The Bucks have a new coach...and he's ruining everything

This may seem like an overdue post on the firing of Terry Stotts, but I was awaiting the actual results of the change.

And, as a Milwaukee fan, I am not happy with them. Mainly, because I am blindly in love with Kevin Durant, and want him in Milwaukee.

Now beating San Antonio and ending their streak - that was a whole lot of fun, and notching a 'W' in your first game as a head coach is a nice start. But beating Charlotte on Saturday? Larry Krystowiak, you've gone too far. BRING STOTTS BACK! Stotts would have lost to the Hornets. Stotts would have taken a giant step forward towards the KG+ that is Kevin Durant.
Instead, Coach K is devoted to this thing called winning (I call it bad gambling) that is going to haunt him come lottery time.



(In all seriousness, I am ecstatic that Stotts-who could not coach a big man like Bogut-is gone. I am also serious that we should tank the rest of the season and try to get Durant. I mean, Al Horford and Julian Wright are nice and all...but, seriously, have you seen Durant?)

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Anniversaries

I think they're stupid. Rarely do I, or should I, care whether something happened on the same calendar date in a previous year.

Maybe my only motive here is to try and prove we have values, too. Maybe (unintentionally) we are that shallow. But this anniversary--the fourth, and the first since we started this blog--is something even I won't trivialize.

I encourage everyone to go here and check out some of the stuff you should be reading instead of our nonsense.

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New York Needs Add A. Tude Adjustment

New York City has earned a reputation as one of the premier cities in the world on the cutting edge, and they've certainly accomplished a lot. The City that Never Sleeps has become a center of commerce and finance, an ethnic melting pot unparalleled anywhere in the world, a home of beautiful art in museums, a city of soaring architecture,

and High School Basketball riots.

Looks like they need some "Add A. Tude" the lovable good sportsmanship mascot of the Illinois High School Association (yes, there is a guy in an Add A. Tude suit who walks around at the state finals. I wonder if he got pelted with batteries and apple cores like my high school mascot did, with me inside the suit...) Remember kids, sport a winning attitude at all times!

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Marquette/NCAA Predictions 2007-08

Now that Marquette's season has come to an abrupt close, it's time to take a step forward, and look towards next year. Here are some predictions to dwell on for the upcoming season:

- Tom Crean will spend the offseason as the subject of rumors that he is being courted by about 17 teams (Michigan and the Miami Heat are already the subject of "speculation.") The offseason will go by, and Crean will begin the 07-08 campaign as Marquette's head coach.

-Contrary to popular message board speculation, Marquette will not lose any assistant coaches this offseason.

-Lawrence Blackledge will not be a member of the 2007-08 Warriors. He joins Ryan Amoroso, Carlton Christian, Brandon Bell, James Matthews, Karon Bradley, and others as the star of Google searches from Marquette fans thinking "Whatever happened to...?"

-Dominic James will rise again.

-Jerel McNeal is good. (Not a prediction per se, but a statement of fact that should hold true.)

-Amoroso will average 1.8 points and 0.7 rebounds per game in 4.8 MPG at San Diego State. He will also continue to dazzle the masses with mediocre dunks recorded "And 1" style on YouTube.

-Greg Oden will return to Ohio State for another season. Having aged a year, he will now look 41.

-Kevin Durant will turn pro. He will be billed as the greatest thing since LeBron, who was the greatest thing since Kobe, who was the greatest thing since Jordan. In the 2008-09 draft, Oden will be the greatest thing since Kevin Durant.

-Bob Knight will piss somebody off.

-Jay Wright will not take the 76ers job, and will continue to be the best-dressed coach in the Big East.

-The staffers at YCS will continue to break their backs trying to come up with an NCAA roster that Zuch has not memorized. Another season will go by, and we will fail miserably at this task.

-Despite us making fun of his uncanny knowledge, Zuch will still take us to task when he writes some damn good previews in October.

-We're still going to want to be the Warriors. We're still going to think it can be done without offending any American Indians (think Joan of Arc, people!). They're still not going to listen. We're still going to be right. Go Warriors.

More to come as the weeks go by...

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Analysis of Day Two NCAA tourney action from periodic score-checking at work

Virginia's defense was much too much for a scrappy but overmatched Albany team. J.R. Reynolds played like a man with something to prove.

Creighton and Nevada played a thriller for the ages. But in the end, Fazekas and Kemp were too much for the Bluejays.

Though able to stop the 'Throp for intermittent periods throught the game, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish ultimately did not stop the 'Throp efficiently or regularly enough to notch a win.

Tennessee's scoring attack put on a spectacle in their blowout win over Long Beach St.

Wisconsin did not look like a 2-seed in the first half, but Bo Ryan must have said some magic words at halftime, as the Badgers played like a team possessed in the second half of their win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Georgia Tech gave a great effort against UNLV, but in a matchup of good players, the Runnin' Rebels' two scorers with 19 each outplayed the Yellow Jackets' two scorers with 11 each.

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Pokey Chatman: An unlikely boon to YCS

I've been spying on you. Well, actually sitemeter.com has been. I'm talking about those of you who've come to this site because you Googled "pokey+chatman." For some reason, this blog comes up pretty high on a Pokey Chatman search, thanks to Zuch's quick mention of her last week. And that's what likely brings you to this site. (For the record, I think you're sick.)

What I really want to say to all of you who've come here in search of a scurrilous scoop on this sordid affair, please stick around and check us out. We may not be the lesbo harlequin romance you'd hoped to find, but we do have some interesting things to say.

So even though I think you're completely sick, take a five-minute break from your twisted master-servant fetish to peruse our archives. You shan't be disappointed.

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Well that's the end of us.

Seriously. We all just killed ourselves. You would too if your team went ten minutes scoreless in the tourney.

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Yea, it's a corporate schill, but I thought it was pretty cool.

I personally prefer Diet Pepsi.

March Madness Begins Today - Click Here for more great videos and pictures!

Note: Marquette wins the national championship if you drag everything towards the bottom, except for underdog vs. favorite, which should be just below half. Yea, it's a slow day at work today. Of course, that simulation had all four #1 seeds going down in the first round, so take it for what it's worth.

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When's the vote on the 25 cent trolly to Ebbets Field?

I'm not really sure what to make of this, but the New York City Council voted 40-6 yesterday to ban the use of metal bats in high school baseball games.

This is widely considered a giant victory in the battle to return baseball to exactly the way it was when today's government officials were growing up in the 1950s and 1960s.

Next on the agenda, banning of astroturf, $7 beers, getting the Giants and Dodgers to move back to New York, making baseball cards legal currency in New York, and putting more "gritty" Italians with "hustle and moxie" and who played "for love of the game" back in baseball.

Cause it's not like, you know, a city the size of New York has any issues that could possibly be more important than what kind of bat little Jimmy uses.

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Coach Knight doesn't care for your logic

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Texas Tech head coach Bobby Knight opined on several topics at yesterday's press conference, including his support of contraction of the NCAA Tournament to 32 teams.

When one reporter had the stones to tell him that if his system was in place this year, his 10th seeded Red Raiders would be on the outside looking in, Coach Knight responded,

''That's a question that's superfluous and no need to answer because that didn't happen and isn't going to happen, I just answered it for you -- there is no answer. I have no intentions of answering something like that.''

Sorry for bringing it up, coach.

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