Trumpetduck and Takimoto's Day 2 NCAA Tournament Diary

So because neither of us had anything to do, trumpetduck and I spent the entire day in his man-cave, watching basketball and being ridiculous.  We had his TV, his laptop (a MacBook Pro), and his roommate's laptop (a shitty Dell), so there were three games going at once, though the Dell could only handle "fair quality" from March Madness On Demand, and quit on us before the last session of games.  The bolded entries are me, the italicized entries are TD. 

8:55 AM: I’m up.  I’m not hung under.

SETTING THE SCENE: Trumpetduck’s living room.  I have shotgunned the LoveSac until further notice. 

9:11 AM: First game out the box: Syracuse-Stephen F. Austin.  SFA’s coach looks like Bryan Cranston if he was still hanging on to his dream of being a late 80s junior college professor.

9:13 AM: We both realize we have no idea who’s on Syracuse’s front line.  Apparently there’s a guy named Rick Jackson, and somebody with a name I can’t pronounce.  He will now be referred to as Shimooby Shimooby.

9:16 AM: Jonny Flynn hits a shot to make it 6-0 ‘Cuse.  TD declares this game over. 

9:25 AM: Words of Wisdom, from Trumpetduck: “ Can we not simulate the Big Bang?  I don’t want somebody creating a new universe in a lab somewhere.”

9:29 AM: Cut to Utah St.- Marquette on CBS, and NDSU-Kansas on Kyle’s computer.  Also, we decide that if we were friends with Eric Devendorf, he’d definitely be known as “The Deeze.”

9:33 AM: The Utah St. game is being played in Taco Bell Arena in Boise.  That is all.

9:35 AM: UPSET ALERT! NDSU’S UP 3-2!!!

9:40 AM: The first double commercial of the day.  Sigh…

9:44 AM: Mr. ADD declares, “ I will have none of these commercials!” and gets his roommate’s computer.

9:48 AM: First crisis of the day.  We need a plugin on Kyle’s roommate’s computer to watch MMOD, and we need his password to install the plugin.  Nooooooo!

9:50 AM: The name Wayne Chism makes me giggle.

9:57 AM: Well that Utah St. pick was ill-advised.  It’s 19-9 Marquette, and Utah St. is not the work from behind kind of team. 

10:24 AM:  This Knowing movie looks terrible.  That is all.

10:28 AM: A DECREE: Shimooby Shimooby will henceforth be known as Boumtje Boumtje.

10:36 AM: Kyle – (referring to the crappy quality on his roommate’s computer since it’s a PC and stupid) Man, fair quality is terrible, but it’s all we can muster.
Matt – (As Tennessee commits a turnover) It’s ok, the game is fair quality in real life too.

10:41 AM: The Stephen F Austin Lumberjack is quite possibly the most amazing mascot in the history of mascots.

10:45 AM:  It must be really awkward to get the Taco Bell Arena pumped up. “Get on your feet, Lets Get pumped TACO…Bell…arena, ahhh forget it.”

10:51 AM: We have decided that the 8/9 game is the most pointless part of the tournament. Its like the play in game of the first round. Congrats you beat yourself from a different conference, now go lose to the 1 seed.

10:53 AM: Can you have a long 3 from the corner, or is that just out of bounds? Also Marq and Utah St should score some points.  Also, we’re pretty sure the “fair quality” feed is coming from somewhere in a third-world country.

10: 56 AM: A DECREE: All frontcourt players you don’t know the name of may be referred to as Boumtje Boumtje, no matter the team or game.

10: 59 AM: No love for the Deeze

11:05AM: Finally switched the close game to the good computer and sent the Deeze and gang back in time or over to Ghana, however you want to describe bad quality.

11:09 AM: Narrowly avoided our first triple commercial and Kyle yelling at electronics for the 347th time

11:12 AM: First final of the day, The Deeze, Boumtje Boumtje, Big Rick and the crew beat the Lumbjacks, and I called it two hours ago.

11:15 AM: Marquette’s McNeal is apparently the “ultimate combo forward."  What does that even mean, is that a real thing? If it is I doubt McNeil is the ultimate variety 

11:19 AM: Utah St gets the lead off a three by the Quail man, who knew they had the comeback spirit in them? Not us.

11:22 AM: The terrible PC is buffering to the point of blackness. “So did the feed from Ghana die or did the power go out and they are playing in the dark? Because that would not be good for Kansas” –Matt

11:24 AM: These Axe Dry ads are gross.  That is all.

11:31 AM: Good lookin’ finishes here.  The moved the OK St-Tennessee game from the Kinshasa Civic Center in time for a great drive by Eaton with 6.7 seconds left. 

11:33 AM: OK State wins, and now we got a game at the Bell! Pooh Williams pulls a Sharfenberger and banks a three. 

11:50 AM: James Harden needs to stop wearing a T-shirt under his jersey.  Also, isn’t Coocix your tailbone or something?  He's foreign, and his name sounds silly.

11:55 AM: OK, only one game on.  Nazi zombies break.

12:24 PM: Two updates.  First, Dayton has an injured player that looks EXACTLY like Lekendric Longmire.  We looked him up, his name is Rob Lowery.  Second, IT’S PAST NOON, BREAK OUT THE PBR!  Seriously though.  We’re drinking.

12:29 PM: Hehe, better head for Jerry’s….

12:39 PM: Dajuan Blair does a pull-up and kicks the backboard after a dunk, gets called for a technical, and everybody goes nuts.  He kicked the backboard!  Of course that’s a technical!  Bill Raftery sucks.

12:47 PM: The color guy for the ASU game is named Jim Spinarcle.  I’m pretty sure you can catch Spinarcle from eating bad fish.

1:14 PM: Matt falls asleep like a biatch. Time to fuck with him…hehe

1:17 PM: So in the first half of the ASU game Ian Eagle said he wasn’t going to make a Christmas pun. He has now made at least 10 including the last four times they went to commercials, great Ian, you are giving my ears the Spinarcle.

Oh god now they are keeping score of xmas puns, how do they keep their jobs?

3:10 PM: I’m up now, it’s ok.  I’m sorry the games weren’t interesting. 

4:38 PM: Back from Safeway, and there’s more basketball on!  Wheee!

4:45 PM: Is this Raji guy on Boston College related to B.J?  After further research, yes.  Yes he is.  Corey Raji.  I don’t know his middle name, but I’m just going to call him C.J Raji.

7:03 PM: To sum up the last two hours:
        Steak and french fries are delicious.
        The Pac-10 had a good day today
        I’m upset USC didn’t put in Lil’ Romeo
        Cleveland State is beating Wake Forest 18-6
        The new Nazi Zombies map on Call of Duty: World at War is ridiculous.
        Wait, Cleveland State is up 18-6?!?

7:10 PM: Matt and Kyle proudly present: The NCAA Tournament Drinking Game!
1 Drink:
•    Traveling
•    Offensive Foul
•    Missed Free Throw
•    Both games go to commercial
•    Any Masters commercial
2 Drinks:
•    Any other ref-induced turnover
•    Cameras show a cheerleader you wouldn’t sleep with
•    Cameras show a band kid with a flip folder
•    Announcers say a non-sensical phrase
•    That stupid Axe Dry commercial comes on.

7:17 PM: You don’t have to throw your possessions out on the lawn to have sex, but you do have to throw your possessions out on to the lawn if you want to use Viagra to have sex.

7:20 PM: Cleveland St. now up 29-12.  Wake looks absolutely confused.  Don’t you have three first round draft choices on your team?  Get it together.

7:45 PM: The backup halftime show crew on cbssports.com appears to be broadcasting from a dungeon. 

8:27 PM: Florida State’s dance team is very attractive.  That is all.

8:50 PM: Siena-Ohio St. going into OT!  Took almost two days but we’ve got our first extra period.

POSTGAME: What an end to the day!  An OT game and a double OT game.  Let’s not even think about the fact that Wisconsin had no business winning that game.  It was still entertaining as hell.  Add that to Cleveland St. just being a better basketball team than a team that was ranked #1 at one point.  Mmmm, the tourney is here!  Oh, and that delicious steak and french fries?  Let’s just say Mr. TD didn’t get the chance to fully enjoy it.  And by enjoy I mean digest.  Wheeee!

Special Thanks to E Sause for the puke joke.  Go Ducks, and go Texas, Villanova, Purdue, UNC, UConn, Memphis, Gonzaga, and Oklahoma tomorrow!