posted

    and since you brought up the Habs and Rags, I'll point out that we're 3-2 against the Rangers this year (and if we play them in the playoffs it'll be a 7 game series like it always is) and 2-1 against the Canadiens (who probably aren't going to be in the playoffs anyway)

    3-2? So what? Caps were 3-1 through the first 4 games of the semifinals against the Rangers last year, and we all know how that series turned out. And not to mention, Caps went up 2-0 against the Rangers in the '13 playoffs and 3-1 against the Habs in the '10 playoffs, losing both series in the end.

     

    I thought the regular season was irrelevant...so why do those games matter all of a sudden?

    I was moreso just poking fun at the Caps for not being able to register a point against Antti Raanta and Mike Condon behind a really bad Canadiens team on home ice.

  21. Posted · Edited by Piggly Wiggly

    Caps are 0-2 in the past two weeks against teams named the Canadiens and Rangers with backup goaltenders. At home, to boot. :rog:

    Do ya'll even have the balls to make it to the ECF? Never mind the SCF...

  25. Posted

    (month late reply, but IDGAF)

     

    If Belichek doesn't lose to the Fins in week 17, or doesn't give the ball to the Jets first in OT, he would have had/might have had HFA anyway and he would have beaten Denver with HFA. Anyone else notice Gronk gasping like a fish on the sidelines halfway through the 3rd?

    Really shouldn't have even come down to those games. The Eagles loss was by far the worst loss of the regular season. I've seen some shitty losses by the Pats, but I've never seen the Pats botch a game (where they really were supposed to kick the dog shit out of their opponent) that badly before. Of the 35 points the Eagles put up, only 14 of them were scored offensively. Pretty fucking bad.

     

    The 2 losses to end the season didn't even bother me that much. The Jets were tough this year, they split against them, whatever. And the Pats were so beat up by week 17, that having a vanilla game plan was justified. I said before the Miami game, that they should have just throw the C team out there.

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