I don't believe it
Every year I am amazed when I log on to ESPN.com to check how I faired compared to others in picking the first 32 games of the NCAA Tournament. I did ok this year by getting 24 of 32 winners correctly, however every year it blows my mind that at least one person gets all 32 games correct. I can see someone picking Vermont over Syracuse and UW-Milwukee over Alabama, but both of those games and Bucknell over Kansas? Who with half a brain cell would actually do that? Somebody obviously, and I'd love to track this somebody down, abduct him and immediately drive him to Vegas with me.
Storm of the century...sort of
WCCO weather man Paul Douglas went out on a limb on Thursday and predicted that the Twin Cities would receive somewhere between 1 to 12 inches of snow on Friday. Douglas followed that by saying, "I think there is a fairly good chance that that will be accurate." Gee thanks Paul, for really going out on a limb for us. You really should be congratulated for such a precise and accurate forecast.
As usual, Douglas and his counterparts Barlow and Dahl tried to work everyone up into a panick before "the storm" and the producers go right along with this. We not only have to endure the opening story about the actual snowfall, but then we get the standard live story from the road where the reporter is being torn apart by the blizzard conditions as cars creep by him on the adjacent highway. We also get the cutesy story of the seven year old kid who loves the snow and is joyfully sledding down a local hill. Then we get the snow emergency information and then maybe even an interview with a MNDOT big wig. By the time the first 5 stories are done, it's 10:15 and almost time for the weather.
Every year I am amazed when I log on to ESPN.com to check how I faired compared to others in picking the first 32 games of the NCAA Tournament. I did ok this year by getting 24 of 32 winners correctly, however every year it blows my mind that at least one person gets all 32 games correct. I can see someone picking Vermont over Syracuse and UW-Milwukee over Alabama, but both of those games and Bucknell over Kansas? Who with half a brain cell would actually do that? Somebody obviously, and I'd love to track this somebody down, abduct him and immediately drive him to Vegas with me.
Storm of the century...sort of
WCCO weather man Paul Douglas went out on a limb on Thursday and predicted that the Twin Cities would receive somewhere between 1 to 12 inches of snow on Friday. Douglas followed that by saying, "I think there is a fairly good chance that that will be accurate." Gee thanks Paul, for really going out on a limb for us. You really should be congratulated for such a precise and accurate forecast.
As usual, Douglas and his counterparts Barlow and Dahl tried to work everyone up into a panick before "the storm" and the producers go right along with this. We not only have to endure the opening story about the actual snowfall, but then we get the standard live story from the road where the reporter is being torn apart by the blizzard conditions as cars creep by him on the adjacent highway. We also get the cutesy story of the seven year old kid who loves the snow and is joyfully sledding down a local hill. Then we get the snow emergency information and then maybe even an interview with a MNDOT big wig. By the time the first 5 stories are done, it's 10:15 and almost time for the weather.
posted by PulseofMN at 3:08 AM
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