Yellow Chair Sports: Marquette to the Final Four?

Marquette to the Final Four?

>> Monday

Well, I guess they have more confidence than most Marquette fans, including myself.

Also, I highly recommend to Sever following their advice.

7 comments:

Mike, 8:42 AM: I'm assuming that's a Syracuse crack?

Also, barstool says, "Marquette is experienced."

There's lots of words I would use to describe Marquette, but "experienced" is not one of them. Unless losing to Alabama in the first round last year constitutes "experience."
Unknown, 7:24 PM: Yes, since I'm not a big of someone making an argument based on an uninformed opinion. I don't care about the fact you don't get ESPN and may not watch or know as much about college hoops as I do, but don't like it when you question me about something I'm much more familiar about. I've seen all of the bubble teams play except Old Dominion, so I know how they'd match-up and compare to Syracuse(not very well). You don't see me questioning your soccer posts, since I'm admittedly a novice World Cup fan.
Mike, 8:01 PM: Let's everybody chill here.

1.) I admitted that you knew more than I did.

2.) I flat-out said I was probably gonna get jumped because I was playing devil's advocate.

3.) Just because you know more than I do doesn't prohibit me from having an opinion, even when I admit it's not my own.

4.) Why not question in spite of expertise? Hell, we question general managers and coaches here all the time despite them having much more information on a given situation than we do.

Besides, the firey back-and-forth is what makes this blog fun to read and contribute to. As long as comments aren't intentionally mean-spirited, what's the deal? What fun is this blog if it's just an occasional post and a bunch of nodding heads in the background? Isn't the whole point of having multiple contributors so we can get a variety of perspectives?

I've actually been thinking about this issue for a while now. There's been a downturn in the quality of the blog recently. I don't know if it's the one-year blogiversary hump, or people are getting lazy with posts because of other commitments (work, school, etc. which is understandable), or it's baseball/football offseason, or we've gotten so settled in our niches that the blog seems to have lost a lot of its original fire that made it so interesting. This blog literally was an extension of us shooting the shit around at Matt's place or in my and Vinnie's apartment last year while watching sports.

Matt has posted twice in the last month. Nate has posted twice since February 1. Danny, it's been a while too.

Now, I understand people have other commitments. That's fine. I'm just pointing out that there's been a concentration of postings in the hands of three writers (85 of the last 90 posts by me, Zuch, or Vinnie), and when those writers can't disagree with each other because each one is the token expert in their respective field, ie) Zuch is the "Bracket Guy" and I'm "The Soccer Guy" and Vinnie's "The Baseball/Stat Guy" then this becomes a boring blog really fast. And I think the other contributors and readers have noticed this too. Just look at the most recent posts and see how many have less than 4 comments.

So consider this a call to arms as YCS heads into its second year, let's all contribute and question each other (in good fun of course). If you think my Champions League picks are full of shit, then let me know about it and where you think I erred. Think another YCSer got it right, but they didn't make a great case or there's also a valid counterpoint? Make it! Or else this blog is going to turn into a real snoozer real fast.
Nathan, 3:23 AM: Making an argument for the sake of argument is the worst reason to make an argument.
Mike, 12:43 PM: Please, attorneys do it all the time.

What you call making an argument for the sake of making one, I would call "reasonable doubt" but what do I know?

OK, nothing yet, but I'm making this comment from Seton Hall Law School, so I feel kind of legally scholarly while writing it.
Nathan, 3:50 PM: There's a reason people hate attorneys, and there's a reason that our justice system is so ineffecient (take it from a guy who has "resisting an officer" on his record because of a court fuck up). Seriously, don't make arguments for the sake of argument. If you have a legitimate argument, then make it. But don't go picking and choosing numbers and stats with the sole intent of coming up with an opposing argument. It's pointless, and a waste of time. Better left for the courtrooms.

Also Sever, just about everything you've written in the past couple weeks has come off as very (unjustifiably) condescending and makes you sound like an asshole. So I guess law school is working out?
Mike, 8:31 AM: To be fair, I was a condescending asshole before I got into law school.

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