YCS Greatest Bracket Ever Final Four, where your votes count!
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We are down to the Final Four in the YCS Greatest Bracket Ever after I took charge and did the research one day while bored at work.
This tournament will decide what is the greatest thing ever, and will make any future brackets obsolete. To see how we got to this point, take a look at how the regionals unfolded (hosted on The Proper Pitch due to space constraints.)
MARK CHMURA REGIONAL
FUZZY ZOELLER REGIONAL
WIL CORDERO REGIONAL
MAURICE CLARETT REGIONAL
In one semifinal, the winner of the Mark Chmura Regional (Abraham Lincoln) will play against the winner of the Fuzzy Zoeller Regional (Wayne Gretzky). The winner of the Maurice Clarett Regional (1999 Manchester United) will play against the winner of the Wil Cordero Regional (Bob Uecker). The semifinal winners will meet and will decide once and for all what is the Top thing ever. So send in your votes, and let's make sure that Stuart Scott never again has to walk us through one of those worthless shows.
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3 comments:
I refuse to acknowledge this bracket as a YCS event, and want to disassociate myself from it altogether.
First off, this is the most ridiculous and shameless self-promotion by Sever to get people onto his crappy soccer blog that nobody reads (because it's crappy, and about soccer).
Also, who made Sever judge, jury, executioner and supreme being of the universe? (other than himself, obviously)
I would like to make one thing very clear, this is not a YCS bracket. It is a Mike Sever bracket as is evident from a Final Four that consists of Man U (remember, nobody on this blog gives a shit about soccer other than Mike) and Lincoln (not even our country's best president; in fact, he was really a quite bad president).
Mike, quit using our blog to promote your own fucking agenda. It's one thing to write about soccer despite the pleas of everyone to stop (Zuch doesn't write about golf and I don't write about tennis, because it would not be interesting to anyone else); it's another thing to call something a YCS decision to draw people into reading your opinion that no one would care about otherwise.
"Where your votes count?" Really? I didn't receive the ballot.
Jesus God Nate, calm the hell down. It's a sports blog.
First of all, I proposed the idea of a "YCS Bracket of everything" to Vinnie nearly a week ago, and it was met with an enthusiastic response. I posted the idea of having such a bracket to mock ESPN countdown shows and online all-time brackets on Tuesday morning. At that time I requested nominations from the rest of the YCS staff and readers. Matt, Pat, and Vinnie again contributed nominations, and they were included in the final bracket. I can't see your name among the people who made nominations, but you did manage to write an article on Maurice Clarett later that day, so the invitation was up there when you posted.
If you thought it was a stupid idea, you should have made it known then. Otherwise, you're like the people who bitch about how much government sucks but they don't vote.
As for it being a "Mike Sever Bracket," participation from 4 of the 5 most frequent posters on this board I think are enough to establish its legitimacy as a YCS effort. You don't have an absolute veto. Likewise, Lincoln was one of Vinnie's nominations. He was the only U.S. President nominated.
As for putting it on Proper Pitch. This is to save a comment from a blogger (probably you) saying "quit hogging all the space." If you don't want to read soccer posts on TPP...don't read those posts! Likewise, if this was a "scam" to get people to go to my soccer blog, then why would I have only made 1 post on TPP since the 4th of July?
As for my making the votes. I solicited nominations, honestly thought about the matchups, and picked winners. For me to pick the winners, give a reason why I chose each winner, and then let the rest of the blog vote on the Final Four to me seemed like the most appropriate and efficient way to handle it. Or perhaps we should have all gotten together in a room and only agreed on outcomes by supermajority vote?
As for my insufferable writing about soccer, I have only written 7 analysis posts on soccer since July 10. If one soccer analysis post on average every 5 days is too much for you, I don't know what to tell you. Likewise, if I shouldn't write about soccer (because EVERYONE is PLEADING with me to stop) and I shouldn't be writing about baseball (Because I've been told I know nothing) then what should I write on?
You should know since you've apparently become "judge, jury and executioner" of this blog deciding content and declaring illegitimacy of an entry that 4 of the 5 most frequent posters on this blog have commented on, leaving you the lone abstention.
Just chill out man. It's not a friggin arms control treaty. It's a sports blog with (to be generous) a limited readership.
Back on topic. Pat, admittedly, I got to seeding the '72 Dolphins before I got to the '85 Bears. I thought about the two, but Miami being the only team since the NFL-AFL merger to run the table has to count for something.
As for the '96 Bulls, I admit, I probably screwed that one up. While forming the bracket, I accidentally added in an extra line of 3 seeds, which led to there being eight #3 seeds. The '96 Bulls were one of these, and upon discovery of the error, I tried to fit them as high as I could, but there were many other deserving candidates.
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